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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 207 179
Rank change year-on-year -55 -28 -26
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 197 258 469
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 1.56% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.68% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 109 175 397
10th Percentile £48,525 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +6.20% -9.32%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile - £88,250 £87,710
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -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 18,735 15,321 22,033
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.88% 92.93% 87.73%
Number of salaries quoted 13,552 9,025 15,867
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,875 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +1.02% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
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 7 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 (2.03%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 91 (46.19%) AWS
2 54 (27.41%) Azure
3 25 (12.69%) SaaS
4 23 (11.68%) GCP
5 16 (8.12%) GitHub
5 16 (8.12%) Snowflake
6 14 (7.11%) Serverless
7 11 (5.58%) GitHub Copilot
8 10 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.06%) Azure Machine Learning
10 7 (3.55%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.55%) ChatGPT
11 5 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.03%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.03%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.03%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 49 (24.87%) Broadband
2 6 (3.05%) Network Security
3 3 (1.52%) Firewall
3 3 (1.52%) LAN
3 3 (1.52%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (1.52%) WAN
3 3 (1.52%) Wireless
4 2 (1.02%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.21%) SQL Server
2 20 (10.15%) Redis
3 10 (5.08%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.57%) MySQL
5 8 (4.06%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.06%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.52%) Stardog
8 3 (1.52%) Triplestore
9 2 (1.02%) Power BI
9 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.51%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.51%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.51%) SQLite
10 1 (0.51%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 45 (22.84%) Git
2 36 (18.27%) Jenkins
3 35 (17.77%) GitLab
4 28 (14.21%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.03%) Selenium
6 3 (1.52%) Postman
7 2 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.02%) Mercurial
7 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.02%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.51%) JIRA
8 1 (0.51%) JUnit
8 1 (0.51%) Maven
8 1 (0.51%) MLflow
8 1 (0.51%) Mocha
8 1 (0.51%) Mockito
8 1 (0.51%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 40 (20.30%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.80%) Games
3 34 (17.26%) Finance
4 31 (15.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (15.23%) Marketing
6 22 (11.17%) Public Sector
7 19 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (7.61%) Banking
9 12 (6.09%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.03%) Legal
10 4 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.52%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.52%) Local Government
11 3 (1.52%) Military
11 3 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.52%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.02%) Automotive
12 2 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.51%) Back Office
13 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 72 (36.55%) Developer
2 45 (22.84%) Architect
3 43 (21.83%) Lead
4 42 (21.32%) Senior
5 27 (13.71%) Lead Developer
5 27 (13.71%) Salesforce Architect
6 23 (11.68%) Technical Architect
7 22 (11.17%) Full-Stack Developer
8 20 (10.15%) Software Developer
8 20 (10.15%) Software Engineer
9 17 (8.63%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (8.63%) Senior Developer
10 16 (8.12%) Lead Software Developer
11 15 (7.61%) Analyst
12 14 (7.11%) Salesforce Technical Architect
13 12 (6.09%) Java Developer
14 11 (5.58%) Principal Developer
14 11 (5.58%) Team Leader
15 10 (5.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 10 (5.08%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (23.35%) REST
2 32 (16.24%) Node.js
3 27 (13.71%) Lightning Web Components
3 27 (13.71%) SOAP
4 26 (13.20%) Visualforce
5 25 (12.69%) React
6 23 (11.68%) Vue
7 21 (10.66%) Spring Boot
8 20 (10.15%) .NET
9 18 (9.14%) Spring
10 13 (6.60%) AngularJS
11 12 (6.09%) RESTful
12 7 (3.55%) Kafka
13 6 (3.05%) CSS
13 6 (3.05%) OpenAPI
13 6 (3.05%) Web Services
14 5 (2.54%) Android Jetpack
14 5 (2.54%) Jetpack Compose
14 5 (2.54%) LangChain
14 5 (2.54%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 45 (22.84%) Product Ownership
2 26 (13.20%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.12%) AI Agents
4 13 (6.60%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (6.09%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (6.09%) Cyberattack
5 12 (6.09%) Data Structures
6 9 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.57%) Legacy Applications
7 8 (4.06%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.55%) Hackathon
9 6 (3.05%) Blockchain
9 6 (3.05%) Hedge funds
9 6 (3.05%) Social Media
10 5 (2.54%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.54%) Client/Server
10 5 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (2.03%) Data Centre
11 4 (2.03%) Mobile App
11 4 (2.03%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.05%) Android
2 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (57.87%) CI/CD
2 99 (50.25%) Agile
3 84 (42.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 79 (40.10%) DevOps
5 76 (38.58%) AI
6 62 (31.47%) Microservices
7 58 (29.44%) Mentoring
8 48 (24.37%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (23.86%) Software Engineering
10 45 (22.84%) Full-Stack Development
11 44 (22.34%) Event-Driven
11 44 (22.34%) Scrum
12 41 (20.81%) Continuous Delivery
13 39 (19.80%) Architectural Patterns
13 39 (19.80%) Roadmaps
14 38 (19.29%) OO
14 38 (19.29%) Technical Leadership
15 37 (18.78%) Clean Code
16 35 (17.77%) Computer Science
16 35 (17.77%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 41 (20.81%) Java
2 40 (20.30%) JavaScript
2 40 (20.30%) Python
3 36 (18.27%) TypeScript
4 28 (14.21%) Apex Code
4 28 (14.21%) SOQL
5 27 (13.71%) SOSL
6 17 (8.63%) C#
7 14 (7.11%) SQL
8 8 (4.06%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.05%) Rust
10 4 (2.03%) C++
10 4 (2.03%) Go
11 3 (1.52%) C
11 3 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.52%) Ruby
11 3 (1.52%) Scala
11 3 (1.52%) SHACL
11 3 (1.52%) SPARQL
11 3 (1.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (21.83%) Degree
2 27 (13.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (8.63%) Security Cleared
4 12 (6.09%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.57%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.54%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.54%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.52%) CCIE
8 3 (1.52%) CCIE Security
8 3 (1.52%) CCNP
8 3 (1.52%) CCSA
8 3 (1.52%) CCSE
8 3 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.52%) JNCIE
8 3 (1.52%) JNCIP
9 2 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.51%) CISM
10 1 (0.51%) CISSP
10 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.11%) QA
2 12 (6.09%) GDPR
3 7 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 3 (1.52%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.52%) MiFID
5 3 (1.52%) UCITS
6 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.51%) NIST
7 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (14.72%) Docker
2 2 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (15.74%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.63%) Terraform
3 6 (3.05%) Ansible
4 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.51%) Grafana
5 1 (0.51%) Kibana
Vendors
1 29 (14.72%) Splunk
2 28 (14.21%) Salesforce
3 13 (6.60%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.57%) Google
5 4 (2.03%) Databricks
5 4 (2.03%) Foundry
6 3 (1.52%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.52%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.52%) Cisco
6 3 (1.52%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.52%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.52%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.52%) Oracle
6 3 (1.52%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.02%) Adobe
7 2 (1.02%) Perforce
8 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.51%) IBM
8 1 (0.51%) Workday