Design Patterns Contract Job Trends in the North East

Design Patterns
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.78% - 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% - 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.23%
75th Percentile £503 - -
90th Percentile £509 - -
England median daily rate £565 £553 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -7.92% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 426 273 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.53% 84.00% 82.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 182 128
10th Percentile £183 £300 £187
25th Percentile £364 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -12.84%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £578
90th Percentile £596 £650 £641
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 9 49
10th Percentile £17.88 - £11.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £11.60 £12.13
Median hourly rate £61.16 £16.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +270.67% -5.71% -57.06%
75th Percentile £72.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile - £46.69 £50.00
England median hourly rate £30.50 £34.06 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.44% +4.78% -12.16%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in the North East

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Design Patterns.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Design Patterns.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Design Patterns within the North East region over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear - 4 £463 - 9
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) IaaS
4 1 (25.00%) PaaS
4 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) IPsec
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Principal Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Principal Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Next.js
2 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (50.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) Swagger
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (25.00%) OpenID
3 1 (25.00%) SAML
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) API Design
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (50.00%) Functional Programming
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) ArchiMate
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
4 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft