Design Patterns Contracts in the North West

Design Patterns
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 107 46 128
Rank change year-on-year -61 +82 -43
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 13 105 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% 3.81% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 4.42% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 77 15
10th Percentile £396 £463 £410
25th Percentile £405 £511 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% +20.00% -5.21%
75th Percentile £538 £825 £594
90th Percentile £668 £850 £669
England median daily rate £575 £619 £625
% change year-on-year -7.07% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £66.50 -
25th Percentile - £66.88 £37.80
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year - +72.46% -35.06%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £43.39
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 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 1 May 2025.

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
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 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
Manchester -46 8 £525 -16.00% 78
Cheshire -12 3 £410 -27.69% 20
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Glacier
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Dremio
1 3 (23.08%) Power BI
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Accumulo
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 3 (23.08%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Military
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
5 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
1 2 (15.38%) Keycloak
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Microservices
2 5 (38.46%) Event-Driven
3 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
4 3 (23.08%) Data Transformation
5 2 (15.38%) Analytical Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (15.38%) Data Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) C#
1 4 (30.77%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat