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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 156 96
Rank change year-on-year -12 -60 +51
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 1,702 2,372 5,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.72% 2.34% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 2.44% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,075 1,388 2,167
10th Percentile £37,500 £46,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,875 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +8.21% +8.94%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 8 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 8 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 -8 1,510 £62,500 -13.79% 334
UK excluding London +14 1,288 £60,000 -7.69% 218
Work from Home -24 748 £62,500 -10.71% 236
North of England +81 444 £61,206 -5.84% 70
London -83 365 £80,000 -5.88% 135
North West +76 304 £61,206 -1.48% 37
South East -2 258 £60,000 -5.88% 49
South West +6 210 £50,000 -9.09% 19
Midlands +30 189 £62,500 - 42
Scotland -32 111 £60,000 -9.91% 23
East Midlands +31 101 £50,000 -23.08% 22
Yorkshire +47 96 £61,206 -11.87% 20
West Midlands +2 87 £62,500 +4.17% 20
North East +23 44 £61,206 +16.58% 14
East of England -26 42 £75,000 -6.25% 9
Wales -12 21 £58,800 -2.00% 4
Northern Ireland -12 13 £54,150 -21.81% 5

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
1 105 (6.17%) Confluence
2 31 (1.82%) Apache
3 30 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.12%) SharePoint
5 11 (0.65%) CMS
6 10 (0.59%) Tomcat
7 9 (0.53%) IIS
8 8 (0.47%) Apache Pig
9 5 (0.29%) nginx
9 5 (0.29%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.24%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.24%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.18%) Orchard CMS
11 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2010
11 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.12%) Drupal
12 2 (0.12%) JCAPS
12 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 59 (3.47%) Sketch
2 5 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (0.29%) InVision
2 5 (0.29%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.18%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.12%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.059%) Blender
5 1 (0.059%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.059%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.059%) Notion
Business Applications
1 19 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.18%) Maximo
4 2 (0.12%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.12%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.059%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.059%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.059%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.059%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.059%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.059%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.059%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.059%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 678 (39.84%) Azure
2 428 (25.15%) AWS
3 291 (17.10%) Serverless
4 249 (14.63%) IBM Cloud
5 221 (12.98%) Azure DevOps
6 158 (9.28%) Azure Service Bus
7 143 (8.40%) Azure Functions
8 131 (7.70%) Azure API Management
9 130 (7.64%) Azure Logic Apps
10 106 (6.23%) SaaS
11 87 (5.11%) GCP
12 73 (4.29%) GitHub
13 64 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
14 63 (3.70%) Figma
15 60 (3.53%) Heroku
16 51 (3.00%) PaaS
17 46 (2.70%) Miro
18 42 (2.47%) Amazon Kinesis
19 41 (2.41%) Amazon S3
20 37 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
2 11 (0.65%) Network Security
3 10 (0.59%) HTTP
4 9 (0.53%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.35%) Intranet
5 6 (0.35%) SSL
6 5 (0.29%) DNS
6 5 (0.29%) Firewall
6 5 (0.29%) VPN
7 4 (0.24%) RS-232
8 3 (0.18%) Broadband
8 3 (0.18%) NaaS
8 3 (0.18%) Wireless
9 2 (0.12%) DKIM
9 2 (0.12%) DMARC
9 2 (0.12%) FTP
9 2 (0.12%) Internet
9 2 (0.12%) Multicast
9 2 (0.12%) SMTP
9 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (21.50%) NoSQL
2 313 (18.39%) PostgreSQL
3 301 (17.69%) Relational Database
4 298 (17.51%) MongoDB
5 257 (15.10%) DB2
6 230 (13.51%) SQL Server
7 120 (7.05%) MySQL
8 80 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
9 78 (4.58%) RDBMS
10 66 (3.88%) Redis
11 42 (2.47%) Big Data
12 39 (2.29%) Oracle Database
13 36 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
14 35 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
15 34 (2.00%) DynamoDB
16 25 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
17 23 (1.35%) Apache Hive
18 20 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
19 17 (1.00%) BigQuery
19 17 (1.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 333 (19.57%) Git
2 155 (9.11%) JIRA
3 143 (8.40%) Visual Studio
4 121 (7.11%) Bitbucket
5 75 (4.41%) Jenkins
6 59 (3.47%) Sourcetree
7 48 (2.82%) Postman
8 46 (2.70%) JUnit
9 40 (2.35%) Maven
10 36 (2.12%) JDeveloper
11 27 (1.59%) Selenium
12 23 (1.35%) Cucumber
13 22 (1.29%) GitLab
13 22 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
13 22 (1.29%) PHPUnit
14 18 (1.06%) SonarQube
15 16 (0.94%) Android Studio
15 16 (0.94%) REST Assured
15 16 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
15 16 (0.94%) WebDriver
General
1 316 (18.57%) Social Skills
2 312 (18.33%) Public Sector
3 255 (14.98%) Finance
4 216 (12.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (6.76%) Games
6 99 (5.82%) Law
7 97 (5.70%) Presentation Skills
8 93 (5.46%) Banking
9 81 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
10 48 (2.82%) Retail
11 42 (2.47%) Investment Banking
