Design Patterns
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Design Patterns skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Design Patterns over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 162 96
Rank change year-on-year -19 -66 +49
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 1,635 2,211 6,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.59% 2.27% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.38% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,063 1,287 2,155
10th Percentile £40,212 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £66,140
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +9.62% +7.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £113,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Design Patterns is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the UK

Design Patterns
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns.

Salary trend for Design Patterns in the UK

Design Patterns
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Design Patterns in the UK

Design Patterns
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Patterns within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -6 1,468 £62,500 -13.79% 309
UK excluding London +22 1,233 £60,000 -7.69% 197
Work from Home -37 692 £62,500 -10.71% 198
North of England +69 433 £61,206 -5.84% 65
London -83 358 £80,000 -5.88% 130
North West +76 295 £61,206 -5.84% 38
South East +3 254 £60,000 -8.05% 48
South West -2 192 £50,000 -9.09% 19
Midlands +24 186 £61,853 -4.84% 32
Scotland -42 100 £60,000 -13.60% 17
East Midlands +22 97 £50,000 -23.08% 12
Yorkshire +40 92 £61,206 -11.87% 18
West Midlands +2 88 £62,500 +4.17% 20
North East +23 46 £62,477 +11.07% 9
East of England -16 43 £75,000 -6.25% 9
Wales -20 17 £58,800 -2.00% 8
Northern Ireland -23 8 £54,150 -30.13% 3

