Design Patterns Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Design Patterns
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 32 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 -15 -
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 15 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 5.45% 0.89% 4.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.60% 0.98% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 5
10th Percentile £270 - -
25th Percentile £322 - £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £356 £622
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% -42.77% -
75th Percentile £447 - £644
90th Percentile £452 - £668
Northamptonshire median daily rate £394 £356 £622
% change year-on-year +10.67% -42.77% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 268 205 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 97.45% 91.11% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 163 80
10th Percentile £270 £353 £198
25th Percentile £349 £382 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £482
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -7.68% +7.11%
75th Percentile £448 £575 £534
90th Percentile £500 £620 £588
Northamptonshire median daily rate £388 £445 £489
% change year-on-year -12.92% -9.00% +5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Median hourly rate £21.39 - £14.52
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.28%
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £24.20 £51.00
% change year-on-year -11.61% -52.55% +45.71%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing Design Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in Northampton

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Design Patterns.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in Northampton over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in Northampton

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 3 (20.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (13.33%) Mule
3 1 (6.67%) JBoss
3 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 5 (33.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Glacier
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) HTTP
1 3 (20.00%) HTTPS
1 3 (20.00%) SSL
2 1 (6.67%) DMZ
2 1 (6.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
2 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (13.33%) MariaDB
4 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Git
2 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (20.00%) Maven
3 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
4 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (13.33%) Gradle
4 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
5 1 (6.67%) JIRA
5 1 (6.67%) JUnit
5 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (33.33%) Marketing
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
1 8 (53.33%) Java Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (86.67%) REST
2 7 (46.67%) Spring
2 7 (46.67%) Spring Boot
3 6 (40.00%) SOAP
4 5 (33.33%) Lightning Web Components
4 5 (33.33%) Middleware
4 5 (33.33%) RAML
4 5 (33.33%) RESTful
4 5 (33.33%) Spring Batch
4 5 (33.33%) Visualforce
5 4 (26.67%) J2EE
5 4 (26.67%) Kafka
5 4 (26.67%) Web Services
6 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (20.00%) CSS
6 3 (20.00%) HTML
6 3 (20.00%) JPA
6 3 (20.00%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (20.00%) React
6 3 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (20.00%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Microservices
1 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Integration Patterns
3 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
4 5 (33.33%) Data Flow Diagram
4 5 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 5 (33.33%) Data Migration
4 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 5 (33.33%) Data Security
4 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 5 (33.33%) Migration
4 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
5 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (26.67%) Data Management
5 4 (26.67%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (20.00%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) Apex Code
4 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
1 4 (26.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 5 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 5 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle
1 5 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (13.33%) Checkmarx
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Solace