Design Patterns Contracts in the South East

Design Patterns
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Design Patterns skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Design Patterns over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 163 156
Rank change year-on-year -12 -7 -32
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 26 58 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.47% 1.00% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.12% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 35 65
10th Percentile £400 £406 £388
25th Percentile £475 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £567 £557
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +1.83% +11.36%
75th Percentile £675 £643 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £663
England median daily rate £625 £625 £625
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 9
10th Percentile - £67.75 £46.00
25th Percentile - £70.94 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -2.83%
75th Percentile - - £63.25
90th Percentile - - £65.51
England median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £63.43
% change year-on-year +10.34% +14.31% +12.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Design Patterns is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,683 5,187 6,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.85% 89.29% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,599 4,696
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £404 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 219 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £15.72
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.71
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £62.70
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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 +7 15 £650 +26.83% 16
Surrey +18 11 £500 -12.05% 7
Hampshire -9 11 £400 -25.58% 21
Berkshire -5 10 £569 +10.98% 5
Buckinghamshire - 5 £650 - 9
West Sussex - 3 £550 - 2
East Sussex +3 1 £625 -10.71%
Home Counties - 1 £475 -
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 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (34.62%) Firewall
2 8 (30.77%) Cisco Nexus
2 8 (30.77%) DMZ
2 8 (30.77%) VPN
3 1 (3.85%) NFC
3 1 (3.85%) PPP
3 1 (3.85%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Git
2 5 (19.23%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.69%) JIRA
3 2 (7.69%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.85%) Eclipse
4 1 (3.85%) GoogleTest
4 1 (3.85%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (3.85%) TestRail
4 1 (3.85%) Valgrind
General
1 10 (38.46%) Banking
2 8 (30.77%) Investment Banking
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Retail
4 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Blue Coat Engineer
1 8 (30.77%) Cisco Engineer
1 8 (30.77%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 8 (30.77%) Juniper Engineer
1 8 (30.77%) Network Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Software Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (11.54%) .NET Developer
5 3 (11.54%) C++ Software Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 3 (11.54%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Embedded Linux Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) .NET
2 4 (15.38%) .NET Framework
2 4 (15.38%) ASP.NET
2 4 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (15.38%) JSON
3 3 (11.54%) REST
3 3 (11.54%) XML
4 2 (7.69%) .NET Core
4 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 2 (7.69%) Blazor
4 2 (7.69%) Entity Framework
4 2 (7.69%) React
4 2 (7.69%) RESTful
4 2 (7.69%) WCF
5 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.85%) CSS
5 1 (3.85%) NHibernate
5 1 (3.85%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (3.85%) Web Services
5 1 (3.85%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.85%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
1 5 (19.23%) Windows
2 4 (15.38%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Architectural Patterns
2 10 (38.46%) High Availability
3 8 (30.77%) Change Control
3 8 (30.77%) ITSM
3 8 (30.77%) Scrum
3 8 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 8 (30.77%) UML
4 6 (23.08%) Agile
4 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (23.08%) SOLID
4 6 (23.08%) Unit Testing
5 5 (19.23%) Clean Code
5 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
5 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (19.23%) Customer Service
5 5 (19.23%) Kanban
5 5 (19.23%) OO
5 5 (19.23%) OOD
5 5 (19.23%) Storyboarding
6 4 (15.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) C#
2 5 (19.23%) Python
3 4 (15.38%) Bash
3 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 4 (15.38%) Perl
4 3 (11.54%) C++
4 3 (11.54%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Blue Coat
1 8 (30.77%) CheckPoint
1 8 (30.77%) Cisco
1 8 (30.77%) Fortinet
1 8 (30.77%) Juniper
2 1 (3.85%) Google
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) Salesforce