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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 169 152
Rank change year-on-year +10 -17 -58
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 1,000 1,690 2,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.92% 1.72% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 2.00% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 385 1,080 1,432
10th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £46,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,525 £62,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% -13.79% +7.41%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +13.64%

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 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +20 936 £68,525 +9.64% 594
UK excluding London +16 769 £65,000 +8.33% 311
North of England +38 476 £60,000 -1.97% 116
North West +31 436 £50,055 -18.22% 72
Work from Home -19 295 £65,000 +1.96% 328
London -17 186 £70,000 -12.50% 318
South East +32 154 £73,000 +23.73% 65
East of England +48 32 £77,500 +3.33% 26
South West -24 31 £70,000 +40.00% 28
Midlands -72 30 £60,000 -4.95% 36
Yorkshire +10 29 £68,750 +12.33% 28
West Midlands -11 24 £60,000 -7.69% 21
Wales +41 22 £47,307 -19.55% 6
Scotland +38 20 £70,000 +16.67% 34
North East +19 11 £61,206 - 17
East Midlands -36 6 £55,000 +10.00% 15
Northern Ireland +25 4 - - 5

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 16 (1.60%) Confluence
2 12 (1.20%) CMS
2 12 (1.20%) WordPress
3 11 (1.10%) Apache
4 4 (0.40%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.40%) GemFire
5 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.10%) Drupal
7 1 (0.10%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.10%) IIS
7 1 (0.10%) nginx
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.10%) SAS
7 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.30%) UserZoom
4 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.20%) Sketch
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.10%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 231 (23.10%) Azure
2 190 (19.00%) AWS
3 74 (7.40%) AWS CloudFormation
4 69 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
6 48 (4.80%) Serverless
7 46 (4.60%) Azure Service Bus
8 45 (4.50%) GCP
9 39 (3.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 35 (3.50%) SonarCloud
11 32 (3.20%) GitHub
12 29 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (2.70%) SaaS
14 25 (2.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 17 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (1.60%) IBM Cloud
17 13 (1.30%) AWS KMS
18 11 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
18 11 (1.10%) Figma
19 10 (1.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 399 (39.90%) VPN
2 397 (39.70%) DNS
3 21 (2.10%) Network Security
4 14 (1.40%) HTTP
5 2 (0.20%) Firewall
5 2 (0.20%) FTP
5 2 (0.20%) Internet
5 2 (0.20%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.10%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.10%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.10%) SSH
6 1 (0.10%) SSL
6 1 (0.10%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (9.30%) Elasticsearch
2 56 (5.60%) SQL Server
3 50 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 45 (4.50%) MongoDB
5 41 (4.10%) Relational Database
6 40 (4.00%) MySQL
7 29 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (2.00%) Redis
9 17 (1.70%) RDBMS
10 7 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.70%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.60%) Power BI
12 5 (0.50%) Big Data
13 4 (0.40%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.40%) Apache Ignite
13 4 (0.40%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.40%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.40%) InterSystems Cache
14 3 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 131 (13.10%) Git
2 48 (4.80%) Octopus Deploy
3 47 (4.70%) Jenkins
3 47 (4.70%) Visual Studio
4 42 (4.20%) JIRA
5 36 (3.60%) MSBuild
6 35 (3.50%) Team Foundation Server
7 24 (2.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 24 (2.40%) Gradle
8 23 (2.30%) Maven
9 16 (1.60%) Bitbucket
10 15 (1.50%) Jasmine
10 15 (1.50%) Rational DOORS
10 15 (1.50%) SonarQube
11 13 (1.30%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.30%) NUnit
12 12 (1.20%) GitLab
13 11 (1.10%) JUnit
14 9 (0.90%) Artifactory
14 9 (0.90%) Mocha
General
1 506 (50.60%) Finance
2 496 (49.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 482 (48.20%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (16.30%) Social Skills
5 60 (6.00%) Retail
6 39 (3.90%) Public Sector
7 38 (3.80%) Marketing
8 34 (3.40%) Banking
9 25 (2.50%) Law
10 17 (1.70%) Games
11 11 (1.10%) Front Office
12 8 (0.80%) Back Office
13 7 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.60%) Retail Banking
14 6 (0.60%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.50%) Automotive
15 5 (0.50%) Legal
15 5 (0.50%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.40%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 647 (64.70%) Developer
2 470 (47.00%) Software Developer
3 143 (14.30%) Architect
4 141 (14.10%) Senior
5 79 (7.90%) Software Engineer
6 71 (7.10%) Lead
7 64 (6.40%) .NET Developer
8 55 (5.50%) Senior Developer
9 50 (5.00%) C# Developer
10 48 (4.80%) Technical Architect
11 39 (3.90%) Java Engineer
12 38 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
13 30 (3.00%) C# .NET Developer
14 29 (2.90%) Lead Developer
15 27 (2.70%) Salesforce Architect
16 24 (2.40%) Enterprise Architect
17 22 (2.20%) Cloud Architect
18 19 (1.90%) AWS Architect
18 19 (1.90%) PHP Developer
19 18 (1.80%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (23.10%) .NET
2 119 (11.90%) CSS
3 109 (10.90%) HTML
4 100 (10.00%) REST
5 94 (9.40%) React
6 76 (7.60%) Node.js
7 72 (7.20%) AngularJS
8 68 (6.80%) Kafka
9 65 (6.50%) ASP.NET
10 52 (5.20%) RESTful
11 49 (4.90%) Pandas
12 48 (4.80%) .NET Core
13 47 (4.70%) JSON
14 45 (4.50%) XML
15 44 (4.40%) Bootstrap
16 43 (4.30%) gRPC
17 42 (4.20%) Middleware
18 37 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
19 36 (3.60%) .NET Framework
20 33 (3.30%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 447 (44.70%) Cyberattack
2 40 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 38 (3.80%) Data Structures
4 34 (3.40%) Cloud Native
4 34 (3.40%) Management Information System
5 31 (3.10%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (2.40%) Mobile App
8 21 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.70%) Blockchain
11 16 (1.60%) e-Learning
11 16 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (1.60%) Public Cloud
12 14 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (1.40%) Mobile Games
13 12 (1.20%) Hedge funds
14 11 (1.10%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.90%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 477 (47.70%) Linux
2 466 (46.60%) Android
3 25 (2.50%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.80%) Windows
5 5 (0.50%) Unix
6 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.10%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 693 (69.30%) Agile
2 568 (56.80%) OO
3 550 (55.00%) OOP
4 464 (46.40%) Line Management
5 462 (46.20%) Mathematics
6 458 (45.80%) Android Development
7 245 (24.50%) Software Engineering
8 226 (22.60%) CI/CD
9 225 (22.50%) DevOps
10 182 (18.20%) Microservices
11 150 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
12 142 (14.20%) Computer Science
13 131 (13.10%) Mentoring
14 118 (11.80%) TDD
15 106 (10.60%) Containerisation
16 96 (9.60%) MVC
16 96 (9.60%) SOLID
17 94 (9.40%) Technical Leadership
18 71 (7.10%) Architectural Patterns
18 71 (7.10%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 591 (59.10%) Java
2 496 (49.60%) Python
3 466 (46.60%) C++
4 455 (45.50%) Go
5 212 (21.20%) JavaScript
6 206 (20.60%) C#
7 123 (12.30%) SQL
8 70 (7.00%) TypeScript
9 58 (5.80%) Rust
10 36 (3.60%) PHP
11 31 (3.10%) Apex Code
12 23 (2.30%) C
13 17 (1.70%) Swift
14 16 (1.60%) Ruby
15 15 (1.50%) Ada
15 15 (1.50%) VB
16 12 (1.20%) Kotlin
17 11 (1.10%) Objective-C
18 6 (0.60%) Dart
19 5 (0.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 505 (50.50%) Security Cleared
2 447 (44.70%) DV Cleared
3 156 (15.60%) Degree
4 98 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 34 (3.40%) AWS Certification
7 32 (3.20%) Master's Degree
8 30 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.40%) Chartered Engineer
11 8 (0.80%) OCP
11 8 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.40%) CISM
13 4 (0.40%) CISSP
14 2 (0.20%) CEH
14 2 (0.20%) GIAC
14 2 (0.20%) ISSAP
14 2 (0.20%) PhD
14 2 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (6.20%) GDPR
2 52 (5.20%) QA
3 25 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.00%) HIPAA
5 14 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 11 (1.10%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.80%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.60%) SLA
10 4 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.40%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.40%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.30%) NIST
12 2 (0.20%) COBIT
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.20%) NCSC
13 1 (0.10%) HL7
13 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 577 (57.70%) Docker
2 5 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.10%) Firmware
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 460 (46.00%) Ansible
2 144 (14.40%) Kubernetes
3 84 (8.40%) Terraform
4 22 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.70%) Grafana
6 8 (0.80%) Progress Chef
6 8 (0.80%) Puppet
7 6 (0.60%) Argo
8 2 (0.20%) MIIS
9 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.10%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.10%) Kibana
9 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 54 (5.40%) Microsoft
2 35 (3.50%) Salesforce
3 22 (2.20%) Google
4 21 (2.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 20 (2.00%) Oracle
6 18 (1.80%) IBM
7 17 (1.70%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.40%) New Relic
9 8 (0.80%) Atlassian
9 8 (0.80%) Okta
10 7 (0.70%) ANSYS
11 5 (0.50%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.40%) Dell
12 4 (0.40%) Informatica
12 4 (0.40%) Solace
12 4 (0.40%) Sybase
12 4 (0.40%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.30%) Adobe
13 3 (0.30%) Snowplow
13 3 (0.30%) Splunk