Design Patterns Contracts in the UK excluding London

Design Patterns
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 204 211 170
Rank change year-on-year +7 -41 -13
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 193 268 452
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.95% 1.17% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.30% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 180 293
10th Percentile £425 £363 £400
25th Percentile £497 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +1.85% +13.39%
75th Percentile £675 £644 £638
90th Percentile £850 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £600 £605 £614
% change year-on-year -0.83% -1.43% +16.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 15
10th Percentile £66.88 £53.75 £46.25
25th Percentile £69.38 £70.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +14.62% +15.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £65.32
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £63.43
% change year-on-year -5.08% +16.28% +15.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the UK excluding London

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in the UK excluding London

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in the UK excluding London

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in the UK excluding London

Design Patterns
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Design Patterns in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Design Patterns in the UK excluding London

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 of England +70 116 £600 +9.15% 56
North West +71 98 £600 +6.63% 28
South East -10 31 £594 +4.17% 78
Scotland -1 20 £525 -7.89% 22
Yorkshire -1 16 £600 +9.09% 18
Midlands +8 11 £469 -22.65% 38
South West -15 10 £550 -8.33% 15
West Midlands +9 9 £463 -22.92% 21
East of England -6 5 £450 +33.33% 5
East Midlands +7 2 £567 -6.44% 17
North East - 2 £588 - 10
Wales +19 1 - - 8
Design Patterns
UK

