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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 211 159
Rank change year-on-year -63 -52 +8
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 193 233 480
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 1.43% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.54% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 125 153 284
10th Percentile £49,326 £46,250 £44,404
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £78,375
90th Percentile £115,750 £99,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,782 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.62% +11.11% -

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 19,520 15,159 20,523
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.55% 93.09% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 14,031 8,684 12,914
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,867 £35,341
25th Percentile £44,852 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 13 September 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 2 (1.04%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.52%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 94 (48.70%) AWS
2 57 (29.53%) Azure
3 30 (15.54%) SaaS
4 24 (12.44%) GCP
5 17 (8.81%) Snowflake
6 13 (6.74%) GitHub
6 13 (6.74%) Serverless
7 9 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (4.66%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (3.11%) ChatGPT
9 5 (2.59%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (2.59%) Slack
10 4 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.07%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.07%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.07%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.55%) Azure Databricks
11 3 (1.55%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.47%) Broadband
2 8 (4.15%) Network Security
3 5 (2.59%) Firewall
4 3 (1.55%) LAN
4 3 (1.55%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.55%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.55%) WAN
4 3 (1.55%) Wireless
5 2 (1.04%) DNS
6 1 (0.52%) Internet
6 1 (0.52%) TETRA
6 1 (0.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.06%) SQL Server
2 22 (11.40%) Redis
3 9 (4.66%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.15%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.15%) MySQL
4 8 (4.15%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.55%) Stardog
6 3 (1.55%) Triplestore
7 2 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.04%) Power BI
7 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.52%) GIS
8 1 (0.52%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.52%) SQLite
8 1 (0.52%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 48 (24.87%) Git
2 19 (9.84%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.81%) GitLab
4 10 (5.18%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.07%) Selenium
6 3 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.55%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.55%) JUnit
6 3 (1.55%) Maven
6 3 (1.55%) Mercurial
6 3 (1.55%) Mockito
6 3 (1.55%) Postman
6 3 (1.55%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.04%) Subversion
7 2 (1.04%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.52%) JIRA
8 1 (0.52%) Mocha
8 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.69%) Finance
3 31 (16.06%) Public Sector
4 22 (11.40%) Banking
5 19 (9.84%) Games
6 17 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.22%) Investment Banking
8 11 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (5.70%) Marketing
9 5 (2.59%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.59%) Legal
10 4 (2.07%) Local Government
10 4 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.55%) Back Office
11 3 (1.55%) Prime Brokerage
11 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.04%) Automotive
12 2 (1.04%) Military
12 2 (1.04%) Polish Language
12 2 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (38.34%) Developer
2 44 (22.80%) Senior
3 41 (21.24%) Lead
4 35 (18.13%) Architect
5 25 (12.95%) Software Engineer
6 23 (11.92%) Lead Developer
7 22 (11.40%) Full-Stack Developer
7 22 (11.40%) Senior Developer
8 21 (10.88%) Software Developer
9 18 (9.33%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (8.81%) Lead Software Developer
11 15 (7.77%) Analyst
12 13 (6.74%) Technical Architect
13 12 (6.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 12 (6.22%) Java Developer
14 11 (5.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 10 (5.18%) Java Engineer
15 10 (5.18%) Senior Front-End Developer
16 8 (4.15%) Principal Developer
16 8 (4.15%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (20.73%) Node.js
2 29 (15.03%) REST
3 26 (13.47%) React
4 25 (12.95%) .NET
5 22 (11.40%) Spring Boot
5 22 (11.40%) Vue
6 19 (9.84%) Spring
7 17 (8.81%) Terraform
8 14 (7.25%) AngularJS
9 13 (6.74%) CSS
10 11 (5.70%) RESTful
11 8 (4.15%) HTML
11 8 (4.15%) Lightning Web Components
11 8 (4.15%) SOAP
12 7 (3.63%) Kafka
12 7 (3.63%) OpenAPI
12 7 (3.63%) Visualforce
13 6 (3.11%) .NET Core
13 6 (3.11%) Web Services
14 5 (2.59%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.40%) Product Ownership
2 21 (10.88%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.81%) AI Agents
4 14 (7.25%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (6.74%) Data Structures
6 12 (6.22%) Cyberattack
6 12 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (4.66%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.63%) Hackathon
9 6 (3.11%) Hedge funds
9 6 (3.11%) Social Media
10 5 (2.59%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.59%) Blockchain
10 5 (2.59%) Client/Server
10 5 (2.59%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (2.59%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (2.07%) Blog
11 4 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (2.07%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.07%) Android
2 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (48.70%) CI/CD
2 78 (40.41%) Agile
3 76 (39.38%) AI
4 71 (36.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 62 (32.12%) Microservices
6 61 (31.61%) Mentoring
7 58 (30.05%) DevOps
8 54 (27.98%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (25.91%) Software Engineering
10 46 (23.83%) Technical Leadership
11 42 (21.76%) Full-Stack Development
12 40 (20.73%) Architectural Patterns
12 40 (20.73%) Computer Science
13 36 (18.65%) Test Automation
14 33 (17.10%) SOLID
15 32 (16.58%) Clean Code
16 28 (14.51%) Coaching
16 28 (14.51%) Decision-Making
17 27 (13.99%) DevSecOps
17 27 (13.99%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 50 (25.91%) JavaScript
2 46 (23.83%) TypeScript
3 41 (21.24%) Java
3 41 (21.24%) Python
4 22 (11.40%) C#
5 15 (7.77%) SQL
6 9 (4.66%) Apex Code
6 9 (4.66%) SOQL
7 8 (4.15%) SOSL
8 7 (3.63%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.11%) Rust
10 5 (2.59%) Ruby
11 4 (2.07%) C++
11 4 (2.07%) Go
12 3 (1.55%) C
12 3 (1.55%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.55%) Scala
12 3 (1.55%) SHACL
12 3 (1.55%) SPARQL
12 3 (1.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (21.24%) Degree
2 30 (15.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (10.88%) Security Cleared
4 15 (7.77%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.63%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.63%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.59%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.07%) TOGAF Certification
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%) CISM
8 3 (1.55%) CISSP
8 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.55%) JNCIE
8 3 (1.55%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.29%) QA
2 12 (6.22%) GDPR
3 9 (4.66%) Accessibility
4 8 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.63%) WCAG
6 5 (2.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (1.55%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.55%) MiFID
7 3 (1.55%) NIST
7 3 (1.55%) UCITS
8 2 (1.04%) NIST 800
System Software
1 27 (13.99%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (15.54%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.63%) Ansible
3 2 (1.04%) CASB
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (7.77%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.18%) Splunk
3 9 (4.66%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.11%) Google
5 4 (2.07%) Databricks
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
6 3 (1.55%) Perforce
7 2 (1.04%) Adobe
8 1 (0.52%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) Workday