Design Patterns Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Design Patterns
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.58% - 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% - 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £353 - -
25th Percentile £394 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £550
75th Percentile £676 - £575
90th Percentile £790 - -
South East median daily rate £588 £500 £558
% change year-on-year +17.50% -10.31% -7.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 105 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 80.24% 86.78% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 68 152
10th Percentile £200 £198 £201
25th Percentile £300 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -2.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £544
90th Percentile £720 £664 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £506
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.09% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 12
10th Percentile £12.63 £15.97 £13.41
25th Percentile £12.75 £17.42 £17.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 £19.83 £20.44
Median % change year-on-year +33.64% -2.97% -7.77%
75th Percentile £55.63 £22.25 £22.25
90th Percentile £67.50 £23.69 £28.25
South East median hourly rate £25.08 £43.94 £47.50
% change year-on-year -42.93% -7.49% +5.56%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in West Sussex over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in West Sussex

Design Patterns
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Design Patterns.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 10 February 2026. 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
Burgess Hill - 2 £325 - 3
Horsham - 1 £865 -
Crawley - 1 £475 -
Design Patterns
South East

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Gradle
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) C++ Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C++ Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (25.00%) JPA
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (50.00%) Kanban
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) OO
1 2 (50.00%) OOP
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Programming
2 1 (25.00%) OOD
2 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) SOLID
2 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL