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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 129 143
Rank change year-on-year -96 +14 +2
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 152 424 576
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.97% 2.59% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 2.75% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 120 220 475
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,250
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% +7.69% -13.33%

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 13,570 15,392 23,608
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.75% 94.08% 93.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,620 9,062 19,390
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 January 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 7 (4.61%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.32%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.32%) Luigi
3 1 (0.66%) Apache
3 1 (0.66%) CMS
3 1 (0.66%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.66%) PlantUML
1 1 (0.66%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 68 (44.74%) Azure
2 58 (38.16%) AWS
3 38 (25.00%) GitHub
4 36 (23.68%) Serverless
5 33 (21.71%) SaaS
6 27 (17.76%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (12.50%) PaaS
8 15 (9.87%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (9.21%) Azure App Service
9 14 (9.21%) Entra ID
10 13 (8.55%) GCP
11 7 (4.61%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.95%) Amazon S3
13 5 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (3.29%) IaaS
14 4 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
15 3 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (1.97%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (22.37%) SQL Server
2 28 (18.42%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.95%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.95%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.29%) Power BI
6 3 (1.97%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.97%) Metadata
7 2 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.32%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.32%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.32%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.66%) GIS
8 1 (0.66%) MySQL
8 1 (0.66%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 27 (17.76%) Git
2 21 (13.82%) GitLab
3 18 (11.84%) Jenkins
4 15 (9.87%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.97%) Android Studio
5 3 (1.97%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.97%) Storybook
6 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.32%) JUnit
6 2 (1.32%) Selenium
6 2 (1.32%) Xcode
7 1 (0.66%) Gradle
7 1 (0.66%) Jasmine
General
1 39 (25.66%) Finance
2 38 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 21 (13.82%) Marketing
4 17 (11.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (10.53%) Games
6 11 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.26%) Banking
8 7 (4.61%) Legal
8 7 (4.61%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.63%) Law
10 2 (1.32%) Back Office
11 1 (0.66%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.66%) Police
11 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Retail
11 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (47.37%) Developer
2 45 (29.61%) Lead
3 34 (22.37%) Lead Developer
3 34 (22.37%) Senior
4 29 (19.08%) Architect
5 19 (12.50%) .NET Developer
6 16 (10.53%) Azure Developer
7 15 (9.87%) Technical Architect
8 14 (9.21%) Lead .NET Developer
8 14 (9.21%) Salesforce Architect
9 13 (8.55%) SaaS Developer
9 13 (8.55%) Senior Developer
10 12 (7.89%) C# Developer
11 11 (7.24%) Lead C# Developer
11 11 (7.24%) Software Developer
11 11 (7.24%) Software Engineer
11 11 (7.24%) Technical Leader
12 10 (6.58%) Python Developer
12 10 (6.58%) Technical Developer
13 8 (5.26%) Salesforce Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (33.55%) .NET
2 48 (31.58%) React
3 23 (15.13%) REST
4 22 (14.47%) .NET Framework
4 22 (14.47%) RESTful
5 21 (13.82%) CSS
5 21 (13.82%) HTML
6 19 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
7 16 (10.53%) Razor View Engine
7 16 (10.53%) SOAP
8 15 (9.87%) Entity Framework
8 15 (9.87%) Lightning Web Components
8 15 (9.87%) Visualforce
9 14 (9.21%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 12 (7.89%) Flask
10 12 (7.89%) Spring
11 11 (7.24%) .NET Core
11 11 (7.24%) Spring Boot
12 9 (5.92%) Core Data
12 9 (5.92%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 34 (22.37%) Product Ownership
2 18 (11.84%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (10.53%) Data Structures
4 12 (7.89%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.26%) Mobile App
6 7 (4.61%) Blockchain
6 7 (4.61%) Hedge funds
6 7 (4.61%) Web3
7 4 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.63%) PKI
8 3 (1.97%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.97%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.97%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.32%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.32%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.89%) Apple iOS
2 11 (7.24%) Android
3 7 (4.61%) Windows
4 1 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (73.03%) Agile
2 73 (48.03%) Mentoring
3 72 (47.37%) CI/CD
4 65 (42.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 62 (40.79%) DevOps
6 54 (35.53%) Microservices
7 45 (29.61%) Software Engineering
8 41 (26.97%) Architectural Patterns
9 38 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 38 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (23.03%) Computer Science
10 35 (23.03%) Scrum
11 34 (22.37%) Technical Leadership
12 32 (21.05%) Code Quality
12 32 (21.05%) Front End Development
13 28 (18.42%) Coaching
14 27 (17.76%) AI
15 26 (17.11%) Test Automation
16 24 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
16 24 (15.79%) OO
Programming Languages
1 34 (22.37%) SQL
1 34 (22.37%) TypeScript
2 33 (21.71%) JavaScript
3 31 (20.39%) C#
4 28 (18.42%) Python
5 18 (11.84%) Java
6 15 (9.87%) Apex Code
6 15 (9.87%) SOQL
6 15 (9.87%) SOSL
7 11 (7.24%) Swift
8 9 (5.92%) Kotlin
9 7 (4.61%) Go
9 7 (4.61%) Rust
10 5 (3.29%) Scala
11 2 (1.32%) Delphi
11 2 (1.32%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.66%) C++
12 1 (0.66%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.66%) PHP
12 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (24.34%) Degree
2 32 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (9.87%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.95%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.29%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.13%) QA
2 8 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.63%) GDPR
4 2 (1.32%) WCAG
5 1 (0.66%) IFRS
System Software
1 22 (14.47%) Docker
2 14 (9.21%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.66%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (8.55%) Terraform
2 8 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.32%) Ansible
3 2 (1.32%) Grafana
3 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.32%) Puppet
4 1 (0.66%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.53%) Salesforce
3 15 (9.87%) Splunk
4 7 (4.61%) Syncfusion
4 7 (4.61%) Telerik
5 4 (2.63%) Databricks
5 4 (2.63%) Google
6 2 (1.32%) Oracle
6 2 (1.32%) SendGrid
7 1 (0.66%) Adobe
7 1 (0.66%) Apple