Design Patterns Contracts in the North of England

Design Patterns
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 147 105
Rank change year-on-year +70 -42 -3
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 116 66 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.50% 1.18% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 1.30% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 43 113
10th Percentile £464 £413 £400
25th Percentile £512 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.15% - +9.45%
75th Percentile £800 £606 £625
90th Percentile £850 £637 £725
England median daily rate £600 £615 £625
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.60% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £66.50 £44.24 -
25th Percentile £66.88 £53.90 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +80.56%
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile £80.50 - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £63.60
% change year-on-year +10.34% +13.99% +9.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,974 5,062 6,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.50% 90.49% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 3,486 4,633
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £401 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.07%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 203 262
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.36 £13.28
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.98 £18.94
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +47.71% +5.24%
75th Percentile £45.00 £44.13 £36.31
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.97
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the North of England

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in the North of England

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in the North of England

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in the North of England

Design Patterns
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Design Patterns in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Design Patterns in the North of England

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North West +71 98 £600 +6.63% 28
Yorkshire -1 16 £600 +9.09% 18
North East - 2 £588 - 10
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (5.17%) Confluence
1 6 (5.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.59%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.59%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.59%) nginx
3 1 (0.86%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (6.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Temenos T24
2 4 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (31.90%) AWS
2 15 (12.93%) Azure
3 8 (6.90%) GCP
4 7 (6.03%) Apigee
4 7 (6.03%) Kong
5 5 (4.31%) PaaS
5 5 (4.31%) SaaS
6 4 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.45%) IaaS
6 4 (3.45%) npm
6 4 (3.45%) OCI
6 4 (3.45%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.45%) Yarn
7 3 (2.59%) CloudBees
7 3 (2.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.72%) Serverless
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.86%) Miro
9 1 (0.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (26.72%) Firewall
2 28 (24.14%) VPN
3 3 (2.59%) Network Security
4 1 (0.86%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.86%) DMZ
4 1 (0.86%) HTTP
4 1 (0.86%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.28%) MongoDB
2 7 (6.03%) Apache Cassandra
2 7 (6.03%) OLAP
2 7 (6.03%) OLTP
3 6 (5.17%) Oracle OLAP
4 5 (4.31%) MySQL
4 5 (4.31%) Redis
5 4 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.59%) ClickHouse
6 3 (2.59%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.59%) HBase
7 2 (1.72%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.72%) Metadata
7 2 (1.72%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.86%) Big Data
8 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.86%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (15.52%) GitLab
2 16 (13.79%) JIRA
3 4 (3.45%) Jasmine
3 4 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.45%) Karma Test Runner
3 4 (3.45%) Mocha
3 4 (3.45%) webpack
4 3 (2.59%) Git
5 2 (1.72%) JUnit
6 1 (0.86%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.86%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.86%) GoCD
6 1 (0.86%) Gradle
6 1 (0.86%) Maven
6 1 (0.86%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (20.69%) Finance
2 17 (14.66%) Banking
3 16 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 14 (12.07%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.76%) Legal
6 4 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.59%) Law
7 3 (2.59%) Retail
8 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.86%) Marketing
8 1 (0.86%) Military
8 1 (0.86%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 54 (46.55%) Architect
2 29 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 26 (22.41%) Lead
4 25 (21.55%) Lead Architect
5 24 (20.69%) Technical Leader
6 23 (19.83%) Developer
7 17 (14.66%) Senior
8 15 (12.93%) Software Engineer
9 9 (7.76%) AWS Architect
10 7 (6.03%) Java Developer
10 7 (6.03%) Project Manager
10 7 (6.03%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (4.31%) Data Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Java Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Senior Developer
11 5 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (3.45%) Designer
12 4 (3.45%) Pega Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (40.52%) Node.js
2 23 (19.83%) RESTful
3 20 (17.24%) Kafka
4 12 (10.34%) SOAP
4 12 (10.34%) Web Services
5 10 (8.62%) Spring
6 9 (7.76%) .NET
7 7 (6.03%) IBM Integration Bus
7 7 (6.03%) J2EE
7 7 (6.03%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (6.03%) React
7 7 (6.03%) Spring Boot
8 6 (5.17%) Apache Camel
8 6 (5.17%) Spring Integration
9 5 (4.31%) AngularJS
9 5 (4.31%) HTML
9 5 (4.31%) REST
10 4 (3.45%) .NET Core
10 4 (3.45%) CSS
11 3 (2.59%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 30 (25.86%) Public Cloud
2 9 (7.76%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.03%) DataPower
3 7 (6.03%) Mobile App
4 6 (5.17%) Algorithms
4 6 (5.17%) Data Structures
4 6 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.72%) Derivative
6 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.86%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.86%) IoT
7 1 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.86%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.86%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.86%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 30 (25.86%) Android
2 28 (24.14%) Apple iOS
2 28 (24.14%) Windows
3 27 (23.28%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.31%) Linux
5 3 (2.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (57.76%) Agile
2 61 (52.59%) CI/CD
3 55 (47.41%) DevOps
4 50 (43.10%) Microservices
5 41 (35.34%) Risk Management
6 28 (24.14%) Software Engineering
6 28 (24.14%) Threat Intelligence
7 27 (23.28%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 27 (23.28%) Mobile Device Management
7 27 (23.28%) Security Architecture
7 27 (23.28%) Zero Trust
8 15 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (12.07%) OO
9 14 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (10.34%) Architectural Patterns
10 12 (10.34%) CRM
10 12 (10.34%) Roadmaps
10 12 (10.34%) TOGAF
11 11 (9.48%) Containerisation
11 11 (9.48%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 28 (24.14%) Java
2 12 (10.34%) JavaScript
2 12 (10.34%) SQL
3 9 (7.76%) C#
3 9 (7.76%) Python
4 8 (6.90%) Scala
5 7 (6.03%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.59%) Go
6 3 (2.59%) Groovy
6 3 (2.59%) PHP
6 3 (2.59%) Ruby
7 2 (1.72%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.72%) Perl
7 2 (1.72%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.86%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.59%) CISM
4 3 (2.59%) CISSP
5 2 (1.72%) Degree
6 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.62%) QA
2 3 (2.59%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.59%) GDPR
3 1 (0.86%) HL7
3 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (6.03%) Docker
2 3 (2.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 21 (18.10%) Terraform
2 6 (5.17%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (4.31%) Grafana
4 4 (3.45%) Ansible
5 3 (2.59%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.86%) Istio
6 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (8.62%) Oracle
2 8 (6.90%) Google
3 7 (6.03%) Avaloq
3 7 (6.03%) IBM
3 7 (6.03%) TSYS
4 5 (4.31%) Apple
5 4 (3.45%) Pega
6 3 (2.59%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.86%) Blue Coat
7 1 (0.86%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.86%) Cisco
7 1 (0.86%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.86%) Juniper
7 1 (0.86%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) VMware