Design Patterns Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Design Patterns
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 39 51
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 +29
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 6 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.45% 1.93% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 2.09% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £540 £453 £371
25th Percentile £581 £523 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £388
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +61.29% -51.56%
75th Percentile - £714 £547
90th Percentile - £736 £631
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £650 £625 £388
% change year-on-year +4.00% +61.29% -42.59%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

Design Patterns falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 335 191 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 80.72% 92.27% 88.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 144 343
10th Percentile £230 £253 £279
25th Percentile £363 £402 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £656 £735
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -5.09% +0.10% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 29
10th Percentile £16.24 £12.67 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £13.68 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.61 £15.35 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +92.90% -33.88% +22.18%
75th Percentile - £17.03 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £18.03 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £22.21 £35.60 £23.22
% change year-on-year -37.62% +53.35% +36.56%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Design Patterns relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Design Patterns.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in Milton Keynes

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) BGP
1 2 (33.33%) EIGRP
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) MPLS
1 2 (33.33%) OSPF
1 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Service Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Behavioural Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Runbook
3 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (33.33%) Service Design
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) SOAR
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Darktrace
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Zscaler