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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 206 145
Rank change year-on-year -46 -61 +13
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 224 234 475
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.89% 1.42% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.51% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 158 149 258
10th Percentile £50,328 £47,250 £43,164
25th Percentile £61,605 £57,500 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £95,750 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £129,500 £97,500 £90,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% -

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 20,270 15,511 18,315
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.62% 93.82% 87.95%
Number of salaries quoted 14,399 8,394 11,074
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,700
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% 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 15 October 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 2 (0.89%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.45%) CMS
2 1 (0.45%) Confluence
2 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.45%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 103 (45.98%) AWS
2 69 (30.80%) Azure
3 35 (15.63%) SaaS
4 24 (10.71%) GCP
5 22 (9.82%) Snowflake
6 16 (7.14%) Serverless
7 13 (5.80%) GitHub
8 12 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (4.46%) GitHub Copilot
11 8 (3.57%) ChatGPT
12 7 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (3.13%) Amazon S3
13 5 (2.23%) Anthropic Claude
13 5 (2.23%) Azure Machine Learning
13 5 (2.23%) Slack
14 4 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.79%) Azure Databricks
14 4 (1.79%) Entra ID
14 4 (1.79%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.48%) Broadband
2 6 (2.68%) Network Security
3 3 (1.34%) Firewall
4 2 (0.89%) DNS
4 2 (0.89%) TETRA
5 1 (0.45%) Internet
5 1 (0.45%) LAN
5 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.45%) VoIP
5 1 (0.45%) WAN
5 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.18%) SQL Server
2 24 (10.71%) Redis
3 12 (5.36%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.91%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.02%) MySQL
6 8 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.13%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.79%) Metadata
10 3 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.34%) Stardog
10 3 (1.34%) Triplestore
11 2 (0.89%) GIS
11 2 (0.89%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.89%) Power BI
11 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.45%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 48 (21.43%) Git
2 12 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.91%) GitLab
4 4 (1.79%) Selenium
5 3 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.34%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.34%) JUnit
5 3 (1.34%) Maven
5 3 (1.34%) Mercurial
5 3 (1.34%) MLflow
5 3 (1.34%) Mockito
5 3 (1.34%) Postman
5 3 (1.34%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.34%) Subversion
5 3 (1.34%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.89%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.89%) Mocha
6 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.89%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.45%) MSTest
General
1 78 (34.82%) Social Skills
2 47 (20.98%) Finance
3 36 (16.07%) Public Sector
4 24 (10.71%) Banking
5 18 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.80%) Games
7 8 (3.57%) Legal
7 8 (3.57%) Marketing
8 7 (3.13%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.13%) Retail
9 5 (2.23%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.79%) Local Government
10 4 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.34%) Back Office
11 3 (1.34%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.89%) Automotive
12 2 (0.89%) Military
12 2 (0.89%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 79 (35.27%) Developer
2 52 (23.21%) Architect
3 47 (20.98%) Lead
4 46 (20.54%) Senior
5 29 (12.95%) Software Engineer
6 24 (10.71%) Lead Developer
7 23 (10.27%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (10.27%) Senior Developer
8 21 (9.38%) Software Developer
8 21 (9.38%) Technical Architect
9 20 (8.93%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 19 (8.48%) Lead Software Developer
11 15 (6.70%) Analyst
12 14 (6.25%) Java Developer
13 12 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 11 (4.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 11 (4.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 10 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
16 9 (4.02%) Python Engineer
16 9 (4.02%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (18.75%) Node.js
2 40 (17.86%) .NET
3 24 (10.71%) React
4 23 (10.27%) Vue
5 20 (8.93%) Spring
5 20 (8.93%) Spring Boot
6 19 (8.48%) REST
7 17 (7.59%) Terraform
8 13 (5.80%) CSS
9 12 (5.36%) AngularJS
9 12 (5.36%) RESTful
10 11 (4.91%) Kafka
11 8 (3.57%) .NET Core
11 8 (3.57%) HTML
12 7 (3.13%) OpenAPI
13 5 (2.23%) FastAPI
13 5 (2.23%) jQuery
13 5 (2.23%) Next.js
14 4 (1.79%) pytest
14 4 (1.79%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.04%) AI Agents
3 16 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 14 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
4 14 (6.25%) Data Structures
5 12 (5.36%) Cyberattack
6 10 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (3.13%) Hackathon
9 6 (2.68%) Social Media
10 5 (2.23%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.23%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.79%) Blog
11 4 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.79%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.79%) NHS
11 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.34%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.79%) Android
2 3 (1.34%) Linux
2 3 (1.34%) Unix
2 3 (1.34%) Windows
3 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (43.30%) CI/CD
2 93 (41.52%) AI
3 85 (37.95%) Agile
4 70 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 69 (30.80%) Microservices
6 67 (29.91%) Mentoring
7 61 (27.23%) Technical Leadership
8 59 (26.34%) DevOps
9 55 (24.55%) Software Engineering
10 54 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
11 52 (23.21%) Architectural Patterns
12 46 (20.54%) Computer Science
13 42 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
14 40 (17.86%) Decision-Making
15 39 (17.41%) LLM
15 39 (17.41%) SOLID
16 37 (16.52%) Test Automation
17 34 (15.18%) Clean Code
18 30 (13.39%) Coaching
19 28 (12.50%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 56 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 48 (21.43%) Python
2 48 (21.43%) TypeScript
3 40 (17.86%) C#
3 40 (17.86%) Java
4 17 (7.59%) SQL
5 7 (3.13%) Kotlin
6 5 (2.23%) Ruby
7 3 (1.34%) Bicep
7 3 (1.34%) C++
7 3 (1.34%) Rust
7 3 (1.34%) Scala
7 3 (1.34%) SHACL
7 3 (1.34%) SPARQL
7 3 (1.34%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.89%) C
8 2 (0.89%) Go
8 2 (0.89%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.89%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 41 (18.30%) Degree
2 31 (13.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (12.95%) Security Cleared
4 23 (10.27%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.23%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.23%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.23%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (1.79%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.34%) CISM
8 3 (1.34%) CISSP
8 3 (1.34%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.45%) CCIE
9 1 (0.45%) CCNP
9 1 (0.45%) CCSA
9 1 (0.45%) CCSE
9 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.45%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.45%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.04%) QA
2 15 (6.70%) GDPR
3 14 (6.25%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.13%) WCAG
6 4 (1.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (1.34%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.34%) MiFID
7 3 (1.34%) NIST
7 3 (1.34%) UCITS
8 2 (0.89%) NIST 800
System Software
1 33 (14.73%) Docker
2 2 (0.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (15.18%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.79%) Ansible
3 2 (0.89%) CASB
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.57%) Databricks
3 6 (2.68%) Google
4 4 (1.79%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.34%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.34%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.34%) Perforce
5 3 (1.34%) Splunk
6 2 (0.89%) Adobe
7 1 (0.45%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.45%) Cisco
7 1 (0.45%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle
7 1 (0.45%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.45%) Workday