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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 200 160
Rank change year-on-year -70 -40 +6
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 201 241 474
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 1.47% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.58% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 136 155 260
10th Percentile £48,565 £46,250 £44,875
25th Percentile £60,313 £57,500 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £81,438
90th Percentile £116,250 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,932 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.42% +11.11% -

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 20,023 15,273 20,150
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.27% 93.38% 87.84%
Number of salaries quoted 14,327 8,588 12,171
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,600 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 24 September 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 (1.99%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.50%) CMS
2 1 (0.50%) Confluence
2 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.50%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.50%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 96 (47.76%) AWS
2 62 (30.85%) Azure
3 32 (15.92%) SaaS
4 23 (11.44%) GCP
5 18 (8.96%) Snowflake
6 16 (7.96%) Serverless
7 13 (6.47%) GitHub
8 10 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.48%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (3.48%) ChatGPT
11 5 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.49%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.49%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (2.49%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.49%) Slack
12 4 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.99%) Azure Databricks
12 4 (1.99%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.99%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.45%) Broadband
2 6 (2.99%) Network Security
3 3 (1.49%) Firewall
4 2 (1.00%) DNS
5 1 (0.50%) Internet
5 1 (0.50%) LAN
5 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.50%) TETRA
5 1 (0.50%) VoIP
5 1 (0.50%) WAN
5 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.42%) SQL Server
2 22 (10.95%) Redis
3 11 (5.47%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.48%) MySQL
5 8 (3.98%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.98%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.49%) Stardog
7 3 (1.49%) Triplestore
8 2 (1.00%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.00%) Power BI
8 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.50%) GIS
9 1 (0.50%) Metadata
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.50%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 49 (24.38%) Git
2 13 (6.47%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.47%) GitLab
4 4 (1.99%) Selenium
5 3 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.49%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.49%) JUnit
5 3 (1.49%) Maven
5 3 (1.49%) Mercurial
5 3 (1.49%) Mockito
5 3 (1.49%) Postman
5 3 (1.49%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.49%) Subversion
5 3 (1.49%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.00%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.00%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.50%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.50%) MLflow
7 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (30.35%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.90%) Finance
3 34 (16.92%) Public Sector
4 23 (11.44%) Banking
5 18 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.97%) Games
6 12 (5.97%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.99%) Legal
7 6 (2.99%) Marketing
8 5 (2.49%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.99%) Local Government
9 4 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.49%) Back Office
10 3 (1.49%) Prime Brokerage
10 3 (1.49%) Retail
11 2 (1.00%) Automotive
11 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 75 (37.31%) Developer
2 46 (22.89%) Senior
3 44 (21.89%) Lead
4 33 (16.42%) Architect
5 28 (13.93%) Software Engineer
6 23 (11.44%) Lead Developer
6 23 (11.44%) Senior Developer
7 22 (10.95%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (10.45%) Software Developer
9 18 (8.96%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (8.46%) Lead Software Developer
11 15 (7.46%) Analyst
12 14 (6.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 12 (5.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 12 (5.97%) Java Developer
14 11 (5.47%) Java Engineer
14 11 (5.47%) Technical Architect
15 10 (4.98%) Senior Front-End Developer
16 9 (4.48%) Team Leader
17 8 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (19.90%) Node.js
2 30 (14.93%) React
3 27 (13.43%) .NET
4 22 (10.95%) REST
4 22 (10.95%) Vue
5 21 (10.45%) Spring
5 21 (10.45%) Spring Boot
6 17 (8.46%) Terraform
7 16 (7.96%) AngularJS
8 14 (6.97%) CSS
9 12 (5.97%) RESTful
10 9 (4.48%) HTML
10 9 (4.48%) Kafka
11 8 (3.98%) .NET Core
12 7 (3.48%) OpenAPI
13 6 (2.99%) Next.js
13 6 (2.99%) Web Services
14 5 (2.49%) FastAPI
14 5 (2.49%) jQuery
15 4 (1.99%) Android Jetpack
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.94%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.46%) AI Agents
3 16 (7.96%) Product Ownership
4 14 (6.97%) Cyber Threat
4 14 (6.97%) Data Structures
5 13 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (5.97%) Cyberattack
7 9 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.48%) Hackathon
9 6 (2.99%) Hedge funds
9 6 (2.99%) Social Media
10 5 (2.49%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.49%) Blockchain
10 5 (2.49%) Client/Server
10 5 (2.49%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.49%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.99%) Blog
11 4 (1.99%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.99%) Android
2 3 (1.49%) Linux
2 3 (1.49%) Unix
2 3 (1.49%) Windows
3 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (46.27%) CI/CD
2 83 (41.29%) AI
3 80 (39.80%) Agile
4 70 (34.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 70 (34.83%) Mentoring
5 66 (32.84%) Microservices
6 58 (28.86%) DevOps
7 56 (27.86%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (26.37%) Software Engineering
9 47 (23.38%) Technical Leadership
10 46 (22.89%) Full-Stack Development
11 43 (21.39%) Computer Science
12 42 (20.90%) Architectural Patterns
13 41 (20.40%) Test Automation
14 34 (16.92%) SOLID
15 33 (16.42%) Clean Code
16 30 (14.93%) Coaching
16 30 (14.93%) Observability
17 28 (13.93%) Decision-Making
18 27 (13.43%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 52 (25.87%) JavaScript
2 47 (23.38%) TypeScript
3 44 (21.89%) Python
4 43 (21.39%) Java
5 26 (12.94%) C#
6 16 (7.96%) SQL
7 7 (3.48%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.99%) Rust
9 5 (2.49%) Ruby
10 4 (1.99%) C++
10 4 (1.99%) Go
11 3 (1.49%) C
11 3 (1.49%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.49%) Scala
11 3 (1.49%) SHACL
11 3 (1.49%) SPARQL
11 3 (1.49%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.00%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.00%) Bicep
12 2 (1.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 42 (20.90%) Degree
2 31 (15.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (10.45%) Security Cleared
4 15 (7.46%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.49%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.49%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.49%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.49%) CISM
6 3 (1.49%) CISSP
6 3 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.50%) CCIE Security
7 1 (0.50%) CCSA
7 1 (0.50%) CCSE
7 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.50%) CRISC
7 1 (0.50%) JNCIE
7 1 (0.50%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.96%) QA
2 13 (6.47%) GDPR
3 12 (5.97%) Accessibility
4 9 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.48%) WCAG
6 5 (2.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (1.49%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.49%) MiFID
7 3 (1.49%) NIST
7 3 (1.49%) UCITS
8 2 (1.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 32 (15.92%) Docker
2 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (16.42%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.49%) Ansible
3 2 (1.00%) CASB
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (7.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.99%) Google
3 5 (2.49%) Databricks
4 4 (1.99%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.49%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.49%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.49%) Perforce
5 3 (1.49%) Splunk
6 2 (1.00%) Adobe
6 2 (1.00%) Oracle
6 2 (1.00%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.50%) Cisco
7 1 (0.50%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.50%) IBM
7 1 (0.50%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.50%) Workday