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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 210 181
Rank change year-on-year -61 -29 -20
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 192 263 471
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 1.59% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.71% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 109 180 404
10th Percentile £48,363 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £65,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% +6.20% -8.65%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £76,563
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,625 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -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 18,492 15,420 22,187
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.05% 92.98% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 13,404 9,120 16,093
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £97,500
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 2 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 (2.08%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 87 (45.31%) AWS
2 54 (28.13%) Azure
3 23 (11.98%) GCP
3 23 (11.98%) SaaS
4 14 (7.29%) GitHub
4 14 (7.29%) Snowflake
5 12 (6.25%) Serverless
6 10 (5.21%) GitHub Copilot
7 8 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.65%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.65%) Azure Machine Learning
8 7 (3.65%) ChatGPT
9 5 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.60%) Vertex AI
10 4 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.08%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 49 (25.52%) Broadband
2 6 (3.13%) Network Security
3 3 (1.56%) Firewall
3 3 (1.56%) LAN
3 3 (1.56%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.56%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (1.56%) WAN
3 3 (1.56%) Wireless
4 2 (1.04%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.54%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.38%) Redis
3 9 (4.69%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.17%) MySQL
4 8 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.65%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.56%) Stardog
7 3 (1.56%) Triplestore
8 2 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.04%) Power BI
8 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.52%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.52%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 43 (22.40%) Git
2 35 (18.23%) Jenkins
3 34 (17.71%) GitLab
4 27 (14.06%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.08%) Selenium
6 3 (1.56%) Postman
7 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.04%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.52%) JIRA
8 1 (0.52%) JUnit
8 1 (0.52%) Maven
8 1 (0.52%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.52%) MLflow
8 1 (0.52%) Mockito
8 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.52%) Subversion
8 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.31%) Games
3 31 (16.15%) Finance
4 30 (15.63%) Marketing
5 29 (15.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (8.33%) Public Sector
8 15 (7.81%) Banking
9 12 (6.25%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.56%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.56%) Military
11 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.04%) Automotive
12 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.04%) Legal
13 1 (0.52%) Back Office
13 1 (0.52%) Local Government
13 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (37.50%) Developer
2 45 (23.44%) Architect
3 42 (21.88%) Lead
4 41 (21.35%) Senior
5 27 (14.06%) Salesforce Architect
6 26 (13.54%) Lead Developer
7 23 (11.98%) Technical Architect
8 20 (10.42%) Full-Stack Developer
8 20 (10.42%) Software Developer
9 17 (8.85%) Senior Developer
9 17 (8.85%) Software Engineer
10 15 (7.81%) Analyst
10 15 (7.81%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (7.29%) Lead Software Developer
11 14 (7.29%) Salesforce Technical Architect
12 12 (6.25%) Java Developer
13 11 (5.73%) Principal Developer
13 11 (5.73%) Team Leader
14 10 (5.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (5.21%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (23.96%) REST
2 29 (15.10%) Node.js
3 27 (14.06%) Lightning Web Components
3 27 (14.06%) SOAP
4 26 (13.54%) Visualforce
5 23 (11.98%) React
6 21 (10.94%) Spring Boot
7 20 (10.42%) Vue
8 18 (9.38%) .NET
8 18 (9.38%) Spring
9 14 (7.29%) AngularJS
10 11 (5.73%) RESTful
11 6 (3.13%) Kafka
11 6 (3.13%) Web Services
12 5 (2.60%) Android Jetpack
12 5 (2.60%) ASP.NET
12 5 (2.60%) Jetpack Compose
12 5 (2.60%) jQuery
12 5 (2.60%) LangChain
12 5 (2.60%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 46 (23.96%) Product Ownership
2 26 (13.54%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.81%) AI Agents
4 14 (7.29%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (6.77%) Data Structures
6 12 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
6 12 (6.25%) Cyberattack
7 10 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (4.69%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (4.17%) Public Cloud
10 7 (3.65%) Hackathon
11 6 (3.13%) Blockchain
11 6 (3.13%) Hedge funds
11 6 (3.13%) Mobile App
11 6 (3.13%) Social Media
12 5 (2.60%) Algorithms
12 5 (2.60%) Client/Server
13 4 (2.08%) Data Centre
13 4 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (2.08%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.17%) Android
2 3 (1.56%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (55.73%) CI/CD
2 97 (50.52%) Agile
3 83 (43.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 73 (38.02%) AI
4 73 (38.02%) DevOps
5 58 (30.21%) Microservices
6 56 (29.17%) Mentoring
7 48 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (23.96%) Software Engineering
9 43 (22.40%) Full-Stack Development
10 42 (21.88%) Event-Driven
11 40 (20.83%) Continuous Delivery
11 40 (20.83%) Scrum
12 39 (20.31%) Architectural Patterns
13 38 (19.79%) Roadmaps
14 36 (18.75%) OO
14 36 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
15 35 (18.23%) Continuous Integration
16 34 (17.71%) Clean Code
16 34 (17.71%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 38 (19.79%) Python
2 37 (19.27%) Java
3 36 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 33 (17.19%) TypeScript
5 28 (14.58%) Apex Code
5 28 (14.58%) SOQL
6 27 (14.06%) SOSL
7 17 (8.85%) C#
8 13 (6.77%) SQL
9 8 (4.17%) Kotlin
10 6 (3.13%) Rust
11 4 (2.08%) C++
11 4 (2.08%) Go
12 3 (1.56%) C
12 3 (1.56%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.56%) Scala
12 3 (1.56%) SHACL
12 3 (1.56%) SPARQL
12 3 (1.56%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 40 (20.83%) Degree
2 25 (13.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.77%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.21%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.69%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.60%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.60%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.56%) CCIE
7 3 (1.56%) CCIE Security
7 3 (1.56%) CCNP
7 3 (1.56%) CCSA
7 3 (1.56%) CCSE
7 3 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.56%) JNCIE
7 3 (1.56%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.52%) CISM
8 1 (0.52%) CISSP
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.29%) QA
2 12 (6.25%) GDPR
3 7 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 3 (1.56%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.56%) MiFID
5 3 (1.56%) UCITS
6 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.52%) GRC
7 1 (0.52%) NIST
7 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (14.06%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.81%) Terraform
3 5 (2.60%) Ansible
4 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.52%) Grafana
5 1 (0.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 29 (15.10%) Splunk
2 28 (14.58%) Salesforce
3 13 (6.77%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.65%) Google
5 4 (2.08%) Databricks
5 4 (2.08%) Foundry
5 4 (2.08%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.56%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.56%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.56%) Cisco
6 3 (1.56%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.56%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.56%) Oracle
6 3 (1.56%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.04%) Adobe
7 2 (1.04%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.52%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) Perforce