Design Patterns Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Design Patterns
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 147 172
Rank change year-on-year -220 +25 +50
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 245 700 1,175
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.37% 2.36% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 2.58% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 121 191 750
10th Percentile £50,750 £43,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £73,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £84,967
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -13.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,638 27,157 61,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.04% 91.43% 80.65%
Number of salaries quoted 31,682 13,616 43,170
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,890 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +1.78% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Design Patterns relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Design Patterns
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Design Patterns.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Design Patterns in the UK excluding London

Design Patterns
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Patterns within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England -179 104 £74,500 +14.62% 36
North West -146 61 £72,500 +26.09% 18
South East -91 40 £60,000 -25.00% 31
Scotland +27 39 £105,000 +35.48% 33
Yorkshire -31 34 £80,000 +14.29% 6
South West -57 28 £60,000 -13.37% 15
Midlands -54 20 £64,500 +7.50% 4
East of England -37 16 £60,100 -15.65% 9
West Midlands -54 14 £64,000 +6.67% 3
North East -38 9 £46,250 -45.59% 12
Wales -45 7 £53,000 +8.93% 4
East Midlands -30 6 £110,000 +114.63% 1
Northern Ireland -37 1 - - 1
Design Patterns
UK

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.63%) GeoServer
2 3 (1.22%) JBoss
3 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.41%) Confluence
3 1 (0.41%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.41%) Siemens NX
1 1 (0.41%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (2.04%) Visualfiles
2 3 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 106 (43.27%) AWS
2 82 (33.47%) Azure
3 28 (11.43%) Serverless
4 16 (6.53%) SaaS
5 14 (5.71%) GCP
5 14 (5.71%) GitHub
6 11 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (3.67%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (2.04%) Apigee
11 5 (2.04%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.63%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.63%) Snowflake
13 3 (1.22%) Amazon ECR
13 3 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 55 (22.45%) Broadband
2 5 (2.04%) DNS
3 3 (1.22%) DHCP
3 3 (1.22%) Firewall
3 3 (1.22%) Network Security
4 1 (0.41%) AMQP
4 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.41%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.12%) NoSQL
2 14 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.27%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.04%) Redis
6 4 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
6 4 (1.63%) GIS
6 4 (1.63%) MySQL
6 4 (1.63%) QGIS
7 3 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.22%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.82%) Power BI
9 1 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.41%) Metadata
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (19.59%) Jenkins
2 42 (17.14%) GitLab
3 37 (15.10%) SonarQube
4 20 (8.16%) Git
5 6 (2.45%) JIRA
5 6 (2.45%) Selenium
6 3 (1.22%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.22%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.22%) Maven
6 3 (1.22%) Storybook
7 2 (0.82%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.82%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.41%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.41%) JMeter
8 1 (0.41%) JUnit
8 1 (0.41%) MSTest
8 1 (0.41%) NUnit
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.41%) Xcode
General
1 54 (22.04%) Games
2 53 (21.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 39 (15.92%) Marketing
4 37 (15.10%) Social Skills
5 24 (9.80%) Finance
6 20 (8.16%) Public Sector
7 18 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (5.31%) Manufacturing
9 9 (3.67%) Banking
9 9 (3.67%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.04%) Automotive
11 4 (1.63%) Electronics
11 4 (1.63%) Legal
12 3 (1.22%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.82%) Retail
14 1 (0.41%) Billing
14 1 (0.41%) Law
14 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (28.98%) Developer
2 64 (26.12%) Architect
3 55 (22.45%) Lead
4 45 (18.37%) Software Engineer
5 39 (15.92%) Senior
6 33 (13.47%) Salesforce Architect
7 24 (9.80%) Solutions Architect
8 23 (9.39%) Technical Architect
9 21 (8.57%) Lead Developer
10 18 (7.35%) Java Engineer
10 18 (7.35%) Salesforce Technical Architect
10 18 (7.35%) Software Developer
11 15 (6.12%) Team Leader
12 14 (5.71%) C# Software Engineer
12 14 (5.71%) Senior Developer
13 13 (5.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 12 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (4.90%) Java Developer
15 11 (4.49%) Principal Developer
16 10 (4.08%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (25.71%) REST
2 46 (18.78%) React
3 42 (17.14%) .NET
4 35 (14.29%) SOAP
5 34 (13.88%) Lightning Web Components
5 34 (13.88%) Visualforce
6 32 (13.06%) AngularJS
7 31 (12.65%) Spring Boot
8 28 (11.43%) Spring
9 27 (11.02%) Vue
10 24 (9.80%) Node.js
11 19 (7.76%) RESTful
12 15 (6.12%) CSS
13 14 (5.71%) GraphQL
13 14 (5.71%) HTML
14 13 (5.31%) Android SDK
15 12 (4.90%) .NET Core
15 12 (4.90%) Django
16 11 (4.49%) Next.js
17 10 (4.08%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 65 (26.53%) Product Ownership
2 40 (16.33%) Cloud Native
3 27 (11.02%) Mobile App
4 22 (8.98%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (6.94%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (5.31%) Data Structures
7 13 (5.31%) Social Media
8 11 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (3.67%) AI Agents
9 9 (3.67%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (3.27%) Client/Server
11 6 (2.45%) Algorithms
11 6 (2.45%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (2.45%) Cyberattack
11 6 (2.45%) Public Cloud
12 5 (2.04%) PKI
13 4 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (1.63%) Hedge funds
13 4 (1.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.35%) Android
2 5 (2.04%) Linux
2 5 (2.04%) Windows
3 3 (1.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (59.59%) Agile
2 136 (55.51%) CI/CD
3 97 (39.59%) DevOps
4 84 (34.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 77 (31.43%) Software Engineering
6 73 (29.80%) Roadmaps
7 72 (29.39%) Mentoring
8 69 (28.16%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (25.71%) AI
9 63 (25.71%) Event-Driven
10 61 (24.90%) Scrum
11 57 (23.27%) Architectural Patterns
11 57 (23.27%) Full-Stack Development
11 57 (23.27%) Test Automation
12 52 (21.22%) Microservices
13 46 (18.78%) TOGAF
14 43 (17.55%) OO
15 42 (17.14%) Technology Roadmap
16 39 (15.92%) SOLID
17 38 (15.51%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 62 (25.31%) Java
2 55 (22.45%) Python
3 53 (21.63%) C#
4 52 (21.22%) JavaScript
5 38 (15.51%) TypeScript
6 35 (14.29%) Apex Code
6 35 (14.29%) SOQL
7 34 (13.88%) SOSL
8 33 (13.47%) SQL
9 20 (8.16%) Kotlin
10 12 (4.90%) C++
11 8 (3.27%) Ruby
12 6 (2.45%) Bash
12 6 (2.45%) PowerShell
12 6 (2.45%) T-SQL
13 5 (2.04%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.63%) C
15 3 (1.22%) Groovy
16 2 (0.82%) Bicep
16 2 (0.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (18.78%) Degree
2 22 (8.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (7.35%) Security Cleared
4 12 (4.90%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.67%) DBS Check
6 8 (3.27%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.86%) PhD
8 5 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.04%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.22%) ICAEW
10 2 (0.82%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.41%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.41%) OCA
11 1 (0.41%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.31%) QA
2 10 (4.08%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.86%) GDPR
4 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.22%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.41%) HL7
5 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (14.29%) Docker
2 5 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.22%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (14.29%) Terraform
2 32 (13.06%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.86%) Ansible
4 4 (1.63%) Kibana
5 3 (1.22%) Grafana
5 3 (1.22%) HP Fortify
5 3 (1.22%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 35 (14.29%) Salesforce
1 35 (14.29%) Splunk
2 17 (6.94%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.86%) Oracle
4 4 (1.63%) AppDynamics
4 4 (1.63%) Databricks
4 4 (1.63%) Google
4 4 (1.63%) IBM
5 3 (1.22%) VMware
5 3 (1.22%) Xamarin
6 2 (0.82%) Pega
7 1 (0.41%) Adobe
7 1 (0.41%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.41%) Foundry
7 1 (0.41%) OutSystems
7 1 (0.41%) SAP
7 1 (0.41%) Siemens
7 1 (0.41%) Zoho