Design Patterns Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Design Patterns
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 127 160
Rank change year-on-year -34 +33 -70
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 30 68 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.81% 1.57% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.87% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 13 46 24
10th Percentile £68,250 £53,688 £50,075
25th Percentile £81,250 £61,875 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £78,750 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +43.05% -15.31%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £73,125
90th Percentile £84,750 £85,625 £80,350
South East median annual salary £82,500 £70,000 £55,050
% change year-on-year +17.86% +27.16% -8.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,342 3,640 3,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 89.77% 83.93% 93.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,522 1,754 2,172
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,038 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,252 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.28% -0.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Design Patterns
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Design Patterns.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Design Patterns in the Thames Valley

Design Patterns
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Patterns within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
Berkshire -17 23 £82,500 - 35
Buckinghamshire -12 4 £65,000 -9.09% 1
Oxfordshire +13 3 £85,000 +7.94% 4
Design Patterns
South East

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (3.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (76.67%) Azure
2 15 (50.00%) AWS
3 14 (46.67%) GCP
4 9 (30.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 9 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 9 (30.00%) SonarCloud
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.33%) MySQL
2 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (80.00%) Git
2 9 (30.00%) MSBuild
2 9 (30.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 9 (30.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 9 (30.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 20 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (46.67%) Law
2 14 (46.67%) Marketing
3 9 (30.00%) Retail
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Developer
2 14 (46.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 14 (46.67%) Full-Stack Web Developer
2 14 (46.67%) Senior
2 14 (46.67%) Senior Developer
2 14 (46.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 14 (46.67%) Senior Web Developer
2 14 (46.67%) Web Developer
3 13 (43.33%) Architect
4 9 (30.00%) Technical Architect
5 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Architect
5 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Information Architect
5 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 4 (13.33%) Information Architect
5 4 (13.33%) Information Security Architect
5 4 (13.33%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (76.67%) CSS
1 23 (76.67%) HTML
2 15 (50.00%) RESTful
3 14 (46.67%) Node.js
3 14 (46.67%) React
4 9 (30.00%) .NET
4 9 (30.00%) ASP.NET
4 9 (30.00%) Bootstrap
4 9 (30.00%) gRPC
4 9 (30.00%) JSON
4 9 (30.00%) REST
4 9 (30.00%) XML
5 1 (3.33%) Django
5 1 (3.33%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.33%) Spring
5 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (86.67%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (76.67%) DevOps
3 15 (50.00%) Agile
3 15 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
4 14 (46.67%) Containerisation
4 14 (46.67%) Customer Engagement
4 14 (46.67%) Test Automation
4 14 (46.67%) User Experience
4 14 (46.67%) UX Design
4 14 (46.67%) Web Development
5 10 (33.33%) Code Quality
6 9 (30.00%) API Integration
6 9 (30.00%) Data Encryption
6 9 (30.00%) Event-Driven
6 9 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 9 (30.00%) Microservices
6 9 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 9 (30.00%) Performance Testing
6 9 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (76.67%) JavaScript
2 10 (33.33%) C#
2 10 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (6.67%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) C++
4 1 (3.33%) Java
4 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) CISM
1 4 (13.33%) CISSP
1 4 (13.33%) DBS Check
1 4 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (46.67%) QA
2 9 (30.00%) GDPR
3 4 (13.33%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (76.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (46.67%) Kubernetes