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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 131 146
Rank change year-on-year -82 +15 +2
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 170 434 460
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.12% 2.54% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 2.73% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 125 235 376
10th Percentile £46,750 £42,336 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £87,614 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,767 £97,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -13.33%

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 13,414 15,924 19,130
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.55% 93.02% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,496 9,556 15,380
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 31 December 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 (4.12%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.18%) Luigi
3 1 (0.59%) Apache
3 1 (0.59%) CMS
3 1 (0.59%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.18%) Sketch
2 1 (0.59%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 82 (48.24%) Azure
2 58 (34.12%) AWS
3 39 (22.94%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (21.76%) GitHub
5 34 (20.00%) Serverless
6 31 (18.24%) SaaS
7 18 (10.59%) PaaS
7 18 (10.59%) Power Platform
8 14 (8.24%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (8.24%) GCP
8 14 (8.24%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (7.65%) Azure App Service
9 13 (7.65%) Entra ID
9 13 (7.65%) Power Automate
10 6 (3.53%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.94%) IaaS
12 4 (2.35%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (19.41%) SQL Server
2 27 (15.88%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.12%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (3.53%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.94%) Power BI
6 4 (2.35%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.35%) Metadata
7 2 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.18%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.18%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.18%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.59%) GIS
8 1 (0.59%) MySQL
8 1 (0.59%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 27 (15.88%) Git
2 21 (12.35%) GitLab
3 18 (10.59%) Jenkins
4 15 (8.82%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.76%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.76%) Storybook
6 2 (1.18%) Android Studio
6 2 (1.18%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.18%) JUnit
6 2 (1.18%) Selenium
7 1 (0.59%) Gradle
7 1 (0.59%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.59%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.59%) Xcode
General
1 48 (28.24%) Finance
2 38 (22.35%) Social Skills
3 32 (18.82%) Marketing
4 28 (16.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (9.41%) Games
6 12 (7.06%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.88%) Retail
8 8 (4.71%) Banking
9 7 (4.12%) Law
9 7 (4.12%) Legal
9 7 (4.12%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.35%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.59%) Back Office
12 1 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (42.35%) Developer
2 42 (24.71%) Lead
3 40 (23.53%) Senior
4 32 (18.82%) Lead Developer
5 29 (17.06%) Architect
6 18 (10.59%) .NET Developer
7 15 (8.82%) Azure Developer
7 15 (8.82%) Senior Developer
8 14 (8.24%) Consultant
8 14 (8.24%) Salesforce Architect
9 13 (7.65%) Lead .NET Developer
9 13 (7.65%) Technical Architect
10 12 (7.06%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 12 (7.06%) Functional Consultant
10 12 (7.06%) SaaS Developer
11 11 (6.47%) C# Developer
11 11 (6.47%) Software Developer
12 10 (5.88%) Lead C# Developer
12 10 (5.88%) Python Developer
12 10 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (30.59%) .NET
2 45 (26.47%) React
3 23 (13.53%) REST
4 22 (12.94%) CSS
4 22 (12.94%) HTML
5 21 (12.35%) .NET Framework
5 21 (12.35%) RESTful
6 18 (10.59%) ASP.NET Web API
7 16 (9.41%) SOAP
8 15 (8.82%) Lightning Web Components
8 15 (8.82%) Razor View Engine
8 15 (8.82%) Visualforce
9 14 (8.24%) Entity Framework
10 13 (7.65%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 12 (7.06%) Flask
11 12 (7.06%) Spring
12 11 (6.47%) .NET Core
12 11 (6.47%) Spring Boot
13 10 (5.88%) Core Data
13 10 (5.88%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 33 (19.41%) Product Ownership
2 18 (10.59%) Data Structures
3 17 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (7.65%) Cloud Native
5 12 (7.06%) Management Information System
6 9 (5.29%) Mobile App
7 7 (4.12%) Blockchain
7 7 (4.12%) Hedge funds
7 7 (4.12%) Web3
8 4 (2.35%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.35%) PKI
9 3 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.76%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.76%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.18%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.18%) iPad
10 2 (1.18%) iPhone
10 2 (1.18%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 14 (8.24%) Android
3 7 (4.12%) Windows
4 1 (0.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (73.53%) Agile
2 84 (49.41%) Mentoring
3 75 (44.12%) DevOps
4 71 (41.76%) CI/CD
5 65 (38.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 53 (31.18%) Microservices
7 52 (30.59%) Architectural Patterns
8 48 (28.24%) Computer Science
9 46 (27.06%) Software Engineering
10 45 (26.47%) Scrum
11 37 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (21.18%) Full-Stack Development
13 35 (20.59%) Code Quality
13 35 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
14 34 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
15 32 (18.82%) AI
15 32 (18.82%) Front End Development
16 27 (15.88%) Coaching
17 25 (14.71%) Test Automation
18 24 (14.12%) OO
Programming Languages
1 35 (20.59%) SQL
2 34 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 32 (18.82%) C#
3 32 (18.82%) TypeScript
4 30 (17.65%) Python
5 19 (11.18%) Java
6 15 (8.82%) Apex Code
6 15 (8.82%) SOQL
6 15 (8.82%) SOSL
7 14 (8.24%) Swift
8 11 (6.47%) Kotlin
9 7 (4.12%) Go
9 7 (4.12%) Rust
10 6 (3.53%) Scala
11 3 (1.76%) C++
12 2 (1.18%) Delphi
12 2 (1.18%) Embedded C
12 2 (1.18%) R
12 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (28.82%) Degree
2 42 (24.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (8.82%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.53%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.94%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (19.41%) QA
2 9 (5.29%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.53%) GDPR
4 5 (2.94%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.18%) WCAG
6 1 (0.59%) IFRS
System Software
1 23 (13.53%) Docker
2 13 (7.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (8.24%) Terraform
2 8 (4.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.18%) Ansible
3 2 (1.18%) Grafana
3 2 (1.18%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.18%) Puppet
4 1 (0.59%) Kibana
Vendors
1 35 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.41%) Salesforce
3 15 (8.82%) Splunk
4 7 (4.12%) Syncfusion
4 7 (4.12%) Telerik
5 5 (2.94%) Databricks
5 5 (2.94%) Google
6 2 (1.18%) Adobe
6 2 (1.18%) Oracle
6 2 (1.18%) SendGrid
7 1 (0.59%) Apple