Design Patterns Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Design Patterns
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 179 135
Rank change year-on-year +21 -44 -4
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 151 173 465
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.52% 1.13% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 1.28% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 123 336
10th Percentile £362 £402 £413
25th Percentile £450 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £722 £753 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -8.29% -3.23% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 13
10th Percentile - £66.75 £62.90
25th Percentile - £67.50 £70.00
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +20.83%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile - £78.50 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £73.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% -5.08% +16.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Design Patterns
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Design Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Design Patterns trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Design Patterns.

Design Patterns daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Design Patterns over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Design Patterns daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Design Patterns
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Design Patterns.

Design Patterns hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (5.30%) CMS
2 6 (3.97%) Apache
2 6 (3.97%) Confluence
3 4 (2.65%) Drupal
3 4 (2.65%) WordPress
4 3 (1.99%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.66%) Camunda
5 1 (0.66%) IIS
5 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.66%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (25.17%) Azure
2 34 (22.52%) AWS
3 14 (9.27%) GCP
4 13 (8.61%) GitHub
5 10 (6.62%) SaaS
6 9 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.30%) Serverless
8 7 (4.64%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (3.97%) PaaS
10 5 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (3.31%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.31%) Azure AKS
10 5 (3.31%) IaaS
11 4 (2.65%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.65%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (2.65%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.65%) Sentry
12 3 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.99%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.31%) SSL
2 4 (2.65%) DNS
2 4 (2.65%) Internet
2 4 (2.65%) Network Security
3 3 (1.99%) BGP
3 3 (1.99%) DHCP
3 3 (1.99%) IPsec
3 3 (1.99%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.99%) LAN
3 3 (1.99%) WAN
3 3 (1.99%) Wireless
4 2 (1.32%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.32%) EIGRP
4 2 (1.32%) OSPF
4 2 (1.32%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.66%) DMZ
5 1 (0.66%) Firewall
5 1 (0.66%) Multicast
5 1 (0.66%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.26%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (9.93%) MongoDB
3 12 (7.95%) Redis
4 11 (7.28%) MySQL
4 11 (7.28%) NoSQL
4 11 (7.28%) Relational Database
5 9 (5.96%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.99%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.32%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.32%) Dremio
8 2 (1.32%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.32%) Power BI
8 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.66%) Flink
9 1 (0.66%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 28 (18.54%) Git
2 24 (15.89%) JIRA
3 19 (12.58%) Jenkins
4 11 (7.28%) Maven
5 5 (3.31%) Ant
5 5 (3.31%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (3.31%) GitLab
5 5 (3.31%) Subversion
6 4 (2.65%) CircleCI
6 4 (2.65%) JUnit
6 4 (2.65%) Mockito
6 4 (2.65%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.99%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.99%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.99%) Gradle
7 3 (1.99%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.99%) Postman
7 3 (1.99%) TestNG
8 2 (1.32%) PHPUnit
8 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 65 (43.05%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.19%) Front Office
3 25 (16.56%) Finance
4 21 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (11.92%) Banking
6 10 (6.62%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.30%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.31%) Wholesale Banking
9 4 (2.65%) Back Office
9 4 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.32%) Retail
11 1 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.66%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.66%) German Language
11 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.66%) Marketing
