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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 192 161
Rank change year-on-year -76 -31 -12
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 155 278 682
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.79% 1.84% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.94% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 74 194 596
10th Percentile £50,468 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £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 £84,188 £82,500 £82,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £93,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -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 16,157 14,306 30,602
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.04% 94.59% 89.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11,595 8,366 23,757
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £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% -9.69%

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 12 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 (2.58%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 62 (40.00%) AWS
2 42 (27.10%) Azure
3 15 (9.68%) GCP
3 15 (9.68%) SaaS
4 12 (7.74%) Serverless
5 8 (5.16%) Amazon S3
5 8 (5.16%) GitHub
6 7 (4.52%) Snowflake
7 6 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.87%) Azure Machine Learning
7 6 (3.87%) Vertex AI
8 4 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.58%) Copilot Studio
8 4 (2.58%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.94%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 57 (36.77%) Broadband
2 6 (3.87%) Network Security
3 3 (1.94%) Firewall
3 3 (1.94%) LAN
3 3 (1.94%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.94%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (1.94%) WAN
3 3 (1.94%) Wireless
4 2 (1.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.39%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.74%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.16%) MySQL
3 8 (5.16%) Redis
3 8 (5.16%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.52%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.29%) Power BI
6 2 (1.29%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (26.45%) GitLab
2 36 (23.23%) Jenkins
3 34 (21.94%) SonarQube
4 20 (12.90%) Git
5 2 (1.29%) Android Studio
5 2 (1.29%) Selenium
5 2 (1.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (1.29%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.65%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.65%) Postman
6 1 (0.65%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.65%) Storybook
6 1 (0.65%) Xcode
6 1 (0.65%) XCUITest
General
1 47 (30.32%) Games
2 37 (23.87%) Marketing
3 36 (23.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (18.06%) Social Skills
5 24 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (12.90%) Finance
7 15 (9.68%) Banking
8 12 (7.74%) Investment Banking
9 7 (4.52%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.94%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.65%) Back Office
13 1 (0.65%) iGaming
13 1 (0.65%) Legal
13 1 (0.65%) Military
13 1 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 53 (34.19%) Developer
2 51 (32.90%) Architect
3 35 (22.58%) Lead
4 34 (21.94%) Salesforce Architect
5 26 (16.77%) Senior
5 26 (16.77%) Technical Architect
6 23 (14.84%) Lead Developer
7 18 (11.61%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 15 (9.68%) Analyst
9 13 (8.39%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (8.39%) Software Developer
10 11 (7.10%) Java Engineer
10 11 (7.10%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (6.45%) Principal Developer
11 10 (6.45%) Salesforce Solution Architect
11 10 (6.45%) Senior Developer
11 10 (6.45%) Team Leader
12 9 (5.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (5.81%) Java Developer
13 8 (5.16%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (34.19%) REST
2 35 (22.58%) Lightning Web Components
3 34 (21.94%) SOAP
3 34 (21.94%) Visualforce
4 23 (14.84%) React
5 20 (12.90%) Spring Boot
6 19 (12.26%) Spring
7 16 (10.32%) .NET
8 14 (9.03%) AngularJS
8 14 (9.03%) Node.js
9 13 (8.39%) Vue
10 7 (4.52%) RESTful
11 4 (2.58%) ASP.NET
11 4 (2.58%) CSS
11 4 (2.58%) LangChain
11 4 (2.58%) LangGraph
11 4 (2.58%) Smart Contracts
11 4 (2.58%) web3js
12 3 (1.94%) ASP.NET Web API
12 3 (1.94%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 58 (37.42%) Product Ownership
2 23 (14.84%) Cloud Native
3 15 (9.68%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (8.39%) AI Agents
5 12 (7.74%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (7.74%) Cyberattack
6 11 (7.10%) Data Structures
7 9 (5.81%) Legacy Applications
8 8 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (3.87%) Blockchain
9 6 (3.87%) Hedge funds
9 6 (3.87%) Public Cloud
9 6 (3.87%) Social Media
10 4 (2.58%) Algorithms
10 4 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (2.58%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.58%) Web3
11 3 (1.94%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.94%) IoT
11 3 (1.94%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.87%) Android
2 3 (1.94%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (57.42%) CI/CD
2 86 (55.48%) Agile
3 77 (49.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 69 (44.52%) DevOps
5 50 (32.26%) Event-Driven
6 48 (30.97%) AI
7 46 (29.68%) Roadmaps
8 45 (29.03%) Continuous Delivery
9 44 (28.39%) Scrum
10 43 (27.74%) Continuous Integration
10 43 (27.74%) Microservices
11 42 (27.10%) TOGAF
12 41 (26.45%) Mentoring
13 39 (25.16%) Technology Roadmap
14 37 (23.87%) Full-Stack Development
14 37 (23.87%) OO
15 36 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (23.23%) Software Engineering
16 35 (22.58%) Community of Practice
17 34 (21.94%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 36 (23.23%) Apex Code
1 36 (23.23%) SOQL
2 35 (22.58%) SOSL
3 28 (18.06%) Java
4 21 (13.55%) TypeScript
5 20 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 20 (12.90%) Python
6 15 (9.68%) C#
7 11 (7.10%) SQL
8 6 (3.87%) Rust
9 4 (2.58%) Go
9 4 (2.58%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.94%) C
10 3 (1.94%) C++
10 3 (1.94%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.29%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.29%) Swift
11 2 (1.29%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.65%) Scala
12 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (19.35%) Degree
2 16 (10.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.81%) DBS Check
3 9 (5.81%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.16%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.94%) CCIE
6 3 (1.94%) CCIE Security
6 3 (1.94%) CCNP
6 3 (1.94%) CCSA
6 3 (1.94%) CCSE
6 3 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.94%) JNCIE
6 3 (1.94%) JNCIP
7 2 (1.29%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) PhD
8 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.74%) GDPR
2 11 (7.10%) QA
3 2 (1.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.29%) GRC
3 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (14.19%) Docker
2 3 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (14.19%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.74%) Terraform
3 4 (2.58%) Ansible
4 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.65%) Grafana
5 1 (0.65%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (23.23%) Salesforce
2 35 (22.58%) Splunk
3 11 (7.10%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.87%) Google
5 4 (2.58%) Foundry
6 3 (1.94%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.94%) Cisco
6 3 (1.94%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.94%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.29%) Adobe
7 2 (1.29%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.29%) Oracle
7 2 (1.29%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.65%) Databricks
8 1 (0.65%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.65%) IBM
8 1 (0.65%) SendGrid