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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 149 151
Rank change year-on-year -106 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 151 304 686
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.85% 2.29% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 2.42% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 86 216 621
10th Percentile £47,250 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,188 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,125 £96,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £68,525 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.80% +9.64% -13.79%

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 14,776 12,587 29,780
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.16% 94.78% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10,325 8,918 23,667
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 19 April 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 5 (3.31%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.66%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (41.06%) AWS
2 50 (33.11%) Azure
3 32 (21.19%) Serverless
4 26 (17.22%) GitHub
5 17 (11.26%) GCP
5 17 (11.26%) SaaS
6 13 (8.61%) PaaS
7 12 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (5.96%) Amazon S3
9 8 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (4.64%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (4.64%) Azure App Service
10 7 (4.64%) Entra ID
11 6 (3.97%) Vertex AI
12 5 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.31%) IaaS
13 4 (2.65%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (2.65%) Copilot Studio
13 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 39 (25.83%) Broadband
2 2 (1.32%) Firewall
2 2 (1.32%) LAN
2 2 (1.32%) Network Security
2 2 (1.32%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.32%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (1.32%) WAN
2 2 (1.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.23%) NoSQL
2 18 (11.92%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.31%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.32%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.32%) MySQL
6 2 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.66%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.66%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.66%) GIS
7 1 (0.66%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.66%) Metadata
7 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 38 (25.17%) Jenkins
2 36 (23.84%) GitLab
3 34 (22.52%) SonarQube
4 27 (17.88%) Git
5 3 (1.99%) Android Studio
5 3 (1.99%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.32%) JUnit
6 2 (1.32%) Selenium
6 2 (1.32%) Storybook
6 2 (1.32%) Xcode
7 1 (0.66%) Gradle
7 1 (0.66%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.66%) XCUITest
General
1 36 (23.84%) Games
1 36 (23.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 34 (22.52%) Marketing
3 31 (20.53%) Social Skills
4 25 (16.56%) Finance
5 16 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (7.95%) Banking
7 10 (6.62%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.64%) Legal
9 6 (3.97%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.99%) Law
12 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.66%) Back Office
13 1 (0.66%) iGaming
13 1 (0.66%) Military
13 1 (0.66%) Police
13 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (43.05%) Developer
2 53 (35.10%) Architect
3 33 (21.85%) Lead
3 33 (21.85%) Salesforce Architect
4 30 (19.87%) Technical Architect
5 26 (17.22%) Lead Developer
6 24 (15.89%) Senior
7 18 (11.92%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 11 (7.28%) C# Developer
8 11 (7.28%) Software Engineer
8 11 (7.28%) Technical Leader
9 10 (6.62%) .NET Developer
9 10 (6.62%) Java Developer
9 10 (6.62%) Salesforce Solution Architect
9 10 (6.62%) Senior Developer
9 10 (6.62%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (5.96%) Azure Developer
10 9 (5.96%) Java Engineer
11 8 (5.30%) Lead C# Developer
11 8 (5.30%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (32.45%) REST
2 36 (23.84%) React
3 34 (22.52%) Lightning Web Components
3 34 (22.52%) SOAP
3 34 (22.52%) Visualforce
4 28 (18.54%) .NET
5 22 (14.57%) Spring
5 22 (14.57%) Spring Boot
6 18 (11.92%) CSS
6 18 (11.92%) HTML
7 17 (11.26%) RESTful
8 12 (7.95%) AngularJS
9 11 (7.28%) Flask
10 10 (6.62%) Vue
11 9 (5.96%) .NET Framework
11 9 (5.96%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (5.96%) Razor View Engine
12 8 (5.30%) Django
13 7 (4.64%) Entity Framework
13 7 (4.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (35.10%) Product Ownership
2 18 (11.92%) Cloud Native
3 17 (11.26%) Data Structures
4 13 (8.61%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (7.95%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (5.30%) Legacy Applications
7 7 (4.64%) Blockchain
7 7 (4.64%) Hedge funds
8 6 (3.97%) Mobile App
8 6 (3.97%) Public Cloud
9 5 (3.31%) Web3
10 4 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (2.65%) PKI
11 3 (1.99%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.99%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.99%) IoT
11 3 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.99%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
12 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.30%) Android
2 4 (2.65%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.65%) Windows
3 1 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (77.48%) Agile
2 87 (57.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 86 (56.95%) CI/CD
4 70 (46.36%) DevOps
5 59 (39.07%) Mentoring
6 49 (32.45%) Event-Driven
6 49 (32.45%) Scrum
7 46 (30.46%) Roadmaps
8 42 (27.81%) Continuous Integration
8 42 (27.81%) OO
9 41 (27.15%) Continuous Delivery
9 41 (27.15%) Microservices
9 41 (27.15%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (27.15%) Software Engineering
10 38 (25.17%) TOGAF
11 37 (24.50%) Technology Roadmap
12 36 (23.84%) Community of Practice
12 36 (23.84%) Full-Stack Development
13 35 (23.18%) Architectural Patterns
14 34 (22.52%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
Programming Languages
1 35 (23.18%) Apex Code
1 35 (23.18%) SOQL
2 34 (22.52%) SOSL
3 31 (20.53%) Java
3 31 (20.53%) Python
4 29 (19.21%) JavaScript
5 22 (14.57%) TypeScript
6 20 (13.25%) SQL
7 18 (11.92%) C#
8 6 (3.97%) Rust
9 5 (3.31%) Go
10 4 (2.65%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.99%) Swift
12 2 (1.32%) Delphi
12 2 (1.32%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.66%) C
13 1 (0.66%) C++
13 1 (0.66%) PHP
13 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (16.56%) Degree
2 16 (10.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.96%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.30%) Master's Degree
4 8 (5.30%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.97%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.99%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.32%) CCIE
7 2 (1.32%) CCIE Security
7 2 (1.32%) CCNP
7 2 (1.32%) CCSA
7 2 (1.32%) CCSE
7 2 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.32%) JNCIE
7 2 (1.32%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.28%) QA
2 6 (3.97%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.65%) GDPR
4 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.32%) GRC
4 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.32%) WCAG
5 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (16.56%) Docker
2 7 (4.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (11.26%) Terraform
2 16 (10.60%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.99%) Ansible
3 3 (1.99%) Grafana
4 2 (1.32%) Kibana
4 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (23.18%) Salesforce
2 34 (22.52%) Splunk
3 17 (11.26%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.64%) Google
5 4 (2.65%) Foundry
5 4 (2.65%) Oracle
6 2 (1.32%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.32%) Cisco
6 2 (1.32%) Databricks
6 2 (1.32%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.32%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.32%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.32%) SendGrid
6 2 (1.32%) Syncfusion
6 2 (1.32%) Telerik
6 2 (1.32%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.66%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.66%) Apple
7 1 (0.66%) IBM