Design Patterns Contracts in the South East

Design Patterns
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 119 179 164
Rank change year-on-year +60 -15 -4
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 40 26 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.33% 0.47% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 0.55% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 17 35
10th Percentile £419 £400 £406
25th Percentile £453 £475 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £567
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.00% +1.83%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £643
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £575 £619 £625
% change year-on-year -7.07% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £67.75
25th Percentile - - £70.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -31.25% +10.34% +14.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Design Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the South East

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in the South East

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in the South East

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in the South East

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +46 18 £575 -11.54% 22
Berkshire +38 17 £546 -4.00% 17
Surrey +20 14 £500 - 19
Hampshire +22 7 £575 +43.75% 17
Buckinghamshire +12 1 £675 +3.85% 2
East Sussex -2 1 £650 +4.00% 2
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (17.50%) Confluence
2 4 (10.00%) Apache
2 4 (10.00%) CMS
2 4 (10.00%) Drupal
2 4 (10.00%) WordPress
3 2 (5.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 17 (42.50%) Azure
2 8 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (17.50%) SaaS
4 6 (15.00%) Azure AKS
4 6 (15.00%) Serverless
5 5 (12.50%) AWS
5 5 (12.50%) GCP
6 4 (10.00%) Azure Functions
6 4 (10.00%) Figma
7 3 (7.50%) IaaS
7 3 (7.50%) PaaS
8 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (5.00%) Azure API Management
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Stack
8 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.50%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Internet
2 2 (5.00%) BGP
2 2 (5.00%) DNS
2 2 (5.00%) LAN
2 2 (5.00%) Network Security
2 2 (5.00%) WAN
2 2 (5.00%) Wireless
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.50%) DHCP
3 1 (2.50%) DMZ
3 1 (2.50%) EIGRP
3 1 (2.50%) Firewall
3 1 (2.50%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.50%) Multicast
3 1 (2.50%) OSPF
3 1 (2.50%) SSL
3 1 (2.50%) VPN
3 1 (2.50%) VSAN
3 1 (2.50%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) MySQL
1 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.00%) Redis
2 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (42.50%) Git
2 16 (40.00%) JIRA
3 7 (17.50%) Bitbucket
3 7 (17.50%) GoogleTest
3 7 (17.50%) Jenkins
3 7 (17.50%) Rational DOORS
3 7 (17.50%) TestRail
4 5 (12.50%) Cypress.io
5 4 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (7.50%) SpecFlow
6 3 (7.50%) Visual Studio
7 2 (5.00%) Moq
7 2 (5.00%) Selenium
8 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.50%) JMeter
8 1 (2.50%) Mocha
8 1 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Finance
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 12 (30.00%) Developer
3 11 (27.50%) Senior
4 7 (17.50%) C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Embedded Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Embedded Linux Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Senior Software Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Architect
6 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (10.00%) PHP Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) CSS
1 12 (30.00%) HTML
2 10 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 9 (22.50%) RESTful
4 5 (12.50%) Web Services
5 4 (10.00%) Ajax
5 4 (10.00%) CodeIgniter
5 4 (10.00%) GraphQL
5 4 (10.00%) jQuery
5 4 (10.00%) LAMP
5 4 (10.00%) Node.js
5 4 (10.00%) Prisma
5 4 (10.00%) SOAP
5 4 (10.00%) YAML
6 3 (7.50%) .NET
6 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET
6 3 (7.50%) React
7 2 (5.00%) Apache Axis
7 2 (5.00%) SAML
7 2 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.00%) Legacy Code
3 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.50%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.50%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.50%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (27.50%) Linux
2 7 (17.50%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (10.00%) Unix
4 2 (5.00%) Windows
4 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (57.50%) Agile
2 20 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 18 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 18 (45.00%) Scrum
4 17 (42.50%) OO
5 15 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (32.50%) Test Automation
7 12 (30.00%) DevOps
7 12 (30.00%) Kanban
8 11 (27.50%) SOLID
9 10 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (22.50%) Computer Science
11 8 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 8 (20.00%) User Experience
12 7 (17.50%) Clean Code
12 7 (17.50%) Front End Development
12 7 (17.50%) Microservices
12 7 (17.50%) Multithreaded Programming
12 7 (17.50%) Storyboarding
12 7 (17.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (27.50%) TypeScript
3 10 (25.00%) C#
3 10 (25.00%) Java
4 9 (22.50%) Python
5 7 (17.50%) C++
6 4 (10.00%) PHP
6 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (10.00%) SQL
7 2 (5.00%) Bash
7 2 (5.00%) Ruby
8 1 (2.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) Degree
2 7 (17.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) CISSP
4 2 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.50%) NIST
3 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.50%) CASB
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (22.50%) Google
3 4 (10.00%) Cisco
3 4 (10.00%) Zend
4 3 (7.50%) Databricks
4 3 (7.50%) Virgin Media
5 2 (5.00%) Aruba
5 2 (5.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.50%) Arista
6 1 (2.50%) F5
6 1 (2.50%) VMware