Design Patterns Jobs

Design Patterns
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Design Patterns skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Design Patterns over the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 183 168
Rank change year-on-year -4 -15 -69
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 998 1,585 1,878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.66% 1.52% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 1.84% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 382 1,030 1,167
10th Percentile £48,800 £41,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,750 £56,026
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.80% -10.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £91,875
90th Percentile £92,375 £93,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.67% -7.69% +12.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54,248 86,367 83,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 90.14% 82.72% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28,405 59,175 53,433
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

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 10 July 2025.

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 10 July 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
England -8 948 £73,000 +16.80% 532
UK excluding London +3 793 £73,000 +21.67% 386
North of England +15 461 £65,000 +6.20% 103
North West +27 424 £60,000 -1.97% 51
Work from Home -73 277 £65,000 +4.00% 280
South East +27 206 £73,000 +21.67% 96
London -23 171 £70,000 -12.50% 212
Midlands -40 42 £60,000 -7.69% 51
West Midlands +13 37 £60,000 -7.69% 28
Yorkshire -15 31 £70,000 +14.37% 36
South West -13 24 £75,000 +50.00% 43
East of England +6 23 £78,250 +4.33% 53
Wales +39 20 £73,000 +46.00% 12
Scotland +23 13 £70,000 +12.00% 28
North East -2 6 £85,000 +38.88% 16
East Midlands -38 5 £51,250 -19.61% 23
Northern Ireland +41 4 - - 12

