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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 133 138
Rank change year-on-year -62 +5 +17
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 191 481 498
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.25% 2.42% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 2.68% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 146 261 407
10th Percentile £45,909 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,688 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £84,688 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,262
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% +7.69% -13.33%

All Process and 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 13,914 17,939 19,783
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.91% 90.10% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,809 10,816 16,015
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,451
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 November 2025.

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 (3.66%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.05%) Luigi
3 1 (0.52%) Apache
3 1 (0.52%) CMS
3 1 (0.52%) IIS
3 1 (0.52%) Kentico
3 1 (0.52%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.05%) Sketch
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.52%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 96 (50.26%) Azure
2 62 (32.46%) AWS
3 45 (23.56%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (19.37%) GitHub
5 33 (17.28%) SaaS
6 24 (12.57%) Serverless
7 19 (9.95%) Power Platform
8 16 (8.38%) GCP
9 15 (7.85%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (7.33%) Power Automate
11 13 (6.81%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (6.81%) PaaS
12 11 (5.76%) Azure App Service
12 11 (5.76%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (2.62%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (2.62%) SonarCloud
14 4 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (2.09%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.38%) Broadband
2 1 (0.52%) S/MIME
2 1 (0.52%) SSL
2 1 (0.52%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (23.04%) SQL Server
2 22 (11.52%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.28%) MongoDB
4 11 (5.76%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.71%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.62%) Power BI
7 4 (2.09%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.57%) Metadata
8 3 (1.57%) MySQL
8 3 (1.57%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.05%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.05%) Redis
10 1 (0.52%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (0.52%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 39 (20.42%) Git
2 21 (10.99%) GitLab
3 19 (9.95%) Jenkins
4 15 (7.85%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.62%) MSBuild
5 5 (2.62%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.62%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (2.62%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.57%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.05%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.05%) JUnit
7 2 (1.05%) Selenium
8 1 (0.52%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.52%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.52%) fastlane
8 1 (0.52%) Gradle
8 1 (0.52%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.52%) Postman
8 1 (0.52%) Storybook
General
1 51 (26.70%) Finance
2 37 (19.37%) Social Skills
3 33 (17.28%) Marketing
4 30 (15.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (8.38%) Games
5 16 (8.38%) Retail
6 13 (6.81%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (5.24%) Banking
8 8 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (4.19%) Law
9 5 (2.62%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.09%) Front Office
10 4 (2.09%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.57%) Legal
12 2 (1.05%) Back Office
12 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.52%) Publishing
13 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (43.98%) Developer
2 40 (20.94%) Lead
3 38 (19.90%) Senior
4 31 (16.23%) Architect
5 29 (15.18%) Lead Developer
6 28 (14.66%) .NET Developer
7 16 (8.38%) C# Developer
7 16 (8.38%) Senior Developer
8 15 (7.85%) Consultant
8 15 (7.85%) Software Engineer
9 14 (7.33%) Salesforce Architect
10 13 (6.81%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 13 (6.81%) Functional Consultant
10 13 (6.81%) Technical Architect
11 12 (6.28%) Azure Developer
11 12 (6.28%) Software Developer
12 11 (5.76%) Lead .NET Developer
13 10 (5.24%) Python Developer
13 10 (5.24%) SaaS Developer
14 9 (4.71%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (36.13%) .NET
2 42 (21.99%) React
3 36 (18.85%) REST
4 22 (11.52%) .NET Framework
4 22 (11.52%) CSS
4 22 (11.52%) HTML
5 17 (8.90%) ASP.NET Web API
5 17 (8.90%) RESTful
5 17 (8.90%) SOAP
6 15 (7.85%) Lightning Web Components
6 15 (7.85%) Visualforce
7 14 (7.33%) .NET Core
7 14 (7.33%) Entity Framework
8 13 (6.81%) ASP.NET
9 12 (6.28%) Razor View Engine
10 11 (5.76%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 11 (5.76%) Flask
10 11 (5.76%) Kafka
10 11 (5.76%) Web Services
11 10 (5.24%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.85%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.42%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (8.90%) Data Structures
4 16 (8.38%) Cloud Native
5 13 (6.81%) Management Information System
6 12 (6.28%) Mobile App
7 7 (3.66%) Algorithms
7 7 (3.66%) Blockchain
7 7 (3.66%) Hedge funds
7 7 (3.66%) Web3
8 5 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.62%) PKI
9 4 (2.09%) BYOD
9 4 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.57%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (1.05%) Client/Server
11 2 (1.05%) Credit Risk
11 2 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.95%) Apple iOS
2 16 (8.38%) Android
3 11 (5.76%) Windows
4 1 (0.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (64.40%) Agile
2 85 (44.50%) DevOps
3 82 (42.93%) Mentoring
4 73 (38.22%) CI/CD
5 64 (33.51%) Microservices
6 59 (30.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 51 (26.70%) Architectural Patterns
7 51 (26.70%) Software Engineering
8 49 (25.65%) Computer Science
9 45 (23.56%) Scrum
10 42 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (20.94%) Code Quality
12 37 (19.37%) Continuous Integration
13 36 (18.85%) Technical Leadership
14 33 (17.28%) AI
15 31 (16.23%) Full-Stack Development
16 27 (14.14%) OO
17 26 (13.61%) Front End Development
17 26 (13.61%) MVC
17 26 (13.61%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 53 (27.75%) C#
2 48 (25.13%) SQL
3 36 (18.85%) JavaScript
4 32 (16.75%) TypeScript
5 31 (16.23%) Python
6 21 (10.99%) Java
7 16 (8.38%) Swift
8 15 (7.85%) Apex Code
8 15 (7.85%) SOQL
8 15 (7.85%) SOSL
9 12 (6.28%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.66%) Go
10 7 (3.66%) Rust
11 5 (2.62%) Scala
12 4 (2.09%) C++
13 3 (1.57%) Embedded C
14 2 (1.05%) Delphi
14 2 (1.05%) PHP
14 2 (1.05%) R
15 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (26.70%) Degree
2 41 (21.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (7.85%) Master's Degree
4 7 (3.66%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.14%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.05%) PhD
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.52%) CISM
7 1 (0.52%) CISSP
7 1 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.23%) QA
2 10 (5.24%) GDPR
3 7 (3.66%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.09%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.52%) COBIT
5 1 (0.52%) IFRS
5 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (16.23%) Docker
2 12 (6.28%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.57%) Firmware
4 2 (1.05%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.28%) Terraform
3 2 (1.05%) Ansible
3 2 (1.05%) Grafana
3 2 (1.05%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.05%) Puppet
4 1 (0.52%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (0.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 37 (19.37%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.95%) Splunk
3 16 (8.38%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.66%) Syncfusion
4 7 (3.66%) Telerik
5 4 (2.09%) Databricks
5 4 (2.09%) Google
5 4 (2.09%) Trayport
6 2 (1.05%) Adobe
6 2 (1.05%) Oracle
7 1 (0.52%) Apple
7 1 (0.52%) Thales
7 1 (0.52%) Xamarin