Design Patterns Job Trends in Edinburgh

Design Patterns
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 73 98
Rank change year-on-year -28 +25 +34
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 5 27 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.47% 2.42% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 2.52% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1 18 7
10th Percentile - £51,675 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £56,500 £82,500 £63,650
90th Percentile - £101,875 £69,800
Scotland median annual salary £85,700 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.43% +27.27% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 906 1,072 968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.55% 96.23% 91.93%
Number of salaries quoted 387 405 780
10th Percentile £26,000 £36,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -8.00% +4.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Design Patterns
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Design Patterns.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Job Locations in Edinburgh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Patterns within the Edinburgh region over the 6 months to 13 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
Balerno - 2 - -
Design Patterns
Scotland

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Games
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Lead Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
1 2 (40.00%) Visualforce
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Community of Practice
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (40.00%) OO
3 2 (40.00%) PLM
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Static Code Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Apex Code
1 2 (40.00%) SOQL
1 2 (40.00%) SOSL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CISM
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk