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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 213 168
Rank change year-on-year -46 -45 -5
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 205 231 480
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.84% 1.42% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.52% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 133 152 272
10th Percentile £48,565 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,188 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £116,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% -0.37%

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 19,826 15,207 20,601
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.45% 93.22% 87.84%
Number of salaries quoted 14,213 8,631 12,628
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,812 £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 18 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 (1.95%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.49%) CMS
2 1 (0.49%) Confluence
2 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.49%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.49%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 97 (47.32%) AWS
2 62 (30.24%) Azure
3 31 (15.12%) SaaS
4 24 (11.71%) GCP
5 18 (8.78%) Snowflake
6 16 (7.80%) Serverless
7 13 (6.34%) GitHub
8 10 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.39%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (3.41%) ChatGPT
11 5 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.44%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.44%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (2.44%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.44%) OCI
11 5 (2.44%) Slack
12 4 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.95%) Entra ID
13 3 (1.46%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.20%) Broadband
2 7 (3.41%) Network Security
3 4 (1.95%) Firewall
4 2 (0.98%) DNS
4 2 (0.98%) LAN
4 2 (0.98%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (0.98%) WAN
4 2 (0.98%) Wireless
5 1 (0.49%) Internet
5 1 (0.49%) TETRA
5 1 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.63%) SQL Server
2 22 (10.73%) Redis
3 11 (5.37%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.39%) MySQL
5 8 (3.90%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.90%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.46%) Stardog
7 3 (1.46%) Triplestore
8 2 (0.98%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.98%) Power BI
8 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.49%) GIS
9 1 (0.49%) Metadata
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.49%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 49 (23.90%) Git
2 19 (9.27%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.29%) GitLab
4 9 (4.39%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.95%) Selenium
6 3 (1.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.46%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.46%) JUnit
6 3 (1.46%) Maven
6 3 (1.46%) Mercurial
6 3 (1.46%) Mockito
6 3 (1.46%) Postman
6 3 (1.46%) Subversion
6 3 (1.46%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.98%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.98%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.49%) Mocha
8 1 (0.49%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (28.78%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.51%) Finance
3 34 (16.59%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.73%) Banking
5 18 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.78%) Games
6 12 (5.85%) Investment Banking
6 12 (5.85%) Marketing
7 10 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.93%) Legal
9 5 (2.44%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.95%) Local Government
10 4 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.46%) Back Office
11 3 (1.46%) Prime Brokerage
11 3 (1.46%) Retail
12 2 (0.98%) Automotive
12 2 (0.98%) Military
12 2 (0.98%) Polish Language
12 2 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (36.59%) Developer
2 46 (22.44%) Senior
3 43 (20.98%) Lead
4 38 (18.54%) Architect
5 27 (13.17%) Software Engineer
6 23 (11.22%) Lead Developer
6 23 (11.22%) Senior Developer
7 22 (10.73%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (10.24%) Software Developer
9 18 (8.78%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (8.29%) Lead Software Developer
11 15 (7.32%) Analyst
12 14 (6.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 14 (6.83%) Technical Architect
13 12 (5.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 12 (5.85%) Java Developer
14 11 (5.37%) Java Engineer
15 10 (4.88%) Senior Front-End Developer
16 9 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
16 9 (4.39%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (19.51%) Node.js
2 30 (14.63%) React
3 28 (13.66%) REST
4 27 (13.17%) .NET
5 22 (10.73%) Vue
6 21 (10.24%) Spring
6 21 (10.24%) Spring Boot
7 18 (8.78%) Terraform
8 16 (7.80%) AngularJS
9 14 (6.83%) CSS
10 12 (5.85%) RESTful
11 9 (4.39%) HTML
11 9 (4.39%) Kafka
12 8 (3.90%) .NET Core
13 7 (3.41%) Lightning Web Components
13 7 (3.41%) OpenAPI
13 7 (3.41%) SOAP
14 6 (2.93%) Next.js
14 6 (2.93%) Visualforce
14 6 (2.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.71%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.24%) Product Ownership
3 17 (8.29%) AI Agents
4 14 (6.83%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (6.34%) Data Structures
5 13 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (5.85%) Cyberattack
7 9 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.41%) Hackathon
9 6 (2.93%) Hedge funds
9 6 (2.93%) Social Media
10 5 (2.44%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.44%) Blockchain
10 5 (2.44%) Client/Server
10 5 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.95%) Blog
11 4 (1.95%) NHS
11 4 (1.95%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.95%) Android
2 3 (1.46%) Linux
2 3 (1.46%) Unix
2 3 (1.46%) Windows
3 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (47.80%) CI/CD
2 87 (42.44%) Agile
3 81 (39.51%) AI
4 76 (37.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 69 (33.66%) Mentoring
6 66 (32.20%) Microservices
7 64 (31.22%) DevOps
8 56 (27.32%) Problem-Solving
9 52 (25.37%) Software Engineering
10 47 (22.93%) Technical Leadership
11 46 (22.44%) Full-Stack Development
12 42 (20.49%) Architectural Patterns
12 42 (20.49%) Computer Science
13 41 (20.00%) Test Automation
14 34 (16.59%) SOLID
15 33 (16.10%) Clean Code
16 30 (14.63%) Coaching
16 30 (14.63%) Observability
17 28 (13.66%) Decision-Making
18 27 (13.17%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 52 (25.37%) JavaScript
2 47 (22.93%) TypeScript
3 44 (21.46%) Python
4 43 (20.98%) Java
5 26 (12.68%) C#
6 15 (7.32%) SQL
7 8 (3.90%) Apex Code
7 8 (3.90%) SOQL
8 7 (3.41%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.41%) SOSL
9 6 (2.93%) Rust
10 5 (2.44%) Ruby
11 4 (1.95%) C++
11 4 (1.95%) Go
12 3 (1.46%) C
12 3 (1.46%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.46%) Scala
12 3 (1.46%) SHACL
12 3 (1.46%) SPARQL
12 3 (1.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (20.49%) Degree
2 31 (15.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (10.24%) Security Cleared
4 15 (7.32%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.93%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.93%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.44%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.46%) CISM
7 3 (1.46%) CISSP
7 3 (1.46%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.98%) CCIE
8 2 (0.98%) CCIE Security
8 2 (0.98%) CCNP
8 2 (0.98%) CCSA
8 2 (0.98%) CCSE
8 2 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.98%) JNCIE
8 2 (0.98%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.29%) QA
2 13 (6.34%) GDPR
3 12 (5.85%) Accessibility
4 9 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.41%) WCAG
6 5 (2.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (1.46%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.46%) MiFID
7 3 (1.46%) NIST
7 3 (1.46%) UCITS
8 2 (0.98%) NIST 800
System Software
1 32 (15.61%) Docker
2 2 (0.98%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (16.10%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.93%) Ansible
3 2 (0.98%) CASB
3 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (7.80%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.39%) Splunk
3 8 (3.90%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.93%) Google
5 4 (1.95%) Databricks
5 4 (1.95%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.46%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.46%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.46%) Perforce
7 2 (0.98%) Adobe
7 2 (0.98%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.98%) Cisco
7 2 (0.98%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.98%) Oracle
7 2 (0.98%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.49%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.49%) IBM
8 1 (0.49%) Workday