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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 128 183
Rank change year-on-year -16 +55 -29
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 30 59 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.52% 1.75% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.88% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 19 36 32
10th Percentile £50,750 £47,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £51,000 £57,500 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £82,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +32.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £84,375 £83,750 £75,313
90th Percentile £86,250 - £77,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% -8.40%

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 4,158 3,131 5,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.76% 92.83% 82.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,878 1,206 4,007
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +7 20 £57,500 -4.17% 4
Buckinghamshire -8 6 £82,500 +65.00% 3
Berkshire -33 4 £83,750 +1.52% 3
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 4 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.33%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 22 (73.33%) AWS
1 22 (73.33%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (13.33%) Serverless
4 3 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.33%) GCP
6 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) DHCP
1 3 (10.00%) DNS
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Git
2 4 (13.33%) GitLab
2 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.33%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 17 (56.67%) Manufacturing
2 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Finance
4 4 (13.33%) Electronics
4 4 (13.33%) Marketing
4 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.00%) Aerospace
5 3 (10.00%) Automotive
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Software Engineer
2 13 (43.33%) C# Software Engineer
3 7 (23.33%) C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (23.33%) Python Engineer
3 7 (23.33%) Python Software Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Senior
4 5 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) .NET Software Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Architect
5 4 (13.33%) Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) AWS Software Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Backend Developer
6 3 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (36.67%) .NET
2 7 (23.33%) React
3 6 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 6 (20.00%) Blazor
3 6 (20.00%) Django
3 6 (20.00%) REST
3 6 (20.00%) RESTful
4 5 (16.67%) Vue
5 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
5 4 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (13.33%) Java EE
5 4 (13.33%) JMS
5 4 (13.33%) JPA
5 4 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (13.33%) Spring
5 4 (13.33%) Spring Boot
5 4 (13.33%) Web Services
5 4 (13.33%) WPF
6 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (6.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (13.33%) Client/Server
3 4 (13.33%) Life Science
3 4 (13.33%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (10.00%) Private Cloud
4 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (10.00%) Virtual Team
5 2 (6.67%) AI Agents
5 2 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (80.00%) Agile
2 22 (73.33%) Software Engineering
3 18 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 16 (53.33%) DevOps
5 13 (43.33%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (40.00%) Machine Learning
6 12 (40.00%) TDD
7 11 (36.67%) Computer Science
7 11 (36.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (30.00%) Scrum
9 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (26.67%) OOP
10 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
10 7 (23.33%) Kanban
10 7 (23.33%) Software Architecture
10 7 (23.33%) SOLID
11 6 (20.00%) Data Management
11 6 (20.00%) Microservices
11 6 (20.00%) Visualisation
12 5 (16.67%) AI
Programming Languages
1 19 (63.33%) C#
2 14 (46.67%) TypeScript
3 12 (40.00%) Python
4 10 (33.33%) C++
5 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
6 6 (20.00%) SQL
7 4 (13.33%) Java
7 4 (13.33%) PL/SQL
8 3 (10.00%) Bash
8 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
9 1 (3.33%) C
Qualifications
1 19 (63.33%) Degree
2 14 (46.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (23.33%) Master's Degree
3 7 (23.33%) PhD
4 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
5 3 (10.00%) ICAEW
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (30.00%) QA
2 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (40.00%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (40.00%) Terraform
3 7 (23.33%) Ansible
4 4 (13.33%) Kibana
5 3 (10.00%) Grafana
5 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) AppDynamics
1 4 (13.33%) IBM
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (3.33%) Google