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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 195 166
Rank change year-on-year -63 -29 +1
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 199 256 505
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 1.55% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.67% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 123 170 334
10th Percentile £48,946 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -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 19,089 15,370 21,707
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.04% 92.98% 87.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,792 8,913 14,844
10th Percentile £34,750 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 28 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 (2.01%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 96 (48.24%) AWS
2 56 (28.14%) Azure
3 28 (14.07%) SaaS
4 23 (11.56%) GCP
5 17 (8.54%) GitHub
5 17 (8.54%) Snowflake
6 14 (7.04%) Serverless
7 12 (6.03%) GitHub Copilot
8 10 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.02%) ChatGPT
10 5 (2.51%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.51%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.01%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.01%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.01%) Slack
12 3 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 33 (16.58%) Broadband
2 8 (4.02%) Network Security
3 5 (2.51%) Firewall
4 3 (1.51%) LAN
4 3 (1.51%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.51%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.51%) WAN
4 3 (1.51%) Wireless
5 2 (1.01%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.58%) SQL Server
2 22 (11.06%) Redis
3 9 (4.52%) MySQL
3 9 (4.52%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.02%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.02%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.51%) Stardog
6 3 (1.51%) Triplestore
7 2 (1.01%) Power BI
7 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.50%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.50%) SQLite
8 1 (0.50%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 51 (25.63%) Git
2 26 (13.07%) Jenkins
3 24 (12.06%) GitLab
4 17 (8.54%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.01%) Selenium
6 3 (1.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.51%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.51%) Mercurial
6 3 (1.51%) Postman
6 3 (1.51%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.01%) JUnit
7 2 (1.01%) Maven
7 2 (1.01%) Mockito
7 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.01%) Subversion
7 2 (1.01%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.50%) JIRA
8 1 (0.50%) Mocha
8 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.59%) Finance
3 30 (15.08%) Public Sector
4 26 (13.07%) Games
5 20 (10.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (9.55%) Banking
7 18 (9.05%) Marketing
8 17 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (6.03%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.51%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.51%) Legal
11 4 (2.01%) Local Government
11 4 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.51%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.01%) Automotive
13 2 (1.01%) Back Office
13 2 (1.01%) Military
13 2 (1.01%) Polish Language
13 2 (1.01%) Prime Brokerage
13 2 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 78 (39.20%) Developer
2 46 (23.12%) Senior
3 41 (20.60%) Lead
4 38 (19.10%) Architect
5 25 (12.56%) Lead Developer
5 25 (12.56%) Software Engineer
6 24 (12.06%) Senior Developer
7 23 (11.56%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (10.55%) Software Developer
9 18 (9.05%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (8.54%) Lead Software Developer
11 16 (8.04%) Technical Architect
12 15 (7.54%) Analyst
12 15 (7.54%) Salesforce Architect
13 12 (6.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 12 (6.03%) Java Developer
14 10 (5.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (5.03%) Java Engineer
14 10 (5.03%) Senior Front-End Developer
15 9 (4.52%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (20.60%) Node.js
2 35 (17.59%) REST
3 26 (13.07%) React
4 24 (12.06%) .NET
4 24 (12.06%) Vue
5 21 (10.55%) Spring Boot
6 18 (9.05%) Spring
6 18 (9.05%) Terraform
7 15 (7.54%) Lightning Web Components
7 15 (7.54%) SOAP
8 14 (7.04%) CSS
8 14 (7.04%) Visualforce
9 13 (6.53%) AngularJS
10 12 (6.03%) RESTful
11 9 (4.52%) HTML
12 7 (3.52%) Kafka
12 7 (3.52%) OpenAPI
13 6 (3.02%) .NET Core
13 6 (3.02%) Web Services
14 5 (2.51%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.08%) Product Ownership
2 22 (11.06%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.54%) AI Agents
4 14 (7.04%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (6.03%) Cyberattack
5 12 (6.03%) Data Structures
6 11 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.52%) Hackathon
9 6 (3.02%) Hedge funds
9 6 (3.02%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (3.02%) Social Media
10 5 (2.51%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.51%) Blockchain
10 5 (2.51%) Client/Server
10 5 (2.51%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (2.01%) Data Centre
11 4 (2.01%) Public Cloud
11 4 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.02%) Android
2 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (51.26%) CI/CD
2 88 (44.22%) Agile
3 80 (40.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 75 (37.69%) AI
5 66 (33.17%) DevOps
6 62 (31.16%) Microservices
7 61 (30.65%) Mentoring
8 53 (26.63%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (25.63%) Software Engineering
10 46 (23.12%) Full-Stack Development
10 46 (23.12%) Technical Leadership
11 41 (20.60%) Architectural Patterns
12 38 (19.10%) Computer Science
13 37 (18.59%) Test Automation
14 35 (17.59%) Clean Code
15 34 (17.09%) Scrum
16 31 (15.58%) SOLID
17 30 (15.08%) Event-Driven
18 29 (14.57%) Coaching
18 29 (14.57%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 52 (26.13%) JavaScript
2 47 (23.62%) TypeScript
3 42 (21.11%) Python
4 41 (20.60%) Java
5 20 (10.05%) C#
6 16 (8.04%) Apex Code
6 16 (8.04%) SOQL
7 15 (7.54%) SOSL
7 15 (7.54%) SQL
8 8 (4.02%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.02%) Rust
10 4 (2.01%) C++
10 4 (2.01%) Go
10 4 (2.01%) Ruby
11 3 (1.51%) C
11 3 (1.51%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.51%) Scala
11 3 (1.51%) SHACL
11 3 (1.51%) SPARQL
11 3 (1.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (21.11%) Degree
2 30 (15.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (10.55%) Security Cleared
4 15 (7.54%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.52%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.52%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.02%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.51%) CCIE
8 3 (1.51%) CCIE Security
8 3 (1.51%) CCNP
8 3 (1.51%) CCSA
8 3 (1.51%) CCSE
8 3 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.51%) CISM
8 3 (1.51%) CISSP
8 3 (1.51%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.51%) JNCIE
8 3 (1.51%) JNCIP
8 3 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.04%) QA
2 12 (6.03%) GDPR
3 9 (4.52%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.52%) WCAG
5 5 (2.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (1.51%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.51%) MiFID
6 3 (1.51%) NIST
6 3 (1.51%) UCITS
7 2 (1.01%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (14.07%) Docker
2 2 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (15.08%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.52%) Ansible
3 2 (1.01%) CASB
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.50%) Grafana
4 1 (0.50%) Kibana
4 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (8.54%) Splunk
2 16 (8.04%) Salesforce
3 13 (6.53%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.02%) Google
5 4 (2.01%) Databricks
6 3 (1.51%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.51%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.51%) Cisco
6 3 (1.51%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.51%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.51%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.51%) Oracle
6 3 (1.51%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.51%) Perforce
7 2 (1.01%) Adobe
8 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.50%) IBM
8 1 (0.50%) Workday