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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 176 141
Rank change year-on-year -59 -35 -3
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 160 294 677
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.96% 2.02% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 2.13% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 105 211 576
10th Percentile £47,250 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,875 £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 £82,500 £83,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £96,250
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 14,332 13,831 26,413
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.55% 95.24% 92.39%
Number of salaries quoted 9,355 8,710 21,901
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £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 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -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 6 March 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 6 (3.75%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.63%) Apache
2 1 (0.63%) CMS
2 1 (0.63%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (37.50%) Azure
2 59 (36.88%) AWS
3 34 (21.25%) Serverless
4 32 (20.00%) GitHub
5 29 (18.13%) SaaS
6 19 (11.88%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (10.00%) PaaS
8 15 (9.38%) GCP
9 11 (6.88%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (6.25%) Azure App Service
10 10 (6.25%) Entra ID
11 8 (5.00%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.38%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (3.75%) Vertex AI
14 5 (3.13%) IaaS
15 4 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (2.50%) Azure Machine Learning
15 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 38 (23.75%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (16.88%) SQL Server
2 26 (16.25%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.25%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.25%) Power BI
5 2 (1.25%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.63%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.63%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.63%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.63%) Metadata
6 1 (0.63%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 39 (24.38%) GitLab
2 36 (22.50%) Jenkins
3 33 (20.63%) SonarQube
4 24 (15.00%) Git
5 3 (1.88%) Android Studio
5 3 (1.88%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.25%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.25%) JUnit
6 2 (1.25%) Selenium
6 2 (1.25%) Storybook
6 2 (1.25%) Xcode
7 1 (0.63%) Gradle
7 1 (0.63%) Jasmine
General
1 36 (22.50%) Marketing
2 35 (21.88%) Games
3 34 (21.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (21.25%) Social Skills
4 33 (20.63%) Finance
5 17 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.38%) Banking
7 7 (4.38%) Legal
8 4 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.88%) Law
10 1 (0.63%) Back Office
10 1 (0.63%) iGaming
10 1 (0.63%) Military
10 1 (0.63%) Police
10 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (42.50%) Developer
2 49 (30.63%) Architect
3 43 (26.88%) Lead
4 31 (19.38%) Lead Developer
4 31 (19.38%) Salesforce Architect
5 30 (18.75%) Senior
6 26 (16.25%) Technical Architect
7 16 (10.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 15 (9.38%) .NET Developer
9 14 (8.75%) C# Developer
10 12 (7.50%) Azure Developer
10 12 (7.50%) Technical Leader
11 11 (6.88%) Senior Developer
11 11 (6.88%) Software Engineer
12 10 (6.25%) Lead .NET Developer
12 10 (6.25%) Lead C# Developer
12 10 (6.25%) Python Developer
12 10 (6.25%) Salesforce Solution Architect
12 10 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (6.25%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (26.25%) .NET
1 42 (26.25%) REST
2 40 (25.00%) React
3 34 (21.25%) SOAP
4 33 (20.63%) Lightning Web Components
4 33 (20.63%) Visualforce
5 21 (13.13%) CSS
5 21 (13.13%) HTML
6 19 (11.88%) RESTful
7 15 (9.38%) .NET Framework
7 15 (9.38%) Spring
7 15 (9.38%) Spring Boot
8 14 (8.75%) ASP.NET Web API
9 12 (7.50%) Flask
9 12 (7.50%) Razor View Engine
10 10 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 10 (6.25%) Entity Framework
11 9 (5.63%) Vue
12 8 (5.00%) .NET Core
12 8 (5.00%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 53 (33.13%) Product Ownership
2 15 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.38%) Data Structures
2 15 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (5.00%) Mobile App
5 7 (4.38%) Blockchain
6 6 (3.75%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.75%) Web3
7 5 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.50%) PKI
8 4 (2.50%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.88%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.88%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.25%) EPoS
10 2 (1.25%) IoT
10 2 (1.25%) NHS
10 2 (1.25%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.63%) Android
2 8 (5.00%) Apple iOS
3 7 (4.38%) Windows
4 1 (0.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (76.88%) Agile
2 90 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 85 (53.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 76 (47.50%) DevOps
5 68 (42.50%) Mentoring
6 49 (30.63%) Microservices
7 48 (30.00%) Scrum
8 43 (26.88%) Event-Driven
8 43 (26.88%) Roadmaps
9 42 (26.25%) Continuous Integration
9 42 (26.25%) OO
9 42 (26.25%) Software Engineering
10 38 (23.75%) Architectural Patterns
10 38 (23.75%) Continuous Delivery
10 38 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (22.50%) Coaching
12 35 (21.88%) Community of Practice
12 35 (21.88%) Technology Roadmap
12 35 (21.88%) TOGAF
13 34 (21.25%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
Programming Languages
1 35 (21.88%) JavaScript
2 33 (20.63%) Apex Code
2 33 (20.63%) SOQL
2 33 (20.63%) SOSL
3 29 (18.13%) Python
4 28 (17.50%) C#
5 27 (16.88%) TypeScript
6 26 (16.25%) SQL
7 23 (14.38%) Java
8 7 (4.38%) Swift
9 6 (3.75%) Go
9 6 (3.75%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.75%) Rust
10 2 (1.25%) Delphi
10 2 (1.25%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.63%) Bicep
11 1 (0.63%) PHP
11 1 (0.63%) R
11 1 (0.63%) Scala
11 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (17.50%) Degree
2 23 (14.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (7.50%) Master's Degree
4 7 (4.38%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.75%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.88%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.25%) QA
2 6 (3.75%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.50%) GDPR
4 2 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.25%) GRC
4 2 (1.25%) WCAG
5 1 (0.63%) IFRS
System Software
1 25 (15.63%) Docker
2 10 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (8.13%) Kubernetes
1 13 (8.13%) Terraform
2 2 (1.25%) Grafana
3 1 (0.63%) Kibana
3 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (20.63%) Salesforce
1 33 (20.63%) Splunk
2 22 (13.75%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.00%) Google
4 5 (3.13%) Syncfusion
4 5 (3.13%) Telerik
5 4 (2.50%) Foundry
6 3 (1.88%) Databricks
7 2 (1.25%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.25%) Oracle
7 2 (1.25%) SendGrid
7 2 (1.25%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.63%) Apple