Design Patterns Contracts in the South East

Design Patterns
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 148 158
Rank change year-on-year -18 +10 -26
Contract jobs citing Design Patterns 34 67 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.59% 1.18% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.33% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 36 64
10th Percentile £456 - £391
25th Percentile £525 £406 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £569 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.74% -1.13% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £666
England median daily rate £600 £608 £630
% change year-on-year -1.32% -3.49% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 13
10th Percentile - £66.25 £46.25
25th Percentile - £70.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year - +14.62% -3.46%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile - - £68.60
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
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
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 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 12 June 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 12 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
Thames Valley +16 20 £650 -5.45% 18
Hampshire -20 16 £600 +31.51% 17
Berkshire -2 15 £525 +10.53% 12
Surrey +19 14 £550 -3.51% 2
Buckinghamshire +27 4 £663 -5.36% 4
West Sussex +5 3 £550 - 4
East Sussex +5 2 £638 -8.93% 3
Oxfordshire +1 1 - - 2
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 (2.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) AWS
3 3 (8.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.94%) IaaS
5 1 (2.94%) PaaS
5 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (32.35%) Cisco Nexus
1 11 (32.35%) DMZ
1 11 (32.35%) Firewall
1 11 (32.35%) VPN
2 1 (2.94%) 4G
2 1 (2.94%) 5G
2 1 (2.94%) Network Security
2 1 (2.94%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (5.88%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Git
2 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) GoogleTest
3 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 13 (38.24%) Banking
2 11 (32.35%) Investment Banking
3 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Finance
5 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Retail
6 1 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Blue Coat Engineer
1 11 (32.35%) Cisco Engineer
1 11 (32.35%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 11 (32.35%) Juniper Engineer
1 11 (32.35%) Network Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Architect
2 6 (17.65%) Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Software Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) .NET Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Senior
5 3 (8.82%) Cisco Security Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Data Network Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Administrator
6 2 (5.88%) DBA
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) .NET
2 5 (14.71%) .NET Framework
3 4 (11.76%) ASP.NET
3 4 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (8.82%) Entity Framework
4 3 (8.82%) JSON
5 2 (5.88%) Blazor
5 2 (5.88%) GraphQL
5 2 (5.88%) RESTful
5 2 (5.88%) WCF
5 2 (5.88%) XML
6 1 (2.94%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (2.94%) CSS
6 1 (2.94%) HTML
6 1 (2.94%) J2EE
6 1 (2.94%) React
6 1 (2.94%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (2.94%) IoT
2 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.94%) Low-Code
2 1 (2.94%) PKI
2 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Windows
3 3 (8.82%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Architectural Patterns
2 11 (32.35%) Change Control
2 11 (32.35%) High Availability
2 11 (32.35%) ITSM
3 9 (26.47%) Scrum
3 9 (26.47%) Software Engineering
4 8 (23.53%) SOLID
5 7 (20.59%) Agile
5 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (20.59%) Unit Testing
6 6 (17.65%) Clean Code
6 6 (17.65%) Customer Service
6 6 (17.65%) UML
7 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
7 5 (14.71%) DevOps
7 5 (14.71%) Kanban
7 5 (14.71%) OO
7 5 (14.71%) OOD
7 5 (14.71%) Storyboarding
8 4 (11.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) C#
2 5 (14.71%) Python
2 5 (14.71%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) Bash
3 4 (11.76%) C++
3 4 (11.76%) Perl
4 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (2.94%) Fortran
6 1 (2.94%) Java
6 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.94%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Degree
1 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.82%) CISSP
3 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.88%) CISM
4 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.94%) CCSP
5 1 (2.94%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.88%) NIST
1 2 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Blue Coat
1 11 (32.35%) CheckPoint
1 11 (32.35%) Cisco
1 11 (32.35%) Fortinet
1 11 (32.35%) Juniper
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) Cadence
3 1 (2.94%) Google
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle
3 1 (2.94%) Salesforce