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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 195 174
Rank change year-on-year -60 -21 -8
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 200 257 493
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 1.56% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.68% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 124 171 317
10th Percentile £49,136 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,125 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £104,250 £95,000 £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 19,126 15,292 21,289
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.98% 93.01% 87.62%
Number of salaries quoted 13,800 8,904 14,205
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%

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 September 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 (2.00%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.50%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 96 (48.00%) AWS
2 56 (28.00%) Azure
3 28 (14.00%) SaaS
4 23 (11.50%) GCP
5 17 (8.50%) Snowflake
6 16 (8.00%) GitHub
7 14 (7.00%) Serverless
8 11 (5.50%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (4.00%) ChatGPT
11 5 (2.50%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.50%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.00%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.00%) Slack
13 3 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (16.50%) Broadband
2 8 (4.00%) Network Security
3 5 (2.50%) Firewall
4 3 (1.50%) LAN
4 3 (1.50%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.50%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.50%) WAN
4 3 (1.50%) Wireless
5 2 (1.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.50%) SQL Server
2 22 (11.00%) Redis
3 9 (4.50%) MySQL
3 9 (4.50%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.50%) Stardog
6 3 (1.50%) Triplestore
7 2 (1.00%) Power BI
7 2 (1.00%) 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 50 (25.00%) Git
2 26 (13.00%) Jenkins
3 24 (12.00%) GitLab
4 17 (8.50%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.00%) Selenium
6 3 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.50%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.50%) Mercurial
6 3 (1.50%) Postman
6 3 (1.50%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.00%) JUnit
7 2 (1.00%) Maven
7 2 (1.00%) Mockito
7 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.00%) Subversion
7 2 (1.00%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.50%) JIRA
8 1 (0.50%) Mocha
8 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.50%) Finance
3 30 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 26 (13.00%) Games
5 20 (10.00%) Banking
5 20 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (9.00%) Marketing
7 17 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (6.00%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.50%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.50%) Legal
10 4 (2.00%) Local Government
10 4 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.50%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.00%) Automotive
12 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.00%) Military
12 2 (1.00%) Polish Language
12 2 (1.00%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 78 (39.00%) Developer
2 45 (22.50%) Senior
3 41 (20.50%) Lead
4 39 (19.50%) Architect
5 25 (12.50%) Lead Developer
5 25 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 23 (11.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (11.50%) Senior Developer
7 21 (10.50%) Software Developer
8 18 (9.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (8.50%) Lead Software Developer
10 16 (8.00%) Technical Architect
11 15 (7.50%) Analyst
11 15 (7.50%) Salesforce Architect
12 12 (6.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 11 (5.50%) Java Developer
14 10 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (5.00%) Java Engineer
14 10 (5.00%) Principal Developer
14 10 (5.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (20.50%) Node.js
2 35 (17.50%) REST
3 26 (13.00%) React
4 25 (12.50%) .NET
5 23 (11.50%) Vue
6 21 (10.50%) Spring Boot
7 18 (9.00%) Spring
7 18 (9.00%) Terraform
8 15 (7.50%) Lightning Web Components
8 15 (7.50%) SOAP
9 14 (7.00%) CSS
9 14 (7.00%) Visualforce
10 13 (6.50%) AngularJS
11 12 (6.00%) RESTful
12 9 (4.50%) HTML
13 7 (3.50%) Kafka
13 7 (3.50%) OpenAPI
14 6 (3.00%) .NET Core
14 6 (3.00%) Web Services
15 5 (2.50%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 22 (11.00%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.50%) AI Agents
4 14 (7.00%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (6.50%) Data Structures
6 12 (6.00%) Cyberattack
7 11 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (3.50%) Hackathon
10 6 (3.00%) Hedge funds
10 6 (3.00%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (3.00%) Social Media
11 5 (2.50%) Algorithms
11 5 (2.50%) Blockchain
11 5 (2.50%) Client/Server
11 5 (2.50%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (2.00%) Blog
12 4 (2.00%) Mobile App
12 4 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.00%) Android
2 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (51.00%) CI/CD
2 88 (44.00%) Agile
3 79 (39.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 75 (37.50%) AI
5 66 (33.00%) DevOps
6 62 (31.00%) Microservices
7 61 (30.50%) Mentoring
8 54 (27.00%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (25.00%) Software Engineering
10 46 (23.00%) Technical Leadership
11 45 (22.50%) Full-Stack Development
12 41 (20.50%) Architectural Patterns
13 39 (19.50%) Computer Science
14 37 (18.50%) Test Automation
15 34 (17.00%) Clean Code
15 34 (17.00%) Scrum
16 32 (16.00%) SOLID
17 30 (15.00%) Event-Driven
18 28 (14.00%) Coaching
18 28 (14.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 51 (25.50%) JavaScript
2 46 (23.00%) TypeScript
3 43 (21.50%) Python
4 40 (20.00%) Java
5 21 (10.50%) C#
6 16 (8.00%) Apex Code
6 16 (8.00%) SOQL
7 15 (7.50%) SOSL
7 15 (7.50%) SQL
8 8 (4.00%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.00%) Rust
10 4 (2.00%) C++
10 4 (2.00%) Go
10 4 (2.00%) Ruby
11 3 (1.50%) C
11 3 (1.50%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.50%) Scala
11 3 (1.50%) SHACL
11 3 (1.50%) SPARQL
11 3 (1.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (21.00%) Degree
2 30 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (10.50%) Security Cleared
4 15 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.50%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.50%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.00%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.50%) CCIE
9 3 (1.50%) CCIE Security
9 3 (1.50%) CCNP
9 3 (1.50%) CCSA
9 3 (1.50%) CCSE
9 3 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.50%) CISM
9 3 (1.50%) CISSP
9 3 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.50%) JNCIE
9 3 (1.50%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.00%) QA
2 12 (6.00%) GDPR
3 9 (4.50%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.50%) WCAG
5 5 (2.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (1.50%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.50%) MiFID
6 3 (1.50%) NIST
6 3 (1.50%) UCITS
7 2 (1.00%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (14.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.50%) Ansible
3 2 (1.00%) CASB
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.50%) Grafana
4 1 (0.50%) Kibana
4 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (8.50%) Splunk
2 16 (8.00%) Salesforce
3 14 (7.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.00%) Google
5 4 (2.00%) Databricks
6 3 (1.50%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.50%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.50%) Cisco
6 3 (1.50%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.50%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.50%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.50%) Oracle
6 3 (1.50%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.50%) Perforce
7 2 (1.00%) Adobe
8 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.50%) IBM
8 1 (0.50%) Workday