12 38 (2.23%) Legal
13 37 (2.17%) Marketing
14 23 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
15 22 (1.29%) Front Office
15 22 (1.29%) Prime Brokerage
16 20 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (1.18%) Tech for Good
17 15 (0.88%) Manufacturing
17 15 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 786 (46.18%) Developer
2 459 (26.97%) Senior
3 257 (15.10%) Lead
4 239 (14.04%) Software Engineer
5 231 (13.57%) Architect
6 207 (12.16%) Full Stack Developer
7 198 (11.63%) Senior Developer
8 183 (10.75%) .NET Developer
9 154 (9.05%) Full Stack Engineer
10 146 (8.58%) Azure Developer
11 137 (8.05%) Solutions Architect
12 128 (7.52%) Azure Engineer
13 118 (6.93%) Software Developer
14 107 (6.29%) C# Developer
15 103 (6.05%) Senior Architect
16 101 (5.93%) Designer
17 88 (5.17%) 3D Developer
17 88 (5.17%) Games Developer
17 88 (5.17%) Unity 3D Developer
18 82 (4.82%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 679 (39.89%) .NET
2 490 (28.79%) React
3 471 (27.67%) HTML
4 447 (26.26%) CSS
5 425 (24.97%) AngularJS
6 394 (23.15%) REST
7 373 (21.92%) ASP.NET
8 354 (20.80%) Vue
9 336 (19.74%) Web Services
10 323 (18.98%) jQuery
11 295 (17.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 247 (14.51%) ASP.NET Core
13 239 (14.04%) Ember.js
14 238 (13.98%) Backbone.js
15 224 (13.16%) Node.js
16 165 (9.69%) .NET Core
17 164 (9.64%) Spring
18 158 (9.28%) RESTful
19 127 (7.46%) .NET Framework
20 103 (6.05%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 372 (21.86%) Data Structures
2 335 (19.68%) Algorithms
3 251 (14.75%) Blockchain
3 251 (14.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 133 (7.81%) Cloud Native
5 121 (7.11%) e-Learning
6 90 (5.29%) Client/Server
7 88 (5.17%) Virtual Reality
8 75 (4.41%) Public Cloud
9 55 (3.23%) Product Ownership
10 46 (2.70%) Mobile App
11 43 (2.53%) Management Information System
12 37 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
13 32 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
14 28 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
14 28 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
15 27 (1.59%) IoT
16 23 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
17 21 (1.23%) Onboarding
18 20 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 292 (17.16%) Android
1 292 (17.16%) Linux
2 270 (15.86%) Apple iOS
3 261 (15.33%) Windows
4 8 (0.47%) Ubuntu
4 8 (0.47%) VME
5 7 (0.41%) Unix
6 5 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 781 (45.89%) Agile
2 549 (32.26%) DevOps
3 518 (30.43%) Software Engineering
4 444 (26.09%) OOP
5 440 (25.85%) Full Stack Development
6 422 (24.79%) OO
7 396 (23.27%) MVC
8 387 (22.74%) SOLID
8 387 (22.74%) User Experience
9 384 (22.56%) Mentoring
10 375 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
11 364 (21.39%) Microservices
12 347 (20.39%) Coaching
13 326 (19.15%) Artificial Intelligence
14 307 (18.04%) MVVM
15 297 (17.45%) Web Development
16 277 (16.27%) CI/CD
17 268 (15.75%) Scrum
18 264 (15.51%) Code Quality
19 242 (14.22%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 838 (49.24%) C#
2 617 (36.25%) SQL
3 597 (35.08%) JavaScript
4 486 (28.55%) Java
5 350 (20.56%) Python
6 138 (8.11%) TypeScript
7 78 (4.58%) PHP
8 77 (4.52%) Ruby
9 66 (3.88%) Bash
10 53 (3.11%) Go
11 41 (2.41%) Kotlin
12 37 (2.17%) T-SQL
13 36 (2.12%) Perl
14 32 (1.88%) C
15 26 (1.53%) PowerShell
16 25 (1.47%) C++
16 25 (1.47%) VB.NET
17 19 (1.12%) Swift
18 16 (0.94%) Scala
19 12 (0.71%) R
Qualifications
1 309 (18.16%) Degree
2 175 (10.28%) Security Cleared
3 166 (9.75%) SC Cleared
4 125 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 98 (5.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 30 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 24 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
8 20 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 15 (0.88%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.41%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.35%) SANS
12 5 (0.29%) CISA
12 5 (0.29%) CISM
12 5 (0.29%) CISSP
12 5 (0.29%) CRISC
13 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.24%) PhD
14 3 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (8.87%) QA
2 86 (5.05%) Accessibility
3 69 (4.05%) WCAG
4 29 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 15 (0.88%) GDPR
6 10 (0.59%) Data Quality
7 9 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.41%) NIST
9 6 (0.35%) GAAP
9 6 (0.35%) IFRS
10 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.18%) GRC
12 3 (0.18%) ISO 9000
13 2 (0.12%) SEPA
13 2 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
14 1 (0.059%) PMO
System Software
1 163 (9.58%) Docker
2 18 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.47%) HDFS
4 1 (0.059%) RACF
4 1 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 142 (8.34%) Kubernetes
2 88 (5.17%) Terraform
3 18 (1.06%) Ansible
4 11 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 10 (0.59%) Grafana
6 7 (0.41%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.41%) Puppet
7 5 (0.29%) Kibana
8 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.18%) logstash
10 2 (0.12%) Control-M
11 1 (0.059%) Rancher
Vendors
1 293 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 269 (15.80%) IBM
3 248 (14.57%) Red Hat
4 136 (7.99%) Oracle
5 63 (3.70%) Google
6 34 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.12%) Databricks
8 17 (1.00%) Xamarin
9 14 (0.82%) SAP
10 11 (0.65%) MuleSoft
11 10 (0.59%) New Relic
12 8 (0.47%) Informatica
12 8 (0.47%) Micro Focus
12 8 (0.47%) Teradata
12 8 (0.47%) Xero
13 7 (0.41%) Guidewire
13 7 (0.41%) SaltStack
14 6 (0.35%) PeopleSoft
15 5 (0.29%) F5
15 5 (0.29%) PayPal