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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 211 166
Rank change year-on-year -54 -45 -8
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 199 253 481
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 1.53% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.65% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 117 168 363
10th Percentile £48,565 £47,500 £44,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £68,750 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% +12.33% -5.84%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,813 £75,625
90th Percentile £102,500 £90,000 £89,760
UK median annual salary £70,000 £71,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% +10.00% -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 18,869 15,328 21,676
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.42% 92.95% 87.55%
Number of salaries quoted 13,610 8,889 15,263
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 19 August 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 (2.01%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 97 (48.74%) AWS
2 56 (28.14%) Azure
3 28 (14.07%) SaaS
4 24 (12.06%) GCP
5 17 (8.54%) GitHub
5 17 (8.54%) Snowflake
6 15 (7.54%) Serverless
7 12 (6.03%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (5.53%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.02%) ChatGPT
10 6 (3.02%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.02%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.01%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.01%) Slack
13 3 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (1.51%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 40 (20.10%) Broadband
2 7 (3.52%) Network Security
3 4 (2.01%) Firewall
4 3 (1.51%) LAN
4 3 (1.51%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.51%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.51%) WAN
4 3 (1.51%) Wireless
5 2 (1.01%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.58%) SQL Server
2 22 (11.06%) Redis
3 10 (5.03%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.52%) MySQL
5 8 (4.02%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.02%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.51%) Stardog
8 3 (1.51%) Triplestore
9 2 (1.01%) Power BI
9 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.50%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.50%) SQLite
10 1 (0.50%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 51 (25.63%) Git
2 32 (16.08%) Jenkins
3 30 (15.08%) GitLab
4 23 (11.56%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.01%) Selenium
6 3 (1.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.51%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.51%) Mercurial
6 3 (1.51%) Postman
6 3 (1.51%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.01%) JUnit
7 2 (1.01%) Maven
7 2 (1.01%) Mockito
7 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.01%) Subversion
7 2 (1.01%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.50%) JIRA
8 1 (0.50%) Mocha
8 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (23.12%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.09%) Finance
3 32 (16.08%) Games
4 26 (13.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (13.07%) Public Sector
5 24 (12.06%) Marketing
6 17 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (8.04%) Banking
8 12 (6.03%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.51%) Legal
10 4 (2.01%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.01%) Local Government
10 4 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.51%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.01%) Automotive
12 2 (1.01%) Back Office
12 2 (1.01%) Military
12 2 (1.01%) Polish Language
12 2 (1.01%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 75 (37.69%) Developer
2 42 (21.11%) Lead
2 42 (21.11%) Senior
3 40 (20.10%) Architect
4 26 (13.07%) Lead Developer
5 25 (12.56%) Software Engineer
6 23 (11.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (10.55%) Salesforce Architect
7 21 (10.55%) Software Developer
8 19 (9.55%) Senior Developer
8 19 (9.55%) Technical Architect
9 18 (9.05%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (8.54%) Lead Software Developer
11 15 (7.54%) Analyst
12 13 (6.53%) Java Developer
13 11 (5.53%) Salesforce Technical Architect
14 10 (5.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (5.03%) Java Engineer
14 10 (5.03%) Principal Developer
14 10 (5.03%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (20.60%) REST
2 36 (18.09%) Node.js
3 26 (13.07%) React
4 24 (12.06%) .NET
4 24 (12.06%) Vue
5 22 (11.06%) Spring Boot
6 21 (10.55%) Lightning Web Components
6 21 (10.55%) SOAP
7 20 (10.05%) Visualforce
8 19 (9.55%) Spring
9 13 (6.53%) AngularJS
10 12 (6.03%) RESTful
11 9 (4.52%) CSS
12 7 (3.52%) Kafka
12 7 (3.52%) OpenAPI
13 6 (3.02%) .NET Core
13 6 (3.02%) Web Services
14 5 (2.51%) Android Jetpack
14 5 (2.51%) jQuery
14 5 (2.51%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (18.59%) Product Ownership
2 24 (12.06%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.54%) AI Agents
4 13 (6.53%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (6.03%) Cyberattack
5 12 (6.03%) Data Structures
6 11 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (5.53%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.52%) Hackathon
7 7 (3.52%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (3.02%) Hedge funds
8 6 (3.02%) Social Media
9 5 (2.51%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.51%) Blockchain
9 5 (2.51%) Client/Server
9 5 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.51%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.01%) Blog
10 4 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.02%) Android
2 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (55.28%) CI/CD
2 92 (46.23%) Agile
3 82 (41.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 75 (37.69%) AI
5 73 (36.68%) DevOps
6 63 (31.66%) Microservices
7 57 (28.64%) Mentoring
8 53 (26.63%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (25.63%) Software Engineering
10 46 (23.12%) Full-Stack Development
11 41 (20.60%) Technical Leadership
12 40 (20.10%) Architectural Patterns
12 40 (20.10%) Scrum
13 38 (19.10%) Computer Science
14 37 (18.59%) Event-Driven
14 37 (18.59%) Test Automation
15 36 (18.09%) Clean Code
16 35 (17.59%) Continuous Delivery
17 33 (16.58%) OO
18 31 (15.58%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 48 (24.12%) JavaScript
2 44 (22.11%) Python
3 43 (21.61%) Java
4 42 (21.11%) TypeScript
5 22 (11.06%) Apex Code
5 22 (11.06%) SOQL
6 21 (10.55%) SOSL
7 20 (10.05%) C#
8 15 (7.54%) SQL
9 8 (4.02%) Kotlin
10 6 (3.02%) Rust
11 4 (2.01%) C++
11 4 (2.01%) Go
11 4 (2.01%) Ruby
12 3 (1.51%) C
12 3 (1.51%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.51%) Scala
12 3 (1.51%) SHACL
12 3 (1.51%) SPARQL
12 3 (1.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (21.61%) Degree
2 30 (15.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (10.05%) Security Cleared
4 14 (7.04%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.52%) DBS Check
6 6 (3.02%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.02%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.51%) CCIE
8 3 (1.51%) CCIE Security
8 3 (1.51%) CCNP
8 3 (1.51%) CCSA
8 3 (1.51%) CCSE
8 3 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.51%) JNCIE
8 3 (1.51%) JNCIP
9 2 (1.01%) CISM
9 2 (1.01%) CISSP
9 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.04%) QA
2 12 (6.03%) GDPR
3 8 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 4 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.51%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.51%) MiFID
6 3 (1.51%) UCITS
7 2 (1.01%) NIST
7 2 (1.01%) WCAG
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (14.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (15.58%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.05%) Terraform
3 7 (3.52%) Ansible
4 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.50%) CASB
5 1 (0.50%) Grafana
5 1 (0.50%) Kibana
5 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (11.56%) Splunk
2 22 (11.06%) Salesforce
3 13 (6.53%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.52%) Google
5 4 (2.01%) Databricks
6 3 (1.51%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.51%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.51%) Cisco
6 3 (1.51%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.51%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.51%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.51%) Oracle
6 3 (1.51%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.51%) Perforce
7 2 (1.01%) Adobe
8 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.50%) Foundry
8 1 (0.50%) IBM
8 1 (0.50%) Workday