Design Patterns Job Trends in the South East

Design Patterns
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East 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 223 101 169
Rank change year-on-year -122 +68 -1
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 44 253 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.42% 2.75% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 3.14% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17 116 81
10th Percentile £55,250 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.84% +32.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,700 £83,750 £64,000
90th Percentile £93,920 £87,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -16.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,408 8,070 6,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.93% 87.58% 89.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,990 3,994 4,923
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £44,027 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,000
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 South East

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

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in the South East

Design Patterns
Salary Trend in the South East

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

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

Design Patterns
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Design Patterns in the South East

Design Patterns
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Patterns within the South East 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
Thames Valley -57 21 £83,750 +1.52% 129
Berkshire -26 15 £82,500 - 70
Hampshire -52 12 £60,000 -4.00% 41
Surrey -8 5 £92,500 +15.63% 35
Oxfordshire +10 3 £85,000 +41.67% 22
Buckinghamshire -15 3 £75,000 - 37
Isle of Wight - 3 - - 17
West Sussex -6 2 £77,850 -13.50% 23
Kent -14 1 £85,700 - 33
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (2.27%) CMS
1 1 (2.27%) Confluence
1 1 (2.27%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 20 (45.45%) Azure
2 17 (38.64%) AWS
3 14 (31.82%) GCP
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.27%) GitHub
4 1 (2.27%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 15 (34.09%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.27%) Jasmine
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) MSBuild
2 1 (2.27%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (2.27%) Storybook
2 1 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (56.82%) Social Skills
2 15 (34.09%) Marketing
3 14 (31.82%) Law
4 3 (6.82%) Finance
5 2 (4.55%) Retail
6 1 (2.27%) Games
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (45.45%) Architect
1 20 (45.45%) Developer
2 18 (40.91%) Full-Stack Developer
3 16 (36.36%) Senior
4 15 (34.09%) Senior Developer
4 15 (34.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (31.82%) Full-Stack Web Developer
5 14 (31.82%) Senior Web Developer
5 14 (31.82%) Web Developer
6 11 (25.00%) Software Architect
7 8 (18.18%) Enterprise Architect
7 8 (18.18%) Enterprise Information Architect
7 8 (18.18%) Enterprise Security Architect
7 8 (18.18%) Information Architect
7 8 (18.18%) Information Security Architect
7 8 (18.18%) Security Architect
8 4 (9.09%) .NET Developer
8 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 2 (4.55%) Blazor Developer
9 2 (4.55%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (43.18%) React
2 16 (36.36%) RESTful
3 15 (34.09%) CSS
3 15 (34.09%) HTML
4 14 (31.82%) Node.js
5 11 (25.00%) Middleware
6 8 (18.18%) .NET
7 4 (9.09%) .NET Core
7 4 (9.09%) AngularJS
7 4 (9.09%) ASP.NET
7 4 (9.09%) Vue
8 3 (6.82%) .NET Framework
9 2 (4.55%) Blazor
9 2 (4.55%) Jest
9 2 (4.55%) WPF
10 1 (2.27%) Django
10 1 (2.27%) gRPC
10 1 (2.27%) Next.js
10 1 (2.27%) Playwright
10 1 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
1 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.27%) AI Agents
2 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.27%) EPoS
2 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Android
1 2 (4.55%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (75.00%) Agile
2 31 (70.45%) DevOps
3 19 (43.18%) CI/CD
3 19 (43.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 18 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (34.09%) Test Automation
5 15 (34.09%) User Experience
5 15 (34.09%) UX Design
5 15 (34.09%) Web Development
6 14 (31.82%) Containerisation
6 14 (31.82%) Customer Engagement
7 13 (29.55%) Mentoring
7 13 (29.55%) SDLC
8 12 (27.27%) Computer Science
9 11 (25.00%) Configuration Management
9 11 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (25.00%) Open Source
9 11 (25.00%) UML
9 11 (25.00%) Waterfall
10 8 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.91%) JavaScript
2 8 (18.18%) C#
3 5 (11.36%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.55%) SQL
5 1 (2.27%) C++
5 1 (2.27%) Java
5 1 (2.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (31.82%) Degree
2 11 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 11 (25.00%) Chartered Engineer
2 11 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (18.18%) CISM
3 8 (18.18%) CISSP
3 8 (18.18%) DBS Check
3 8 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (34.09%) QA
2 11 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 8 (18.18%) GRC
4 1 (2.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (34.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (31.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.27%) Xamarin