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (3.63%) Confluence
1 7 (3.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.55%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.55%) nginx
3 1 (0.52%) CMS
3 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (3.63%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.04%) InVision
3 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.63%) Temenos T24
2 6 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.04%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 54 (27.98%) AWS
2 31 (16.06%) Azure
3 14 (7.25%) GCP
4 9 (4.66%) SaaS
5 7 (3.63%) Apigee
5 7 (3.63%) Kong
5 7 (3.63%) PaaS
6 6 (3.11%) IaaS
7 5 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.59%) Serverless
8 4 (2.07%) npm
8 4 (2.07%) OCI
8 4 (2.07%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.07%) Yarn
9 3 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.55%) CloudBees
9 3 (1.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.04%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 43 (22.28%) Firewall
2 40 (20.73%) VPN
3 12 (6.22%) Cisco Nexus
3 12 (6.22%) DMZ
4 6 (3.11%) HTTP
5 3 (1.55%) Network Security
6 2 (1.04%) Broadband
7 1 (0.52%) 5G
7 1 (0.52%) DHCP
7 1 (0.52%) DNS
7 1 (0.52%) IPsec
7 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.52%) LTE
7 1 (0.52%) PPP
7 1 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.52%) SMS
7 1 (0.52%) SSL
7 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.51%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.66%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.15%) OLAP
3 8 (4.15%) OLTP
4 7 (3.63%) Apache Cassandra
4 7 (3.63%) Oracle OLAP
4 7 (3.63%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.11%) MySQL
5 6 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.11%) Redis
5 6 (3.11%) SQLite
6 3 (1.55%) ClickHouse
6 3 (1.55%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.55%) HBase
6 3 (1.55%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.04%) Big Data
7 2 (1.04%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 21 (10.88%) JIRA
2 18 (9.33%) GitLab
3 15 (7.77%) Git
4 10 (5.18%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.11%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.59%) Checkstyle
6 5 (2.59%) webpack
7 4 (2.07%) Jasmine
7 4 (2.07%) JUnit
7 4 (2.07%) Karma Test Runner
7 4 (2.07%) Mocha
8 3 (1.55%) Gradle
9 2 (1.04%) Maven
10 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.52%) GoCD
10 1 (0.52%) Selenium
10 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (18.65%) Banking
2 33 (17.10%) Finance
3 27 (13.99%) Social Skills
4 23 (11.92%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.22%) Investment Banking
6 9 (4.66%) Legal
7 7 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.59%) Retail
9 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.55%) Law
9 3 (1.55%) Marketing
10 2 (1.04%) Games
11 1 (0.52%) Military
11 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Retail Finance
11 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (37.31%) Architect
2 47 (24.35%) Developer
3 33 (17.10%) Lead
4 32 (16.58%) Technical Architect
5 27 (13.99%) Lead Architect
6 25 (12.95%) Technical Leader
7 24 (12.44%) Software Engineer
8 23 (11.92%) Senior
9 16 (8.29%) Java Developer
10 12 (6.22%) Blue Coat Engineer
10 12 (6.22%) Cisco Engineer
10 12 (6.22%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 12 (6.22%) Juniper Engineer
10 12 (6.22%) Network Engineer
10 12 (6.22%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (5.18%) Designer
12 9 (4.66%) AWS Architect
12 9 (4.66%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (4.15%) Cloud Architect
13 8 (4.15%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (25.39%) Node.js
2 30 (15.54%) RESTful
3 25 (12.95%) Kafka
4 24 (12.44%) .NET
5 16 (8.29%) REST
6 14 (7.25%) SOAP
6 14 (7.25%) Spring
6 14 (7.25%) Web Services
7 13 (6.74%) .NET Framework
8 12 (6.22%) JSON
8 12 (6.22%) React
9 11 (5.70%) .NET Core
9 11 (5.70%) Spring Boot
10 9 (4.66%) HTML
10 9 (4.66%) XML
11 8 (4.15%) AngularJS
11 8 (4.15%) CSS
11 8 (4.15%) J2EE
11 8 (4.15%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (3.63%) IBM Integration Bus
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.58%) Public Cloud
2 15 (7.77%) Product Ownership
3 13 (6.74%) Algorithms
4 10 (5.18%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.15%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.63%) DataPower
7 6 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.59%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.55%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.04%) Derivative
11 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.04%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.04%) Private Cloud
11 2 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
12 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 33 (17.10%) Android
1 33 (17.10%) Windows
2 29 (15.03%) Apple iOS
3 27 (13.99%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.74%) Linux
5 7 (3.63%) Unix
6 3 (1.55%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (48.19%) Agile
2 69 (35.75%) CI/CD
2 69 (35.75%) DevOps
3 60 (31.09%) Microservices
4 50 (25.91%) Software Engineering
5 47 (24.35%) Risk Management
6 35 (18.13%) Architectural Patterns
7 34 (17.62%) OO
8 33 (17.10%) Security Architecture
9 29 (15.03%) Threat Intelligence
10 27 (13.99%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 27 (13.99%) Mobile Device Management
10 27 (13.99%) Zero Trust
11 26 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (12.95%) Scrum
13 21 (10.88%) Roadmaps
13 21 (10.88%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (9.33%) CRM
14 18 (9.33%) Test Automation
15 17 (8.81%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 40 (20.73%) Java
2 28 (14.51%) C#
3 26 (13.47%) SQL
4 20 (10.36%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.77%) Python
6 12 (6.22%) Scala
7 7 (3.63%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.11%) Perl
9 5 (2.59%) Bash
9 5 (2.59%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.07%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.55%) C++
11 3 (1.55%) Go
11 3 (1.55%) Groovy
11 3 (1.55%) PHP
11 3 (1.55%) Ruby
12 2 (1.04%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.52%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.52%) XAML
Qualifications
1 29 (15.03%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.77%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.74%) Degree
4 7 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.63%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.07%) CISM
5 4 (2.07%) CISSP
5 4 (2.07%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.04%) HND
6 2 (1.04%) PMP
7 1 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.52%) PhD
7 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.74%) QA
2 5 (2.59%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.55%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.55%) GDPR
4 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.52%) HL7
5 1 (0.52%) NIST
5 1 (0.52%) SLA
5 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (7.25%) Docker
2 3 (1.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 21 (10.88%) Terraform
2 9 (4.66%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.15%) Grafana
4 6 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.07%) Ansible
6 1 (0.52%) Istio
6 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (7.25%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.74%) Oracle
3 12 (6.22%) Blue Coat
3 12 (6.22%) CheckPoint
3 12 (6.22%) Cisco
3 12 (6.22%) Fortinet
3 12 (6.22%) Juniper
4 9 (4.66%) Google
5 7 (3.63%) Avaloq
5 7 (3.63%) IBM
5 7 (3.63%) TSYS
6 5 (2.59%) Apple
6 5 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.07%) Pega
8 3 (1.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.55%) Splunk
9 2 (1.04%) Adobe
10 1 (0.52%) VMware
10 1 (0.52%) Xamarin