Design Patterns Contract Job Trends in West Wales

Design Patterns
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 1.61% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
Wales median daily rate £650 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40 10 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 64.52% 35.71% 53.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 10 5
10th Percentile £363 £182 £115
25th Percentile £375 £185 £131
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% +118.39%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £500
90th Percentile £518 £598 £515
Wales median daily rate £475 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.41 - £11.75
Median hourly rate £15.91 - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.42%
75th Percentile £16.42 - £15.25
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £20.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +3.66% -8.89% +15.44%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in West Wales

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in West Wales

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

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

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in West Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
Swansea - 1 £375 - 4
Design Patterns
Wales

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform