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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 209 177
Rank change year-on-year -61 -32 -19
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 193 262 473
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 1.59% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.71% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 109 179 401
10th Percentile £48,525 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £65,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% +6.20% -9.32%
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,750 £88,025
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 18,460 15,337 22,190
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.88% 92.94% 87.76%
Number of salaries quoted 13,367 9,043 15,990
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,917 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +1.19% -6.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 4 August 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 (2.07%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 88 (45.60%) AWS
2 54 (27.98%) Azure
3 23 (11.92%) GCP
3 23 (11.92%) SaaS
4 15 (7.77%) GitHub
4 15 (7.77%) Snowflake
5 12 (6.22%) Serverless
6 10 (5.18%) GitHub Copilot
7 8 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.15%) Azure Machine Learning
8 7 (3.63%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.63%) ChatGPT
9 5 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.07%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.07%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (2.07%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 49 (25.39%) Broadband
2 6 (3.11%) Network Security
3 3 (1.55%) Firewall
3 3 (1.55%) LAN
3 3 (1.55%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.55%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (1.55%) WAN
3 3 (1.55%) Wireless
4 2 (1.04%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.99%) SQL Server
2 19 (9.84%) Redis
3 10 (5.18%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.66%) MySQL
5 8 (4.15%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.15%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.55%) Stardog
8 3 (1.55%) Triplestore
9 2 (1.04%) Power BI
9 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.52%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.52%) SQLite
10 1 (0.52%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 45 (23.32%) Git
2 36 (18.65%) Jenkins
3 35 (18.13%) GitLab
4 28 (14.51%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.07%) Selenium
6 3 (1.55%) Postman
7 2 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.04%) Mercurial
7 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.04%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.04%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.52%) JIRA
8 1 (0.52%) JUnit
8 1 (0.52%) Maven
8 1 (0.52%) MLflow
8 1 (0.52%) Mocha
8 1 (0.52%) Mockito
8 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 40 (20.73%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.21%) Games
3 31 (16.06%) Finance
4 30 (15.54%) Marketing
5 29 (15.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (9.84%) Public Sector
7 15 (7.77%) Banking
8 12 (6.22%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.55%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.55%) Military
10 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.04%) Automotive
11 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.04%) Legal
12 1 (0.52%) Back Office
12 1 (0.52%) Local Government
12 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (37.82%) Developer
2 43 (22.28%) Architect
3 41 (21.24%) Lead
3 41 (21.24%) Senior
4 27 (13.99%) Salesforce Architect
5 26 (13.47%) Lead Developer
6 22 (11.40%) Technical Architect
7 21 (10.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (10.88%) Software Developer
8 18 (9.33%) Software Engineer
9 17 (8.81%) Senior Developer
10 16 (8.29%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (7.77%) Analyst
11 15 (7.77%) Lead Software Developer
12 14 (7.25%) Salesforce Technical Architect
13 12 (6.22%) Java Developer
14 11 (5.70%) Principal Developer
14 11 (5.70%) Team Leader
15 10 (5.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 10 (5.18%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (23.83%) REST
2 31 (16.06%) Node.js
3 27 (13.99%) Lightning Web Components
3 27 (13.99%) SOAP
4 26 (13.47%) Visualforce
5 23 (11.92%) React
6 22 (11.40%) Vue
7 21 (10.88%) Spring Boot
8 19 (9.84%) .NET
9 18 (9.33%) Spring
10 15 (7.77%) AngularJS
11 12 (6.22%) RESTful
12 7 (3.63%) Kafka
13 6 (3.11%) Web Services
14 5 (2.59%) Android Jetpack
14 5 (2.59%) ASP.NET
14 5 (2.59%) Jetpack Compose
14 5 (2.59%) jQuery
14 5 (2.59%) LangChain
14 5 (2.59%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 45 (23.32%) Product Ownership
2 26 (13.47%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.29%) AI Agents
4 13 (6.74%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (6.22%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (6.22%) Cyberattack
5 12 (6.22%) Data Structures
6 9 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.66%) Legacy Applications
7 8 (4.15%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.63%) Hackathon
9 6 (3.11%) Blockchain
9 6 (3.11%) Hedge funds
9 6 (3.11%) Mobile App
9 6 (3.11%) Social Media
10 5 (2.59%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.59%) Client/Server
11 4 (2.07%) Data Centre
11 4 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (2.07%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.15%) Android
2 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (57.51%) CI/CD
2 99 (51.30%) Agile
3 83 (43.01%) Continuous Improvement
4 76 (39.38%) DevOps
5 74 (38.34%) AI
6 59 (30.57%) Microservices
7 55 (28.50%) Mentoring
8 48 (24.87%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (23.32%) Software Engineering
10 44 (22.80%) Event-Driven
11 43 (22.28%) Full-Stack Development
12 42 (21.76%) Scrum
13 41 (21.24%) Continuous Delivery
14 38 (19.69%) Roadmaps
15 37 (19.17%) Architectural Patterns
16 36 (18.65%) Clean Code
16 36 (18.65%) OO
16 36 (18.65%) Technical Leadership
17 35 (18.13%) Continuous Integration
18 34 (17.62%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 39 (20.21%) Java
1 39 (20.21%) JavaScript
2 38 (19.69%) Python
3 35 (18.13%) TypeScript
4 28 (14.51%) Apex Code
4 28 (14.51%) SOQL
5 27 (13.99%) SOSL
6 16 (8.29%) C#
7 14 (7.25%) SQL
8 8 (4.15%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.11%) Rust
10 4 (2.07%) C++
10 4 (2.07%) Go
11 3 (1.55%) C
11 3 (1.55%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.55%) Scala
11 3 (1.55%) SHACL
11 3 (1.55%) SPARQL
11 3 (1.55%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 42 (21.76%) Degree
2 26 (13.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (7.25%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.18%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.66%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.59%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.59%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.55%) CCIE
8 3 (1.55%) CCIE Security
8 3 (1.55%) CCNP
8 3 (1.55%) CCSA
8 3 (1.55%) CCSE
8 3 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.55%) JNCIE
8 3 (1.55%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.52%) CISM
9 1 (0.52%) CISSP
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.25%) QA
2 12 (6.22%) GDPR
3 7 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 3 (1.55%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.55%) MiFID
5 3 (1.55%) UCITS
6 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.52%) NIST
7 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (15.03%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (16.06%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.77%) Terraform
3 6 (3.11%) Ansible
4 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.52%) Grafana
5 1 (0.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 29 (15.03%) Splunk
2 28 (14.51%) Salesforce
3 13 (6.74%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.66%) Google
5 4 (2.07%) Databricks
5 4 (2.07%) Foundry
6 3 (1.55%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.55%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.55%) Cisco
6 3 (1.55%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.55%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.55%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.55%) Oracle
6 3 (1.55%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.04%) Adobe
7 2 (1.04%) Perforce
7 2 (1.04%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.52%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) Workday