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 11 (1.10%) Apache
2 9 (0.90%) CMS
3 8 (0.80%) WordPress
4 5 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.50%) Confluence
5 4 (0.40%) GemFire
6 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.20%) nginx
7 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.10%) Drupal
8 1 (0.10%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.10%) IIS
8 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.40%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.40%) Sketch
4 3 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.30%) UserZoom
5 2 (0.20%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 205 (20.54%) Azure
2 163 (16.33%) AWS
3 68 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
4 62 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 49 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (4.51%) GCP
7 38 (3.81%) Serverless
8 36 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
9 28 (2.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 27 (2.71%) SonarCloud
11 25 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (2.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 22 (2.20%) GitHub
12 22 (2.20%) SaaS
13 19 (1.90%) Figma
14 12 (1.20%) Power Platform
15 11 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
16 10 (1.00%) AWS KMS
16 10 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (0.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 400 (40.08%) VPN
2 397 (39.78%) DNS
3 16 (1.60%) Network Security
4 9 (0.90%) HTTP
5 3 (0.30%) S/MIME
5 3 (0.30%) SSL
5 3 (0.30%) X.509
6 2 (0.20%) Firewall
6 2 (0.20%) Internet
7 1 (0.10%) BGP
7 1 (0.10%) Broadband
7 1 (0.10%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.10%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.10%) IOS XR
7 1 (0.10%) MPLS
7 1 (0.10%) Multicast
7 1 (0.10%) OSPF
7 1 (0.10%) SSH
7 1 (0.10%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.10%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (8.12%) Elasticsearch
2 67 (6.71%) SQL Server
3 47 (4.71%) MongoDB
4 31 (3.11%) NoSQL
5 29 (2.91%) MySQL
6 20 (2.00%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (1.60%) Redis
9 12 (1.20%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.60%) Big Data
10 6 (0.60%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.50%) Apache Hive
11 5 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.50%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.40%) Apache Ignite
12 4 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.40%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.40%) InterSystems Cache
13 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 110 (11.02%) Git
2 35 (3.51%) Octopus Deploy
3 33 (3.31%) Visual Studio
4 27 (2.71%) MSBuild
4 27 (2.71%) Team Foundation Server
5 24 (2.40%) Jenkins
6 18 (1.80%) JIRA
6 18 (1.80%) JUnit
7 15 (1.50%) Jasmine
8 14 (1.40%) NUnit
9 12 (1.20%) GitLab
10 10 (1.00%) PHPUnit
11 9 (0.90%) Maven
11 9 (0.90%) Mocha
12 7 (0.70%) Gradle
12 7 (0.70%) webpack
13 6 (0.60%) Grunt
13 6 (0.60%) Karma Test Runner
14 3 (0.30%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 504 (50.50%) Finance
2 500 (50.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 473 (47.39%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (12.42%) Social Skills
5 57 (5.71%) Retail
6 45 (4.51%) Law
7 41 (4.11%) Marketing
8 36 (3.61%) Banking
9 18 (1.80%) Public Sector
10 15 (1.50%) Front Office
11 14 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.80%) Back Office
13 6 (0.60%) Games
13 6 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.60%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.60%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.50%) Automotive
14 5 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.50%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 622 (62.32%) Developer
2 464 (46.49%) Software Developer
3 214 (21.44%) Architect
4 117 (11.72%) Software Architect
5 74 (7.41%) .NET Developer
5 74 (7.41%) Senior
6 68 (6.81%) Software Engineer
7 62 (6.21%) Lead
8 44 (4.41%) C# Developer
9 43 (4.31%) Senior Developer
10 41 (4.11%) Technical Architect
11 31 (3.11%) C# .NET Developer
11 31 (3.11%) Java Engineer
12 26 (2.61%) Salesforce Architect
13 24 (2.40%) Enterprise Architect
14 22 (2.20%) Java Software Engineer
14 22 (2.20%) Lead Developer
15 18 (1.80%) Cloud Architect
15 18 (1.80%) Senior .NET Developer
16 17 (1.70%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (20.84%) .NET
2 144 (14.43%) Middleware
3 104 (10.42%) REST
4 85 (8.52%) CSS
4 85 (8.52%) React
5 77 (7.72%) HTML
6 75 (7.52%) Node.js
7 60 (6.01%) Kafka
8 53 (5.31%) AngularJS
9 52 (5.21%) ASP.NET
10 49 (4.91%) Pandas
11 44 (4.41%) .NET Core
12 42 (4.21%) Spring
13 39 (3.91%) JSON
14 36 (3.61%) XML
15 35 (3.51%) Bootstrap
15 35 (3.51%) RESTful
16 29 (2.91%) SOAP
17 28 (2.81%) gRPC
18 27 (2.71%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 446 (44.69%) Cyberattack
2 38 (3.81%) Cloud Native
3 37 (3.71%) Product Ownership
4 36 (3.61%) Algorithms
5 34 (3.41%) Data Structures
6 33 (3.31%) Mobile App
7 30 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
8 27 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.80%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.40%) Fixed Income
11 13 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.00%) Public Cloud
14 8 (0.80%) Hedge funds
15 7 (0.70%) Equities
15 7 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
16 6 (0.60%) BYOD
16 6 (0.60%) Client/Server
17 5 (0.50%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 467 (46.79%) Android
2 465 (46.59%) Linux
3 25 (2.51%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.90%) Windows
5 6 (0.60%) Unix
6 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 765 (76.65%) Agile
2 541 (54.21%) OOP
3 526 (52.71%) OO
4 455 (45.59%) Mathematics
5 454 (45.49%) Android Development
6 452 (45.29%) Line Management
7 291 (29.16%) DevOps
8 214 (21.44%) Computer Science
9 211 (21.14%) CI/CD
10 198 (19.84%) Mentoring
11 188 (18.84%) Software Engineering
12 174 (17.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 163 (16.33%) Microservices
14 152 (15.23%) SDLC
15 135 (13.53%) Open Source
16 128 (12.83%) UML
17 119 (11.92%) Configuration Management
18 116 (11.62%) Waterfall
19 108 (10.82%) Problem-Solving
20 95 (9.52%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 546 (54.71%) Java
2 480 (48.10%) Python
3 460 (46.09%) C++
4 457 (45.79%) Go
5 183 (18.34%) JavaScript
6 161 (16.13%) C#
7 106 (10.62%) SQL
8 54 (5.41%) Rust
8 54 (5.41%) TypeScript
9 27 (2.71%) PHP
10 26 (2.61%) Apex Code
11 17 (1.70%) Swift
12 12 (1.20%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.00%) Ruby
14 9 (0.90%) Objective-C
15 6 (0.60%) C
16 4 (0.40%) Bash
17 3 (0.30%) Scala
18 2 (0.20%) Elixir
18 2 (0.20%) F#
Qualifications
1 488 (48.90%) Security Cleared
2 450 (45.09%) DV Cleared
3 218 (21.84%) Degree
4 188 (18.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 117 (11.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 116 (11.62%) Chartered Engineer
7 31 (3.11%) SC Cleared
8 29 (2.91%) Master's Degree
9 23 (2.30%) AWS Certification
10 16 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.50%) CISM
12 5 (0.50%) CISSP
13 4 (0.40%) PhD
13 4 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.20%) CEH
15 2 (0.20%) GIAC
15 2 (0.20%) ISSAP
15 2 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (11.62%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 57 (5.71%) GDPR
3 36 (3.61%) QA
4 22 (2.20%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.90%) HIPAA
6 12 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.10%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.70%) COBIT
9 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.50%) NIST
11 4 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.20%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.20%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.10%) HL7
13 1 (0.10%) NCSC
13 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 557 (55.81%) Docker
2 3 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Firmware
4 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 447 (44.79%) Ansible
2 122 (12.22%) Kubernetes
3 71 (7.11%) Terraform
4 16 (1.60%) Grafana
5 15 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.30%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.20%) Argo
8 1 (0.10%) Kibana
8 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 48 (4.81%) Microsoft
2 29 (2.91%) Salesforce
3 21 (2.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 19 (1.90%) Oracle
5 17 (1.70%) Google
6 9 (0.90%) Splunk
7 8 (0.80%) Okta
8 7 (0.70%) Sybase
9 6 (0.60%) Adobe
9 6 (0.60%) Trayport
10 5 (0.50%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.50%) New Relic
11 4 (0.40%) Dell
11 4 (0.40%) Informatica
11 4 (0.40%) Solace
11 4 (0.40%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.30%) Snowplow
12 3 (0.30%) Thales
13 2 (0.20%) Databricks
13 2 (0.20%) Xamarin