Design Patterns Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Design Patterns
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 2.42% - 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% - 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £507 - £624
25th Percentile £511 - £641
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 - £677
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.29%
75th Percentile £528 - £738
90th Percentile £534 - £751
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £523 - £677
% change year-on-year - - -3.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 126 110 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 76.36% 82.71% 87.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 57 107
10th Percentile £188 £313 £300
25th Percentile £380 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +1.01% -10.00%
75th Percentile £544 £575 £650
90th Percentile £630 £613 £745
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £463 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -7.50% +1.01% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 7
10th Percentile £15.91 £14.70 £10.76
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.76 £12.76
Median hourly rate £16.35 £14.95 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year +9.36% -15.58% +61.00%
75th Percentile £17.87 £15.06 £55.39
90th Percentile - £15.09 £88.75
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £32.50 £21.52
% change year-on-year -49.69% +51.06% +95.59%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Design Patterns relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham.

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

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

Design Patterns
Hourly Rate Trend in Nottingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Design Patterns.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) ChatGPT
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
1 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Istio
2 2 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle