Design Patterns Contracts in the South East

Design Patterns
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 159 156
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 -30
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 29 57 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.53% 1.02% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.14% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 67
10th Percentile £431 £406 £395
25th Percentile £513 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £570 £557
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% +2.37% +11.36%
75th Percentile £678 £643 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £671
England median daily rate £600 £610 £625
% change year-on-year -1.64% -2.40% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 11
10th Percentile - £67.75 £46.25
25th Percentile - £70.94 £48.13
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -8.42%
75th Percentile - - £64.13
90th Percentile - - £65.54
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
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,602 4,986 6,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.21% 89.12% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,674 3,454 4,733
10th Percentile £250 £248 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +1.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £599
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 441 218 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.77 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.73% +47.08% +8.70%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the South East

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in the South East

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in the South East over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in the South East

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in the South East

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Hampshire -5 17 £581 +16.25% 20
Thames Valley +11 16 £663 +39.47% 12
Surrey +19 13 £575 +0.88% 6
Berkshire -10 12 - - 6
Buckinghamshire - 4 £663 - 4
West Sussex +5 3 £550 - 2
East Sussex +1 1 £625 -10.71%
Home Counties - 1 £475 -
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (3.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.34%) Azure
2 2 (6.90%) AWS
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.45%) IaaS
3 1 (3.45%) PaaS
3 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (41.38%) Firewall
2 11 (37.93%) Cisco Nexus
2 11 (37.93%) DMZ
2 11 (37.93%) VPN
3 1 (3.45%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) MariaDB
2 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Git
1 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (44.83%) Banking
2 11 (37.93%) Investment Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Blue Coat Engineer
1 11 (37.93%) Cisco Engineer
1 11 (37.93%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 11 (37.93%) Juniper Engineer
1 11 (37.93%) Network Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Data Network Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Network Security Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Administrator
5 2 (6.90%) DBA
5 2 (6.90%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) .NET
1 4 (13.79%) ASP.NET
1 4 (13.79%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (10.34%) .NET Framework
2 3 (10.34%) JSON
3 2 (6.90%) Blazor
3 2 (6.90%) RESTful
3 2 (6.90%) WCF
3 2 (6.90%) XML
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (3.45%) CSS
4 1 (3.45%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) J2EE
4 1 (3.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Architectural Patterns
2 11 (37.93%) Change Control
2 11 (37.93%) High Availability
2 11 (37.93%) ITSM
3 7 (24.14%) Software Engineering
4 6 (20.69%) Scrum
4 6 (20.69%) UML
5 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.79%) Agile
6 4 (13.79%) Clean Code
6 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
6 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (13.79%) Customer Service
6 4 (13.79%) Kanban
6 4 (13.79%) MVC
6 4 (13.79%) OO
6 4 (13.79%) OOD
6 4 (13.79%) SOLID
6 4 (13.79%) Storyboarding
6 4 (13.79%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) C#
2 4 (13.79%) Bash
2 4 (13.79%) Perl
2 4 (13.79%) Python
3 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.34%) SQL
4 2 (6.90%) C++
5 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (13.79%) Degree
3 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.45%) CISM
4 1 (3.45%) CISSP
4 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) Blue Coat
1 11 (37.93%) CheckPoint
1 11 (37.93%) Cisco
1 11 (37.93%) Fortinet
1 11 (37.93%) Juniper
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) Salesforce