Design Patterns Contracts in the North West

Design Patterns
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Design Patterns skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Design Patterns over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 115 87
Rank change year-on-year +63 -28 +12
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 91 35 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.26% 1.16% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 1.29% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 19 78
10th Percentile £373 £410 £407
25th Percentile £475 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +0.09% +3.78%
75th Percentile £850 £606 £725
90th Percentile - £641 £750
England median daily rate £600 £608 £630
% change year-on-year -1.32% -3.49% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £66.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.88 £37.80 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.59 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.46% -37.55% +80.56%
75th Percentile £77.50 £43.39 -
90th Percentile £80.50 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £63.60
% change year-on-year -3.45% +13.99% +9.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Design Patterns falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,341 2,704 3,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.85% 89.77% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,900 2,591
10th Percentile £310 £313 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 142 155
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.61 £59.08 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the North West

Design Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Design Patterns in the North West

Design Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in the North West over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Patterns in the North West

Design Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Patterns in the North West

Design Patterns
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Design Patterns in the North West over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Design Patterns in the North West

Design Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Manchester +61 67 £638 +37.10% 19
Cheshire +6 23 £509 -16.09% 3
Merseyside +11 1 - - 5
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (6.59%) Confluence
1 6 (6.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.30%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (7.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Temenos T24
2 4 (4.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.58%) AWS
2 14 (15.38%) Azure
3 7 (7.69%) Apigee
3 7 (7.69%) Kong
4 5 (5.49%) PaaS
4 5 (5.49%) SaaS
5 4 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (4.40%) npm
5 4 (4.40%) OCI
5 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.40%) Yarn
6 3 (3.30%) IaaS
6 3 (3.30%) SAP Fieldglass
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.10%) Firebase
8 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (30.77%) Firewall
1 28 (30.77%) VPN
2 3 (3.30%) Network Security
3 1 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.10%) DMZ
3 1 (1.10%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 7 (7.69%) OLAP
1 7 (7.69%) OLTP
2 6 (6.59%) Oracle OLAP
3 5 (5.49%) MySQL
3 5 (5.49%) Redis
4 4 (4.40%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (3.30%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.30%) HBase
6 2 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.10%) Big Data
7 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.10%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 16 (17.58%) JIRA
2 4 (4.40%) Jasmine
2 4 (4.40%) Karma Test Runner
2 4 (4.40%) Mocha
2 4 (4.40%) webpack
3 3 (3.30%) Git
4 2 (2.20%) GitLab
4 2 (2.20%) JUnit
5 1 (1.10%) Crashlytics
5 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.10%) GoCD
5 1 (1.10%) Gradle
5 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.10%) Maven
5 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (24.18%) Finance
2 15 (16.48%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.09%) Banking
4 9 (9.89%) Legal
4 9 (9.89%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.30%) Law
6 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.10%) Military
6 1 (1.10%) Retail
6 1 (1.10%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 44 (48.35%) Architect
2 28 (30.77%) Technical Architect
3 26 (28.57%) Lead
4 25 (27.47%) Lead Architect
5 24 (26.37%) Technical Leader
6 23 (25.27%) Developer
7 9 (9.89%) AWS Architect
7 9 (9.89%) Java Developer
8 7 (7.69%) Project Manager
9 6 (6.59%) Senior
10 5 (5.49%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (5.49%) Java Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Designer
11 4 (4.40%) Digital Architect
11 4 (4.40%) Digital Technical Architect
11 4 (4.40%) Interaction Designer
11 4 (4.40%) Pega Architect
11 4 (4.40%) Security Architect
11 4 (4.40%) Software Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (35.16%) Node.js
2 19 (20.88%) Spring
3 16 (17.58%) Kafka
4 14 (15.38%) Spring Boot
5 12 (13.19%) RESTful
6 11 (12.09%) SOAP
6 11 (12.09%) Web Services
7 9 (9.89%) .NET
8 7 (7.69%) IBM Integration Bus
8 7 (7.69%) J2EE
8 7 (7.69%) Java EE
8 7 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (7.69%) React
9 6 (6.59%) Apache Camel
9 6 (6.59%) Spring Integration
10 5 (5.49%) AngularJS
10 5 (5.49%) HTML
11 4 (4.40%) CSS
11 4 (4.40%) REST
12 3 (3.30%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 29 (31.87%) Public Cloud
2 9 (9.89%) Product Ownership
3 8 (8.79%) Data Structures
4 7 (7.69%) Algorithms
4 7 (7.69%) DataPower
5 6 (6.59%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (6.59%) Mobile App
6 4 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.30%) Derivative
8 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.10%) Blockchain
9 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
9 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.10%) IoT
9 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 30 (32.97%) Android
2 28 (30.77%) Windows
3 27 (29.67%) Apple iOS
3 27 (29.67%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.49%) Unix
5 4 (4.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (52.75%) Agile
2 44 (48.35%) DevOps
3 38 (41.76%) Risk Management
4 34 (37.36%) CI/CD
5 28 (30.77%) Microservices
5 28 (30.77%) Threat Intelligence
6 27 (29.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 27 (29.67%) Mobile Device Management
6 27 (29.67%) Security Architecture
6 27 (29.67%) Zero Trust
7 21 (23.08%) OO
8 16 (17.58%) Software Engineering
9 14 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (13.19%) Low Latency
10 12 (13.19%) TOGAF
11 11 (12.09%) CRM
11 11 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (12.09%) Requirements Gathering
11 11 (12.09%) Roadmaps
12 10 (10.99%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 31 (34.07%) Java
2 13 (14.29%) SQL
3 9 (9.89%) JavaScript
4 8 (8.79%) C#
5 7 (7.69%) PL/SQL
5 7 (7.69%) Python
6 4 (4.40%) Scala
7 3 (3.30%) PHP
8 2 (2.20%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.20%) Perl
8 2 (2.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.30%) CISM
3 3 (3.30%) CISSP
4 2 (2.20%) Degree
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.89%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.59%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.20%) Terraform
3 1 (1.10%) Ansible
3 1 (1.10%) Grafana
3 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (10.99%) Oracle
2 7 (7.69%) Avaloq
2 7 (7.69%) IBM
2 7 (7.69%) TSYS
3 6 (6.59%) Google
4 5 (5.49%) Apple
5 4 (4.40%) Pega
6 3 (3.30%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.10%) Blue Coat
7 1 (1.10%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.10%) Cisco
7 1 (1.10%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.10%) Juniper
7 1 (1.10%) VMware