Design Patterns Job Trends in the East Midlands

Design Patterns
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 120 89
Rank change year-on-year -11 -31 +20
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 10 9 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.40% 0.39% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.45% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 28
10th Percentile £45,750 £46,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £52,813 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.26% -11.54% +13.04%
75th Percentile £85,525 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £89,250 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -16.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,015 2,022 1,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.68% 88.07% 88.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,258 856 1,112
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,875 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% -2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,563
90th Percentile £75,270 £76,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Design Patterns
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Design Patterns.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Design Patterns in the East Midlands

Design Patterns
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Patterns within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Northamptonshire +10 6 £57,250 -30.61% 17
Nottinghamshire +14 3 £85,000 +54.55% 20
Lincolnshire - 1 £85,700 - 11
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) OCI
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle CX
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Mockito
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Software Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Information Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Information Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Information Security Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (10.00%) Lead Data Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Lead Enterprise Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Data Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (10.00%) Senior .NET Software Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Middleware
2 3 (30.00%) CSS
2 3 (30.00%) HTML
2 3 (30.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) .NET
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (20.00%) CSS3
3 2 (20.00%) HTML5
4 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (10.00%) J2EE
4 1 (10.00%) Jest
4 1 (10.00%) JPA
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) SOAP
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (40.00%) Open Source
3 4 (40.00%) SDLC
3 4 (40.00%) UML
3 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
5 2 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
5 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (40.00%) Chartered Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) CISM
3 2 (20.00%) CISSP
3 2 (20.00%) DBS Check
3 2 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 2 (20.00%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle