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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 197 159
Rank change year-on-year -68 -38 -12
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 164 280 687
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 1.80% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.91% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 83 197 594
10th Percentile £49,206 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,375 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,169 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £82,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £93,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -13.19%

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 16,683 14,689 30,701
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.00% 94.40% 88.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,100 8,561 23,682
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.41%

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 23 June 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 (2.44%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 69 (42.07%) AWS
2 45 (27.44%) Azure
3 19 (11.59%) GCP
4 18 (10.98%) SaaS
5 13 (7.93%) Serverless
6 9 (5.49%) GitHub
7 8 (4.88%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.88%) Snowflake
8 7 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.66%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (3.66%) Vertex AI
10 5 (3.05%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.44%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (1.83%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 57 (34.76%) Broadband
2 6 (3.66%) Network Security
3 3 (1.83%) Firewall
3 3 (1.83%) LAN
3 3 (1.83%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.83%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (1.83%) WAN
3 3 (1.83%) Wireless
4 2 (1.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.37%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.93%) NoSQL
3 10 (6.10%) Redis
4 8 (4.88%) MySQL
4 8 (4.88%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.27%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.22%) Power BI
8 2 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.61%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.61%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.61%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 41 (25.00%) GitLab
2 37 (22.56%) Jenkins
3 34 (20.73%) SonarQube
4 22 (13.41%) Git
5 3 (1.83%) Selenium
6 2 (1.22%) Postman
6 2 (1.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.22%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.61%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.61%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.61%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.61%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.61%) Storybook
7 1 (0.61%) Xcode
7 1 (0.61%) XCUITest
General
1 47 (28.66%) Games
2 38 (23.17%) Marketing
3 36 (21.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 31 (18.90%) Social Skills
5 24 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (13.41%) Finance
7 15 (9.15%) Banking
8 12 (7.32%) Investment Banking
9 8 (4.88%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.83%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.61%) Automotive
13 1 (0.61%) Back Office
13 1 (0.61%) iGaming
13 1 (0.61%) Legal
13 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.61%) Military
13 1 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 56 (34.15%) Developer
2 53 (32.32%) Architect
3 36 (21.95%) Lead
4 34 (20.73%) Salesforce Architect
5 29 (17.68%) Senior
6 28 (17.07%) Technical Architect
7 23 (14.02%) Lead Developer
8 18 (10.98%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 15 (9.15%) Analyst
10 14 (8.54%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (8.54%) Software Developer
11 11 (6.71%) Java Engineer
11 11 (6.71%) Senior Developer
11 11 (6.71%) Software Engineer
11 11 (6.71%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (6.10%) Java Developer
12 10 (6.10%) Principal Developer
12 10 (6.10%) Salesforce Solution Architect
12 10 (6.10%) Team Leader
13 9 (5.49%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (32.32%) REST
2 35 (21.34%) Lightning Web Components
3 34 (20.73%) SOAP
3 34 (20.73%) Visualforce
4 21 (12.80%) React
5 20 (12.20%) Spring Boot
6 19 (11.59%) Spring
7 16 (9.76%) .NET
7 16 (9.76%) Node.js
8 14 (8.54%) Vue
9 13 (7.93%) AngularJS
10 8 (4.88%) RESTful
11 5 (3.05%) LangChain
11 5 (3.05%) LangGraph
12 4 (2.44%) ASP.NET
12 4 (2.44%) JPA
12 4 (2.44%) jQuery
12 4 (2.44%) Kafka
12 4 (2.44%) Smart Contracts
12 4 (2.44%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 57 (34.76%) Product Ownership
2 23 (14.02%) Cloud Native
3 15 (9.15%) AI Agents
3 15 (9.15%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (7.93%) Data Structures
5 12 (7.32%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (7.32%) Cyberattack
6 9 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (5.49%) Legacy Applications
7 8 (4.88%) Public Cloud
8 6 (3.66%) Blockchain
8 6 (3.66%) Hedge funds
8 6 (3.66%) Social Media
9 5 (3.05%) Client/Server
10 4 (2.44%) Algorithms
10 4 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (2.44%) Web3
11 3 (1.83%) IoT
11 3 (1.83%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.05%) Android
2 3 (1.83%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (56.10%) CI/CD
2 85 (51.83%) Agile
3 77 (46.95%) Continuous Improvement
4 69 (42.07%) DevOps
5 53 (32.32%) AI
6 50 (30.49%) Event-Driven
7 46 (28.05%) Roadmaps
8 45 (27.44%) Mentoring
9 44 (26.83%) Continuous Delivery
9 44 (26.83%) Microservices
9 44 (26.83%) Scrum
10 42 (25.61%) Continuous Integration
10 42 (25.61%) TOGAF
11 40 (24.39%) Software Engineering
12 39 (23.78%) Technology Roadmap
13 38 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (22.56%) Full-Stack Development
14 37 (22.56%) OO
15 35 (21.34%) Community of Practice
16 34 (20.73%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
Programming Languages
1 36 (21.95%) Apex Code
1 36 (21.95%) SOQL
2 35 (21.34%) SOSL
3 28 (17.07%) Java
4 25 (15.24%) Python
5 24 (14.63%) TypeScript
6 22 (13.41%) JavaScript
7 14 (8.54%) C#
7 14 (8.54%) SQL
8 6 (3.66%) Rust
9 4 (2.44%) Go
9 4 (2.44%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.83%) C
10 3 (1.83%) C++
10 3 (1.83%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.22%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.22%) Scala
11 2 (1.22%) Swift
11 2 (1.22%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (20.12%) Degree
2 19 (11.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.49%) DBS Check
4 8 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.88%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.05%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.05%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.83%) CCIE
6 3 (1.83%) CCIE Security
6 3 (1.83%) CCNP
6 3 (1.83%) CCSA
6 3 (1.83%) CCSE
6 3 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.83%) JNCIE
6 3 (1.83%) JNCIP
7 2 (1.22%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.61%) PhD
8 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.32%) GDPR
1 12 (7.32%) QA
2 2 (1.22%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.22%) GRC
2 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (14.63%) Docker
2 3 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (14.63%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.32%) Terraform
3 4 (2.44%) Ansible
4 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.61%) Grafana
5 1 (0.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (21.95%) Salesforce
1 36 (21.95%) Splunk
2 11 (6.71%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.66%) Google
4 4 (2.44%) Foundry
4 4 (2.44%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.83%) CheckPoint
5 3 (1.83%) Cisco
5 3 (1.83%) Databricks
5 3 (1.83%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.83%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.22%) Adobe
6 2 (1.22%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.22%) Oracle
6 2 (1.22%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.61%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.61%) IBM
7 1 (0.61%) SendGrid