Design Patterns Contracts in the North West

Design Patterns
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Design Patterns skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Design Patterns over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 123 90
Rank change year-on-year +80 -33 +8
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 106 30 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.84% 0.93% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 1.03% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 16 72
10th Percentile £463 £410 £400
25th Percentile £512 £412 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +13.81% -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £819 £606 £675
90th Percentile £850 £664 £749
England median daily rate £625 £625 £625
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £66.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.88 £37.80 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.59 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.46% -35.06% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £43.39 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.50 - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £63.43
% change year-on-year +10.34% +14.31% +9.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Design Patterns is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,910 3,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.57% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,071 2,633
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 145 164
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.49 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the North West

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in the North West

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in the North West

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in the North West

Design Patterns
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Design Patterns in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Design Patterns in the North West

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Manchester +77 86 £625 +47.06% 28
Cheshire +12 15 £567 +0.71% 3
Lancashire +5 4 £625 - 6
Merseyside +15 1 - - 1
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (4.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (3.77%) Confluence
3 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (4.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Temenos T24
2 4 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (30.19%) AWS
2 12 (11.32%) Azure
3 6 (5.66%) Kong
4 5 (4.72%) Apigee
5 4 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (3.77%) npm
5 4 (3.77%) OCI
5 4 (3.77%) PaaS
5 4 (3.77%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.77%) SaaS
5 4 (3.77%) Yarn
6 3 (2.83%) IaaS
6 3 (2.83%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.89%) GCP
8 1 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.94%) Firebase
8 1 (0.94%) GitHub
8 1 (0.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (26.42%) Firewall
1 28 (26.42%) VPN
2 3 (2.83%) Network Security
3 1 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.94%) DMZ
3 1 (0.94%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.70%) MongoDB
2 6 (5.66%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.72%) MySQL
3 5 (4.72%) OLAP
3 5 (4.72%) OLTP
3 5 (4.72%) Oracle OLAP
3 5 (4.72%) RDBMS
3 5 (4.72%) Redis
4 4 (3.77%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.83%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.83%) HBase
6 2 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.94%) Big Data
7 1 (0.94%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.94%) Metadata
7 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.94%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (16.98%) GitLab
2 13 (12.26%) JIRA
3 4 (3.77%) Git
3 4 (3.77%) Jasmine
3 4 (3.77%) Karma Test Runner
3 4 (3.77%) Mocha
3 4 (3.77%) webpack
4 2 (1.89%) JUnit
5 1 (0.94%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.94%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.94%) GoCD
5 1 (0.94%) Gradle
5 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.94%) Maven
5 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (16.98%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.09%) Finance
3 15 (14.15%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.43%) Legal
5 9 (8.49%) Banking
6 6 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.77%) Law
8 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.94%) Military
9 1 (0.94%) Retail
9 1 (0.94%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 48 (45.28%) Architect
2 29 (27.36%) Technical Architect
3 27 (25.47%) Lead
4 26 (24.53%) Lead Architect
5 25 (23.58%) Technical Leader
6 23 (21.70%) Developer
7 15 (14.15%) Senior
8 14 (13.21%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) AWS Architect
9 7 (6.60%) Java Developer
9 7 (6.60%) Project Manager
9 7 (6.60%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (4.72%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (4.72%) Data Architect
10 5 (4.72%) Designer
10 5 (4.72%) Java Engineer
10 5 (4.72%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.72%) ServiceNow Architect
11 4 (3.77%) Pega Architect
11 4 (3.77%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (45.28%) Node.js
2 22 (20.75%) RESTful
3 14 (13.21%) Kafka
4 9 (8.49%) SOAP
4 9 (8.49%) Web Services
5 8 (7.55%) .NET
5 8 (7.55%) React
5 8 (7.55%) Spring
6 5 (4.72%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.72%) HTML
6 5 (4.72%) IBM Integration Bus
6 5 (4.72%) J2EE
6 5 (4.72%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (4.72%) REST
6 5 (4.72%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.77%) Apache Camel
7 4 (3.77%) CSS
7 4 (3.77%) Spring Integration
8 3 (2.83%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.83%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 30 (28.30%) Public Cloud
2 10 (9.43%) Product Ownership
3 9 (8.49%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (6.60%) Data Structures
5 6 (5.66%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.66%) Mobile App
6 5 (4.72%) DataPower
6 5 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.83%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.83%) CMDB
9 2 (1.89%) Derivative
9 2 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.94%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.94%) IoT
10 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 30 (28.30%) Android
2 28 (26.42%) Windows
3 27 (25.47%) Apple iOS
3 27 (25.47%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.83%) Unix
5 2 (1.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (57.55%) Agile
2 51 (48.11%) CI/CD
3 44 (41.51%) DevOps
4 43 (40.57%) Microservices
5 36 (33.96%) Risk Management
6 28 (26.42%) Threat Intelligence
7 27 (25.47%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 27 (25.47%) Mobile Device Management
7 27 (25.47%) Security Architecture
7 27 (25.47%) Zero Trust
8 26 (24.53%) Software Engineering
9 16 (15.09%) CRM
10 15 (14.15%) Architectural Patterns
11 13 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (11.32%) Roadmaps
12 12 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (10.38%) OO
13 11 (10.38%) Requirements Gathering
13 11 (10.38%) SOA
14 10 (9.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (21.70%) Java
2 12 (11.32%) SQL
3 9 (8.49%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.55%) C#
4 8 (7.55%) Python
5 7 (6.60%) PL/SQL
6 4 (3.77%) Scala
7 3 (2.83%) PHP
8 2 (1.89%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.89%) Perl
8 2 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (17.92%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.77%) Degree
5 3 (2.83%) CISM
5 3 (2.83%) CISSP
6 1 (0.94%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.49%) QA
2 3 (2.83%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.94%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (17.92%) Terraform
2 4 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.83%) Ansible
4 2 (1.89%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.94%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (8.49%) Oracle
2 7 (6.60%) Avaloq
3 6 (5.66%) Google
4 5 (4.72%) Apple
4 5 (4.72%) IBM
4 5 (4.72%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.72%) TSYS
5 4 (3.77%) Pega
6 3 (2.83%) VMware
7 2 (1.89%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.94%) Blue Coat
8 1 (0.94%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.94%) Cisco
8 1 (0.94%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.94%) Juniper