Design Patterns Contracts in Northern Ireland

Design Patterns
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 28 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.52% - 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% - 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £405
25th Percentile - - £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £445
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.56%
75th Percentile - - £501
90th Percentile - - £522
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -8.29% -3.23% +0.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 113 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 92.45% 75.84% 76.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 57 80
10th Percentile £154 £212 £165
25th Percentile £295 £350 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £406
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £532 £575 £504
90th Percentile £625 £660 £624
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 14
10th Percentile £15.60 - £13.40
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £13.94 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.75% -8.59% -3.11%
75th Percentile £48.48 £23.54 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £31.88 £18.12
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in Northern Ireland

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in Northern Ireland

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim - 4 £325 - 3
Design Patterns
UK

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Ant
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Front Office
1 4 (100.00%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Software Developer
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 4 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 4 (100.00%) C# Software Developer
1 4 (100.00%) C# Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Derivative
1 4 (100.00%) Equities
1 4 (100.00%) Equity Derivative
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft