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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 96 171
Rank change year-on-year -66 +75 -15
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 10 74 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.19% 2.63% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 2.82% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5 49 31
10th Percentile - £47,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £50,750 £57,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £82,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +32.00% -6.72%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,500 - £80,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -17.24% +26.09% -4.17%

All Process & 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 3,846 2,628 5,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.74% 93.42% 85.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,474 1,199 4,047
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

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 15 April 2026.

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 15 April 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
Oxfordshire -15 6 £56,500 -5.83% 8
Berkshire -39 4 £83,750 +1.52% 5
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) Azure
3 6 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (40.00%) Serverless
5 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (10.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Backend Developer
3 3 (30.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Python Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (40.00%) Java EE
1 4 (40.00%) JMS
1 4 (40.00%) JPA
1 4 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (40.00%) React
1 4 (40.00%) REST
1 4 (40.00%) Spring
1 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (40.00%) Web Services
2 3 (30.00%) Django
3 2 (20.00%) Blazor
3 2 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (30.00%) AI Agents
2 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (10.00%) Life Science
4 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) TDD
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Kanban
3 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) BDD
4 4 (40.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (40.00%) Microservices
5 3 (30.00%) AI
5 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
6 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) C++
2 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 4 (40.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (10.00%) Bash
5 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (30.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Terraform
2 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (50.00%) Ansible
4 4 (40.00%) Kibana
5 1 (10.00%) Grafana
5 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) AppDynamics
1 4 (40.00%) IBM
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) VMware