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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 131 141
Rank change year-on-year -87 +10 +5
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 167 404 633
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.04% 2.57% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 2.71% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 120 214 538
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,625 £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 £88,211 £83,750 £83,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,375 £93,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £63,749
% change year-on-year +7.14% +9.81% -15.00%

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 13,892 14,889 25,667
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.42% 94.66% 92.69%
Number of salaries quoted 8,854 8,791 21,222
10th Percentile £30,038 £36,250 £34,784
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,477
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.82% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 10 February 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 (4.19%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.20%) Luigi
3 1 (0.60%) Apache
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.60%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 68 (40.72%) Azure
2 62 (37.13%) AWS
3 36 (21.56%) GitHub
4 35 (20.96%) Serverless
5 33 (19.76%) SaaS
6 24 (14.37%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (10.18%) PaaS
8 15 (8.98%) GCP
9 13 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (7.19%) Azure App Service
10 12 (7.19%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.19%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.59%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.99%) IaaS
14 4 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
15 3 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 2 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
16 2 (1.20%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 29 (17.37%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (18.56%) SQL Server
2 29 (17.37%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.59%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.99%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.99%) Power BI
6 4 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.80%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.80%) Metadata
8 2 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.20%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.20%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.20%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.20%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.60%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 34 (20.36%) GitLab
2 31 (18.56%) Jenkins
3 28 (16.77%) SonarQube
4 25 (14.97%) Git
5 3 (1.80%) Android Studio
5 3 (1.80%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.80%) Storybook
6 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.20%) JUnit
6 2 (1.20%) Selenium
6 2 (1.20%) Xcode
7 1 (0.60%) Gradle
7 1 (0.60%) Jasmine
General
1 40 (23.95%) Finance
2 37 (22.16%) Social Skills
3 33 (19.76%) Marketing
4 29 (17.37%) Games
4 29 (17.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.39%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.79%) Banking
8 7 (4.19%) Legal
9 3 (1.80%) Law
10 1 (0.60%) Back Office
10 1 (0.60%) Police
10 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (44.31%) Developer
2 46 (27.54%) Lead
3 44 (26.35%) Architect
4 33 (19.76%) Lead Developer
5 32 (19.16%) Senior
6 26 (15.57%) Salesforce Architect
7 23 (13.77%) Technical Architect
8 16 (9.58%) .NET Developer
9 15 (8.98%) C# Developer
10 14 (8.38%) Azure Developer
10 14 (8.38%) Salesforce Technical Architect
11 13 (7.78%) Senior Developer
11 13 (7.78%) Software Developer
12 12 (7.19%) Lead .NET Developer
12 12 (7.19%) Lead C# Developer
12 12 (7.19%) SaaS Developer
13 11 (6.59%) Software Engineer
13 11 (6.59%) Technical Leader
14 10 (5.99%) Python Developer
14 10 (5.99%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (30.54%) .NET
2 47 (28.14%) React
3 38 (22.75%) REST
4 29 (17.37%) SOAP
5 28 (16.77%) Lightning Web Components
5 28 (16.77%) Visualforce
6 21 (12.57%) CSS
6 21 (12.57%) HTML
6 21 (12.57%) RESTful
7 20 (11.98%) .NET Framework
8 16 (9.58%) ASP.NET Web API
9 15 (8.98%) Spring
10 14 (8.38%) Razor View Engine
10 14 (8.38%) Spring Boot
11 13 (7.78%) Entity Framework
12 12 (7.19%) ASP.NET Web Forms
12 12 (7.19%) Flask
13 10 (5.99%) .NET Core
14 8 (4.79%) Core Data
14 8 (4.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 48 (28.74%) Product Ownership
2 19 (11.38%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (10.78%) Data Structures
4 13 (7.78%) Cloud Native
5 9 (5.39%) Mobile App
6 7 (4.19%) Blockchain
6 7 (4.19%) Hedge funds
6 7 (4.19%) Web3
7 6 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.40%) PKI
9 3 (1.80%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.80%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.80%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.20%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.20%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.20%) Derivative
10 2 (1.20%) Market Risk
10 2 (1.20%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.19%) Apple iOS
2 11 (6.59%) Android
3 9 (5.39%) Windows
4 1 (0.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (74.25%) Agile
2 86 (51.50%) CI/CD
3 79 (47.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 73 (43.71%) DevOps
5 70 (41.92%) Mentoring
6 54 (32.34%) Microservices
7 48 (28.74%) Software Engineering
8 45 (26.95%) Scrum
9 41 (24.55%) Architectural Patterns
10 38 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (22.16%) Full-Stack Development
11 37 (22.16%) OO
12 36 (21.56%) Continuous Integration
12 36 (21.56%) Event-Driven
13 34 (20.36%) Roadmaps
14 33 (19.76%) Technical Leadership
15 32 (19.16%) Computer Science
15 32 (19.16%) Continuous Delivery
16 31 (18.56%) Front End Development
17 30 (17.96%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 34 (20.36%) JavaScript
1 34 (20.36%) SQL
2 33 (19.76%) C#
3 32 (19.16%) TypeScript
4 31 (18.56%) Python
5 28 (16.77%) Apex Code
5 28 (16.77%) SOQL
5 28 (16.77%) SOSL
6 21 (12.57%) Java
7 10 (5.99%) Swift
8 8 (4.79%) Kotlin
9 7 (4.19%) Go
9 7 (4.19%) Rust
10 5 (2.99%) Scala
11 2 (1.20%) Delphi
11 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.60%) Bicep
12 1 (0.60%) PHP
12 1 (0.60%) R
12 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (19.76%) Degree
2 29 (17.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.78%) Master's Degree
4 7 (4.19%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.59%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.98%) QA
2 7 (4.19%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.40%) GDPR
4 2 (1.20%) GRC
4 2 (1.20%) WCAG
5 1 (0.60%) IFRS
System Software
1 24 (14.37%) Docker
2 12 (7.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (7.78%) Terraform
2 11 (6.59%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.20%) Ansible
3 2 (1.20%) Grafana
3 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.20%) Puppet
4 1 (0.60%) Kibana
Vendors
1 29 (17.37%) Salesforce
2 28 (16.77%) Splunk
3 21 (12.57%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.19%) Syncfusion
4 7 (4.19%) Telerik
5 4 (2.40%) Databricks
5 4 (2.40%) Google
6 2 (1.20%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.20%) Oracle
6 2 (1.20%) SendGrid
6 2 (1.20%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.60%) Apple