Design Patterns Contracts in the South West

Design Patterns
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 147 135
Rank change year-on-year +40 -12 +6
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 6 13 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.32% 0.41% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.50% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 17
10th Percentile £527 £461 £450
25th Percentile £563 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £646 £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -5.01% +8.02%
75th Percentile £750 £653 £700
90th Percentile £799 £694 £740
England median daily rate £550 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +60.00% -21.38%
England median hourly rate £66.00 £67.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.90% +13.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,681 2,614 3,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.65% 82.96% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 1,656 2,204
10th Percentile £221 £263 £325
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +7.00%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 363 256
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.43 £24.09
25th Percentile £18.51 £33.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.08% -7.69% +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.96 £77.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the South West

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in the South West

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in the South West over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in the South West

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in the South West

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Dorset - 3 £505 - 7
Bristol +2 2 - - 15
Wiltshire - 1 £788 - 2
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Leader
2 2 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
1 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 3 (50.00%) Middleware
2 3 (50.00%) OAuth
2 3 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 3 (50.00%) SOAP
2 3 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Security
3 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) CSS3
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) HTML5
4 1 (16.67%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) MVC
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) User Stories
3 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) SABSA
4 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
4 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NIST