Design Patterns Job Trends in England

Design Patterns
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 201 178
Rank change year-on-year -121 -23 -37
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 321 753 798
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.62% 1.51% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.68% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 194 426 632
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,938 £56,809 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -16.13%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -13.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,784 44,895 41,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.28% 90.18% 91.26%
Number of salaries quoted 25,500 22,481 31,965
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in England

Design Patterns
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Design Patterns.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Design Patterns in England

Design Patterns
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Patterns within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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
London -34 152 £85,000 +6.25% 125
North of England -35 61 £75,000 +22.54% 82
South East -126 44 £85,000 +13.33% 26
Yorkshire -3 29 £75,000 +22.54% 19
North West -22 27 £70,000 +17.65% 57
Midlands +18 25 £64,500 +5.38% 9
South West -8 22 £62,500 -10.71% 15
West Midlands +20 15 £64,500 +5.38% 6
East Midlands -6 10 £73,750 +28.26% 3
East of England 0 6 £85,000 +30.77% 19
North East +6 5 £47,372 -22.60% 6
Design Patterns
UK

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 13 (4.05%) Confluence
2 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.62%) Luigi
4 1 (0.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.31%) CMS
4 1 (0.31%) IIS
4 1 (0.31%) JBoss
4 1 (0.31%) Kentico
Applications
1 9 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (2.80%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.25%) PlantUML
3 2 (0.62%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.62%) Sketch
3 2 (0.62%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.31%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.31%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Endur
2 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 130 (40.50%) Azure
2 113 (35.20%) AWS
3 46 (14.33%) Serverless
4 38 (11.84%) GitHub
5 37 (11.53%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (10.90%) SaaS
7 33 (10.28%) GCP
8 23 (7.17%) Power Platform
9 18 (5.61%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (4.98%) PaaS
11 15 (4.67%) Power Automate
12 14 (4.36%) Amazon S3
13 13 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (4.05%) IaaS
14 12 (3.74%) Figma
15 7 (2.18%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (1.87%) CloudFront
16 6 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
17 5 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 5 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.56%) Network Security
2 3 (0.93%) Firewall
3 2 (0.62%) LAN
3 2 (0.62%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.62%) WAN
3 2 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.62%) Wireless
3 2 (0.62%) WLAN
4 1 (0.31%) Broadband
4 1 (0.31%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (13.71%) SQL Server
2 31 (9.66%) NoSQL
3 23 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (4.67%) Relational Database
5 14 (4.36%) DB2
6 9 (2.80%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.18%) MySQL
8 6 (1.87%) Power BI
9 5 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.56%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.56%) Metadata
10 4 (1.25%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.93%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.62%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.62%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 46 (14.33%) Git
2 24 (7.48%) JIRA
3 20 (6.23%) Jenkins
4 18 (5.61%) Bitbucket
5 16 (4.98%) Cucumber
6 15 (4.67%) Selenium
7 13 (4.05%) TeamCity
8 8 (2.49%) GitLab
9 7 (2.18%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.56%) Vite
11 3 (0.93%) Android Studio
11 3 (0.93%) JUnit
11 3 (0.93%) Storybook
11 3 (0.93%) Xcode
12 2 (0.62%) Balsamiq
12 2 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.62%) webpack
13 1 (0.31%) Gradle
13 1 (0.31%) Mockito
13 1 (0.31%) MSBuild
General
1 127 (39.56%) Social Skills
2 73 (22.74%) Finance
3 30 (9.35%) Marketing
4 28 (8.72%) Banking
5 27 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (7.79%) Law
7 22 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (6.85%) Retail
8 14 (4.36%) Legal
8 14 (4.36%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.12%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.25%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.25%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.62%) Advertising
13 2 (0.62%) Front Office
13 2 (0.62%) Games
13 2 (0.62%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 117 (36.45%) Developer
2 86 (26.79%) Architect
3 80 (24.92%) Senior
4 62 (19.31%) Lead
5 41 (12.77%) Senior Developer