11 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (50.33%) Developer
2 29 (19.21%) Architect
3 26 (17.22%) .NET Developer
4 25 (16.56%) C# Developer
5 23 (15.23%) C# .NET Developer
6 19 (12.58%) Java Developer
7 15 (9.93%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
7 15 (9.93%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 15 (9.93%) Real Time Developer
8 12 (7.95%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.62%) Technical Architect
10 9 (5.96%) Lead
10 9 (5.96%) Linux Developer
10 9 (5.96%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (5.30%) Designer
11 8 (5.30%) Linux Scripter
11 8 (5.30%) Senior
12 6 (3.97%) C# Software Engineer
12 6 (3.97%) Data Engineer
12 6 (3.97%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (26.49%) .NET
2 23 (15.23%) AngularJS
3 20 (13.25%) Reactive Extensions
4 15 (9.93%) CSS
5 14 (9.27%) RESTful
6 12 (7.95%) Node.js
6 12 (7.95%) React
7 11 (7.28%) HTML
7 11 (7.28%) Kafka
7 11 (7.28%) REST
8 10 (6.62%) Spring
8 10 (6.62%) Web Services
9 9 (5.96%) .NET Framework
9 9 (5.96%) Laravel
9 9 (5.96%) Spring Boot
10 8 (5.30%) OAuth
11 6 (3.97%) GraphQL
11 6 (3.97%) SOAP
12 5 (3.31%) Express.js
12 5 (3.31%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.58%) Product Ownership
2 13 (8.61%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (7.28%) Algorithms
4 8 (5.30%) Fixed Income
5 7 (4.64%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.97%) Derivative
6 6 (3.97%) Legacy Code
7 5 (3.31%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.31%) Equities
7 5 (3.31%) Equity Derivative
7 5 (3.31%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.32%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.32%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.91%) Linux
2 17 (11.26%) Unix
3 8 (5.30%) Windows
4 3 (1.99%) Android
5 2 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (47.68%) Agile
2 41 (27.15%) Software Engineering
3 37 (24.50%) CI/CD
4 35 (23.18%) Microservices
5 33 (21.85%) OO
6 27 (17.88%) DevOps
7 25 (16.56%) TDD
8 20 (13.25%) Architectural Patterns
8 20 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (12.58%) Event-Driven
10 17 (11.26%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (10.60%) Electronic Trading
11 16 (10.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 15 (9.93%) Containerisation
12 15 (9.93%) Scrum
12 15 (9.93%) SOLID
13 14 (9.27%) Concurrent Programming
14 12 (7.95%) Low Latency
14 12 (7.95%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 61 (40.40%) SQL
2 59 (39.07%) Java
3 42 (27.81%) C#
3 42 (27.81%) JavaScript
4 23 (15.23%) TypeScript
5 15 (9.93%) Python
6 14 (9.27%) PHP
7 8 (5.30%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.31%) F#
8 5 (3.31%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.65%) Scala
9 4 (2.65%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.99%) Ruby
10 3 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.32%) Bash
11 2 (1.32%) Bicep
11 2 (1.32%) Groovy
11 2 (1.32%) Perl
12 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.66%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (7.95%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.62%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.31%) Degree
4 3 (1.99%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.99%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.66%) CAPM
6 1 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.66%) MCAD
6 1 (0.66%) MCPD
6 1 (0.66%) MCSD
6 1 (0.66%) PhD
6 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.66%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.62%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.31%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.99%) NIST
3 3 (1.99%) WCAG
4 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.32%) GDPR
4 2 (1.32%) QA
5 1 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.66%) HL7
5 1 (0.66%) NCSC
5 1 (0.66%) SLA
5 1 (0.66%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 27 (17.88%) Docker
2 3 (1.99%) RACF
3 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (11.26%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.62%) Grafana
2 10 (6.62%) Terraform
3 7 (4.64%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.65%) Ansible
5 3 (1.99%) Packer
5 3 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.66%) CASB
6 1 (0.66%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.66%) QRadar
Vendors
1 27 (17.88%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.26%) Oracle
3 8 (5.30%) Google
4 5 (3.31%) Cisco
5 4 (2.65%) Zend
6 3 (1.99%) Aruba
6 3 (1.99%) Splunk
7 2 (1.32%) Ariba
7 2 (1.32%) Databricks
7 2 (1.32%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.32%) SAP
7 2 (1.32%) Virgin Media
7 2 (1.32%) VMware
8 1 (0.66%) Arista
8 1 (0.66%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.66%) IBM
8 1 (0.66%) Pega
8 1 (0.66%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.66%) Sybase