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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 194 157
Rank change year-on-year -79 -37 -1
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 148 276 667
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 1.86% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.97% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 73 191 595
10th Percentile £49,206 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,169 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,125 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £93,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -13.79%

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 15,885 14,034 29,900
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 94.81% 90.07%
Number of salaries quoted 11,369 8,239 23,472
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,450 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,610 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.15% +4.75% -9.69%

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 May 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 (2.70%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 57 (38.51%) AWS
2 44 (29.73%) Azure
3 16 (10.81%) Serverless
4 15 (10.14%) GCP
5 13 (8.78%) SaaS
6 12 (8.11%) GitHub
7 8 (5.41%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.05%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (4.05%) Vertex AI
10 5 (3.38%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.70%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (2.70%) PaaS
11 4 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 51 (34.46%) Broadband
2 6 (4.05%) Network Security
3 3 (2.03%) Firewall
3 3 (2.03%) LAN
3 3 (2.03%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.03%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (2.03%) WAN
3 3 (2.03%) Wireless
4 2 (1.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.14%) NoSQL
2 13 (8.78%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.08%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.41%) MySQL
5 7 (4.73%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.38%) Redis
7 2 (1.35%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.35%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.68%) Metadata
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.68%) Power BI
8 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (27.70%) GitLab
2 36 (24.32%) Jenkins
3 34 (22.97%) SonarQube
4 23 (15.54%) Git
5 2 (1.35%) Android Studio
5 2 (1.35%) Selenium
5 2 (1.35%) Storybook
5 2 (1.35%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.68%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.68%) Postman
6 1 (0.68%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.68%) Xcode
6 1 (0.68%) XCUITest
General
1 41 (27.70%) Games
2 36 (24.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 36 (24.32%) Marketing
3 23 (15.54%) Social Skills
4 21 (14.19%) Finance
5 18 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (10.14%) Banking
7 12 (8.11%) Investment Banking
8 7 (4.73%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Back Office
12 1 (0.68%) iGaming
12 1 (0.68%) Military
12 1 (0.68%) Police
Job Titles
1 54 (36.49%) Developer
2 51 (34.46%) Architect
3 34 (22.97%) Salesforce Architect
4 32 (21.62%) Lead
5 26 (17.57%) Technical Architect
6 22 (14.86%) Lead Developer
6 22 (14.86%) Senior
7 18 (12.16%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 11 (7.43%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (7.43%) Java Engineer
8 11 (7.43%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (6.76%) Analyst
9 10 (6.76%) Principal Developer
9 10 (6.76%) Salesforce Solution Architect
9 10 (6.76%) Senior Developer
9 10 (6.76%) Team Leader
10 9 (6.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (6.08%) Java Developer
10 9 (6.08%) Software Developer
11 8 (5.41%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (35.81%) REST
2 35 (23.65%) Lightning Web Components
3 34 (22.97%) SOAP
3 34 (22.97%) Visualforce
4 25 (16.89%) React
5 20 (13.51%) Spring Boot
6 19 (12.84%) .NET
6 19 (12.84%) Spring
7 15 (10.14%) AngularJS
8 11 (7.43%) Node.js
8 11 (7.43%) Vue
9 10 (6.76%) RESTful
10 7 (4.73%) CSS
11 6 (4.05%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (4.05%) HTML
12 4 (2.70%) ASP.NET
12 4 (2.70%) LangChain
12 4 (2.70%) LangGraph
12 4 (2.70%) Smart Contracts
12 4 (2.70%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 59 (39.86%) Product Ownership
2 22 (14.86%) Cloud Native
3 14 (9.46%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (8.78%) Data Structures
5 9 (6.08%) Legacy Applications
6 7 (4.73%) AI Agents
6 7 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (4.05%) Blockchain
7 6 (4.05%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (4.05%) Cyberattack
7 6 (4.05%) Hedge funds
7 6 (4.05%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.70%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.70%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.70%) Web3
9 3 (2.03%) Client/Server
9 3 (2.03%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.03%) IoT
9 3 (2.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.05%) Android
2 3 (2.03%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (60.14%) Agile
1 89 (60.14%) CI/CD
2 77 (52.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 73 (49.32%) DevOps
4 50 (33.78%) Event-Driven
5 47 (31.76%) Scrum
6 46 (31.08%) Continuous Delivery
6 46 (31.08%) Roadmaps
7 43 (29.05%) Continuous Integration
7 43 (29.05%) Mentoring
8 42 (28.38%) Microservices
8 42 (28.38%) TOGAF
9 39 (26.35%) Technology Roadmap
10 38 (25.68%) AI
10 38 (25.68%) OO
11 37 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 37 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (24.32%) Software Engineering
13 34 (22.97%) PLM
13 34 (22.97%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 36 (24.32%) Apex Code
1 36 (24.32%) SOQL
2 35 (23.65%) SOSL
3 28 (18.92%) Java
4 21 (14.19%) Python
5 20 (13.51%) TypeScript
6 18 (12.16%) JavaScript
7 16 (10.81%) C#
8 13 (8.78%) SQL
9 6 (4.05%) Rust
10 4 (2.70%) Go
10 4 (2.70%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.03%) C
11 3 (2.03%) C++
12 2 (1.35%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.35%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.35%) Scala
12 2 (1.35%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.35%) Swift
12 2 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (19.59%) Degree
2 16 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (6.08%) DBS Check
3 9 (6.08%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.38%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.38%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.70%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.03%) CCIE
7 3 (2.03%) CCIE Security
7 3 (2.03%) CCNP
7 3 (2.03%) CCSA
7 3 (2.03%) CCSE
7 3 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.03%) JNCIE
7 3 (2.03%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) PhD
8 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.46%) QA
2 7 (4.73%) GDPR
3 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.35%) GRC
3 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.35%) WCAG
4 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (15.54%) Docker
2 5 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (14.19%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.46%) Terraform
3 4 (2.70%) Ansible
4 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.68%) Grafana
5 1 (0.68%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (24.32%) Salesforce
2 35 (23.65%) Splunk
3 14 (9.46%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.05%) Google
5 4 (2.70%) Foundry
6 3 (2.03%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.03%) Cisco
6 3 (2.03%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.03%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.35%) Databricks
7 2 (1.35%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.35%) Oracle
7 2 (1.35%) SendGrid
7 2 (1.35%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.68%) Adobe
8 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.68%) IBM