Design Patterns Contracts in Reading

Design Patterns
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 51 - 82
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 9 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.51% - 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% - 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile - - £466
25th Percentile £409 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 - £495
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 - £524
90th Percentile - - £540
Berkshire median daily rate £546 £569 £513
% change year-on-year -4.00% +10.98% +2.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in Reading

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in Reading

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in Reading

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in Reading

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (88.89%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Azure AKS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Functions
2 4 (44.44%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) dbt
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (44.44%) Redis
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Backend Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Gen AI Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Gen AI Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Python Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
4 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
4 1 (11.11%) C# Web Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) GraphQL
1 4 (44.44%) Prisma
1 4 (44.44%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) ADO
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (11.11%) Blazor
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) API Design
3 4 (44.44%) Code Quality
3 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 4 (44.44%) Cost Management
3 4 (44.44%) Cost Optimisation
3 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven
3 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (44.44%) Front End Development
3 4 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (44.44%) Microservices
3 4 (44.44%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) CQRS
4 3 (33.33%) Generative AI
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Coaching
5 1 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) TypeScript
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Databricks
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (33.33%) Virgin Media
2 1 (11.11%) Aruba
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto