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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 137 147
Rank change year-on-year -55 +10 +7
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 200 461 499
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.31% 2.35% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 2.64% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 151 241 407
10th Percentile £45,909 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% -9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,262
UK median annual salary £76,250 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.93% +7.69% -13.33%

All Process and 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 13,995 17,460 20,232
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.51% 88.87% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 8,795 10,393 16,353
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £99,380 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 20 November 2025.

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 (3.50%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.00%) Luigi
3 1 (0.50%) Apache
3 1 (0.50%) CMS
3 1 (0.50%) IIS
3 1 (0.50%) Kentico
3 1 (0.50%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.00%) Sketch
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 98 (49.00%) Azure
2 61 (30.50%) AWS
3 47 (23.50%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (19.50%) GitHub
5 33 (16.50%) SaaS
6 24 (12.00%) Serverless
7 19 (9.50%) Power Platform
8 15 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (7.50%) GCP
9 14 (7.00%) Power Automate
10 13 (6.50%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (6.50%) PaaS
11 11 (5.50%) Azure App Service
11 11 (5.50%) Entra ID
12 6 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (3.00%) Figma
12 6 (3.00%) SonarCloud
13 4 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.00%) Broadband
2 2 (1.00%) S/MIME
2 2 (1.00%) SSL
2 2 (1.00%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (22.50%) SQL Server
2 22 (11.00%) NoSQL
3 14 (7.00%) MongoDB
4 12 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 8 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.50%) Power BI
8 4 (2.00%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.00%) Metadata
8 4 (2.00%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.50%) MySQL
10 2 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.00%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.00%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.00%) Redis
11 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.50%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 42 (21.00%) Git
2 21 (10.50%) GitLab
3 19 (9.50%) Jenkins
4 15 (7.50%) SonarQube
5 6 (3.00%) MSBuild
5 6 (3.00%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (3.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (3.00%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.50%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.00%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.00%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.00%) JUnit
7 2 (1.00%) Selenium
8 1 (0.50%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.50%) fastlane
8 1 (0.50%) Gradle
8 1 (0.50%) JIRA
8 1 (0.50%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.50%) NUnit
8 1 (0.50%) Postman
General
1 52 (26.00%) Finance
2 39 (19.50%) Social Skills
3 33 (16.50%) Marketing
4 32 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (8.50%) Retail
6 16 (8.00%) Games
7 15 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (5.00%) Banking
9 8 (4.00%) Law
10 7 (3.50%) Front Office
10 7 (3.50%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.00%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.50%) Legal
13 2 (1.00%) Back Office
13 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.50%) Publishing
14 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (43.50%) Developer
2 42 (21.00%) Lead
3 36 (18.00%) Senior
4 35 (17.50%) Architect
5 32 (16.00%) .NET Developer
6 28 (14.00%) Lead Developer
7 18 (9.00%) C# Developer
8 15 (7.50%) Consultant
8 15 (7.50%) Senior Developer
8 15 (7.50%) Software Engineer
9 14 (7.00%) Salesforce Architect
9 14 (7.00%) Technical Architect
10 13 (6.50%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 13 (6.50%) Functional Consultant
11 12 (6.00%) Software Developer
12 11 (5.50%) Azure Developer
12 11 (5.50%) Lead .NET Developer
13 10 (5.00%) Python Developer
13 10 (5.00%) SaaS Developer
13 10 (5.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (36.50%) .NET
2 39 (19.50%) React
3 38 (19.00%) REST
4 23 (11.50%) CSS
4 23 (11.50%) HTML
5 22 (11.00%) .NET Framework
6 17 (8.50%) SOAP
7 16 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web API
7 16 (8.00%) RESTful
8 15 (7.50%) Lightning Web Components
8 15 (7.50%) Visualforce
9 14 (7.00%) ASP.NET
9 14 (7.00%) Entity Framework
10 13 (6.50%) .NET Core
10 13 (6.50%) Kafka
11 12 (6.00%) JSON
11 12 (6.00%) Web Services
11 12 (6.00%) XML
12 11 (5.50%) Flask
12 11 (5.50%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 39 (19.50%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.00%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (8.50%) Data Structures
4 16 (8.00%) Cloud Native
5 13 (6.50%) Management Information System
6 12 (6.00%) Mobile App
7 8 (4.00%) Algorithms
7 8 (4.00%) Hedge funds
8 7 (3.50%) Blockchain
8 7 (3.50%) Web3
9 6 (3.00%) BYOD
9 6 (3.00%) PKI
9 6 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.50%) e-Learning
12 3 (1.50%) Video Conferencing
13 2 (1.00%) Derivative
13 2 (1.00%) iPad
13 2 (1.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 16 (8.00%) Android
3 12 (6.00%) Windows
4 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (62.50%) Agile
2 89 (44.50%) DevOps
3 82 (41.00%) Mentoring
4 72 (36.00%) CI/CD
5 67 (33.50%) Microservices
6 58 (29.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 51 (25.50%) Computer Science
8 50 (25.00%) Software Engineering
9 49 (24.50%) Architectural Patterns
10 45 (22.50%) Scrum
11 44 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (21.00%) Code Quality
13 37 (18.50%) Continuous Integration
13 37 (18.50%) Technical Leadership
14 32 (16.00%) AI
15 29 (14.50%) Full-Stack Development
15 29 (14.50%) OO
16 28 (14.00%) Roadmaps
17 27 (13.50%) Event-Driven
17 27 (13.50%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 58 (29.00%) C#
2 53 (26.50%) SQL
3 36 (18.00%) JavaScript
4 31 (15.50%) Python
4 31 (15.50%) TypeScript
5 22 (11.00%) Java
6 15 (7.50%) Apex Code
6 15 (7.50%) SOQL
6 15 (7.50%) SOSL
6 15 (7.50%) Swift
7 11 (5.50%) Kotlin
8 8 (4.00%) Go
9 7 (3.50%) Rust
10 5 (2.50%) C++
10 5 (2.50%) Scala
11 3 (1.50%) Embedded C
12 2 (1.00%) Delphi
12 2 (1.00%) PHP
12 2 (1.00%) R
13 1 (0.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 54 (27.00%) Degree
2 43 (21.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (7.50%) Master's Degree
4 10 (5.00%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.50%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.00%) CISM
6 2 (1.00%) CISSP
6 2 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.00%) PhD
6 2 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.50%) QA
2 12 (6.00%) GDPR
3 7 (3.50%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.00%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) COBIT
6 1 (0.50%) IFRS
System Software
1 33 (16.50%) Docker
2 13 (6.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.50%) Firmware
4 2 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.00%) Terraform
3 2 (1.00%) Ansible
3 2 (1.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 2 (1.00%) Grafana
3 2 (1.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.00%) Puppet
4 1 (0.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 38 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.00%) Splunk
3 16 (8.00%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.50%) Syncfusion
4 7 (3.50%) Telerik
5 6 (3.00%) Trayport
6 4 (2.00%) Databricks
7 3 (1.50%) Google
8 2 (1.00%) Adobe
8 2 (1.00%) Oracle
8 2 (1.00%) Thales
9 1 (0.50%) Xamarin