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 91 (5.57%) Confluence
2 30 (1.83%) Apache
3 27 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.16%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.61%) CMS
5 10 (0.61%) Tomcat
6 9 (0.55%) IIS
7 6 (0.37%) Apache Pig
8 5 (0.31%) nginx
8 5 (0.31%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.24%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.18%) Orchard CMS
10 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2010
10 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.12%) Luigi
11 2 (0.12%) Magnolia
Applications
1 59 (3.61%) Sketch
2 5 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (0.31%) InVision
2 5 (0.31%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.18%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.18%) S-PLUS
4 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.061%) Blender
5 1 (0.061%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.061%) Notion
Business Applications
1 16 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.18%) Maximo
4 2 (0.12%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.12%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.061%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.061%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.061%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.061%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.061%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.061%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.061%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.061%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 655 (40.06%) Azure
2 405 (24.77%) AWS
3 252 (15.41%) Serverless
4 248 (15.17%) IBM Cloud
5 220 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
6 157 (9.60%) Azure Service Bus
7 141 (8.62%) Azure Functions
8 130 (7.95%) Azure API Management
9 128 (7.83%) Azure Logic Apps
10 100 (6.12%) SaaS
11 87 (5.32%) GCP
12 72 (4.40%) GitHub
13 64 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
14 62 (3.79%) Figma
15 59 (3.61%) Heroku
16 48 (2.94%) PaaS
17 46 (2.81%) Miro
18 42 (2.57%) Amazon Kinesis
19 41 (2.51%) Amazon S3
20 37 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.92%) Network Security
2 12 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (0.67%) HTTP
4 10 (0.61%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.37%) Intranet
6 5 (0.31%) DNS
6 5 (0.31%) Firewall
6 5 (0.31%) SSL
6 5 (0.31%) VPN
6 5 (0.31%) Wireless
7 4 (0.24%) Multicast
7 4 (0.24%) RS-232
8 3 (0.18%) Broadband
8 3 (0.18%) NaaS
9 2 (0.12%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.12%) FTP
9 2 (0.12%) Internet
9 2 (0.12%) LAN
9 2 (0.12%) SMTP
9 2 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 371 (22.69%) NoSQL
2 310 (18.96%) PostgreSQL
3 303 (18.53%) MongoDB
4 286 (17.49%) Relational Database
5 257 (15.72%) DB2
6 225 (13.76%) SQL Server
7 120 (7.34%) MySQL
8 69 (4.22%) Redis
9 64 (3.91%) RDBMS
10 55 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
11 37 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
11 37 (2.26%) Big Data
12 35 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
13 34 (2.08%) DynamoDB
14 27 (1.65%) Oracle Database
15 23 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (1.22%) Apache Hive
17 17 (1.04%) BigQuery
17 17 (1.04%) Data Lake
17 17 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 300 (18.35%) Git
2 143 (8.75%) JIRA
3 133 (8.13%) Visual Studio
4 107 (6.54%) Bitbucket
5 78 (4.77%) Jenkins
6 59 (3.61%) Sourcetree
7 44 (2.69%) Postman
8 43 (2.63%) JUnit
9 39 (2.39%) Maven
10 31 (1.90%) Selenium
11 25 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
12 24 (1.47%) JDeveloper
13 23 (1.41%) Cucumber
13 23 (1.41%) GitLab
14 22 (1.35%) PHPUnit
15 21 (1.28%) NUnit
16 17 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
17 16 (0.98%) MSTest
17 16 (0.98%) TestNG
17 16 (0.98%) WebDriver
General
1 327 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 313 (19.14%) Public Sector
3 269 (16.45%) Finance
4 214 (13.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 104 (6.36%) Games
6 101 (6.18%) Law
7 94 (5.75%) Banking
8 83 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
9 81 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
10 49 (3.00%) Retail
11 40 (2.45%) Investment Banking
12 39 (2.39%) Legal
13 35 (2.14%) Marketing
14 23 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
15 22 (1.35%) Prime Brokerage
16 20 (1.22%) Front Office
16 20 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (1.22%) Tech for Good
17 16 (0.98%) Manufacturing
17 16 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 773 (47.28%) Developer
2 445 (27.22%) Senior
3 260 (15.90%) Lead
4 210 (12.84%) Software Engineer
5 209 (12.78%) Architect
6 208 (12.72%) Full Stack Developer
7 205 (12.54%) Senior Developer
8 186 (11.38%) .NET Developer
9 154 (9.42%) Full Stack Engineer
10 150 (9.17%) Azure Developer
11 128 (7.83%) Azure Engineer
12 119 (7.28%) Software Developer
13 118 (7.22%) C# Developer
14 112 (6.85%) Solutions Architect
15 100 (6.12%) Designer
16 80 (4.89%) Technical Leader
17 78 (4.77%) Senior Architect
18 75 (4.59%) Games Developer
19 74 (4.53%) 3D Developer
19 74 (4.53%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 680 (41.59%) .NET
2 471 (28.81%) HTML
3 459 (28.07%) React
4 449 (27.46%) CSS
5 423 (25.87%) AngularJS
6 394 (24.10%) REST
7 379 (23.18%) ASP.NET
8 357 (21.83%) Vue
9 336 (20.55%) Web Services
10 325 (19.88%) jQuery
11 297 (18.17%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 247 (15.11%) ASP.NET Core
13 239 (14.62%) Ember.js
14 238 (14.56%) Backbone.js
15 212 (12.97%) Node.js
16 167 (10.21%) RESTful
17 164 (10.03%) .NET Core
18 142 (8.69%) Spring
19 139 (8.50%) .NET Framework
20 102 (6.24%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 349 (21.35%) Data Structures
2 334 (20.43%) Algorithms
3 251 (15.35%) Blockchain
4 249 (15.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 121 (7.40%) e-Learning
6 110 (6.73%) Cloud Native
7 90 (5.50%) Client/Server
8 77 (4.71%) Public Cloud
9 74 (4.53%) Virtual Reality
10 54 (3.30%) Product Ownership
11 46 (2.81%) Mobile App
12 44 (2.69%) Management Information System
13 36 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
14 33 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
15 28 (1.71%) IoT
16 26 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
17 24 (1.47%) Video\Live Streaming
18 22 (1.35%) Virtual Team
19 21 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
20 20 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 293 (17.92%) Android
2 286 (17.49%) Linux
3 271 (16.57%) Apple iOS
4 267 (16.33%) Windows
5 8 (0.49%) Ubuntu
5 8 (0.49%) VME
6 7 (0.43%) Unix
7 5 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.061%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 758 (46.36%) Agile
2 533 (32.60%) DevOps
3 481 (29.42%) Software Engineering
4 448 (27.40%) Full Stack Development
5 440 (26.91%) OOP
6 426 (26.06%) OO
7 403 (24.65%) MVC
8 388 (23.73%) SOLID
9 381 (23.30%) User Experience
10 367 (22.45%) Mentoring
11 348 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
12 332 (20.31%) Microservices
13 330 (20.18%) Artificial Intelligence
14 328 (20.06%) Coaching
15 310 (18.96%) MVVM
16 301 (18.41%) Web Development
17 278 (17.00%) CI/CD
18 242 (14.80%) Responsive Web Design
19 241 (14.74%) Computer Science
19 241 (14.74%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 806 (49.30%) C#
2 608 (37.19%) SQL
3 586 (35.84%) JavaScript
4 453 (27.71%) Java
5 310 (18.96%) Python
6 139 (8.50%) TypeScript
7 80 (4.89%) PHP
8 53 (3.24%) Bash
9 47 (2.87%) Ruby
10 41 (2.51%) Go
10 41 (2.51%) Kotlin
11 35 (2.14%) T-SQL
12 33 (2.02%) C
13 27 (1.65%) PowerShell
14 24 (1.47%) C++
14 24 (1.47%) Perl
15 22 (1.35%) VB.NET
16 19 (1.16%) Swift
17 16 (0.98%) Scala
18 10 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 304 (18.59%) Degree
2 162 (9.91%) Security Cleared
3 152 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 132 (8.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 84 (5.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 30 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 19 (1.16%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.04%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.43%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (0.37%) SANS
11 5 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.31%) CISA
11 5 (0.31%) CISM
11 5 (0.31%) CISSP
11 5 (0.31%) CRISC
12 3 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.18%) PhD
12 3 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (8.32%) QA
2 87 (5.32%) Accessibility
3 68 (4.16%) WCAG
4 15 (0.92%) GDPR
4 15 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 9 (0.55%) HIPAA
6 8 (0.49%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.43%) NIST
8 6 (0.37%) GAAP
8 6 (0.37%) IFRS
9 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.18%) GRC
10 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.12%) ISO 9000
11 2 (0.12%) SEPA
12 1 (0.061%) PMO
12 1 (0.061%) SLA
12 1 (0.061%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 166 (10.15%) Docker
2 15 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.37%) HDFS
4 1 (0.061%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 145 (8.87%) Kubernetes
2 83 (5.08%) Terraform
3 20 (1.22%) Ansible
4 11 (0.67%) Grafana
5 8 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.43%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.43%) Puppet
7 6 (0.37%) Kibana
8 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.18%) logstash
10 2 (0.12%) Control-M
Vendors
1 275 (16.82%) Microsoft
2 269 (16.45%) IBM
3 248 (15.17%) Red Hat
4 126 (7.71%) Oracle
5 63 (3.85%) Google
6 34 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.04%) Databricks
7 17 (1.04%) Xamarin
8 14 (0.86%) SAP
9 12 (0.73%) MuleSoft
10 10 (0.61%) New Relic
11 8 (0.49%) Informatica
11 8 (0.49%) Micro Focus
11 8 (0.49%) Teradata
11 8 (0.49%) Xero
12 7 (0.43%) Guidewire
12 7 (0.43%) SaltStack
13 6 (0.37%) PeopleSoft
14 5 (0.31%) PayPal
14 5 (0.31%) WorldPay