Design Patterns Contracts in Sheffield

Design Patterns
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 47 40
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 +9
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 11 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.26% 2.33% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.60% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £463 £630 £494
25th Percentile £484 £638 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.78% +8.33% -17.24%
75th Percentile £634 £756 £625
90th Percentile £700 £805 £656
South Yorkshire median daily rate £521 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -19.78% +8.33% -17.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 457 385 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.03% 89.74% 95.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 212 270
10th Percentile £290 £378 £363
25th Percentile £387 £425 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £507 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% -15.50% +17.07%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £688
90th Percentile £638 £644 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £552
% change year-on-year -5.10% -9.41% +10.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £15.00 £20.20 £13.18
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.50 £16.44
Median hourly rate £18.36 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% +7.69% +16.42%
75th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £20.69
90th Percentile - - £21.93
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £15.00
% change year-on-year +43.08% -14.47% -10.45%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in Sheffield

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in Sheffield

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in Sheffield over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in Sheffield

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 5 (45.45%) CloudBees
1 5 (45.45%) GitHub
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
3 2 (18.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DMZ
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 2 (18.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (54.55%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Architectural Design
3 5 (45.45%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) TDD
4 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (36.36%) Chaos Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
4 4 (36.36%) Data Analysis
4 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (36.36%) Incident Management
4 4 (36.36%) Microservices
4 4 (36.36%) Observability
4 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Software Delivery
4 4 (36.36%) Technology Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
1 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
1 5 (45.45%) Kotlin
1 5 (45.45%) Python
1 5 (45.45%) Shell Script
2 2 (18.18%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
1 1 (9.09%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) F5
1 2 (18.18%) Google
1 2 (18.18%) VMware