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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 191 153
Rank change year-on-year -63 -38 -9
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 152 282 668
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 1.94% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 2.04% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 79 200 604
10th Percentile £48,862 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £54,688 £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 £80,750 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,875 £93,600
UK median annual salary £70,979 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.40% +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 15,280 13,822 29,655
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.76% 95.02% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,821 8,823 23,459
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +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 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%

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 12 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 (2.63%) Ethereum
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (36.84%) AWS
2 43 (28.29%) Azure
3 23 (15.13%) Serverless
4 15 (9.87%) GCP
5 13 (8.55%) GitHub
5 13 (8.55%) SaaS
6 9 (5.92%) Amazon S3
6 9 (5.92%) PaaS
7 8 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.61%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.95%) Vertex AI
10 5 (3.29%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (2.63%) Azure App Service
11 4 (2.63%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (2.63%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.63%) IaaS
11 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 51 (33.55%) Broadband
2 6 (3.95%) Network Security
3 3 (1.97%) Firewall
3 3 (1.97%) LAN
3 3 (1.97%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.97%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (1.97%) WAN
3 3 (1.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 15 (9.87%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.92%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (5.26%) MySQL
5 7 (4.61%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.63%) Redis
7 2 (1.32%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.66%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.66%) GIS
8 1 (0.66%) Metadata
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.66%) Power BI
8 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (26.97%) GitLab
2 35 (23.03%) Jenkins
3 34 (22.37%) SonarQube
4 24 (15.79%) Git
5 3 (1.97%) Android Studio
6 2 (1.32%) Storybook
6 2 (1.32%) Xcode
7 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.66%) XCUITest
General
1 41 (26.97%) Games
2 36 (23.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (22.37%) Marketing
4 22 (14.47%) Social Skills
5 20 (13.16%) Finance
6 19 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (9.21%) Banking
8 11 (7.24%) Investment Banking
9 7 (4.61%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.29%) Legal
11 4 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.97%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.66%) Back Office
13 1 (0.66%) iGaming
13 1 (0.66%) Law
13 1 (0.66%) Military
13 1 (0.66%) Police
Job Titles
1 59 (38.82%) Developer
2 55 (36.18%) Architect
3 34 (22.37%) Salesforce Architect
4 32 (21.05%) Lead
5 30 (19.74%) Technical Architect
6 28 (18.42%) Senior
7 23 (15.13%) Lead Developer
8 18 (11.84%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 11 (7.24%) Java Developer
10 10 (6.58%) Analyst
10 10 (6.58%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (6.58%) Java Engineer
10 10 (6.58%) Principal Developer
10 10 (6.58%) Salesforce Solution Architect
10 10 (6.58%) Senior Developer
10 10 (6.58%) Software Developer
10 10 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (6.58%) Team Leader
11 9 (5.92%) C# Developer
12 8 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (34.21%) REST
2 35 (23.03%) Lightning Web Components
3 34 (22.37%) SOAP
3 34 (22.37%) Visualforce
4 26 (17.11%) React
5 21 (13.82%) .NET
5 21 (13.82%) Spring Boot
6 20 (13.16%) Spring
7 14 (9.21%) AngularJS
8 11 (7.24%) RESTful
9 10 (6.58%) Node.js
9 10 (6.58%) Vue
10 8 (5.26%) CSS
10 8 (5.26%) HTML
11 6 (3.95%) .NET Framework
11 6 (3.95%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (3.95%) Razor View Engine
12 5 (3.29%) ASP.NET
12 5 (3.29%) Middleware
13 4 (2.63%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 60 (39.47%) Product Ownership
2 24 (15.79%) Cloud Native
3 14 (9.21%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (8.55%) Data Structures
5 9 (5.92%) Legacy Applications
6 8 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.95%) AI Agents
7 6 (3.95%) Blockchain
7 6 (3.95%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (3.95%) Cyberattack
7 6 (3.95%) Hedge funds
7 6 (3.95%) Mobile App
7 6 (3.95%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.63%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.63%) Web3
9 3 (1.97%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.97%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.97%) IoT
9 3 (1.97%) PKI
10 2 (1.32%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.26%) Android
2 4 (2.63%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (64.47%) Agile
2 89 (58.55%) CI/CD
3 80 (52.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 72 (47.37%) DevOps
5 50 (32.89%) Event-Driven
6 48 (31.58%) Mentoring
7 47 (30.92%) Continuous Delivery
8 45 (29.61%) Microservices
8 45 (29.61%) Roadmaps
8 45 (29.61%) Scrum
9 43 (28.29%) Continuous Integration
10 41 (26.97%) TOGAF
11 38 (25.00%) OO
12 37 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (24.34%) Technology Roadmap
13 36 (23.68%) Architectural Patterns
13 36 (23.68%) Full-Stack Development
14 35 (23.03%) AI
14 35 (23.03%) Software Engineering
15 34 (22.37%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 36 (23.68%) Apex Code
1 36 (23.68%) SOQL
2 35 (23.03%) SOSL
3 29 (19.08%) Java
4 24 (15.79%) Python
5 22 (14.47%) JavaScript
6 19 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 15 (9.87%) C#
8 13 (8.55%) SQL
9 6 (3.95%) Rust
10 4 (2.63%) Go
10 4 (2.63%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.97%) C
11 3 (1.97%) C++
11 3 (1.97%) Swift
12 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.32%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.32%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.66%) Bicep
13 1 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (18.42%) Degree
2 15 (9.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.58%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.92%) DBS Check
4 9 (5.92%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.29%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.97%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.97%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.97%) CCIE
6 3 (1.97%) CCIE Security
6 3 (1.97%) CCNP
6 3 (1.97%) CCSA
6 3 (1.97%) CCSE
6 3 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.97%) JNCIE
6 3 (1.97%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) PhD
7 1 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.55%) QA
2 8 (5.26%) GDPR
3 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.32%) GRC
3 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.32%) WCAG
4 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (15.79%) Docker
2 4 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (13.82%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.89%) Terraform
3 4 (2.63%) Ansible
4 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.66%) Grafana
5 1 (0.66%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (23.68%) Salesforce
2 34 (22.37%) Splunk
3 12 (7.89%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.61%) Google
5 4 (2.63%) Foundry
6 3 (1.97%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.97%) Cisco
6 3 (1.97%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.97%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.32%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.32%) Oracle
7 2 (1.32%) SendGrid
7 2 (1.32%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.66%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.66%) Apple
8 1 (0.66%) Databricks
8 1 (0.66%) IBM
8 1 (0.66%) Syncfusion
8 1 (0.66%) Telerik