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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 151 151
Rank change year-on-year -93 0 -4
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 155 295 685
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.85% 2.19% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 2.31% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 84 211 616
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £63,749
Median % change year-on-year - +1.96% -8.93%
75th Percentile £80,063 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,750 £88,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £71,000 £68,525 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.61% +9.64% -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 15,007 12,750 29,718
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.73% 94.76% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10,534 8,864 23,587
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,881
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%

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 1 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 6 (3.87%) Ethereum
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 59 (38.06%) AWS
2 52 (33.55%) Azure
3 25 (16.13%) Serverless
4 19 (12.26%) GitHub
5 17 (10.97%) GCP
6 13 (8.39%) SaaS
7 11 (7.10%) PaaS
8 10 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (5.16%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (3.87%) Azure App Service
11 6 (3.87%) Entra ID
11 6 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.87%) Vertex AI
12 5 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (2.58%) Copilot Studio
13 4 (2.58%) IaaS
13 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 49 (31.61%) Broadband
2 4 (2.58%) Network Security
3 2 (1.29%) Firewall
3 2 (1.29%) LAN
3 2 (1.29%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.29%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (1.29%) WAN
3 2 (1.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.90%) NoSQL
2 17 (10.97%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.45%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (4.52%) MySQL
5 5 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.29%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.29%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.29%) Power BI
6 2 (1.29%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.65%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.65%) GIS
7 1 (0.65%) Metadata
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 41 (26.45%) GitLab
2 37 (23.87%) Jenkins
3 34 (21.94%) SonarQube
4 27 (17.42%) Git
5 3 (1.94%) Android Studio
6 2 (1.29%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.29%) JUnit
6 2 (1.29%) Selenium
6 2 (1.29%) Storybook
6 2 (1.29%) Xcode
7 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.65%) XCUITest
General
1 41 (26.45%) Games
2 36 (23.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (21.94%) Marketing
4 25 (16.13%) Social Skills
5 24 (15.48%) Finance
6 21 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (9.03%) Banking
8 10 (6.45%) Investment Banking
9 7 (4.52%) Legal
9 7 (4.52%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.94%) Law
12 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.65%) Back Office
13 1 (0.65%) iGaming
13 1 (0.65%) Military
13 1 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 61 (39.35%) Developer
2 54 (34.84%) Architect
3 33 (21.29%) Salesforce Architect
4 32 (20.65%) Lead
5 30 (19.35%) Technical Architect
6 26 (16.77%) Senior
7 24 (15.48%) Lead Developer
8 18 (11.61%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 11 (7.10%) C# Developer
10 10 (6.45%) Java Developer
10 10 (6.45%) Java Engineer
10 10 (6.45%) Principal Developer
10 10 (6.45%) Salesforce Solution Architect
10 10 (6.45%) Senior Developer
10 10 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (5.81%) .NET Developer
11 9 (5.81%) Team Leader
11 9 (5.81%) Technical Leader
12 8 (5.16%) Analyst
12 8 (5.16%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (32.90%) REST
2 34 (21.94%) Lightning Web Components
2 34 (21.94%) SOAP
2 34 (21.94%) Visualforce
3 31 (20.00%) React
4 27 (17.42%) .NET
5 22 (14.19%) Spring Boot
6 21 (13.55%) Spring
7 14 (9.03%) AngularJS
7 14 (9.03%) RESTful
8 9 (5.81%) .NET Framework
8 9 (5.81%) CSS
8 9 (5.81%) HTML
9 8 (5.16%) ASP.NET Web API
9 8 (5.16%) Razor View Engine
10 7 (4.52%) Vue
11 6 (3.87%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 6 (3.87%) Flask
11 6 (3.87%) Smart Contracts
11 6 (3.87%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 59 (38.06%) Product Ownership
2 23 (14.84%) Cloud Native
3 16 (10.32%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (9.03%) Data Structures
5 11 (7.10%) Legacy Applications
6 10 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (5.16%) Blockchain
7 8 (5.16%) Hedge funds
8 6 (3.87%) AI Agents
8 6 (3.87%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (3.87%) Cyberattack
8 6 (3.87%) Mobile App
8 6 (3.87%) Public Cloud
8 6 (3.87%) Web3
9 4 (2.58%) Algorithms
9 4 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.94%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.94%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.94%) PKI
10 3 (1.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.16%) Android
2 4 (2.58%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (68.39%) Agile
2 88 (56.77%) CI/CD
3 83 (53.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 76 (49.03%) DevOps
5 53 (34.19%) Mentoring
6 50 (32.26%) Event-Driven
7 47 (30.32%) Scrum
8 46 (29.68%) Roadmaps
9 45 (29.03%) Continuous Delivery
9 45 (29.03%) Microservices
10 43 (27.74%) Continuous Integration
11 40 (25.81%) OO
11 40 (25.81%) TOGAF
12 39 (25.16%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (25.16%) Software Engineering
13 37 (23.87%) Architectural Patterns
13 37 (23.87%) Technology Roadmap
14 36 (23.23%) Community of Practice
15 35 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
16 34 (21.94%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
Programming Languages
1 35 (22.58%) Apex Code
1 35 (22.58%) SOQL
2 34 (21.94%) SOSL
3 30 (19.35%) Java
4 26 (16.77%) Python
5 19 (12.26%) JavaScript
5 19 (12.26%) TypeScript
6 18 (11.61%) C#
7 16 (10.32%) SQL
8 8 (5.16%) Rust
9 6 (3.87%) Go
10 4 (2.58%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.94%) C
11 3 (1.94%) C++
11 3 (1.94%) Swift
12 2 (1.29%) Delphi
12 2 (1.29%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.29%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.29%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (18.71%) Degree
2 16 (10.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (7.10%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 9 (5.81%) DBS Check
6 7 (4.52%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.29%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.29%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.29%) CCIE
7 2 (1.29%) CCIE Security
7 2 (1.29%) CCNP
7 2 (1.29%) CCSA
7 2 (1.29%) CCSE
7 2 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.29%) JNCIE
7 2 (1.29%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) PhD
8 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.03%) QA
2 10 (6.45%) GDPR
3 2 (1.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.29%) GRC
3 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.29%) WCAG
4 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (15.48%) Docker
2 6 (3.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.74%) Terraform
3 3 (1.94%) Ansible
3 3 (1.94%) Grafana
4 2 (1.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.65%) Kibana
Vendors
1 35 (22.58%) Salesforce
2 34 (21.94%) Splunk
3 15 (9.68%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.52%) Google
5 4 (2.58%) Foundry
5 4 (2.58%) Oracle
6 2 (1.29%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.29%) Cisco
6 2 (1.29%) Databricks
6 2 (1.29%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.29%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.29%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.29%) SendGrid
6 2 (1.29%) Syncfusion
6 2 (1.29%) Telerik
6 2 (1.29%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.65%) Apple
7 1 (0.65%) IBM