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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 164 170
Rank change year-on-year -49 +6 -40
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 231 484 510
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.42% 2.06% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 2.35% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 151 278 450
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £95,436
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £68,745
% change year-on-year +11.11% -1.81% -1.79%

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 15,185 20,575 23,400
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.17% 87.78% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 8,609 12,675 19,261
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +1.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Design Patterns
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Design Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Design Patterns trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Design Patterns
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Design Patterns.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Design Patterns

Design Patterns
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Design Patterns over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Design Patterns salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.87%) Ethereum
1 2 (0.87%) Luigi
2 1 (0.43%) IIS
2 1 (0.43%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.30%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.87%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.87%) Sketch
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.43%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 139 (60.17%) Azure
2 99 (42.86%) AWS
3 52 (22.51%) AWS CloudFormation
4 49 (21.21%) Amazon EKS
5 47 (20.35%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (9.52%) GCP
7 19 (8.23%) GitHub
7 19 (8.23%) SaaS
8 16 (6.93%) Power Platform
9 14 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 14 (6.06%) Azure Service Bus
9 14 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (6.06%) SonarCloud
10 13 (5.63%) Power Automate
10 13 (5.63%) Serverless
11 7 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.60%) Figma
12 6 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.60%) PaaS
13 5 (2.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.30%) Broadband
1 3 (1.30%) Network Security
1 3 (1.30%) S/MIME
1 3 (1.30%) SSL
1 3 (1.30%) X.509
2 1 (0.43%) BGP
2 1 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (0.43%) IOS XR
2 1 (0.43%) MPLS
2 1 (0.43%) Multicast
2 1 (0.43%) OSPF
2 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (29.44%) Elasticsearch
2 41 (17.75%) SQL Server
3 23 (9.96%) MongoDB
4 13 (5.63%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.46%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.60%) MySQL
7 5 (2.16%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.73%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.73%) Metadata
8 4 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.30%) Power BI
10 2 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.87%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.87%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.87%) Redis
11 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.43%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.43%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 42 (18.18%) Git
2 15 (6.49%) Octopus Deploy
3 14 (6.06%) MSBuild
3 14 (6.06%) Team Foundation Server
3 14 (6.06%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.16%) GitLab
5 4 (1.73%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.73%) PHPUnit
6 3 (1.30%) Jasmine
6 3 (1.30%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.43%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.43%) fastlane
8 1 (0.43%) JIRA
8 1 (0.43%) NUnit
8 1 (0.43%) Postman
8 1 (0.43%) Spock
8 1 (0.43%) Storybook
8 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (30.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 54 (23.38%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (20.35%) Finance
4 35 (15.15%) Social Skills
5 30 (12.99%) Retail
6 17 (7.36%) Marketing
7 15 (6.49%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.46%) Banking
8 8 (3.46%) Front Office
9 6 (2.60%) Back Office
10 5 (2.16%) Law
11 4 (1.73%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.30%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.87%) Games
14 1 (0.43%) Automotive
14 1 (0.43%) Legal
14 1 (0.43%) Publishing
14 1 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 118 (51.08%) Developer
2 58 (25.11%) Software Developer
3 39 (16.88%) .NET Developer
4 33 (14.29%) Architect
4 33 (14.29%) Senior
5 26 (11.26%) Lead
6 24 (10.39%) Software Engineer
7 20 (8.66%) Technical Architect
8 15 (6.49%) Consultant
8 15 (6.49%) Senior Developer
9 14 (6.06%) C# Developer
10 13 (5.63%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 13 (5.63%) Functional Consultant
10 13 (5.63%) Java Engineer
10 13 (5.63%) Java Software Engineer
11 10 (4.33%) C# .NET Developer
11 10 (4.33%) Designer
12 9 (3.90%) Lead Developer
13 8 (3.46%) SaaS Developer
13 8 (3.46%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (54.98%) .NET
2 54 (23.38%) Node.js
3 49 (21.21%) Pandas
4 38 (16.45%) REST
5 27 (11.69%) CSS
5 27 (11.69%) HTML
6 25 (10.82%) React
7 24 (10.39%) Kafka
8 23 (9.96%) ASP.NET
9 20 (8.66%) JSON
9 20 (8.66%) XML
10 16 (6.93%) .NET Framework
11 15 (6.49%) Bootstrap
12 14 (6.06%) .NET Core
12 14 (6.06%) gRPC
13 13 (5.63%) ASP.NET Web API
14 12 (5.19%) RESTful
15 10 (4.33%) Spring
16 9 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
16 9 (3.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (21.21%) Cyberattack
2 18 (7.79%) Product Ownership
3 16 (6.93%) Management Information System
4 14 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (5.63%) Cloud Native
5 13 (5.63%) Mobile App
6 11 (4.76%) Algorithms
7 10 (4.33%) Data Structures
8 7 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.60%) BYOD
10 5 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.73%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.73%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.73%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.30%) PKI
13 2 (0.87%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.87%) Equities
13 2 (0.87%) iPad
13 2 (0.87%) iPhone
13 2 (0.87%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 63 (27.27%) Android
2 51 (22.08%) Linux
3 15 (6.49%) Apple iOS
4 11 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (55.84%) Agile
2 99 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 96 (41.56%) CI/CD
4 81 (35.06%) DevOps
4 81 (35.06%) OOP
5 80 (34.63%) Microservices
6 68 (29.44%) Kanban
7 66 (28.57%) OO
8 62 (26.84%) Containerisation
9 55 (23.81%) Android Development
10 54 (23.38%) Collaborative Working
10 54 (23.38%) Mentoring
11 51 (22.08%) Computer Science
11 51 (22.08%) Mathematics
11 51 (22.08%) Statistics
12 50 (21.65%) Line Management
12 50 (21.65%) Secure Coding
13 49 (21.21%) OWASP
14 47 (20.35%) Code Quality
15 42 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 86 (37.23%) JavaScript
2 79 (34.20%) Java
3 72 (31.17%) C#
4 68 (29.44%) Python
5 58 (25.11%) SQL
6 54 (23.38%) C++
7 53 (22.94%) Go
8 51 (22.08%) Rust
9 21 (9.09%) TypeScript
10 10 (4.33%) Swift
11 9 (3.90%) Kotlin
12 5 (2.16%) PHP
12 5 (2.16%) Scala
13 3 (1.30%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.87%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.87%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.87%) R
14 2 (0.87%) SOQL
14 2 (0.87%) SOSL
15 1 (0.43%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 62 (26.84%) Security Cleared
2 56 (24.24%) Degree
3 52 (22.51%) DV Cleared
4 38 (16.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.76%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.03%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.73%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.73%) PhD
8 3 (1.30%) CISM
8 3 (1.30%) CISSP
8 3 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.43%) CCIE
10 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.82%) GDPR
2 22 (9.52%) QA
3 7 (3.03%) HIPAA
4 5 (2.16%) COBIT
5 4 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.73%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.30%) NIST
System Software
1 93 (40.26%) Docker
2 8 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.30%) Firmware
4 2 (0.87%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 76 (32.90%) Kubernetes
2 54 (23.38%) Terraform
3 51 (22.08%) Ansible
4 4 (1.73%) Grafana
4 4 (1.73%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.30%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.87%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.90%) Splunk
3 6 (2.60%) Trayport
4 5 (2.16%) Syncfusion
4 5 (2.16%) Telerik
5 4 (1.73%) Google
6 3 (1.30%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.30%) Thales
7 2 (0.87%) Adobe
7 2 (0.87%) Databricks
8 1 (0.43%) Cisco
8 1 (0.43%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.43%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle
8 1 (0.43%) Xamarin