6 32 (9.97%) Software Engineer
7 31 (9.66%) Full-Stack Developer
8 29 (9.03%) Enterprise Architect
9 28 (8.72%) Enterprise Information Architect
9 28 (8.72%) Enterprise Security Architect
9 28 (8.72%) Information Architect
9 28 (8.72%) Information Security Architect
9 28 (8.72%) Security Architect
10 23 (7.17%) Java Developer
11 22 (6.85%) Lead Developer
11 22 (6.85%) Solutions Architect
12 19 (5.92%) Consultant
13 18 (5.61%) C# Developer
13 18 (5.61%) Python Developer
14 17 (5.30%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (29.60%) React
2 69 (21.50%) CSS
2 69 (21.50%) HTML
3 65 (20.25%) .NET
4 40 (12.46%) RESTful
5 37 (11.53%) Node.js
6 28 (8.72%) REST
7 26 (8.10%) Vue
8 25 (7.79%) Spring
9 24 (7.48%) AngularJS
10 20 (6.23%) .NET Framework
10 20 (6.23%) Flask
10 20 (6.23%) Middleware
10 20 (6.23%) Spring Boot
11 19 (5.92%) .NET Core
12 17 (5.30%) Django
12 17 (5.30%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (4.98%) UIKit
14 15 (4.67%) SwiftUI
15 14 (4.36%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.97%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.66%) Data Structures
2 31 (9.66%) Product Ownership
3 27 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (7.17%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (5.92%) Management Information System
6 18 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (3.74%) Mobile App
8 11 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.49%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.49%) Low-Code
9 8 (2.49%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.18%) Blog
10 7 (2.18%) Client/Server
10 7 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.87%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.56%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.25%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.10%) Apple iOS
2 17 (5.30%) Android
3 9 (2.80%) Windows
4 1 (0.31%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (60.75%) Agile
2 121 (37.69%) CI/CD
3 119 (37.07%) Mentoring
4 114 (35.51%) DevOps
5 92 (28.66%) Microservices
6 83 (25.86%) Software Engineering
7 82 (25.55%) Problem-Solving
8 77 (23.99%) Architectural Patterns
8 77 (23.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 76 (23.68%) Computer Science
10 62 (19.31%) User Experience
11 61 (19.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 58 (18.07%) Enterprise Architecture
13 57 (17.76%) Test Automation
14 56 (17.45%) Stakeholder Management
15 54 (16.82%) SDLC
16 50 (15.58%) AI
17 47 (14.64%) Front End Development
18 45 (14.02%) Data Protection
19 44 (13.71%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 101 (31.46%) JavaScript
2 68 (21.18%) SQL
3 60 (18.69%) C#
4 54 (16.82%) Java
5 47 (14.64%) Python
6 30 (9.35%) TypeScript
7 22 (6.85%) Swift
8 19 (5.92%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.18%) Scala
10 4 (1.25%) C++
11 3 (0.93%) RPG
11 3 (0.93%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.62%) Bicep
12 2 (0.62%) Delphi
12 2 (0.62%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.62%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.62%) R
12 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.31%) Perl
13 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 86 (26.79%) Degree
2 54 (16.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (11.53%) CISM
3 37 (11.53%) CISSP
4 35 (10.90%) TOGAF Certification
5 28 (8.72%) DBS Check
6 19 (5.92%) Master's Degree
7 18 (5.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (4.98%) Chartered Engineer
9 7 (2.18%) Security Cleared
10 6 (1.87%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.56%) SC Cleared
12 3 (0.93%) MCP
13 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.62%) CCNA
13 2 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.62%) CWNA
13 2 (0.62%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.77%) QA
2 28 (8.72%) GRC
3 16 (4.98%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 15 (4.67%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.18%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.18%) SLA
6 5 (1.56%) NIST
6 5 (1.56%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.93%) GDPR
8 2 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 73 (22.74%) Docker
2 2 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.62%) Firmware
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (14.02%) Kubernetes
2 27 (8.41%) Terraform
3 6 (1.87%) Ansible
4 2 (0.62%) Grafana
4 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.62%) Puppet
5 1 (0.31%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (11.21%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.98%) Oracle
3 10 (3.12%) Atlassian
4 7 (2.18%) Syncfusion
4 7 (2.18%) Telerik
5 6 (1.87%) BiZZdesign
5 6 (1.87%) Databricks
6 5 (1.56%) Google
7 4 (1.25%) IBM
7 4 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.93%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.62%) Adobe
9 2 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.62%) Meraki
9 2 (0.62%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.31%) Apple
10 1 (0.31%) iManage
10 1 (0.31%) Informatica
10 1 (0.31%) Siemens
10 1 (0.31%) Xamarin