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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 135 158
Rank change year-on-year -21 +23 -57
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 50 62 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.30% 1.27% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.55% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 20 43 32
10th Percentile £69,500 £56,250 £50,075
25th Percentile £81,250 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £73,125
90th Percentile £83,875 £86,750 £80,200
South East median annual salary £82,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% +12.50% -

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 3,475 3,989 3,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.03% 82.01% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,472 2,097 2,433
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £32,400
25th Percentile £35,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Design Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +10 41 £82,500 +6.45% 7
Buckinghamshire -25 5 £65,000 -13.33% 3
Oxfordshire +16 4 £80,000 +3.23% 3
Design Patterns
South East

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 31 (62.00%) Azure
2 16 (32.00%) AWS
3 15 (30.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 15 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 15 (30.00%) SonarCloud
4 14 (28.00%) GCP
5 12 (24.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.00%) MySQL
2 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (60.00%) Git
2 15 (30.00%) MSBuild
2 15 (30.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 15 (30.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 15 (30.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 32 (64.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (52.00%) Law
2 26 (52.00%) Marketing
3 14 (28.00%) Retail
4 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 31 (62.00%) Architect
2 17 (34.00%) Developer
3 16 (32.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 15 (30.00%) Technical Architect
5 14 (28.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (28.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
5 14 (28.00%) Senior
5 14 (28.00%) Senior Developer
5 14 (28.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (28.00%) Senior Web Developer
5 14 (28.00%) Web Developer
6 12 (24.00%) Salesforce Architect
7 4 (8.00%) Enterprise Information Architect
7 4 (8.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
7 4 (8.00%) Information Architect
7 4 (8.00%) Information Security Architect
7 4 (8.00%) Security Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Software Developer
9 1 (2.00%) Business Analyst
9 1 (2.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (58.00%) CSS
1 29 (58.00%) HTML
2 27 (54.00%) REST
3 17 (34.00%) .NET
4 16 (32.00%) Node.js
5 15 (30.00%) ASP.NET
5 15 (30.00%) Bootstrap
5 15 (30.00%) gRPC
5 15 (30.00%) JSON
5 15 (30.00%) RESTful
5 15 (30.00%) XML
6 14 (28.00%) React
7 12 (24.00%) Lightning Web Components
7 12 (24.00%) Middleware
7 12 (24.00%) SOAP
8 2 (4.00%) Pandas
9 1 (2.00%) FastAPI
9 1 (2.00%) React Native
9 1 (2.00%) Spring
9 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.00%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Android
1 2 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (82.00%) DevOps
2 30 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (56.00%) Agile
3 28 (56.00%) CI/CD
4 27 (54.00%) Microservices
5 26 (52.00%) Technical Leadership
6 16 (32.00%) Code Quality
6 16 (32.00%) Containerisation
6 16 (32.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 16 (32.00%) Information Security
6 16 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (32.00%) TOGAF
7 15 (30.00%) API Integration
7 15 (30.00%) Data Encryption
7 15 (30.00%) Event-Driven
7 15 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 15 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 15 (30.00%) Performance Testing
7 15 (30.00%) User Experience
7 15 (30.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 31 (62.00%) JavaScript
2 16 (32.00%) SQL
3 15 (30.00%) C#
4 12 (24.00%) Apex Code
5 3 (6.00%) Java
5 3 (6.00%) Python
6 2 (4.00%) C++
6 2 (4.00%) Go
6 2 (4.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (24.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 12 (24.00%) Degree
1 12 (24.00%) Master's Degree
2 4 (8.00%) CISM
2 4 (8.00%) CISSP
2 4 (8.00%) DBS Check
2 4 (8.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (30.00%) GDPR
2 14 (28.00%) QA
3 12 (24.00%) Data Quality
4 4 (8.00%) GRC
System Software
1 31 (62.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.00%) Ansible
2 2 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Salesforce
1 12 (24.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud