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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 199 170
Rank change year-on-year -69 -29 -11
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 194 264 530
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.89% 1.61% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.72% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 106 181 464
10th Percentile £48,363 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,188 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +6.20% -9.32%
75th Percentile £89,875 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%

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 18,035 15,327 24,491
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.95% 93.18% 88.34%
Number of salaries quoted 13,088 9,060 18,139
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,981
25th Percentile £44,972 £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 £77,181
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £96,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 25 July 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 (2.06%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 85 (43.81%) AWS
2 49 (25.26%) Azure
3 24 (12.37%) SaaS
4 19 (9.79%) GCP
5 14 (7.22%) GitHub
5 14 (7.22%) Snowflake
6 11 (5.67%) Serverless
7 10 (5.15%) GitHub Copilot
8 8 (4.12%) Amazon S3
8 8 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.61%) Azure Machine Learning
9 7 (3.61%) ChatGPT
10 6 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (3.09%) Vertex AI
11 4 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.06%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (2.06%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 57 (29.38%) Broadband
2 6 (3.09%) 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 (1.03%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.89%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.28%) Redis
3 11 (5.67%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.12%) MySQL
4 8 (4.12%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.61%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.03%) Power BI
9 2 (1.03%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.03%) Stardog
9 2 (1.03%) Triplestore
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.52%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.52%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 43 (22.16%) Jenkins
2 42 (21.65%) GitLab
3 35 (18.04%) Git
3 35 (18.04%) SonarQube
4 4 (2.06%) Selenium
5 3 (1.55%) Postman
6 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.03%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.52%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.52%) JIRA
7 1 (0.52%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.52%) MLflow
7 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.52%) Subversion
7 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.52%) XCUITest
General
1 47 (24.23%) Games
2 38 (19.59%) Marketing
3 37 (19.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 35 (18.04%) Social Skills
5 29 (14.95%) Finance
6 21 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (7.73%) Banking
7 15 (7.73%) Public Sector
8 12 (6.19%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.55%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.03%) Automotive
11 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.03%) Military
12 1 (0.52%) iGaming
12 1 (0.52%) Legal
12 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 72 (37.11%) Developer
2 51 (26.29%) Architect
3 44 (22.68%) Lead
4 38 (19.59%) Senior
5 34 (17.53%) Salesforce Architect
6 27 (13.92%) Lead Developer
7 26 (13.40%) Technical Architect
8 20 (10.31%) Full-Stack Developer
8 20 (10.31%) Software Developer
9 18 (9.28%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 18 (9.28%) Senior Developer
10 15 (7.73%) Analyst
10 15 (7.73%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (7.22%) Lead Software Developer
12 13 (6.70%) Java Developer
12 13 (6.70%) Software Engineer
13 11 (5.67%) Java Engineer
13 11 (5.67%) Principal Developer
13 11 (5.67%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (5.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (27.84%) REST
2 35 (18.04%) Lightning Web Components
3 34 (17.53%) SOAP
3 34 (17.53%) Visualforce
4 28 (14.43%) Node.js
5 23 (11.86%) Spring Boot
6 22 (11.34%) React
7 20 (10.31%) Spring
7 20 (10.31%) Vue
8 17 (8.76%) .NET
9 14 (7.22%) AngularJS
10 10 (5.15%) RESTful
11 7 (3.61%) Kafka
12 5 (2.58%) Android Jetpack
12 5 (2.58%) ASP.NET
12 5 (2.58%) JPA
12 5 (2.58%) jQuery
12 5 (2.58%) LangChain
12 5 (2.58%) LangGraph
12 5 (2.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 55 (28.35%) Product Ownership
2 26 (13.40%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.73%) AI Agents
4 14 (7.22%) Data Structures
4 14 (7.22%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (6.19%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (6.19%) Cyberattack
6 9 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.64%) Legacy Applications
7 8 (4.12%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.61%) Hackathon
9 6 (3.09%) Blockchain
9 6 (3.09%) Hedge funds
9 6 (3.09%) Mobile App
9 6 (3.09%) Social Media
10 5 (2.58%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.58%) Client/Server
11 4 (2.06%) Data Centre
11 4 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (2.06%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.12%) Android
2 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (59.28%) CI/CD
2 102 (52.58%) Agile
3 89 (45.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 79 (40.72%) DevOps
5 71 (36.60%) AI
6 55 (28.35%) Microservices
7 53 (27.32%) Mentoring
8 49 (25.26%) Event-Driven
9 48 (24.74%) Continuous Delivery
10 46 (23.71%) Scrum
11 45 (23.20%) Roadmaps
12 44 (22.68%) Full-Stack Development
12 44 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (22.68%) Software Engineering
13 43 (22.16%) Continuous Integration
14 42 (21.65%) OO
15 41 (21.13%) TOGAF
16 39 (20.10%) Community of Practice
17 38 (19.59%) Technology Roadmap
18 37 (19.07%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 36 (18.56%) Apex Code
1 36 (18.56%) SOQL
2 35 (18.04%) SOSL
3 34 (17.53%) Java
3 34 (17.53%) JavaScript
3 34 (17.53%) Python
4 30 (15.46%) TypeScript
5 16 (8.25%) C#
6 14 (7.22%) SQL
7 8 (4.12%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.09%) Rust
9 4 (2.06%) C++
9 4 (2.06%) Go
10 3 (1.55%) C
10 3 (1.55%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.55%) Scala
11 2 (1.03%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.03%) SHACL
11 2 (1.03%) SPARQL
11 2 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (20.10%) Degree
2 25 (12.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.19%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.15%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.64%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.58%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.58%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.55%) CCIE
7 3 (1.55%) CCIE Security
7 3 (1.55%) CCNP
7 3 (1.55%) CCSA
7 3 (1.55%) CCSE
7 3 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.55%) JNCIE
7 3 (1.55%) JNCIP
8 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.52%) PhD
9 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.22%) QA
2 12 (6.19%) GDPR
3 5 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.06%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.03%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.03%) GRC
5 2 (1.03%) MiFID
5 2 (1.03%) UCITS
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (14.43%) Docker
2 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (16.49%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.70%) Terraform
3 5 (2.58%) Ansible
4 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.52%) Grafana
5 1 (0.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 37 (19.07%) Splunk
2 36 (18.56%) Salesforce
3 11 (5.67%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.09%) Google
5 5 (2.58%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.06%) Databricks
6 4 (2.06%) Foundry
7 3 (1.55%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.55%) Cisco
7 3 (1.55%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.55%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.55%) Oracle
7 3 (1.55%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.03%) Adobe
8 2 (1.03%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.03%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.52%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.52%) IBM
9 1 (0.52%) Perforce