Design Patterns Contract Job Trends in Reading

Design Patterns
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 59 86
Rank change year-on-year -32 +27 -1
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 5 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.44% 1.33% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.44% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile £410 £522 -
25th Percentile £463 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +14.29% +50.00%
75th Percentile £644 - £650
90th Percentile £666 - £652
Berkshire median daily rate £544 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -5.43% +9.52% +50.00%

All Process & 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 937 555 978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 82.12% 92.50% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 353 529
10th Percentile £363 £350 £348
25th Percentile £458 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.46% +6.91%
75th Percentile £648 £620 £650
90th Percentile £738 £700 £715
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £512 £550
% change year-on-year +2.59% -6.95% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 18 35
10th Percentile £57.50 - £14.50
25th Percentile £80.75 £14.75 £52.21
Median hourly rate £84.00 £20.38 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +312.27% -66.92% -6.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £38.42 £75.93
90th Percentile £104.50 £59.13 £87.46
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £32.05 £61.60
% change year-on-year +158.97% -47.97% +6.54%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in Reading

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in Reading over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in Reading

Design Patterns
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
1 2 (40.00%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Science
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) GRC
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) Tenable