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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 207 165
Rank change year-on-year -65 -42 -4
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 200 235 474
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.84% 1.45% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.56% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 125 154 281
10th Percentile £49,326 £45,375 £45,930
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £78,250
90th Percentile £114,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,782 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.62% +11.11% -2.86%

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 19,480 15,052 20,418
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.91% 92.98% 87.54%
Number of salaries quoted 14,035 8,660 12,878
10th Percentile £34,750 £29,838 £35,225
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £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 9 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 (2.00%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.50%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 96 (48.00%) AWS
2 57 (28.50%) Azure
3 28 (14.00%) SaaS
4 24 (12.00%) GCP
5 17 (8.50%) Snowflake
6 16 (8.00%) GitHub
7 14 (7.00%) Serverless
8 11 (5.50%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (4.00%) ChatGPT
11 5 (2.50%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.50%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.00%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.00%) Slack
13 3 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 31 (15.50%) Broadband
2 8 (4.00%) Network Security
3 5 (2.50%) Firewall
4 3 (1.50%) LAN
4 3 (1.50%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.50%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.50%) WAN
4 3 (1.50%) Wireless
5 2 (1.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.50%) SQL Server
2 22 (11.00%) Redis
3 9 (4.50%) MySQL
3 9 (4.50%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.50%) Stardog
6 3 (1.50%) Triplestore
7 2 (1.00%) Power BI
7 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.50%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.50%) SQLite
8 1 (0.50%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 51 (25.50%) Git
2 24 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 22 (11.00%) GitLab
4 15 (7.50%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.00%) Selenium
6 3 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.50%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.50%) JUnit
6 3 (1.50%) Maven
6 3 (1.50%) Mercurial
6 3 (1.50%) Mockito
6 3 (1.50%) Postman
6 3 (1.50%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.00%) Subversion
7 2 (1.00%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.50%) JIRA
8 1 (0.50%) Mocha
8 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.50%) Finance
3 30 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 24 (12.00%) Games
5 21 (10.50%) Banking
6 18 (9.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (8.00%) Marketing
9 12 (6.00%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.50%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.50%) Legal
11 4 (2.00%) Local Government
11 4 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.50%) Back Office
12 3 (1.50%) Prime Brokerage
12 3 (1.50%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.00%) Automotive
13 2 (1.00%) Military
13 2 (1.00%) Polish Language
13 2 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 78 (39.00%) Developer
2 45 (22.50%) Senior
3 41 (20.50%) Lead
4 39 (19.50%) Architect
5 25 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 24 (12.00%) Lead Developer
7 23 (11.50%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (11.50%) Senior Developer
8 21 (10.50%) Software Developer
9 18 (9.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (8.50%) Lead Software Developer
11 15 (7.50%) Analyst
11 15 (7.50%) Technical Architect
12 13 (6.50%) Salesforce Architect
13 12 (6.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 12 (6.00%) Java Developer
14 10 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (5.00%) Java Engineer
14 10 (5.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
15 9 (4.50%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (20.50%) Node.js
2 34 (17.00%) REST
3 26 (13.00%) React
4 25 (12.50%) .NET
5 23 (11.50%) Vue
6 22 (11.00%) Spring Boot
7 19 (9.50%) Spring
7 19 (9.50%) Terraform
8 14 (7.00%) CSS
9 13 (6.50%) AngularJS
9 13 (6.50%) Lightning Web Components
9 13 (6.50%) SOAP
10 12 (6.00%) RESTful
10 12 (6.00%) Visualforce
11 9 (4.50%) HTML
12 7 (3.50%) Kafka
12 7 (3.50%) OpenAPI
13 6 (3.00%) .NET Core
13 6 (3.00%) Web Services
14 5 (2.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.50%) Product Ownership
2 21 (10.50%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.50%) AI Agents
4 14 (7.00%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (6.50%) Data Structures
6 12 (6.00%) Cyberattack
6 12 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.50%) Hackathon
9 6 (3.00%) Hedge funds
9 6 (3.00%) Social Media
10 5 (2.50%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.50%) Blockchain
10 5 (2.50%) Client/Server
10 5 (2.50%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (2.00%) Public Cloud
11 4 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (2.00%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.00%) Android
2 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 86 (43.00%) Agile
3 76 (38.00%) AI
3 76 (38.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 63 (31.50%) DevOps
4 63 (31.50%) Microservices
5 62 (31.00%) Mentoring
6 54 (27.00%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 45 (22.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 45 (22.50%) Technical Leadership
9 41 (20.50%) Architectural Patterns
10 39 (19.50%) Computer Science
11 37 (18.50%) Test Automation
12 34 (17.00%) Clean Code
13 33 (16.50%) SOLID
14 32 (16.00%) Scrum
15 28 (14.00%) Coaching
15 28 (14.00%) Decision-Making
15 28 (14.00%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 51 (25.50%) JavaScript
2 46 (23.00%) TypeScript
3 43 (21.50%) Python
4 41 (20.50%) Java
5 21 (10.50%) C#
6 15 (7.50%) SQL
7 14 (7.00%) Apex Code
7 14 (7.00%) SOQL
8 13 (6.50%) SOSL
9 8 (4.00%) Kotlin
10 6 (3.00%) Rust
11 4 (2.00%) C++
11 4 (2.00%) Go
11 4 (2.00%) Ruby
12 3 (1.50%) C
12 3 (1.50%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.50%) Scala
12 3 (1.50%) SHACL
12 3 (1.50%) SPARQL
12 3 (1.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (20.50%) Degree
2 30 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (10.50%) Security Cleared
4 15 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.50%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.50%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.50%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.50%) CCIE
8 3 (1.50%) CCIE Security
8 3 (1.50%) CCNP
8 3 (1.50%) CCSA
8 3 (1.50%) CCSE
8 3 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.50%) CISM
8 3 (1.50%) CISSP
8 3 (1.50%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.50%) JNCIE
8 3 (1.50%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.00%) QA
2 12 (6.00%) GDPR
3 9 (4.50%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.50%) WCAG
5 5 (2.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (1.50%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.50%) MiFID
6 3 (1.50%) NIST
6 3 (1.50%) UCITS
7 2 (1.00%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (14.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.50%) Ansible
3 2 (1.00%) CASB
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.50%) Grafana
4 1 (0.50%) Kibana
4 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (7.50%) Splunk
2 14 (7.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.00%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.00%) Google
4 4 (2.00%) Databricks
5 3 (1.50%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.50%) CheckPoint
5 3 (1.50%) Cisco
5 3 (1.50%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.50%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.50%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.50%) Oracle
5 3 (1.50%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.50%) Perforce
6 2 (1.00%) Adobe
7 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.50%) IBM
7 1 (0.50%) Workday