Design Patterns Job Trends in the West Midlands

Design Patterns
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 183 119
Rank change year-on-year +27 -64 +54
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 14 22 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.53% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.58% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 10 14 55
10th Percentile £51,443 £46,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,000 £50,000 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,750 £70,603 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +22.79% -17.86%
75th Percentile £78,438 £110,000 £67,177
90th Percentile £79,375 - £68,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -16.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,314 3,806 3,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.12% 91.45% 87.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,238 1,700 2,744
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Design Patterns job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Design Patterns
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Design Patterns.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Design Patterns in the West Midlands

Design Patterns
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Patterns within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Birmingham +26 10 £75,000 -31.82% 3
Staffordshire -12 1 £63,500 +58.75%
Coventry - 1 £42,750 -
Design Patterns
England

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) SaaS
4 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.14%) IaaS
6 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (7.14%) Metadata
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) JUnit
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Legal
3 2 (14.29%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Lead
2 6 (42.86%) Developer
3 5 (35.71%) Lead Developer
4 4 (28.57%) Architect
4 4 (28.57%) C# Developer
4 4 (28.57%) Lead C# Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Designer
5 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Information Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Information Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Information Security Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Lead Designer
5 2 (14.29%) Security Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (14.29%) Solutions Designer
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Lead iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) .NET
2 4 (28.57%) React
3 2 (14.29%) ARM Templates
4 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.14%) Core Animation
4 1 (7.14%) Core Data
4 1 (7.14%) Django
4 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.14%) Flask
4 1 (7.14%) pytest
4 1 (7.14%) RESTful
4 1 (7.14%) Spring
4 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.14%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Animation
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
1 7 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (28.57%) Coaching
3 4 (28.57%) Conflict Resolution
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 4 (28.57%) Microservices
3 4 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (14.29%) Information Security
5 2 (14.29%) TOGAF
5 2 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Bicep
3 1 (7.14%) Delphi
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) Scala
3 1 (7.14%) Swift
3 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CISM
1 4 (28.57%) CISSP
2 2 (14.29%) DBS Check
2 2 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GRC
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks