Design Patterns Contracts in the Thames Valley

Design Patterns
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 125 135
Rank change year-on-year +35 +10 +4
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 14 16 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.95% 0.61% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.70% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 3
10th Percentile £450 - £465
25th Percentile £486 £600 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £663 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% +39.47% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £706 £594
90th Percentile £675 £718 £658
South East median daily rate £500 £613 £570
% change year-on-year -18.37% +7.46% +2.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,366 2,273 2,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.93% 87.09% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,262 1,763
10th Percentile £295 £213 £319
25th Percentile £401 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.99%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £602
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year -0.05% -1.43% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 167 64
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.17 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.30 £19.25 £24.13
Median hourly rate £27.76 £45.00 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year -38.31% -11.85% +200.29%
75th Percentile £62.24 £63.75 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.19 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £27.05 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -43.06% -5.00% +132.56%

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 22 May 2025.

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 22 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
Berkshire +34 14 £575 - 26
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 3 (21.43%) Confluence
2 2 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure AKS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) Figma
2 3 (21.43%) IaaS
2 3 (21.43%) PaaS
2 3 (21.43%) Serverless
3 2 (14.29%) Azure API Management
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.14%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) LAN
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
1 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
1 1 (7.14%) WAN
1 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Redis
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (35.71%) Telecoms
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Architect
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Gen AI Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Gen AI Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Python Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Python Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) C# Web Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Apache Axis
1 2 (14.29%) CSS
1 2 (14.29%) HTML
1 2 (14.29%) OAuth
1 2 (14.29%) OpenID
1 2 (14.29%) SAML
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) ADO
2 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (7.14%) Blazor
2 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.14%) MACH
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) Prisma
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.14%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (21.43%) CQRS
4 3 (21.43%) Design Thinking
4 3 (21.43%) Generative AI
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) SOA
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) User Experience
4 3 (21.43%) UX Design
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (14.29%) ITIL
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
5 2 (14.29%) TDD
5 2 (14.29%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) C#
2 5 (35.71%) Java
3 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 2 (14.29%) Bash
5 2 (14.29%) Ruby
6 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
6 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) CISSP
1 2 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.14%) CASB
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Databricks
2 3 (21.43%) Virgin Media
3 1 (7.14%) Aruba
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto