Design Patterns
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Design Patterns skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Design Patterns over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 153 96
Rank change year-on-year -20 -57 +57
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 1,681 2,481 5,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.71% 2.37% 3.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.48% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,075 1,437 2,209
10th Percentile £37,500 £46,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +8.21% +10.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Design Patterns is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Design Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the UK

Design Patterns
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns.

Salary trend for Design Patterns in the UK

Design Patterns
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Design Patterns in the UK

Design Patterns
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England -4 1,485 £62,500 -13.79% 292
UK excluding London +16 1,270 £60,000 -4.00% 203
Work from Home -23 752 £63,749 -8.93% 200
North of England +82 440 £61,206 -5.84% 60
London -94 361 £80,000 -8.57% 115
North West +86 303 £61,206 -0.07% 35
South East +9 249 £58,250 -2.92% 50
South West +14 207 £50,000 -10.31% 18
Midlands +28 183 £63,749 +6.25% 36
Scotland -37 113 £60,000 -9.91% 23
East Midlands +24 95 £50,000 -23.08% 18
Yorkshire +42 93 £61,206 -11.87% 16
West Midlands +12 87 £65,000 +8.33% 18
North East +24 44 £61,206 +16.58% 9
East of England -30 42 £75,000 -6.25% 13
Wales -12 21 £58,800 -2.00% 7
Northern Ireland -6 15 £61,900 +1.48% 1

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 106 (6.31%) Confluence
2 31 (1.84%) Apache
3 30 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.07%) SharePoint
5 11 (0.65%) CMS
6 10 (0.59%) Tomcat
7 9 (0.54%) IIS
8 8 (0.48%) Apache Pig
9 5 (0.30%) nginx
9 5 (0.30%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.24%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.24%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.18%) Orchard CMS
11 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2010
11 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.12%) Luigi
12 2 (0.12%) Magnolia
Applications
1 59 (3.51%) Sketch
2 5 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (0.30%) InVision
2 5 (0.30%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.18%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.12%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.059%) Blender
5 1 (0.059%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.059%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.059%) Notion
Business Applications
1 21 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (0.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.18%) Maximo
4 2 (0.12%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.12%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.059%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.059%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.059%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.059%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.059%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.059%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.059%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.059%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 652 (38.79%) Azure
2 421 (25.04%) AWS
3 286 (17.01%) Serverless
4 233 (13.86%) IBM Cloud
5 216 (12.85%) Azure DevOps
6 149 (8.86%) Azure Service Bus
7 137 (8.15%) Azure Functions
8 124 (7.38%) Azure API Management
8 124 (7.38%) Azure Logic Apps
9 100 (5.95%) SaaS
10 84 (5.00%) GCP
11 73 (4.34%) GitHub
12 65 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
13 63 (3.75%) Figma
14 60 (3.57%) Heroku
15 47 (2.80%) PaaS
16 46 (2.74%) Miro
17 42 (2.50%) Amazon Kinesis
18 41 (2.44%) Amazon S3
19 38 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (0.59%) HTTP
3 9 (0.54%) Network Security
3 9 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.36%) DNS
4 6 (0.36%) Intranet
4 6 (0.36%) SSL
5 5 (0.30%) Firewall
5 5 (0.30%) VPN
6 4 (0.24%) RS-232
7 3 (0.18%) Broadband
7 3 (0.18%) NaaS
7 3 (0.18%) Wireless
8 2 (0.12%) DKIM
8 2 (0.12%) DMARC
8 2 (0.12%) FTP
8 2 (0.12%) Internet
8 2 (0.12%) Multicast
8 2 (0.12%) SMTP
8 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (20.46%) NoSQL
2 296 (17.61%) PostgreSQL
3 294 (17.49%) Relational Database
4 277 (16.48%) MongoDB
5 240 (14.28%) DB2
6 233 (13.86%) SQL Server
7 118 (7.02%) MySQL
8 80 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
9 78 (4.64%) RDBMS
10 63 (3.75%) Redis
11 42 (2.50%) Big Data
12 39 (2.32%) Oracle Database
13 36 (2.14%) DynamoDB
14 35 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
14 35 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (1.37%) Apache Hive
15 23 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (1.01%) BigQuery
17 17 (1.01%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 336 (19.99%) Git
2 156 (9.28%) JIRA
3 142 (8.45%) Visual Studio
4 121 (7.20%) Bitbucket
5 77 (4.58%) Jenkins
6 59 (3.51%) Sourcetree
7 49 (2.91%) Postman
8 47 (2.80%) JUnit
9 40 (2.38%) Maven
10 36 (2.14%) JDeveloper
11 27 (1.61%) Selenium
12 23 (1.37%) Cucumber
13 22 (1.31%) GitLab
13 22 (1.31%) PHPUnit
14 19 (1.13%) SonarQube
15 18 (1.07%) Octopus Deploy
16 17 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
17 16 (0.95%) Android Studio
17 16 (0.95%) TestNG
17 16 (0.95%) WebDriver
General
1 314 (18.68%) Social Skills
2 304 (18.08%) Public Sector
3 251 (14.93%) Finance
4 215 (12.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 114 (6.78%) Games
6 96 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
7 94 (5.59%) Banking
7 94 (5.59%) Law
8 79 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
9 58 (3.45%) Retail
10 41 (2.44%) Investment Banking
11 38 (2.26%) Legal
12 35 (2.08%) Marketing
13 22 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
13 22 (1.31%) Front Office
13 22 (1.31%) Prime Brokerage
14 20 (1.19%) Tech for Good
15 19 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.89%) Manufacturing
16 15 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 781 (46.46%) Developer
2 456 (27.13%) Senior
3 256 (15.23%) Lead
4 243 (14.46%) Software Engineer
5 215 (12.79%) Architect
6 200 (11.90%) Full Stack Developer
7 198 (11.78%) Senior Developer
8 182 (10.83%) .NET Developer
9 146 (8.69%) Full Stack Engineer
10 137 (8.15%) Azure Developer
11 124 (7.38%) Solutions Architect
12 120 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
