Design Patterns Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Design Patterns
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.18% - 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% - 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 - £400
West Midlands median daily rate £456 £651 £475
% change year-on-year -29.86% +36.95% -5.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 484 133 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 85.51% 96.38% 62.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 79 32
10th Percentile £359 £222 £266
25th Percentile £410 £334 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% +15.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £525 £514 £453
90th Percentile £560 £540 £531
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 8
10th Percentile £23.20 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% +16.89% -71.59%
75th Percentile - £17.89 £11.32
90th Percentile £45.20 £21.32 £14.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £18.13 £22.75
% change year-on-year +26.86% -20.31% +28.39%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 19 March 2026. 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
Telford - 1 £386 - 2
Design Patterns
West Midlands

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Pentaho
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Talend