Design Patterns Contracts in the Midlands

Design Patterns
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Design Patterns skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Design Patterns over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 127 158
Rank change year-on-year +3 +31 -29
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 11 33 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.41% 1.02% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.16% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 27
10th Percentile £406 £445 £379
25th Percentile £414 £509 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £606 £540
Median % change year-on-year -22.65% +12.22% +35.00%
75th Percentile £521 £700 £595
90th Percentile £549 £738 £619
England median daily rate £600 £610 £625
% change year-on-year -1.64% -2.40% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Design Patterns is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,203 2,852 4,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.87% 87.94% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,485 2,002 3,238
10th Percentile £233 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £369 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +5.26% +14.46%
75th Percentile £595 £597 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 101 147
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.50 £10.61
25th Percentile £13.60 £15.00 £13.74
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.41 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.68% +28.06% +16.67%
75th Percentile £32.53 £40.25 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £57.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +8.70%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the Midlands

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in the Midlands

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in the Midlands over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in the Midlands

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in the Midlands

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +7 9 £463 -28.16% 19
East Midlands +2 2 £567 -6.44% 16
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (9.09%) IaaS
5 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
5 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (9.09%) DMZ
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) IPsec
1 1 (9.09%) Kerberos
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) DB2
2 1 (9.09%) OLAP
2 1 (9.09%) OLTP
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Designer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Architect
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Juniper Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) RESTful
1 2 (18.18%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) gRPC
2 1 (9.09%) JMS
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
2 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (9.09%) RAML
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) Swagger
2 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
1 6 (54.55%) Roadmaps
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) API Design
4 2 (18.18%) ArchiMate
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
4 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) SOA
4 2 (18.18%) Software Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) UML
5 1 (9.09%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) C#
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) Python
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Blue Coat
3 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 1 (9.09%) Juniper