Hybrid/Remote Design Patterns Job Trends

Design Patterns
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Design Patterns skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 194 156
Rank change year-on-year -70 -38 +6
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 213 249 472
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 1.49% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.59% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 150 154 254
10th Percentile £50,278 £47,500 £43,539
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £73,750 £67,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% +8.86% +4.23%
75th Percentile £97,125 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £126,500 £97,500 £91,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +10.29% +3.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20,009 15,647 19,099
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.51% 93.83% 88.21%
Number of salaries quoted 14,244 8,419 11,293
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,540
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,312 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Design Patterns and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Design Patterns job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Design Patterns
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Design Patterns.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Design Patterns over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Design Patterns salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Design Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (0.94%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.47%) CMS
2 1 (0.47%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.47%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.47%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 101 (47.42%) AWS
2 64 (30.05%) Azure
3 33 (15.49%) SaaS
4 25 (11.74%) GCP
5 21 (9.86%) Snowflake
6 16 (7.51%) Serverless
7 12 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (5.63%) GitHub
8 9 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (4.23%) GitHub Copilot
9 8 (3.76%) ChatGPT
10 7 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (3.29%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.35%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (2.35%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.35%) Slack
12 4 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.88%) Azure Databricks
12 4 (1.88%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.92%) Broadband
2 6 (2.82%) Network Security
3 3 (1.41%) Firewall
4 2 (0.94%) DNS
5 1 (0.47%) Internet
5 1 (0.47%) LAN
5 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.47%) TETRA
5 1 (0.47%) VoIP
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
5 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.02%) SQL Server
2 23 (10.80%) Redis
3 11 (5.16%) MongoDB
4 10 (4.69%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.23%) MySQL
6 7 (3.29%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.88%) Metadata
10 3 (1.41%) Stardog
10 3 (1.41%) Triplestore
11 2 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.94%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.94%) Power BI
11 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.47%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.47%) GIS
12 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.47%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 47 (22.07%) Git
2 12 (5.63%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.16%) GitLab
4 4 (1.88%) Selenium
5 3 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.41%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.41%) JUnit
5 3 (1.41%) Maven
5 3 (1.41%) Mercurial
5 3 (1.41%) Mockito
5 3 (1.41%) Postman
5 3 (1.41%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.41%) Subversion
5 3 (1.41%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.94%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.94%) MLflow
6 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.94%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.47%) Mocha
7 1 (0.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 73 (34.27%) Social Skills
2 45 (21.13%) Finance
3 35 (16.43%) Public Sector
4 23 (10.80%) Banking
5 18 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.63%) Games
7 8 (3.76%) Legal
7 8 (3.76%) Marketing
8 7 (3.29%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.29%) Retail
9 5 (2.35%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.88%) Local Government
10 4 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.41%) Back Office
11 3 (1.41%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.94%) Automotive
12 2 (0.94%) Military
12 2 (0.94%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 76 (35.68%) Developer
2 46 (21.60%) Architect
3 45 (21.13%) Senior
4 44 (20.66%) Lead
5 28 (13.15%) Software Engineer
6 23 (10.80%) Lead Developer
7 22 (10.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 22 (10.33%) Senior Developer
8 21 (9.86%) Software Developer
9 19 (8.92%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (8.45%) Lead Software Developer
11 16 (7.51%) Technical Architect
12 15 (7.04%) Analyst
13 14 (6.57%) Java Developer
14 12 (5.63%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 11 (5.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 11 (5.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 10 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
17 9 (4.23%) Senior Front-End Developer
18 8 (3.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (18.78%) Node.js
2 33 (15.49%) .NET
3 24 (11.27%) React
4 22 (10.33%) Vue
5 19 (8.92%) Spring
5 19 (8.92%) Spring Boot
6 18 (8.45%) REST
7 17 (7.98%) Terraform
8 13 (6.10%) CSS
9 11 (5.16%) AngularJS
9 11 (5.16%) RESTful
10 10 (4.69%) Kafka
11 8 (3.76%) .NET Core
11 8 (3.76%) HTML
12 7 (3.29%) OpenAPI
13 5 (2.35%) FastAPI
13 5 (2.35%) jQuery
13 5 (2.35%) Next.js
14 4 (1.88%) .NET Framework
14 4 (1.88%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.68%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.98%) AI Agents
3 15 (7.04%) Data Structures
3 15 (7.04%) Product Ownership
4 14 (6.57%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (5.63%) Cyberattack
6 11 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (3.29%) Hackathon
9 6 (2.82%) Social Media
10 5 (2.35%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.35%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.88%) Blog
11 4 (1.88%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.88%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.88%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.88%) NHS
11 4 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.88%) Android
2 3 (1.41%) Linux
2 3 (1.41%) Unix
2 3 (1.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (44.60%) CI/CD
2 90 (42.25%) AI
3 82 (38.50%) Agile
4 69 (32.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 66 (30.99%) Microservices
6 65 (30.52%) Mentoring
7 56 (26.29%) DevOps
8 53 (24.88%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (24.88%) Software Engineering
8 53 (24.88%) Technical Leadership
9 45 (21.13%) Architectural Patterns
10 44 (20.66%) Computer Science
11 42 (19.72%) Full-Stack Development
12 36 (16.90%) SOLID
12 36 (16.90%) Test Automation
13 34 (15.96%) Clean Code
13 34 (15.96%) Decision-Making
13 34 (15.96%) LLM
14 29 (13.62%) Coaching
15 28 (13.15%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 54 (25.35%) JavaScript
2 48 (22.54%) Python
3 46 (21.60%) TypeScript
4 40 (18.78%) Java
5 33 (15.49%) C#
6 16 (7.51%) SQL
7 7 (3.29%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.35%) Ruby
9 4 (1.88%) C++
9 4 (1.88%) Rust
10 3 (1.41%) C
10 3 (1.41%) Scala
10 3 (1.41%) SHACL
10 3 (1.41%) SPARQL
10 3 (1.41%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.94%) Bicep
11 2 (0.94%) Go
11 2 (0.94%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.94%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.47%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 40 (18.78%) Degree
2 30 (14.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (11.74%) Security Cleared
4 19 (8.92%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.35%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.35%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.88%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.88%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.41%) CISM
7 3 (1.41%) CISSP
7 3 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.47%) CCIE
8 1 (0.47%) CCNP
8 1 (0.47%) CCSA
8 1 (0.47%) CCSE
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.47%) JNCIE
8 1 (0.47%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.45%) QA
2 15 (7.04%) GDPR
3 13 (6.10%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.29%) WCAG
6 4 (1.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (1.41%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.41%) MiFID
7 3 (1.41%) NIST
7 3 (1.41%) UCITS
8 2 (0.94%) NIST 800
System Software
1 32 (15.02%) Docker
2 2 (0.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (15.96%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.88%) Ansible
3 2 (0.94%) CASB
3 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (9.39%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.29%) Databricks
3 6 (2.82%) Google
4 4 (1.88%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.41%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.41%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.41%) Perforce
5 3 (1.41%) Splunk
6 2 (0.94%) Adobe
7 1 (0.47%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.47%) Cisco
7 1 (0.47%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle
7 1 (0.47%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.47%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.47%) Workday