Design Patterns Contracts in Scotland

Design Patterns
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 99 107
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -21
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 20 66 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.93% 2.45% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 2.65% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 56 47
10th Percentile £438 £378 £362
25th Percentile £444 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £481
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% +19.02% +1.26%
75th Percentile £622 £735 £598
90th Percentile £675 £750 £679
UK median daily rate £600 £606 £618
% change year-on-year -0.91% -1.94% +17.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,884 2,495 3,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.04% 92.48% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,766 2,240
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.67
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in Scotland

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in Scotland

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in Scotland

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in Scotland

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 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
Glasgow -17 11 £475 -26.36% 10
Edinburgh +22 8 £606 +44.35% 9
West Lothian - 1 - -
Design Patterns
UK

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (5.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Gradle
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) JUnit
3 1 (5.00%) Maven
3 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 5 (25.00%) Banking
1 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
2 9 (45.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Lead
4 4 (20.00%) Java Scala Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Linux Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Linux Scripter
4 4 (20.00%) Scala Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Data Designer
5 2 (10.00%) Designer
6 1 (5.00%) Android Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Mobile Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Kafka
1 4 (20.00%) Spring
1 4 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (10.00%) Android Jetpack
2 2 (10.00%) Dagger
2 2 (10.00%) Java EE
2 2 (10.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (10.00%) JSON
2 2 (10.00%) React
2 2 (10.00%) RESTful
2 2 (10.00%) Retrofit
3 1 (5.00%) CSS
3 1 (5.00%) CSS3
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) HTML5
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) Redux
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Vue
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (15.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
1 4 (20.00%) Unix
2 2 (10.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) OO
1 6 (30.00%) Scrum
2 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 5 (25.00%) Information Security
2 5 (25.00%) Microservices
2 5 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 5 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 4 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (20.00%) Post-Production
3 4 (20.00%) Release Management
3 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (15.00%) SOLID
4 3 (15.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (10.00%) Data Design
5 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) Scala
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (15.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Splunk