Design Patterns Contracts in the West Midlands

Design Patterns
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 107 105
Rank change year-on-year +20 -2 +30
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 18 8 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.22% 0.39% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 0.48% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 12
10th Percentile £423 £428 £466
25th Percentile £450 £441 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £475 £644
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -26.21% +19.21%
75th Percentile £800 £541 £709
90th Percentile - £561 £738
England median daily rate £548 £600 £605
% change year-on-year -8.75% -0.83% -5.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,305 1,666 1,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.78% 80.91% 87.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 824 1,102 1,326
10th Percentile £201 £271 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% -2.44% +3.54%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £612
90th Percentile £663 £737 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 121 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.13 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.32 £14.25 £14.20
Median hourly rate £23.36 £22.50 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +3.82% -4.70% +34.91%
75th Percentile £32.29 £40.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £49.38
England median hourly rate £26.75 £38.06 £35.25
% change year-on-year -29.72% +7.97% +37.27%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the West Midlands

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in the West Midlands

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in the West Midlands

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in the West Midlands

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
Warwickshire +10 14 £688 - 13
Birmingham +11 1 £651 - 27
Coventry +1 1 - - 10
Solihull - 1 £420 -
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) JBoss
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) Lucidchart
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) Plastic SCM
3 1 (5.56%) Android Studio
3 1 (5.56%) Gradle
3 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) Maven
3 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (5.56%) Xcode
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Games
3 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Automotive
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Architect
2 9 (50.00%) Security Architect
3 6 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (27.78%) Developer
5 4 (22.22%) Security Solutions Architect
6 3 (16.67%) Applications Architect
6 3 (16.67%) Games Developer
6 3 (16.67%) IT Architect
6 3 (16.67%) IT Security Architect
6 3 (16.67%) Network Security Architect
7 2 (11.11%) Senior
8 1 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (5.56%) IT Security Engineer
8 1 (5.56%) Java Applications Architect
8 1 (5.56%) Java Architect
8 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
8 1 (5.56%) Security Specialist
8 1 (5.56%) Senior Architect
8 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 1 (5.56%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Apache Axis
1 3 (16.67%) REST
1 3 (16.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.56%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) Java SE
2 1 (5.56%) Jest
2 1 (5.56%) Laravel
2 1 (5.56%) Middleware
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) React Native
2 1 (5.56%) Redux
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
2 1 (5.56%) Spring
2 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.56%) Vue
2 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 5 (27.78%) Operational Technology
2 5 (27.78%) SCADA
3 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.56%) CCTV
4 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
1 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.56%) Android
2 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (33.33%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Application Security
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 6 (33.33%) Microservices
2 6 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 6 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (27.78%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 5 (27.78%) OWASP
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) User Experience
5 3 (16.67%) Data Management
5 3 (16.67%) Network Architecture
5 3 (16.67%) Project Planning
5 3 (16.67%) Software Architecture
5 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) C#
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (16.67%) Python
4 3 (16.67%) Ruby
5 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.56%) JSX
6 1 (5.56%) PHP
6 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) CISSP
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) NIST
2 5 (27.78%) QA
3 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.56%) GRC
4 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (5.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 3 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Ariba
1 1 (5.56%) Qualys
1 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow