Design Patterns Contracts in the Thames Valley

Design Patterns
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 128 135 139
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 -38
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 15 13 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.56% 0.44% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.48% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 16
10th Percentile £463 £469 £450
25th Percentile £547 £484 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £700 £541 £573
90th Percentile £710 £625 £634
South East median daily rate £550 £567 £557
% change year-on-year -3.00% +1.83% +11.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,329 2,690 3,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.16% 91.56% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 1,868 2,093
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 85
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £12.05
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.00
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the Thames Valley

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in the Thames Valley

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in the Thames Valley

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in the Thames Valley

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -5 10 £569 +10.98% 5
Buckinghamshire - 5 £650 - 9
Design Patterns
South East

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 8 (53.33%) DMZ
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
1 8 (53.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Redis
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
1 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (66.67%) Banking
2 8 (53.33%) Investment Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Retail
5 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Blue Coat Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) Juniper Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) Network Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (6.67%) C# Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
3 1 (6.67%) NHibernate
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 1 (6.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Low-Code
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) High Availability
2 9 (60.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 8 (53.33%) Change Control
3 8 (53.33%) ITSM
4 4 (26.67%) Microservices
5 3 (20.00%) TDD
6 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) Architecture Governance
6 2 (13.33%) BDD
6 2 (13.33%) Domain-Driven Design
6 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) IT Strategy
6 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (13.33%) Strategic Roadmap
7 1 (6.67%) Architectural Design
7 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
7 1 (6.67%) Integration Patterns
7 1 (6.67%) Sequence Diagram
7 1 (6.67%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Blue Coat
1 8 (53.33%) CheckPoint
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco
1 8 (53.33%) Fortinet
1 8 (53.33%) Juniper
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce