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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 215 173
Rank change year-on-year -57 -42 -15
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 199 255 489
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 1.54% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.66% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 117 170 362
10th Percentile £48,565 £47,125 £44,000
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £68,750 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% +12.33% -5.84%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £90,000 £88,723
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +10.77% -7.14%

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 18,880 15,403 21,595
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.36% 93.01% 87.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13,612 8,900 15,178
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 20 August 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 4 (2.01%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 96 (48.24%) AWS
2 56 (28.14%) Azure
3 28 (14.07%) SaaS
4 24 (12.06%) GCP
5 17 (8.54%) GitHub
5 17 (8.54%) Snowflake
6 15 (7.54%) Serverless
7 12 (6.03%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (5.53%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.02%) ChatGPT
10 6 (3.02%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.02%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.01%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.01%) Slack
13 3 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (1.51%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 40 (20.10%) Broadband
2 7 (3.52%) Network Security
3 4 (2.01%) Firewall
4 3 (1.51%) LAN
4 3 (1.51%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.51%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.51%) WAN
4 3 (1.51%) Wireless
5 2 (1.01%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.58%) SQL Server
2 22 (11.06%) Redis
3 10 (5.03%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.52%) MySQL
5 8 (4.02%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.02%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.51%) Stardog
8 3 (1.51%) Triplestore
9 2 (1.01%) Power BI
9 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.50%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.50%) SQLite
10 1 (0.50%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 51 (25.63%) Git
2 32 (16.08%) Jenkins
3 30 (15.08%) GitLab
4 23 (11.56%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.01%) Selenium
6 3 (1.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.51%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.51%) Mercurial
6 3 (1.51%) Postman
6 3 (1.51%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.01%) JUnit
7 2 (1.01%) Maven
7 2 (1.01%) Mockito
7 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.01%) Subversion
7 2 (1.01%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.50%) JIRA
8 1 (0.50%) Mocha
8 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.09%) Finance
3 32 (16.08%) Games
4 26 (13.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (13.07%) Public Sector
5 24 (12.06%) Marketing
6 17 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (8.54%) Banking
7 12 (6.03%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.51%) Legal
9 4 (2.01%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.01%) Local Government
9 4 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.51%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.01%) Automotive
11 2 (1.01%) Back Office
11 2 (1.01%) Military
11 2 (1.01%) Polish Language
11 2 (1.01%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (37.19%) Developer
2 42 (21.11%) Senior
3 41 (20.60%) Architect
3 41 (20.60%) Lead
4 25 (12.56%) Lead Developer
4 25 (12.56%) Software Engineer
5 23 (11.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 21 (10.55%) Salesforce Architect
6 21 (10.55%) Software Developer
7 19 (9.55%) Senior Developer
7 19 (9.55%) Technical Architect
8 18 (9.05%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (8.54%) Lead Software Developer
10 15 (7.54%) Analyst
11 13 (6.53%) Java Developer
12 11 (5.53%) Salesforce Technical Architect
13 10 (5.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (5.03%) Java Engineer
14 9 (4.52%) Principal Developer
14 9 (4.52%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (20.60%) REST
2 36 (18.09%) Node.js
3 26 (13.07%) React
4 24 (12.06%) .NET
4 24 (12.06%) Vue
5 22 (11.06%) Spring Boot
6 21 (10.55%) Lightning Web Components
6 21 (10.55%) SOAP
7 20 (10.05%) Visualforce
8 19 (9.55%) Spring
9 18 (9.05%) Terraform
10 13 (6.53%) AngularJS
11 12 (6.03%) RESTful
12 9 (4.52%) CSS
13 7 (3.52%) Kafka
13 7 (3.52%) OpenAPI
14 6 (3.02%) .NET Core
14 6 (3.02%) Web Services
15 5 (2.51%) jQuery
15 5 (2.51%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.09%) Product Ownership
2 23 (11.56%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.54%) AI Agents
4 13 (6.53%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (6.03%) Cyberattack
5 12 (6.03%) Data Structures
6 11 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.52%) Hackathon
9 6 (3.02%) Hedge funds
9 6 (3.02%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (3.02%) Social Media
10 5 (2.51%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.51%) Blockchain
10 5 (2.51%) Client/Server
10 5 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.51%) Public Cloud
11 4 (2.01%) Blog
11 4 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.02%) Android
2 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (54.77%) CI/CD
2 91 (45.73%) Agile
3 81 (40.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 75 (37.69%) AI
5 72 (36.18%) DevOps
6 62 (31.16%) Microservices
7 56 (28.14%) Mentoring
8 53 (26.63%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (25.63%) Software Engineering
10 46 (23.12%) Full-Stack Development
11 40 (20.10%) Scrum
11 40 (20.10%) Technical Leadership
12 39 (19.60%) Architectural Patterns
13 38 (19.10%) Computer Science
14 37 (18.59%) Test Automation
15 36 (18.09%) Clean Code
15 36 (18.09%) Event-Driven
16 35 (17.59%) Continuous Delivery
17 33 (16.58%) OO
18 31 (15.58%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 48 (24.12%) JavaScript
2 44 (22.11%) Python
3 43 (21.61%) Java
4 42 (21.11%) TypeScript
5 22 (11.06%) Apex Code
5 22 (11.06%) SOQL
6 21 (10.55%) SOSL
7 20 (10.05%) C#
8 15 (7.54%) SQL
9 8 (4.02%) Kotlin
10 6 (3.02%) Rust
11 4 (2.01%) C++
11 4 (2.01%) Go
11 4 (2.01%) Ruby
12 3 (1.51%) C
12 3 (1.51%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.51%) Scala
12 3 (1.51%) SHACL
12 3 (1.51%) SPARQL
12 3 (1.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (21.11%) Degree
2 30 (15.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (10.05%) Security Cleared
4 14 (7.04%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.02%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.02%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.02%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.51%) CCIE
7 3 (1.51%) CCIE Security
7 3 (1.51%) CCNP
7 3 (1.51%) CCSA
7 3 (1.51%) CCSE
7 3 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.51%) JNCIE
7 3 (1.51%) JNCIP
8 2 (1.01%) CISM
8 2 (1.01%) CISSP
8 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.04%) QA
2 12 (6.03%) GDPR
3 8 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 4 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.51%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.51%) MiFID
6 3 (1.51%) UCITS
7 2 (1.01%) NIST
7 2 (1.01%) WCAG
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (14.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (15.58%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.52%) Ansible
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.50%) CASB
4 1 (0.50%) Grafana
4 1 (0.50%) Kibana
4 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (11.56%) Splunk
2 22 (11.06%) Salesforce
3 13 (6.53%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.52%) Google
5 4 (2.01%) Databricks
6 3 (1.51%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.51%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.51%) Cisco
6 3 (1.51%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.51%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.51%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.51%) Oracle
6 3 (1.51%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.51%) Perforce
7 2 (1.01%) Adobe
8 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.50%) Foundry
8 1 (0.50%) IBM
8 1 (0.50%) Workday