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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 201 163
Rank change year-on-year -63 -38 -12
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 168 276 671
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 1.77% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.87% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 87 197 582
10th Percentile £49,837 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,925 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £87,675 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £93,250
UK median annual salary £70,782 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.12% +12.00% -13.19%

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 16,791 14,738 29,927
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.17% 94.32% 89.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,235 8,589 23,073
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,625 £75,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 27 June 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 (2.38%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 72 (42.86%) AWS
2 46 (27.38%) Azure
3 20 (11.90%) SaaS
4 19 (11.31%) GCP
5 13 (7.74%) Serverless
6 10 (5.95%) Snowflake
7 9 (5.36%) GitHub
8 8 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 8 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (3.57%) Vertex AI
10 4 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.38%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 57 (33.93%) Broadband
2 6 (3.57%) Network Security
3 3 (1.79%) Firewall
3 3 (1.79%) LAN
3 3 (1.79%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.79%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (1.79%) WAN
3 3 (1.79%) Wireless
4 2 (1.19%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.31%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 12 (7.14%) Redis
3 8 (4.76%) MySQL
3 8 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.19%) Power BI
7 2 (1.19%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.60%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.60%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 41 (24.40%) GitLab
2 38 (22.62%) Jenkins
3 34 (20.24%) SonarQube
4 22 (13.10%) Git
5 4 (2.38%) Selenium
6 3 (1.79%) Postman
7 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.19%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.60%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.60%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.60%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.60%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.60%) Xcode
8 1 (0.60%) XCUITest
General
1 47 (27.98%) Games
2 38 (22.62%) Marketing
3 36 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (17.86%) Social Skills
5 23 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (12.50%) Finance
7 15 (8.93%) Banking
8 12 (7.14%) Investment Banking
9 8 (4.76%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.79%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.60%) Automotive
13 1 (0.60%) Back Office
13 1 (0.60%) iGaming
13 1 (0.60%) Legal
13 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.60%) Military
13 1 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 58 (34.52%) Developer
2 53 (31.55%) Architect
3 40 (23.81%) Lead
4 34 (20.24%) Salesforce Architect
5 30 (17.86%) Senior
6 28 (16.67%) Technical Architect
7 25 (14.88%) Lead Developer
8 18 (10.71%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 16 (9.52%) Software Developer
10 15 (8.93%) Analyst
10 15 (8.93%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (7.14%) Senior Developer
12 11 (6.55%) Java Developer
12 11 (6.55%) Java Engineer
12 11 (6.55%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (6.55%) Software Engineer
12 11 (6.55%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (5.95%) Lead Software Developer
13 10 (5.95%) Principal Developer
13 10 (5.95%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (31.55%) REST
2 35 (20.83%) Lightning Web Components
3 34 (20.24%) SOAP
3 34 (20.24%) Visualforce
4 21 (12.50%) React
4 21 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 20 (11.90%) Spring
6 17 (10.12%) Node.js
7 16 (9.52%) .NET
7 16 (9.52%) Vue
8 12 (7.14%) AngularJS
9 8 (4.76%) RESTful
10 5 (2.98%) JPA
10 5 (2.98%) Kafka
10 5 (2.98%) LangChain
10 5 (2.98%) LangGraph
11 4 (2.38%) ASP.NET
11 4 (2.38%) jQuery
11 4 (2.38%) Smart Contracts
11 4 (2.38%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 56 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 23 (13.69%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.93%) AI Agents
3 15 (8.93%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (7.14%) Cyberattack
4 12 (7.14%) Data Structures
5 9 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.36%) Legacy Applications
6 8 (4.76%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.57%) Blockchain
7 6 (3.57%) Hedge funds
7 6 (3.57%) Social Media
8 5 (2.98%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.38%) Algorithms
9 4 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.38%) Web3
10 3 (1.79%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.79%) IoT
10 3 (1.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.98%) Android
2 3 (1.79%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (55.95%) CI/CD
2 86 (51.19%) Agile
3 78 (46.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 68 (40.48%) DevOps
5 56 (33.33%) AI
6 49 (29.17%) Event-Driven
7 47 (27.98%) Mentoring
8 46 (27.38%) Roadmaps
9 45 (26.79%) Microservices
10 44 (26.19%) Continuous Delivery
11 43 (25.60%) Scrum
12 42 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
12 42 (25.00%) TOGAF
13 39 (23.21%) Software Engineering
13 39 (23.21%) Technology Roadmap
14 38 (22.62%) Full-Stack Development
15 37 (22.02%) OO
15 37 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (20.83%) Community of Practice
17 34 (20.24%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 36 (21.43%) Apex Code
1 36 (21.43%) SOQL
2 35 (20.83%) SOSL
3 29 (17.26%) Java
4 25 (14.88%) Python
4 25 (14.88%) TypeScript
5 23 (13.69%) JavaScript
6 14 (8.33%) C#
6 14 (8.33%) SQL
7 6 (3.57%) Rust
8 5 (2.98%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.38%) Go
10 3 (1.79%) C
10 3 (1.79%) C++
10 3 (1.79%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.79%) Scala
11 2 (1.19%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.19%) Swift
11 2 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (20.24%) Degree
2 20 (11.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.36%) DBS Check
4 8 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.76%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.98%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.98%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.79%) CCIE
6 3 (1.79%) CCIE Security
6 3 (1.79%) CCNP
6 3 (1.79%) CCSA
6 3 (1.79%) CCSE
6 3 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.79%) JNCIE
6 3 (1.79%) JNCIP
7 2 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.60%) PhD
8 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.14%) GDPR
2 11 (6.55%) QA
3 2 (1.19%) GRC
3 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (14.88%) Docker
2 3 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (14.88%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.14%) Terraform
3 4 (2.38%) Ansible
4 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.60%) Grafana
5 1 (0.60%) Kibana
Vendors
1 37 (22.02%) Splunk
2 36 (21.43%) Salesforce
3 11 (6.55%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.98%) Google
5 4 (2.38%) Foundry
5 4 (2.38%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.79%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.79%) Cisco
6 3 (1.79%) Databricks
6 3 (1.79%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.79%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.79%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.19%) Adobe
7 2 (1.19%) Oracle
7 2 (1.19%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.60%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.60%) IBM