13 117 (6.96%) Software Developer
14 110 (6.54%) Designer
15 101 (6.01%) C# Developer
16 95 (5.65%) Senior Architect
17 88 (5.23%) 3D Developer
17 88 (5.23%) Games Developer
17 88 (5.23%) Unity 3D Developer
18 84 (5.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 658 (39.14%) .NET
2 472 (28.08%) React
3 457 (27.19%) HTML
4 432 (25.70%) CSS
5 408 (24.27%) AngularJS
6 377 (22.43%) REST
7 354 (21.06%) ASP.NET
8 338 (20.11%) Vue
9 318 (18.92%) Web Services
10 307 (18.26%) jQuery
11 276 (16.42%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 230 (13.68%) ASP.NET Core
13 222 (13.21%) Ember.js
14 221 (13.15%) Backbone.js
15 215 (12.79%) Node.js
16 163 (9.70%) Spring
17 162 (9.64%) .NET Core
18 157 (9.34%) RESTful
19 121 (7.20%) .NET Framework
20 102 (6.07%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 355 (21.12%) Data Structures
2 320 (19.04%) Algorithms
3 234 (13.92%) Blockchain
4 233 (13.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 131 (7.79%) Cloud Native
6 112 (6.66%) e-Learning
7 90 (5.35%) Client/Server
8 88 (5.23%) Virtual Reality
9 71 (4.22%) Public Cloud
10 57 (3.39%) Product Ownership
11 46 (2.74%) Mobile App
12 44 (2.62%) Management Information System
13 38 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
14 31 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
15 28 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
16 27 (1.61%) IoT
17 26 (1.55%) Video\Live Streaming
18 22 (1.31%) Onboarding
18 22 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
19 20 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 275 (16.36%) Android
2 270 (16.06%) Linux
3 253 (15.05%) Apple iOS
4 242 (14.40%) Windows
5 8 (0.48%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.36%) Unix
7 5 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.12%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 765 (45.51%) Agile
2 542 (32.24%) DevOps
3 521 (30.99%) Software Engineering
4 429 (25.52%) OOP
5 420 (24.99%) Full Stack Development
6 405 (24.09%) OO
7 376 (22.37%) MVC
7 376 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
8 374 (22.25%) Mentoring
9 370 (22.01%) User Experience
10 367 (21.83%) SOLID
11 356 (21.18%) Microservices
12 329 (19.57%) Coaching
13 307 (18.26%) Artificial Intelligence
14 289 (17.19%) MVVM
15 279 (16.60%) CI/CD
16 277 (16.48%) Web Development
17 272 (16.18%) Scrum
18 257 (15.29%) Code Quality
19 231 (13.74%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 822 (48.90%) C#
2 602 (35.81%) SQL
3 583 (34.68%) JavaScript
4 475 (28.26%) Java
5 342 (20.35%) Python
6 138 (8.21%) TypeScript
7 79 (4.70%) PHP
8 78 (4.64%) Ruby
9 66 (3.93%) Bash
10 54 (3.21%) Go
11 41 (2.44%) Kotlin
12 39 (2.32%) T-SQL
13 37 (2.20%) Perl
14 30 (1.78%) C
15 27 (1.61%) C++
16 25 (1.49%) PowerShell
17 24 (1.43%) VB.NET
18 19 (1.13%) Swift
19 14 (0.83%) Scala
20 11 (0.65%) XPath
Qualifications
1 308 (18.32%) Degree
2 185 (11.01%) Security Cleared
3 178 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 123 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 99 (5.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 29 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 24 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
8 20 (1.19%) Master's Degree
9 13 (0.77%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
11 5 (0.30%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.24%) CISA
12 4 (0.24%) CISM
12 4 (0.24%) CISSP
12 4 (0.24%) CRISC
12 4 (0.24%) PhD
12 4 (0.24%) SANS
13 3 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (9.22%) QA
2 86 (5.12%) Accessibility
3 69 (4.10%) WCAG
4 29 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 15 (0.89%) GDPR
6 10 (0.59%) Data Quality
7 9 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.30%) GAAP
8 5 (0.30%) IFRS
8 5 (0.30%) NIST
8 5 (0.30%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.18%) GRC
10 3 (0.18%) ISO 9000
11 2 (0.12%) SEPA
11 2 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.059%) SLA
System Software
1 164 (9.76%) Docker
2 15 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.48%) HDFS
4 1 (0.059%) RACF
Systems Management
1 141 (8.39%) Kubernetes
2 87 (5.18%) Terraform
3 17 (1.01%) Ansible
4 10 (0.59%) Grafana
5 9 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 8 (0.48%) Progress Chef
6 8 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.48%) Puppet
7 4 (0.24%) Kibana
7 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.18%) logstash
9 2 (0.12%) Control-M
10 1 (0.059%) Istio
10 1 (0.059%) Rancher
Vendors
1 286 (17.01%) Microsoft
2 253 (15.05%) IBM
3 231 (13.74%) Red Hat
4 134 (7.97%) Oracle
5 59 (3.51%) Google
6 33 (1.96%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.13%) Databricks
8 17 (1.01%) Xamarin
9 13 (0.77%) SAP
10 11 (0.65%) MuleSoft
10 11 (0.65%) New Relic
11 8 (0.48%) Informatica
11 8 (0.48%) SaltStack
11 8 (0.48%) Teradata
11 8 (0.48%) Xero
12 7 (0.42%) Guidewire
13 5 (0.30%) F5
13 5 (0.30%) PayPal
13 5 (0.30%) PeopleSoft
13 5 (0.30%) WorldPay