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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 117 175
Rank change year-on-year -38 +58 -25
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 20 67 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.35% 1.97% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 2.09% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 14 43 33
10th Percentile £50,750 £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £50,875 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £82,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.79% +26.92% -3.70%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,875 - £80,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% -7.69%

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 4,078 3,199 5,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.71% 93.92% 83.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,763 1,226 3,857
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +1 13 £57,500 -4.17% 5
Berkshire -35 4 £83,750 +1.52% 1
Buckinghamshire -7 3 £82,500 +65.00% 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) AWS
2 14 (70.00%) Azure
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (20.00%) Serverless
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DHCP
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) GitLab
General
1 11 (55.00%) Manufacturing
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.00%) Electronics
4 3 (15.00%) Finance
5 2 (10.00%) Aerospace
5 2 (10.00%) Automotive
5 2 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Software Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Python Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Backend Developer
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Senior C# Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Architect
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) .NET
2 5 (25.00%) React
2 5 (25.00%) REST
2 5 (25.00%) RESTful
3 4 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (20.00%) Blazor
3 4 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (20.00%) Java EE
3 4 (20.00%) JMS
3 4 (20.00%) JPA
3 4 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (20.00%) Spring
3 4 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (20.00%) Web Services
4 3 (15.00%) Django
4 3 (15.00%) WPF
5 2 (10.00%) Vue
6 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (5.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (15.00%) Client/Server
3 3 (15.00%) Life Science
3 3 (15.00%) Private Cloud
3 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (15.00%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (15.00%) Virtual Team
4 2 (10.00%) AI Agents
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Agile
2 14 (70.00%) Software Engineering
3 13 (65.00%) DevOps
4 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (45.00%) TDD
6 8 (40.00%) Computer Science
6 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (40.00%) Scrum
7 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (35.00%) Kanban
7 7 (35.00%) Machine Learning
8 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (25.00%) Microservices
10 4 (20.00%) BDD
10 4 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
10 4 (20.00%) Predictive Modelling
10 4 (20.00%) SOLID
10 4 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (20.00%) User Stories
10 4 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) C#
2 8 (40.00%) Python
2 8 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (25.00%) C++
4 5 (25.00%) SQL
5 4 (20.00%) Java
5 4 (20.00%) PL/SQL
6 3 (15.00%) Bash
6 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) Degree
2 10 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 5 (25.00%) PhD
4 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (10.00%) ICAEW
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) QA
2 3 (15.00%) SOC 2
3 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Docker
2 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Terraform
2 10 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (35.00%) Ansible
4 4 (20.00%) Kibana
5 3 (15.00%) Grafana
5 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) AppDynamics
1 4 (20.00%) IBM
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) VMware
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft