Design Patterns Contracts in South London

Design Patterns
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 27 38 48
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 -4
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 8 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 4.32% 1.65% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 1.77% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £369 £775 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -41.25% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £479 £825 £750
90th Percentile £484 - £825
London median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 226 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.57% 93.39% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 152 277
10th Percentile £380 £216 £300
25th Percentile £463 £422 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £675
90th Percentile £876 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 13
10th Percentile - £17.00 £18.75
25th Percentile - £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%
75th Percentile £20.38 £75.00 £50.42
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £52.46
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in South London

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in South London

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

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

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in South London

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London 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
Croydon - 4 £470 -
Bromley -4 3 - - 2
Design Patterns
London

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 (25.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) RDBMS
1 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) JUnit
1 1 (12.50%) NUnit
1 1 (12.50%) Subversion
1 1 (12.50%) Xcode
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Front Office
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 6 (75.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Java Swing Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 1 (12.50%) iOS Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Middleware
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
1 3 (37.50%) Swing
1 3 (37.50%) XML
2 2 (25.00%) Rendezvous
3 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Architecture
1 3 (37.50%) Fixed Income
1 3 (37.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (25.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
1 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
1 3 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (37.50%) CQRS
1 3 (37.50%) Domain-Driven Design
1 3 (37.50%) High Availability
1 3 (37.50%) Microservices
1 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (37.50%) TDD
2 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) iOS Development
3 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) Perl
4 1 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) Ruby
4 1 (12.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) IBM
1 2 (25.00%) Sybase
1 2 (25.00%) TIBCO
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft