Design Patterns Contracts in the North of England

Design Patterns
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Design Patterns skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Design Patterns over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 73 158
Rank change year-on-year -70 +85 -60
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 23 124 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.70% 2.60% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 3.03% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 85 40
10th Percentile - £468 £412
25th Percentile £405 £513 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.54% +11.36% -
75th Percentile £613 £800 £569
90th Percentile £700 £850 £627
England median daily rate £575 £619 £625
% change year-on-year -7.07% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £66.50 £44.24
25th Percentile - £66.88 £53.90
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
75th Percentile - £77.50 -
90th Percentile - £80.50 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -31.25% +10.34% +14.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Design Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the North of England

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in the North of England

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in the North of England

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in the North of England

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North West -61 13 £410 -31.67% 116
Yorkshire +1 10 £521 -22.98% 68
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) CloudBees
2 5 (21.74%) GitHub
3 4 (17.39%) AWS
3 4 (17.39%) GCP
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (8.70%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (8.70%) Serverless
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Dremio
1 3 (13.04%) Power BI
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Accumulo
3 1 (4.35%) Big Data
3 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 5 (21.74%) Git
3 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (13.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (17.39%) Banking
1 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Military
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Technical Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Kafka
1 2 (8.70%) Keycloak
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (4.35%) Node.js
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) DevOps
2 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
2 10 (43.48%) Microservices
3 8 (34.78%) Agile
4 7 (30.43%) Architectural Patterns
4 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) Architectural Design
5 5 (21.74%) Event-Driven
5 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (21.74%) TDD
6 4 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (17.39%) Chaos Engineering
6 4 (17.39%) Data Analysis
6 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (17.39%) Incident Management
6 4 (17.39%) Observability
6 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (17.39%) Software Delivery
6 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Java
2 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
2 5 (21.74%) Kotlin
2 5 (21.74%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
3 4 (17.39%) C#
4 3 (13.04%) T-SQL
5 2 (8.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Grafana
2 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Databricks
2 3 (13.04%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow