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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 192 160
Rank change year-on-year -67 -32 -10
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 179 274 668
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 1.73% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.85% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 97 197 578
10th Percentile £48,289 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,925 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £93,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -10.71%

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 16,995 14,837 29,778
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.17% 93.93% 89.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,422 8,708 22,912
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,250
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% -9.09%

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 30 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 (2.23%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 79 (44.13%) AWS
2 47 (26.26%) Azure
3 20 (11.17%) SaaS
4 19 (10.61%) GCP
5 13 (7.26%) Serverless
6 10 (5.59%) GitHub
6 10 (5.59%) Snowflake
7 8 (4.47%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.91%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.35%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (3.35%) Vertex AI
10 4 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.23%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.23%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 57 (31.84%) Broadband
2 6 (3.35%) Network Security
3 3 (1.68%) Firewall
3 3 (1.68%) LAN
3 3 (1.68%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.68%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (1.68%) WAN
3 3 (1.68%) Wireless
4 2 (1.12%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.61%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.70%) NoSQL
2 12 (6.70%) Redis
3 8 (4.47%) MySQL
3 8 (4.47%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.91%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.12%) Power BI
7 2 (1.12%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.56%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.56%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 41 (22.91%) GitLab
2 39 (21.79%) Jenkins
3 34 (18.99%) SonarQube
4 24 (13.41%) Git
5 4 (2.23%) Selenium
6 3 (1.68%) Postman
7 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.12%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.56%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.56%) JIRA
8 1 (0.56%) MLflow
8 1 (0.56%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.56%) Xcode
8 1 (0.56%) XCUITest
General
1 47 (26.26%) Games
2 38 (21.23%) Marketing
3 36 (20.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (17.88%) Social Skills
5 25 (13.97%) Finance
6 23 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (8.38%) Banking
8 13 (7.26%) Public Sector
9 12 (6.70%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.68%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.12%) Automotive
12 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.56%) Back Office
13 1 (0.56%) iGaming
13 1 (0.56%) Legal
13 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.56%) Military
13 1 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 63 (35.20%) Developer
2 53 (29.61%) Architect
3 40 (22.35%) Lead
4 34 (18.99%) Salesforce Architect
5 33 (18.44%) Senior
6 28 (15.64%) Technical Architect
7 25 (13.97%) Lead Developer
8 18 (10.06%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 16 (8.94%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (8.94%) Software Developer
10 15 (8.38%) Analyst
11 13 (7.26%) Senior Developer
12 12 (6.70%) Java Developer
12 12 (6.70%) Software Engineer
13 11 (6.15%) Java Engineer
13 11 (6.15%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (6.15%) Principal Developer
13 11 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (5.59%) Lead Software Developer
14 10 (5.59%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (30.17%) REST
2 35 (19.55%) Lightning Web Components
3 34 (18.99%) SOAP
3 34 (18.99%) Visualforce
4 22 (12.29%) Spring Boot
5 21 (11.73%) React
6 20 (11.17%) Spring
7 19 (10.61%) Node.js
8 17 (9.50%) .NET
9 16 (8.94%) Vue
10 13 (7.26%) AngularJS
11 8 (4.47%) RESTful
12 6 (3.35%) Kafka
13 5 (2.79%) JPA
13 5 (2.79%) jQuery
13 5 (2.79%) LangChain
13 5 (2.79%) LangGraph
14 4 (2.23%) ASP.NET
14 4 (2.23%) Smart Contracts
14 4 (2.23%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 56 (31.28%) Product Ownership
2 24 (13.41%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.94%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (8.38%) AI Agents
5 13 (7.26%) Data Structures
6 12 (6.70%) Cyber Threat
6 12 (6.70%) Cyberattack
7 10 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (5.03%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (4.47%) Public Cloud
10 6 (3.35%) Blockchain
10 6 (3.35%) Hedge funds
10 6 (3.35%) Social Media
11 5 (2.79%) Algorithms
11 5 (2.79%) Client/Server
12 4 (2.23%) Data Centre
12 4 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (2.23%) Hackathon
12 4 (2.23%) Mobile App
12 4 (2.23%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.35%) Android
2 3 (1.68%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (56.98%) CI/CD
2 94 (52.51%) Agile
3 81 (45.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 74 (41.34%) DevOps
5 58 (32.40%) AI
6 52 (29.05%) Mentoring
7 49 (27.37%) Event-Driven
8 47 (26.26%) Microservices
9 46 (25.70%) Roadmaps
10 45 (25.14%) Continuous Delivery
11 44 (24.58%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (24.02%) Scrum
12 43 (24.02%) Software Engineering
13 42 (23.46%) Continuous Integration
13 42 (23.46%) TOGAF
14 40 (22.35%) Full-Stack Development
15 39 (21.79%) Community of Practice
15 39 (21.79%) OO
15 39 (21.79%) Technology Roadmap
16 34 (18.99%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 36 (20.11%) Apex Code
1 36 (20.11%) SOQL
2 35 (19.55%) SOSL
3 30 (16.76%) Java
4 27 (15.08%) Python
5 26 (14.53%) TypeScript
6 23 (12.85%) JavaScript
7 15 (8.38%) C#
7 15 (8.38%) SQL
8 6 (3.35%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.35%) Rust
9 4 (2.23%) Go
10 3 (1.68%) C
10 3 (1.68%) C++
10 3 (1.68%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.68%) Scala
11 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.12%) Swift
11 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (18.99%) Degree
2 20 (11.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (5.59%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.03%) DBS Check
4 9 (5.03%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.79%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.79%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.68%) CCIE
6 3 (1.68%) CCIE Security
6 3 (1.68%) CCNP
6 3 (1.68%) CCSA
6 3 (1.68%) CCSE
6 3 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.68%) JNCIE
6 3 (1.68%) JNCIP
7 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.56%) PhD
8 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.70%) GDPR
2 11 (6.15%) QA
3 2 (1.12%) GRC
3 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (13.97%) Docker
2 3 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (16.20%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.26%) Terraform
3 4 (2.23%) Ansible
4 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.56%) Grafana
5 1 (0.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 37 (20.67%) Splunk
2 36 (20.11%) Salesforce
3 11 (6.15%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.79%) Google
4 5 (2.79%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.23%) Databricks
5 4 (2.23%) Foundry
6 3 (1.68%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.68%) Cisco
6 3 (1.68%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.68%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.68%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.12%) Adobe
7 2 (1.12%) Oracle
7 2 (1.12%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.56%) IBM