Design Patterns Job Trends in the North West

Design Patterns
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West 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 156 134 99
Rank change year-on-year -22 -35 +110
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 27 76 94
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.44% 1.46% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.61% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 19 66 66
10th Percentile £45,727 £32,500 £44,375
25th Percentile £53,125 £48,750 £56,982
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £59,500 £66,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.86% +16.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,438 £82,548
90th Percentile £79,000 £86,875 £86,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -16.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,122 4,712 3,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.27% 90.23% 89.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,464 2,332 2,655
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
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 North West

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

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in the North West

Design Patterns
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Design Patterns.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Design Patterns in the North West

Design Patterns
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Patterns within the North West 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
Manchester -3 24 £70,000 +16.67% 51
Lancashire +10 2 £59,152 -3.36% 5
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 13 (48.15%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) AWS
2 10 (37.04%) SaaS
3 7 (25.93%) IaaS
3 7 (25.93%) PaaS
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) NoSQL
2 4 (14.81%) MySQL
3 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
General
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 9 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Legal
3 2 (7.41%) Retail
4 1 (3.70%) Back Office
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Games
4 1 (3.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Developer
2 9 (33.33%) Architect
2 9 (33.33%) Lead
3 6 (22.22%) Azure Architect
3 6 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (18.52%) Senior
5 4 (14.81%) .NET Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Lead Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Senior Developer
6 3 (11.11%) C# Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Lead C# Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Information Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Security Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Senior .NET Web Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) .NET
2 7 (25.93%) CSS
2 7 (25.93%) HTML
3 6 (22.22%) Web Services
4 5 (18.52%) React
5 4 (14.81%) .NET Core
5 4 (14.81%) .NET Framework
6 3 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (11.11%) Spring
7 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET
7 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (7.41%) Razor View Engine
7 2 (7.41%) RESTful
7 2 (7.41%) Sass
7 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
8 1 (3.70%) Blazor
8 1 (3.70%) Hibernate
8 1 (3.70%) Middleware
8 1 (3.70%) SwiftUI
8 1 (3.70%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (22.22%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
3 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
4 3 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.70%) iPad
5 1 (3.70%) iPhone
5 1 (3.70%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) Microservices
2 15 (55.56%) Agile
3 14 (51.85%) Software Engineering
4 11 (40.74%) Mentoring
5 9 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (29.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (25.93%) Coaching
7 7 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (25.93%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (25.93%) TDD
8 6 (22.22%) ArchiMate
8 6 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
8 6 (22.22%) BPMN
8 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
8 6 (22.22%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 6 (22.22%) Digital Innovation
8 6 (22.22%) OOP
8 6 (22.22%) UML
9 5 (18.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) C#
2 8 (29.63%) JavaScript
3 5 (18.52%) SQL
4 4 (14.81%) TypeScript
5 3 (11.11%) Java
6 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.70%) Python
6 1 (3.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) CISM
1 3 (11.11%) CISSP
2 2 (7.41%) DBS Check
2 2 (7.41%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) GRC
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) BiZZdesign