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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 79 147
Rank change year-on-year -59 +68 -40
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 29 115 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.87% 2.48% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 2.90% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 81 43
10th Percentile £363 £463 £413
25th Percentile £405 £511 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £601 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +9.20% -
75th Percentile £569 £800 £606
90th Percentile £694 £850 £637
England median daily rate £555 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -7.50% -2.44% -1.60%
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 £52.50 £80.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -34.38% +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 2,980 3,971 5,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.62% 85.53% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,918 2,420 3,499
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £557 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 365 201
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £15.72
Median hourly rate £26.28 £17.72 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -36.67% +46.32%
75th Percentile £57.17 £45.00 £44.50
90th Percentile £82.01 £59.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.23% +1.39% +44.00%

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 17 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 17 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 -59 15 £410 -31.70% 81
Yorkshire +12 13 £500 -23.08% 39
North East -4 1 - - 21
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) JBoss
1 1 (3.45%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) AWS
3 5 (17.24%) CloudBees
3 5 (17.24%) GitHub
3 5 (17.24%) Serverless
4 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (13.79%) GCP
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.90%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon Glacier
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Big Data
1 3 (10.34%) Dremio
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (6.90%) BigQuery
2 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.90%) MySQL
2 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Accumulo
3 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Git
2 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (10.34%) Visual Studio
4 2 (6.90%) Gradle
4 2 (6.90%) JUnit
5 1 (3.45%) JIRA
5 1 (3.45%) Maven
5 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (20.69%) Banking
1 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
2 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Health Technology
4 2 (6.90%) Military
5 1 (3.45%) Finance
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Architect
1 9 (31.03%) Developer
2 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Senior
3 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Lead
5 1 (3.45%) Python Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Node.js
1 3 (10.34%) RESTful
2 2 (6.90%) Kafka
2 2 (6.90%) Keycloak
2 2 (6.90%) PySpark
2 2 (6.90%) React
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.45%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (3.45%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (3.45%) Dagger
3 1 (3.45%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) Retrofit
3 1 (3.45%) SOAP
3 1 (3.45%) Spring
3 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.45%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Spring MVC
3 1 (3.45%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) NHS
1 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Android
2 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
1 11 (37.93%) DevOps
1 11 (37.93%) Microservices
2 9 (31.03%) Software Engineering
3 8 (27.59%) Agile
3 8 (27.59%) Architectural Patterns
4 7 (24.14%) TDD
5 6 (20.69%) Data Analysis
5 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (17.24%) Architectural Design
6 5 (17.24%) Code Quality
6 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven
6 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (13.79%) Chaos Engineering
7 4 (13.79%) Cloud Security
7 4 (13.79%) Observability
7 4 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (13.79%) Software Delivery
7 4 (13.79%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Java
2 7 (24.14%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) Kotlin
3 6 (20.69%) Shell Script
4 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
5 4 (13.79%) C#
6 3 (10.34%) T-SQL
7 2 (6.90%) Groovy
7 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Grafana
2 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Databricks
2 3 (10.34%) Google
3 2 (6.90%) Brio
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow