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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 175 140
Rank change year-on-year -56 -35 +1
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 160 260 721
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.95% 2.03% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 2.13% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 92 218 627
10th Percentile £47,250 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,125 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £63,749
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -1.96% -12.07%
75th Percentile £81,563 £83,438 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,875 £96,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £68,013 £62,500
% change year-on-year +10.27% +8.82% -16.67%

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 14,184 12,193 28,389
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.28% 95.04% 91.81%
Number of salaries quoted 9,612 8,760 23,196
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,784
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £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 £81,250 £75,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 27 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 5 (3.13%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.63%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 61 (38.13%) AWS
2 53 (33.13%) Azure
3 33 (20.63%) Serverless
4 28 (17.50%) GitHub
5 24 (15.00%) SaaS
6 15 (9.38%) GCP
7 14 (8.75%) PaaS
8 12 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (5.63%) Amazon S3
9 9 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (5.00%) Azure App Service
10 8 (5.00%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.38%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.75%) Vertex AI
13 5 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (3.13%) IaaS
14 4 (2.50%) Azure Machine Learning
14 4 (2.50%) Copilot Studio
14 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 46 (28.75%) Broadband
2 2 (1.25%) Firewall
2 2 (1.25%) LAN
2 2 (1.25%) Network Security
2 2 (1.25%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.25%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (1.25%) WAN
2 2 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.63%) NoSQL
2 21 (13.13%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.13%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.25%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.25%) MySQL
6 2 (1.25%) Power BI
6 2 (1.25%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.63%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.63%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.63%) GIS
7 1 (0.63%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.63%) Metadata
7 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.63%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 44 (27.50%) Jenkins
2 43 (26.88%) GitLab
3 41 (25.63%) SonarQube
4 25 (15.63%) 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
7 1 (0.63%) XCUITest
General
1 43 (26.88%) Games
1 43 (26.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 42 (26.25%) Marketing
3 31 (19.38%) Social Skills
4 28 (17.50%) Finance
5 16 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.00%) Banking
8 7 (4.38%) Legal
9 4 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.88%) Law
11 2 (1.25%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.63%) Back Office
12 1 (0.63%) iGaming
12 1 (0.63%) Military
12 1 (0.63%) Police
12 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (41.25%) Developer
2 59 (36.88%) Architect
3 39 (24.38%) Salesforce Architect
4 37 (23.13%) Lead
5 32 (20.00%) Technical Architect
6 28 (17.50%) Lead Developer
7 26 (16.25%) Senior
8 21 (13.13%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 12 (7.50%) .NET Developer
9 12 (7.50%) C# Developer
9 12 (7.50%) Salesforce Solution Architect
9 12 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (6.25%) Azure Developer
10 10 (6.25%) Senior Developer
10 10 (6.25%) Software Engineer
10 10 (6.25%) Technical Leader
11 9 (5.63%) Java Developer
11 9 (5.63%) Lead C# Developer
11 9 (5.63%) Python Developer
12 8 (5.00%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (31.25%) REST
2 41 (25.63%) Lightning Web Components
2 41 (25.63%) SOAP
2 41 (25.63%) Visualforce
3 36 (22.50%) React
4 35 (21.88%) .NET
5 19 (11.88%) CSS
5 19 (11.88%) HTML
6 17 (10.63%) RESTful
7 16 (10.00%) Spring
7 16 (10.00%) Spring Boot
8 12 (7.50%) Flask
9 11 (6.88%) ASP.NET Web API
9 11 (6.88%) Vue
10 10 (6.25%) .NET Framework
10 10 (6.25%) Razor View Engine
11 9 (5.63%) Django
12 8 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
12 8 (5.00%) Entity Framework
13 7 (4.38%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 61 (38.13%) Product Ownership
2 16 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 15 (9.38%) Data Structures
4 14 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (5.00%) Mobile App
7 6 (3.75%) Blockchain
7 6 (3.75%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (3.13%) Hedge funds
8 5 (3.13%) Web3
9 4 (2.50%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.88%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.88%) PKI
10 3 (1.88%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (1.25%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.25%) EPoS
11 2 (1.25%) NHS
11 2 (1.25%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.25%) Android
2 8 (5.00%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.50%) Windows
4 1 (0.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (81.25%) Agile
2 94 (58.75%) CI/CD
3 93 (58.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 75 (46.88%) DevOps
5 61 (38.13%) Mentoring
6 56 (35.00%) Scrum
7 54 (33.75%) Event-Driven
8 53 (33.13%) Roadmaps
9 52 (32.50%) OO
10 49 (30.63%) Continuous Integration
11 48 (30.00%) Continuous Delivery
12 44 (27.50%) Microservices
12 44 (27.50%) TOGAF
13 43 (26.88%) Community of Practice
13 43 (26.88%) Technology Roadmap
14 42 (26.25%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
15 41 (25.63%) PLM
15 41 (25.63%) Software Engineering
15 41 (25.63%) Static Code Analysis
15 41 (25.63%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 41 (25.63%) Apex Code
1 41 (25.63%) SOQL
1 41 (25.63%) SOSL
2 31 (19.38%) JavaScript
2 31 (19.38%) Python
3 24 (15.00%) C#
4 23 (14.38%) Java
4 23 (14.38%) TypeScript
5 20 (12.50%) SQL
6 7 (4.38%) Swift
7 6 (3.75%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.13%) Go
8 5 (3.13%) Rust
9 2 (1.25%) Delphi
9 2 (1.25%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.63%) Bicep
10 1 (0.63%) PHP
10 1 (0.63%) Scala
10 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (13.75%) Degree
2 17 (10.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.63%) Master's Degree
4 7 (4.38%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.75%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.50%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.88%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.88%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.25%) CCIE
8 2 (1.25%) CCIE Security
8 2 (1.25%) CCNP
8 2 (1.25%) CCSA
8 2 (1.25%) CCSE
8 2 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.25%) JNCIE
8 2 (1.25%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.50%) 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%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.63%) IFRS
5 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (15.63%) Docker
2 8 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (10.00%) Terraform
2 14 (8.75%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.88%) Grafana
4 2 (1.25%) Ansible
4 2 (1.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.63%) Kibana
Vendors
1 41 (25.63%) Salesforce
1 41 (25.63%) Splunk
2 17 (10.63%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.38%) Google
4 4 (2.50%) Foundry
5 3 (1.88%) Databricks
5 3 (1.88%) Oracle
6 2 (1.25%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.25%) Cisco
6 2 (1.25%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.25%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.25%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.25%) SendGrid
6 2 (1.25%) Syncfusion
6 2 (1.25%) Telerik
6 2 (1.25%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.63%) Apple