Design Patterns Contracts in Scotland

Design Patterns
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 86 108 88
Rank change year-on-year +22 -20 +19
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 30 21 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.85% 0.95% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 1.07% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 69
10th Percentile - £500 £404
25th Percentile £406 £541 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £596 £746 £750
90th Percentile £600 £830 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -8.29% -3.23% +0.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in Scotland

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in Scotland

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in Scotland

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in Scotland

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +16 21 £511 -10.04% 11
Edinburgh +2 9 £456 -29.81% 22
Design Patterns
UK

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (6.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (6.67%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) Adobe Analytics
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (6.67%) Google Analytics
3 2 (6.67%) IaaS
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (6.67%) PaaS
3 2 (6.67%) Power Automate
3 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.67%) SaaS
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Internet
2 1 (3.33%) DHCP
2 1 (3.33%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) FTP
2 1 (3.33%) SSL
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.00%) MariaDB
2 3 (10.00%) MySQL
3 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.67%) Power Query
3 2 (6.67%) Redis
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (10.00%) webpack
1 3 (10.00%) Xcode
2 1 (3.33%) Mockito
2 1 (3.33%) Toad
General
1 10 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Finance
4 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (60.00%) Developer
2 13 (43.33%) Java Developer
3 9 (30.00%) Linux Developer
4 8 (26.67%) Linux Scripter
5 5 (16.67%) Architect
6 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 3 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (10.00%) Mobile Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (6.67%) Applications Developer
8 2 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) Analyst
9 1 (3.33%) Applications Support
9 1 (3.33%) Applications Support Analyst
9 1 (3.33%) Designer
9 1 (3.33%) Integration Architect
9 1 (3.33%) Service Design Architect
9 1 (3.33%) Support Analyst
9 1 (3.33%) Technical Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) Node.js
1 7 (23.33%) React
2 6 (20.00%) Spring
3 5 (16.67%) CSS
3 5 (16.67%) HTML
3 5 (16.67%) REST
3 5 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 3 (10.00%) CSS3
4 3 (10.00%) HTML5
4 3 (10.00%) Redux
4 3 (10.00%) RESTful
4 3 (10.00%) SwiftUI
4 3 (10.00%) UIKit
5 2 (6.67%) ARM Templates
5 2 (6.67%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (6.67%) J2EE
5 2 (6.67%) JSON
5 2 (6.67%) YAML
6 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.33%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (10.00%) Credit Risk
3 3 (10.00%) iPad
3 3 (10.00%) iPhone
3 3 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (10.00%) Virtual Team
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.67%) Low-Code
4 2 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (3.33%) CMDB
5 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Linux
2 8 (26.67%) Unix
3 3 (10.00%) Android
3 3 (10.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.33%) Windows
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 11 (36.67%) Agile
3 9 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (30.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 9 (30.00%) Multithreading
4 8 (26.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (23.33%) TDD
6 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (16.67%) User Experience
7 5 (16.67%) UX Design
8 4 (13.33%) Analytics
8 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (13.33%) Customer Experience
8 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (13.33%) Microservices
8 4 (13.33%) Scrum
8 4 (13.33%) Service Management
9 3 (10.00%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) Java
2 14 (46.67%) SQL
3 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.00%) Bash
4 3 (10.00%) Objective-C
4 3 (10.00%) Python
4 3 (10.00%) Swift
4 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.67%) Bicep
5 2 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
5 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) CISM
3 1 (3.33%) CISSP
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
1 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Ansible
1 2 (6.67%) Grafana
1 2 (6.67%) Progress Chef
1 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Google
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) Adobe
3 1 (3.33%) Ariba
3 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.33%) Okta
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.33%) Sybase
3 1 (3.33%) Talend
3 1 (3.33%) VMware