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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 194 156
Rank change year-on-year -53 -38 -11
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 150 279 667
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 1.91% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 2.01% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 77 197 601
10th Percentile £48,834 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £55,000 £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 £80,250 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,000 £93,250
UK median annual salary £70,932 £69,263 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.41% +10.82% -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 15,340 13,907 29,523
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 95.05% 91.04%
Number of salaries quoted 10,890 8,636 23,352
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,188 £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% -10.10%

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 15 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 (2.67%) Ethereum
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 55 (36.67%) AWS
2 42 (28.00%) Azure
3 22 (14.67%) Serverless
4 14 (9.33%) GCP
5 13 (8.67%) SaaS
6 12 (8.00%) GitHub
7 9 (6.00%) PaaS
8 8 (5.33%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (4.00%) Vertex AI
11 5 (3.33%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (2.67%) Azure App Service
12 4 (2.67%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (2.67%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.67%) IaaS
12 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (2.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 51 (34.00%) Broadband
2 6 (4.00%) Network Security
3 3 (2.00%) Firewall
3 3 (2.00%) LAN
3 3 (2.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (2.00%) WAN
3 3 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.67%) NoSQL
2 15 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.00%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.33%) MySQL
5 7 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (4.67%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.67%) Redis
7 2 (1.33%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.33%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.67%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.67%) GIS
8 1 (0.67%) Metadata
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (27.33%) GitLab
2 35 (23.33%) Jenkins
3 34 (22.67%) SonarQube
4 24 (16.00%) Git
5 3 (2.00%) Android Studio
6 2 (1.33%) Storybook
6 2 (1.33%) Xcode
7 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.67%) XCUITest
General
1 41 (27.33%) Games
2 36 (24.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (22.67%) Marketing
4 23 (15.33%) Social Skills
5 20 (13.33%) Finance
6 18 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (9.33%) Banking
8 11 (7.33%) Investment Banking
9 7 (4.67%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.67%) Legal
10 4 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.00%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.67%) Back Office
12 1 (0.67%) iGaming
12 1 (0.67%) Military
12 1 (0.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 57 (38.00%) Developer
2 54 (36.00%) Architect
3 34 (22.67%) Salesforce Architect
4 32 (21.33%) Lead
5 30 (20.00%) Technical Architect
6 28 (18.67%) Senior
7 23 (15.33%) Lead Developer
8 18 (12.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 10 (6.67%) Analyst
9 10 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (6.67%) Java Developer
9 10 (6.67%) Java Engineer
9 10 (6.67%) Principal Developer
9 10 (6.67%) Salesforce Solution Architect
9 10 (6.67%) Senior Developer
9 10 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (6.67%) Team Leader
10 9 (6.00%) C# Developer
10 9 (6.00%) Software Developer
11 8 (5.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (35.33%) REST
2 35 (23.33%) Lightning Web Components
3 34 (22.67%) SOAP
3 34 (22.67%) Visualforce
4 27 (18.00%) React
5 21 (14.00%) .NET
6 20 (13.33%) Spring Boot
7 19 (12.67%) Spring
8 14 (9.33%) AngularJS
9 11 (7.33%) RESTful
10 10 (6.67%) Node.js
10 10 (6.67%) Vue
11 8 (5.33%) CSS
11 8 (5.33%) HTML
12 7 (4.67%) ASP.NET Web API
13 6 (4.00%) Razor View Engine
14 5 (3.33%) .NET Framework
14 5 (3.33%) ASP.NET
14 5 (3.33%) Middleware
15 4 (2.67%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 60 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 23 (15.33%) Cloud Native
3 14 (9.33%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (8.67%) Data Structures
5 9 (6.00%) Legacy Applications
6 8 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (4.00%) AI Agents
7 6 (4.00%) Blockchain
7 6 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (4.00%) Cyberattack
7 6 (4.00%) Hedge funds
7 6 (4.00%) Mobile App
7 6 (4.00%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.67%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.67%) Web3
9 3 (2.00%) Client/Server
9 3 (2.00%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.00%) IoT
9 3 (2.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.33%) Android
2 4 (2.67%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (64.67%) Agile
2 88 (58.67%) CI/CD
3 78 (52.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 72 (48.00%) DevOps
5 50 (33.33%) Event-Driven
6 47 (31.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 47 (31.33%) Mentoring
7 46 (30.67%) Microservices
7 46 (30.67%) Scrum
8 44 (29.33%) Roadmaps
9 43 (28.67%) Continuous Integration
10 41 (27.33%) TOGAF
11 38 (25.33%) OO
12 37 (24.67%) Full-Stack Development
12 37 (24.67%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (24.67%) Technology Roadmap
13 36 (24.00%) Architectural Patterns
13 36 (24.00%) Software Engineering
14 34 (22.67%) AI
14 34 (22.67%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 36 (24.00%) Apex Code
1 36 (24.00%) SOQL
2 35 (23.33%) SOSL
3 28 (18.67%) Java
4 23 (15.33%) Python
5 21 (14.00%) JavaScript
6 20 (13.33%) TypeScript
7 16 (10.67%) C#
8 14 (9.33%) SQL
9 6 (4.00%) Rust
10 4 (2.67%) Go
10 4 (2.67%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.00%) C
11 3 (2.00%) C++
11 3 (2.00%) Swift
12 2 (1.33%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.33%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.33%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.67%) Bicep
13 1 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (18.67%) Degree
2 15 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (6.00%) DBS Check
3 9 (6.00%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.33%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.33%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.67%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.67%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.00%) CCIE
7 3 (2.00%) CCIE Security
7 3 (2.00%) CCNP
7 3 (2.00%) CCSA
7 3 (2.00%) CCSE
7 3 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.00%) JNCIE
7 3 (2.00%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.67%) PhD
8 1 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.67%) QA
2 7 (4.67%) GDPR
3 2 (1.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.33%) GRC
3 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.33%) WCAG
4 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (16.00%) Docker
2 4 (2.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (14.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.00%) Terraform
3 4 (2.67%) Ansible
4 2 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.67%) Grafana
5 1 (0.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (24.00%) Salesforce
2 34 (22.67%) Splunk
3 12 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.67%) Google
5 4 (2.67%) Foundry
6 3 (2.00%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.00%) Cisco
6 3 (2.00%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.00%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.33%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.33%) Oracle
7 2 (1.33%) SendGrid
7 2 (1.33%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.67%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.67%) Apple
8 1 (0.67%) Databricks
8 1 (0.67%) IBM