Design Patterns Job Trends in Central London

Design Patterns
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 149 120
Rank change year-on-year +29 -29 -50
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 21 41 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.89% 1.26% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.32% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 11 17 51
10th Percentile £46,250 £64,250 £48,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £72,750 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -13.51% -1.33%
75th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £140,000 £142,500
London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,089 3,116 2,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 88.48% 95.64% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,557 1,921 2,592
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Design Patterns relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in Central London

Design Patterns
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Design Patterns.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in Central London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Design Patterns in Central London

Design Patterns
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Patterns within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
City of London +25 19 £57,500 -28.13% 46
West End of London - 2 £105,000 - 6
Design Patterns
London

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
1 2 (9.52%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (80.95%) Azure
2 14 (66.67%) AWS
3 6 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) GCP
4 4 (19.05%) GitHub
4 4 (19.05%) SaaS
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (9.52%) Apigee
6 2 (9.52%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (9.52%) Figma
6 2 (9.52%) Lucidchart
6 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (9.52%) PaaS
6 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 2 (9.52%) Serverless
7 1 (4.76%) Azure API Management
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (9.52%) DynamoDB
1 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
1 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
1 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Balsamiq
General
1 12 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 10 (47.62%) Finance
3 8 (38.10%) Banking
3 8 (38.10%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (38.10%) Legal
3 8 (38.10%) Retail
4 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Advertising
5 2 (9.52%) Aviation
5 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Designer
1 8 (38.10%) Lead
1 8 (38.10%) Lead Designer
1 8 (38.10%) Solutions Designer
2 5 (23.81%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Applications Developer
4 2 (9.52%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) IT Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) CRM Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) .NET
1 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
1 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (9.52%) JWT
1 2 (9.52%) Kafka
1 2 (9.52%) Node.js
1 2 (9.52%) OAuth
1 2 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (9.52%) React
1 2 (9.52%) Universal Windows Platform
1 2 (9.52%) WinUI
1 2 (9.52%) WPF
2 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Enterprise Architecture
2 9 (42.86%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (38.10%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (38.10%) Security Architecture
3 8 (38.10%) Zero Trust
4 6 (28.57%) Microservices
5 5 (23.81%) AI
5 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
5 5 (23.81%) Machine Learning
6 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (19.05%) TOGAF
7 3 (14.29%) Architectural Design
7 3 (14.29%) Data Science
7 3 (14.29%) Event-Driven
7 3 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
7 3 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) Java
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.52%) Scala
4 1 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) CISM
1 8 (38.10%) CISSP
2 4 (19.05%) Degree
3 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.52%) MCP
5 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
5 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) Progress Chef
2 2 (9.52%) Puppet
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Syncfusion
2 2 (9.52%) Telerik
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce