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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 124 143
Rank change year-on-year -81 +19 +9
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 168 431 461
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.11% 2.53% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 2.72% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 124 231 377
10th Percentile £46,625 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,438 £53,469 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £88,211 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £97,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -13.33%

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 13,369 15,861 19,213
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.41% 93.11% 94.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8,464 9,489 15,447
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,957 £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% - -4.00%

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 1 January 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 7 (4.17%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.19%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.19%) Luigi
3 1 (0.60%) Apache
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.19%) Sketch
2 1 (0.60%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 80 (47.62%) Azure
2 58 (34.52%) AWS
3 37 (22.02%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (22.02%) GitHub
4 34 (20.24%) Serverless
5 31 (18.45%) SaaS
6 18 (10.71%) PaaS
7 17 (10.12%) Power Platform
8 14 (8.33%) GCP
8 14 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (7.74%) Azure App Service
9 13 (7.74%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (7.74%) Entra ID
10 12 (7.14%) Power Automate
11 6 (3.57%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (2.98%) IaaS
13 4 (2.38%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (19.64%) SQL Server
2 27 (16.07%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.98%) Power BI
6 4 (2.38%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.38%) Metadata
7 2 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.19%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.19%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.19%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.60%) GIS
8 1 (0.60%) MySQL
8 1 (0.60%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 26 (15.48%) Git
2 21 (12.50%) GitLab
3 18 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 15 (8.93%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.79%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.79%) Storybook
6 2 (1.19%) Android Studio
6 2 (1.19%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.19%) JUnit
6 2 (1.19%) Selenium
7 1 (0.60%) Gradle
7 1 (0.60%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.60%) Xcode
General
1 47 (27.98%) Finance
2 38 (22.62%) Social Skills
3 31 (18.45%) Marketing
4 27 (16.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (9.52%) Games
6 11 (6.55%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (4.76%) Banking
8 8 (4.76%) Retail
9 7 (4.17%) Law
9 7 (4.17%) Legal
9 7 (4.17%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.38%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.19%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.60%) Back Office
12 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (42.86%) Developer
2 42 (25.00%) Lead
3 40 (23.81%) Senior
4 32 (19.05%) Lead Developer
5 28 (16.67%) Architect
6 18 (10.71%) .NET Developer
7 15 (8.93%) Azure Developer
7 15 (8.93%) Senior Developer
8 14 (8.33%) Salesforce Architect
9 13 (7.74%) Consultant
9 13 (7.74%) Lead .NET Developer
10 12 (7.14%) SaaS Developer
10 12 (7.14%) Technical Architect
11 11 (6.55%) C# Developer
11 11 (6.55%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 11 (6.55%) Functional Consultant
11 11 (6.55%) Software Developer
12 10 (5.95%) Lead C# Developer
12 10 (5.95%) Python Developer
12 10 (5.95%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (30.36%) .NET
2 45 (26.79%) React
3 22 (13.10%) REST
4 21 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 21 (12.50%) CSS
4 21 (12.50%) HTML
4 21 (12.50%) RESTful
5 18 (10.71%) ASP.NET Web API
6 16 (9.52%) SOAP
7 15 (8.93%) Lightning Web Components
7 15 (8.93%) Razor View Engine
7 15 (8.93%) Visualforce
8 14 (8.33%) Entity Framework
9 13 (7.74%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 12 (7.14%) Flask
10 12 (7.14%) Spring
11 11 (6.55%) .NET Core
11 11 (6.55%) Spring Boot
12 10 (5.95%) Core Data
12 10 (5.95%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 33 (19.64%) Product Ownership
2 18 (10.71%) Data Structures
3 17 (10.12%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (7.74%) Cloud Native
5 11 (6.55%) Management Information System
6 9 (5.36%) Mobile App
7 7 (4.17%) Blockchain
7 7 (4.17%) Hedge funds
7 7 (4.17%) Web3
8 4 (2.38%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.38%) PKI
9 3 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.79%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.19%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.19%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.12%) Apple iOS
2 14 (8.33%) Android
3 7 (4.17%) Windows
4 1 (0.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (73.81%) Agile
2 83 (49.40%) Mentoring
3 73 (43.45%) DevOps
4 71 (42.26%) CI/CD
5 65 (38.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 52 (30.95%) Microservices
7 51 (30.36%) Architectural Patterns
8 47 (27.98%) Computer Science
9 46 (27.38%) Software Engineering
10 44 (26.19%) Scrum
11 36 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
11 36 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (20.24%) Code Quality
12 34 (20.24%) Continuous Integration
13 33 (19.64%) Technical Leadership
14 32 (19.05%) AI
14 32 (19.05%) Front End Development
15 27 (16.07%) Coaching
16 25 (14.88%) Test Automation
17 24 (14.29%) OO
Programming Languages
1 34 (20.24%) SQL
2 33 (19.64%) JavaScript
3 32 (19.05%) TypeScript
4 31 (18.45%) C#
5 30 (17.86%) Python
6 19 (11.31%) Java
7 15 (8.93%) Apex Code
7 15 (8.93%) SOQL
7 15 (8.93%) SOSL
8 14 (8.33%) Swift
9 11 (6.55%) Kotlin
10 7 (4.17%) Go
10 7 (4.17%) Rust
11 6 (3.57%) Scala
12 3 (1.79%) C++
13 2 (1.19%) Delphi
13 2 (1.19%) Embedded C
13 2 (1.19%) R
13 2 (1.19%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (28.57%) Degree
2 41 (24.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (8.93%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.57%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.98%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (19.05%) QA
2 9 (5.36%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.98%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.98%) GDPR
4 2 (1.19%) WCAG
5 1 (0.60%) IFRS
System Software
1 22 (13.10%) Docker
2 13 (7.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (8.33%) Terraform
2 8 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.19%) Ansible
3 2 (1.19%) Grafana
3 2 (1.19%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.19%) Puppet
4 1 (0.60%) Kibana
Vendors
1 34 (20.24%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.52%) Salesforce
3 15 (8.93%) Splunk
4 7 (4.17%) Syncfusion
4 7 (4.17%) Telerik
5 5 (2.98%) Databricks
5 5 (2.98%) Google
6 2 (1.19%) Adobe
6 2 (1.19%) Oracle
6 2 (1.19%) SendGrid
7 1 (0.60%) Apple