Design Patterns Job Trends in the City of London

Design Patterns
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 139 122
Rank change year-on-year +31 -17 -50
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 19 30 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.91% 1.10% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.16% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 9 14 47
10th Percentile £46,250 £68,750 £47,600
25th Percentile £56,250 £72,750 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £80,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% -13.51% -2.63%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,125 £118,750
90th Percentile £138,000 £140,000 £143,000
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +3.13% -13.51% +2.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,828 2,592 2,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.63% 95.40% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,358 1,692 2,440
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,475
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
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in the City of London

Design Patterns
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Design Patterns.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Design Patterns in the City of London

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
1 2 (10.53%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (89.47%) Azure
2 14 (73.68%) AWS
3 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) GCP
4 4 (21.05%) GitHub
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (10.53%) Apigee
6 2 (10.53%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (10.53%) Figma
6 2 (10.53%) Lucidchart
6 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (10.53%) PaaS
6 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 2 (10.53%) SaaS
6 2 (10.53%) Serverless
7 1 (5.26%) Azure API Management
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (10.53%) DynamoDB
1 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
1 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Balsamiq
General
1 12 (63.16%) Social Skills
2 10 (52.63%) Finance
3 8 (42.11%) Banking
3 8 (42.11%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (42.11%) Legal
3 8 (42.11%) Retail
4 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Advertising
5 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Designer
1 8 (42.11%) Lead
1 8 (42.11%) Lead Designer
1 8 (42.11%) Solutions Designer
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Applications Developer
3 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) CRM Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) .NET
1 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
1 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (10.53%) JWT
1 2 (10.53%) Kafka
1 2 (10.53%) Node.js
1 2 (10.53%) OAuth
1 2 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (10.53%) React
1 2 (10.53%) Universal Windows Platform
1 2 (10.53%) WinUI
1 2 (10.53%) WPF
2 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (15.79%) Algorithms
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
3 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Continuous Improvement
1 8 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (42.11%) Enterprise Architecture
1 8 (42.11%) Security Architecture
1 8 (42.11%) Zero Trust
2 7 (36.84%) Agile
2 7 (36.84%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) AI
3 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Machine Learning
4 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (21.05%) Microservices
4 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) Architectural Design
5 3 (15.79%) Data Science
5 3 (15.79%) Natural Language Processing
5 3 (15.79%) TDD
6 2 (10.53%) Code Quality
6 2 (10.53%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) Java
2 4 (21.05%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) C#
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) Scala
4 1 (5.26%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) CISM
1 8 (42.11%) CISSP
2 4 (21.05%) Degree
3 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (10.53%) MCP
5 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
5 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
2 2 (10.53%) Puppet
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Syncfusion
2 2 (10.53%) Telerik
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce