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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 148 144
Rank change year-on-year -76 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 168 352 636
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.02% 2.27% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 2.39% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 118 216 542
10th Percentile £46,950 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £86,961 £83,750 £83,757
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £96,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £63,749
% change year-on-year +7.14% +9.81% -15.00%

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 14,111 14,711 25,659
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.01% 94.87% 92.73%
Number of salaries quoted 9,178 8,824 21,297
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £34,904
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,000
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 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,675 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 20 February 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 7 (4.17%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.60%) Apache
2 1 (0.60%) CMS
2 1 (0.60%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (41.67%) Azure
2 62 (36.90%) AWS
3 36 (21.43%) GitHub
4 35 (20.83%) Serverless
5 32 (19.05%) SaaS
6 24 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (10.71%) PaaS
8 16 (9.52%) GCP
9 13 (7.74%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (7.14%) Azure App Service
10 12 (7.14%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.17%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.17%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.98%) IaaS
13 5 (2.98%) Vertex AI
14 4 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
15 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 32 (19.05%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (18.45%) SQL Server
2 27 (16.07%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.98%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.98%) Power BI
4 5 (2.98%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.79%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.79%) Metadata
7 2 (1.19%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.19%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.19%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.60%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.60%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 34 (20.24%) GitLab
2 31 (18.45%) Jenkins
3 28 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 25 (14.88%) Git
5 3 (1.79%) Android Studio
5 3 (1.79%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.79%) Storybook
6 2 (1.19%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.19%) JUnit
6 2 (1.19%) Selenium
6 2 (1.19%) Xcode
7 1 (0.60%) Gradle
7 1 (0.60%) Jasmine
General
1 39 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 38 (22.62%) Finance
3 33 (19.64%) Marketing
4 30 (17.86%) Games
5 29 (17.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.36%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.76%) Banking
9 7 (4.17%) Legal
10 3 (1.79%) Law
10 3 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Back Office
11 1 (0.60%) iGaming
11 1 (0.60%) Military
11 1 (0.60%) Police
11 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (44.64%) Developer
2 49 (29.17%) Lead
3 44 (26.19%) Architect
4 35 (20.83%) Lead Developer
5 32 (19.05%) Senior
6 26 (15.48%) Salesforce Architect
7 24 (14.29%) Technical Architect
8 17 (10.12%) .NET Developer
9 15 (8.93%) C# Developer
10 14 (8.33%) Azure Developer
10 14 (8.33%) Salesforce Technical Architect
11 13 (7.74%) Software Developer
12 12 (7.14%) Lead .NET Developer
12 12 (7.14%) SaaS Developer
12 12 (7.14%) Technical Leader
13 11 (6.55%) Lead C# Developer
13 11 (6.55%) Senior Developer
13 11 (6.55%) Software Engineer
14 10 (5.95%) Python Developer
14 10 (5.95%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (29.76%) .NET
2 44 (26.19%) React
3 37 (22.02%) REST
4 29 (17.26%) SOAP
5 28 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
5 28 (16.67%) Visualforce
6 21 (12.50%) CSS
6 21 (12.50%) HTML
6 21 (12.50%) RESTful
7 20 (11.90%) .NET Framework
8 16 (9.52%) ASP.NET Web API
9 15 (8.93%) Spring
10 14 (8.33%) Razor View Engine
10 14 (8.33%) Spring Boot
11 13 (7.74%) Entity Framework
12 12 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web Forms
12 12 (7.14%) Flask
13 9 (5.36%) .NET Core
14 8 (4.76%) AngularJS
14 8 (4.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 49 (29.17%) Product Ownership
2 16 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (8.93%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.93%) Data Structures
4 9 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.36%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.76%) Blockchain
6 7 (4.17%) Hedge funds
6 7 (4.17%) Web3
7 5 (2.98%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.38%) PKI
9 3 (1.79%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.79%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.19%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.19%) Derivative
10 2 (1.19%) IoT
10 2 (1.19%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.55%) Android
1 11 (6.55%) Apple iOS
2 9 (5.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (74.40%) Agile
2 90 (53.57%) CI/CD
3 83 (49.40%) Continuous Improvement
4 77 (45.83%) DevOps
5 76 (45.24%) Mentoring
6 54 (32.14%) Microservices
7 45 (26.79%) Scrum
8 44 (26.19%) Software Engineering
9 42 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
10 41 (24.40%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (22.62%) Event-Driven
12 37 (22.02%) Continuous Integration
12 37 (22.02%) OO
12 37 (22.02%) Roadmaps
13 36 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
14 35 (20.83%) Coaching
14 35 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
15 32 (19.05%) Continuous Delivery
16 30 (17.86%) AI
16 30 (17.86%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 34 (20.24%) JavaScript
2 32 (19.05%) C#
2 32 (19.05%) SQL
3 30 (17.86%) Python
3 30 (17.86%) TypeScript
4 28 (16.67%) Apex Code
4 28 (16.67%) SOQL
4 28 (16.67%) SOSL
5 23 (13.69%) Java
6 9 (5.36%) Swift
7 8 (4.76%) Kotlin
8 7 (4.17%) Go
8 7 (4.17%) Rust
9 3 (1.79%) Scala
10 2 (1.19%) Delphi
10 2 (1.19%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.60%) Bicep
11 1 (0.60%) PHP
11 1 (0.60%) R
11 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (20.24%) Degree
2 28 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 7 (4.17%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.57%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.79%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.90%) QA
2 7 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.38%) GDPR
4 2 (1.19%) GRC
4 2 (1.19%) WCAG
5 1 (0.60%) IFRS
System Software
1 24 (14.29%) Docker
2 12 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (7.74%) Terraform
2 12 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.19%) Grafana
4 1 (0.60%) Kibana
4 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (16.67%) Salesforce
1 28 (16.67%) Splunk
2 23 (13.69%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.17%) Google
3 7 (4.17%) Syncfusion
3 7 (4.17%) Telerik
4 4 (2.38%) Databricks
5 3 (1.79%) Foundry
6 2 (1.19%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.19%) Oracle
6 2 (1.19%) SendGrid
6 2 (1.19%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.60%) Apple