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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 167 137
Rank change year-on-year 0 -30 +15
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 39 35 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.52% 0.92% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.01% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 25 17 43
10th Percentile £50,750 £68,000 £54,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £81,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +6.45% +34.78%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £84,250 £86,750
South East median annual salary £65,000 £82,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -21.21% +22.22% +14.41%

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 5,332 3,461 3,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.99% 90.48% 83.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,796 1,470 1,922
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,225 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -11.82% -

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -9 25 £57,500 -28.13% 10
Buckinghamshire +4 13 £70,000 +7.69% 12
Berkshire -17 1 - - 14
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 (10.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.56%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 24 (61.54%) Azure
2 22 (56.41%) AWS
3 4 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (10.26%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.69%) GCP
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub
6 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) DHCP
1 2 (5.13%) DNS
1 2 (5.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.56%) GIS
4 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Git
1 5 (12.82%) GitLab
2 4 (10.26%) Eclipse
2 4 (10.26%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 22 (56.41%) Manufacturing
2 18 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 10 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (20.51%) Finance
5 6 (15.38%) Aerospace
5 6 (15.38%) Automotive
6 4 (10.26%) Electronics
6 4 (10.26%) Marketing
7 3 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (69.23%) Software Engineer
2 16 (41.03%) C# Software Engineer
3 10 (25.64%) C++ Software Engineer
3 10 (25.64%) Python Engineer
3 10 (25.64%) Python Software Engineer
3 10 (25.64%) Senior
3 10 (25.64%) Senior Software Engineer
4 8 (20.51%) Architect
5 6 (15.38%) .NET Software Engineer
5 6 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (15.38%) AWS Software Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Senior C# Software Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (7.69%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow Architect
8 3 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Azure Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (43.59%) .NET
2 10 (25.64%) Django
2 10 (25.64%) Vue
3 6 (15.38%) .NET Core
3 6 (15.38%) REST
3 6 (15.38%) Terraform
4 5 (12.82%) Blazor
5 4 (10.26%) OAuth
5 4 (10.26%) React
5 4 (10.26%) RESTful
5 4 (10.26%) WPF
6 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
6 3 (7.69%) CSS
6 3 (7.69%) HTML
6 3 (7.69%) SAML
6 3 (7.69%) SOAP
6 3 (7.69%) WinForms
7 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET
7 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (5.13%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Product Ownership
1 8 (20.51%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (15.38%) Distributed Computing
2 6 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (15.38%) Life Science
2 6 (15.38%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (10.26%) Client/Server
4 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.69%) CMDB
4 3 (7.69%) TM Forum
5 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (5.13%) Private Cloud
5 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (79.49%) Software Engineering
2 26 (66.67%) Agile
3 21 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (43.59%) CI/CD
5 16 (41.03%) Machine Learning
6 15 (38.46%) DevOps
7 13 (33.33%) OO
8 12 (30.77%) Computer Science
8 12 (30.77%) OOP
9 11 (28.21%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (28.21%) Software Architecture
10 10 (25.64%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
10 10 (25.64%) Finite Element Analysis
10 10 (25.64%) SOLID
11 9 (23.08%) Containerisation
11 9 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (23.08%) Test Automation
12 8 (20.51%) Data Management
13 7 (17.95%) AI
13 7 (17.95%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 27 (69.23%) C#
2 17 (43.59%) TypeScript
3 15 (38.46%) C++
4 14 (35.90%) Python
5 12 (30.77%) JavaScript
6 5 (12.82%) SQL
7 3 (7.69%) C
7 3 (7.69%) T-SQL
7 3 (7.69%) VB.NET
8 2 (5.13%) Bash
8 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (56.41%) Degree
2 16 (41.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (20.51%) Master's Degree
3 8 (20.51%) PhD
4 3 (7.69%) ICAEW
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.56%) Postgraduate
6 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.69%) SLA
3 2 (5.13%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (28.21%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (43.59%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.13%) Ansible
3 2 (5.13%) Grafana
3 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Google
2 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.13%) VMware