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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 205 179
Rank change year-on-year -71 -26 -21
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 188 265 514
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 1.61% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.73% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 105 182 450
10th Percentile £48,444 £44,125 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +6.20% -9.32%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,625 £90,000
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 18,171 15,314 23,849
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.92% 93.05% 88.12%
Number of salaries quoted 13,195 9,035 17,591
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.66%

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 28 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 (2.13%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 87 (46.28%) AWS
2 50 (26.60%) Azure
3 23 (12.23%) SaaS
4 21 (11.17%) GCP
5 14 (7.45%) GitHub
5 14 (7.45%) Snowflake
6 12 (6.38%) Serverless
7 10 (5.32%) GitHub Copilot
8 9 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.26%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.72%) Azure Machine Learning
10 7 (3.72%) ChatGPT
11 6 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.19%) Vertex AI
12 4 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.13%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 50 (26.60%) Broadband
2 6 (3.19%) Network Security
3 3 (1.60%) Firewall
3 3 (1.60%) LAN
3 3 (1.60%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.60%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (1.60%) WAN
3 3 (1.60%) Wireless
4 2 (1.06%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.30%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.57%) Redis
3 12 (6.38%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.26%) MySQL
4 8 (4.26%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.72%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.06%) Power BI
9 2 (1.06%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.06%) Stardog
9 2 (1.06%) Triplestore
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.53%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.53%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 37 (19.68%) Git
2 36 (19.15%) Jenkins
3 35 (18.62%) GitLab
4 28 (14.89%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.13%) Selenium
6 3 (1.60%) Postman
7 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.06%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.53%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.53%) JIRA
8 1 (0.53%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.53%) MLflow
8 1 (0.53%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.53%) Subversion
8 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.53%) XCUITest
General
1 40 (21.28%) Games
2 36 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 31 (16.49%) Marketing
4 30 (15.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (15.43%) Finance
6 20 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (8.51%) Public Sector
8 15 (7.98%) Banking
9 12 (6.38%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.60%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.06%) Automotive
12 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.06%) Legal
12 2 (1.06%) Military
13 1 (0.53%) iGaming
13 1 (0.53%) Local Government
13 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (37.77%) Developer
2 43 (22.87%) Architect
2 43 (22.87%) Lead
3 40 (21.28%) Senior
4 28 (14.89%) Salesforce Architect
5 26 (13.83%) Lead Developer
6 22 (11.70%) Technical Architect
7 20 (10.64%) Full-Stack Developer
7 20 (10.64%) Software Developer
8 18 (9.57%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.98%) Analyst
9 15 (7.98%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 15 (7.98%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 15 (7.98%) Software Engineer
10 14 (7.45%) Lead Software Developer
11 13 (6.91%) Java Developer
12 11 (5.85%) Java Engineer
12 11 (5.85%) Principal Developer
12 11 (5.85%) Team Leader
13 10 (5.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (25.00%) REST
2 28 (14.89%) Lightning Web Components
2 28 (14.89%) Node.js
3 27 (14.36%) SOAP
3 27 (14.36%) Visualforce
4 23 (12.23%) Spring Boot
5 22 (11.70%) React
6 20 (10.64%) Spring
6 20 (10.64%) Vue
7 17 (9.04%) .NET
8 14 (7.45%) AngularJS
9 11 (5.85%) RESTful
10 7 (3.72%) Kafka
11 5 (2.66%) Android Jetpack
11 5 (2.66%) ASP.NET
11 5 (2.66%) Jetpack Compose
11 5 (2.66%) JPA
11 5 (2.66%) jQuery
11 5 (2.66%) LangChain
11 5 (2.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 47 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 27 (14.36%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.98%) AI Agents
4 14 (7.45%) Data Structures
5 13 (6.91%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (6.38%) Cyber Threat
6 12 (6.38%) Cyberattack
7 9 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (4.79%) Legacy Applications
8 8 (4.26%) Public Cloud
9 7 (3.72%) Hackathon
10 6 (3.19%) Blockchain
10 6 (3.19%) Hedge funds
10 6 (3.19%) Mobile App
10 6 (3.19%) Social Media
11 5 (2.66%) Algorithms
11 5 (2.66%) Client/Server
12 4 (2.13%) Data Centre
12 4 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (2.13%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.26%) Android
2 3 (1.60%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (58.51%) CI/CD
2 95 (50.53%) Agile
3 82 (43.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 73 (38.83%) DevOps
5 72 (38.30%) AI
6 56 (29.79%) Microservices
7 54 (28.72%) Mentoring
8 46 (24.47%) Software Engineering
9 45 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (22.87%) Event-Driven
10 43 (22.87%) Full-Stack Development
11 41 (21.81%) Continuous Delivery
12 40 (21.28%) Scrum
13 38 (20.21%) Roadmaps
14 36 (19.15%) Architectural Patterns
14 36 (19.15%) Continuous Integration
14 36 (19.15%) OO
14 36 (19.15%) Technical Leadership
15 35 (18.62%) Test Automation
16 34 (18.09%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 37 (19.68%) Python
2 36 (19.15%) Java
3 35 (18.62%) JavaScript
4 31 (16.49%) TypeScript
5 29 (15.43%) Apex Code
5 29 (15.43%) SOQL
6 28 (14.89%) SOSL
7 16 (8.51%) C#
8 14 (7.45%) SQL
9 8 (4.26%) Kotlin
10 6 (3.19%) Rust
11 4 (2.13%) C++
11 4 (2.13%) Go
12 3 (1.60%) C
12 3 (1.60%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.60%) Scala
13 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.06%) SHACL
13 2 (1.06%) SPARQL
13 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (20.74%) Degree
2 25 (13.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.91%) Security Cleared
4 11 (5.85%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.79%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.66%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.66%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.60%) CCIE
7 3 (1.60%) CCIE Security
7 3 (1.60%) CCNP
7 3 (1.60%) CCSA
7 3 (1.60%) CCSE
7 3 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.60%) JNCIE
7 3 (1.60%) JNCIP
8 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.53%) PhD
9 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.45%) QA
2 12 (6.38%) GDPR
3 5 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.06%) GRC
5 2 (1.06%) MiFID
5 2 (1.06%) UCITS
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (15.43%) Docker
2 2 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (17.55%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.45%) Terraform
3 5 (2.66%) Ansible
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.53%) Grafana
5 1 (0.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 30 (15.96%) Splunk
2 29 (15.43%) Salesforce
3 11 (5.85%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.72%) Google
5 5 (2.66%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.13%) Databricks
6 4 (2.13%) Foundry
7 3 (1.60%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.60%) Cisco
7 3 (1.60%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.60%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.60%) Oracle
7 3 (1.60%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.06%) Adobe
8 2 (1.06%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.06%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.53%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.53%) IBM
9 1 (0.53%) Perforce