Pattern Matching Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Pattern Matching
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Pattern Matching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Pattern Matching 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.033% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Pattern Matching 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,586 12,981 17,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.14% 86.78% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,531 7,626 11,240
10th Percentile £220 £235 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,760 774 1,221
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.04 £32.39 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -27.21% +39.06%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.32 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.85
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.88% +25.29%

Pattern Matching
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Pattern Matching relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Pattern Matching job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Pattern Matching
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pattern Matching.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pattern Matching

Pattern Matching
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pattern Matching within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Yorkshire - 4 £525 -
North of England - 4 £525 -
East of England - 2 - -
Pattern Matching
UK

Pattern Matching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
1 4 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 4 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (66.67%) PyCharm
2 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) NumPy
1 4 (66.67%) Pandas
1 4 (66.67%) TensorFlow
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (33.33%) LINQ
2 2 (33.33%) Middleware
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Algorithms
1 4 (66.67%) Online Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) AI
2 4 (66.67%) Application Security
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Conversational UI
2 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Data Munging
2 4 (66.67%) Data Science
2 4 (66.67%) Data Security
2 4 (66.67%) Deep Learning
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Vision
3 3 (50.00%) Image Processing
3 3 (50.00%) LLM
3 3 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (50.00%) Use Case
4 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared