Design Patterns Contract Job Trends in Watford

Design Patterns
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Watford requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Watford 8.20% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.62% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £675 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58 70 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 95.08% 89.74% 90.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 50 84
10th Percentile £192 £250 £170
25th Percentile £353 £306 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £356 £475
Median % change year-on-year +40.35% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £484 £675
90th Percentile £614 £589 £735
Hertfordshire median daily rate £528 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +24.24% -22.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile £17.53 £13.28 £17.10
25th Percentile £23.96 £13.69 £18.37
Median hourly rate £29.51 £14.31 £21.48
Median % change year-on-year +106.18% -33.35% -38.64%
75th Percentile £33.82 £14.94 £24.32
90th Percentile £34.44 £16.88 £25.43
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £43.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.33% -7.69% +8.33%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Design Patterns relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford.

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in Watford

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in Watford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Design Patterns.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Batch
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) .NET Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Developer
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 2 (40.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Perl Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (60.00%) React
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (40.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) API Integration
4 1 (20.00%) API Management
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) People Management
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle