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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 134 145
Rank change year-on-year -65 +11 +12
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 185 468 478
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.21% 2.46% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 2.70% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 140 255 388
10th Percentile £46,216 £44,069 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,688 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £87,614 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,500 £95,750 £96,055
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -13.33%

All Process and 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 13,806 17,362 19,370
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.16% 91.08% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,722 10,500 15,642
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,426
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 4 December 2025.

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 7 (3.78%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.08%) Luigi
3 1 (0.54%) Apache
3 1 (0.54%) CMS
3 1 (0.54%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.08%) Sketch
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.54%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 89 (48.11%) Azure
2 60 (32.43%) AWS
3 42 (22.70%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (19.46%) GitHub
5 31 (16.76%) Serverless
6 29 (15.68%) SaaS
7 19 (10.27%) Power Platform
8 17 (9.19%) PaaS
9 15 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (7.57%) GCP
10 14 (7.57%) Power Automate
11 13 (7.03%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (6.49%) Azure App Service
12 12 (6.49%) Entra ID
13 6 (3.24%) Amazon S3
13 6 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (2.70%) IaaS
15 4 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (2.16%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.65%) Broadband
2 1 (0.54%) S/MIME
2 1 (0.54%) SSL
2 1 (0.54%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (21.62%) SQL Server
2 25 (13.51%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.95%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.24%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.70%) Power BI
8 4 (2.16%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.62%) Metadata
10 2 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.08%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.08%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.54%) Cloud Spanner
11 1 (0.54%) GIS
11 1 (0.54%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.54%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 31 (16.76%) Git
2 21 (11.35%) GitLab
3 18 (9.73%) Jenkins
4 15 (8.11%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.16%) MSBuild
5 4 (2.16%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (2.16%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (2.16%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.62%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.08%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.08%) JUnit
7 2 (1.08%) Selenium
8 1 (0.54%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.54%) Gradle
8 1 (0.54%) JIRA
8 1 (0.54%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.54%) Postman
8 1 (0.54%) Storybook
8 1 (0.54%) Xcode
General
1 49 (26.49%) Finance
2 37 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 33 (17.84%) Marketing
4 29 (15.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (8.65%) Games
6 15 (8.11%) Retail
7 13 (7.03%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (5.41%) Banking
9 8 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (4.32%) Law
10 7 (3.78%) Legal
11 5 (2.70%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.16%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.62%) Front Office
14 2 (1.08%) Back Office
14 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (41.08%) Developer
2 42 (22.70%) Senior
3 41 (22.16%) Lead
4 34 (18.38%) Architect
5 30 (16.22%) Lead Developer
6 25 (13.51%) .NET Developer
7 16 (8.65%) Senior Developer
7 16 (8.65%) Technical Architect
8 15 (8.11%) Consultant
9 14 (7.57%) Azure Developer
9 14 (7.57%) Salesforce Architect
9 14 (7.57%) Software Engineer
10 13 (7.03%) C# Developer
10 13 (7.03%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 13 (7.03%) Functional Consultant
11 12 (6.49%) Lead .NET Developer
11 12 (6.49%) Software Developer
12 11 (5.95%) SaaS Developer
13 9 (4.86%) Lead C# Developer
13 9 (4.86%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (32.97%) .NET
2 43 (23.24%) React
3 29 (15.68%) REST
4 23 (12.43%) CSS
4 23 (12.43%) HTML
5 21 (11.35%) .NET Framework
6 18 (9.73%) ASP.NET Web API
6 18 (9.73%) RESTful
7 17 (9.19%) SOAP
8 15 (8.11%) Lightning Web Components
8 15 (8.11%) Visualforce
9 14 (7.57%) Entity Framework
9 14 (7.57%) Razor View Engine
10 13 (7.03%) .NET Core
11 12 (6.49%) ASP.NET Web Forms
12 11 (5.95%) Flask
12 11 (5.95%) Spring
13 10 (5.41%) iOS SDK
13 10 (5.41%) Kafka
13 10 (5.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.76%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.73%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (9.19%) Data Structures
4 16 (8.65%) Cloud Native
5 13 (7.03%) Management Information System
6 10 (5.41%) Mobile App
7 7 (3.78%) Algorithms
7 7 (3.78%) Blockchain
7 7 (3.78%) Hedge funds
7 7 (3.78%) Web3
8 5 (2.70%) PKI
9 4 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.62%) BYOD
10 3 (1.62%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.62%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (1.08%) Derivative
11 2 (1.08%) iPad
11 2 (1.08%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.73%) Apple iOS
2 14 (7.57%) Android
3 7 (3.78%) Windows
4 1 (0.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (68.65%) Agile
2 86 (46.49%) Mentoring
3 80 (43.24%) DevOps
4 71 (38.38%) CI/CD
5 62 (33.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 61 (32.97%) Microservices
7 53 (28.65%) Architectural Patterns
8 50 (27.03%) Software Engineering
9 49 (26.49%) Computer Science
10 43 (23.24%) Scrum
11 40 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (20.00%) Code Quality
13 36 (19.46%) Technical Leadership
14 35 (18.92%) Continuous Integration
15 32 (17.30%) Full-Stack Development
16 31 (16.76%) AI
17 29 (15.68%) Front End Development
18 28 (15.14%) Coaching
19 25 (13.51%) MVC
19 25 (13.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (23.24%) C#
1 43 (23.24%) SQL
2 35 (18.92%) JavaScript
3 31 (16.76%) TypeScript
4 30 (16.22%) Python
5 20 (10.81%) Java
6 15 (8.11%) Apex Code
6 15 (8.11%) SOQL
6 15 (8.11%) SOSL
6 15 (8.11%) Swift
7 11 (5.95%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.78%) Go
8 7 (3.78%) Rust
9 5 (2.70%) Scala
10 4 (2.16%) C++
11 3 (1.62%) Embedded C
12 2 (1.08%) Delphi
12 2 (1.08%) R
13 1 (0.54%) Bicep
13 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (27.57%) Degree
2 41 (22.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (8.65%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.24%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.24%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.08%) PhD
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.54%) CISM
6 1 (0.54%) CISSP
6 1 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.76%) QA
2 9 (4.86%) GDPR
3 7 (3.78%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.16%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.54%) IFRS
5 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (16.22%) Docker
2 13 (7.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.62%) Firmware
4 2 (1.08%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (7.03%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.49%) Terraform
3 2 (1.08%) Ansible
3 2 (1.08%) Grafana
3 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.08%) Puppet
4 1 (0.54%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (19.46%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.73%) Splunk
3 16 (8.65%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.78%) Syncfusion
4 7 (3.78%) Telerik
5 4 (2.16%) Databricks
6 3 (1.62%) Google
6 3 (1.62%) Trayport
7 2 (1.08%) Adobe
7 2 (1.08%) Oracle
8 1 (0.54%) Apple
8 1 (0.54%) Thales