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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 174 161
Rank change year-on-year -71 -13 -12
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 150 286 669
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 2.01% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 2.12% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 77 205 601
10th Percentile £48,834 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £80,250 £83,750 £82,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,250 £93,750
UK median annual salary £71,000 £68,525 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.61% +9.64% -13.79%

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 15,111 13,517 29,606
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.80% 95.05% 91.16%
Number of salaries quoted 10,669 8,801 23,474
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £33,756
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 8 May 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 5 (3.33%) Ethereum
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 54 (36.00%) AWS
2 45 (30.00%) Azure
3 23 (15.33%) Serverless
4 15 (10.00%) GCP
4 15 (10.00%) GitHub
5 12 (8.00%) SaaS
6 10 (6.67%) PaaS
7 8 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.67%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.00%) Vertex AI
10 5 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (3.33%) Azure App Service
10 5 (3.33%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (3.33%) Entra ID
10 5 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.67%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (2.67%) IaaS
11 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (2.00%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 51 (34.00%) Broadband
2 6 (4.00%) Network Security
3 3 (2.00%) Firewall
3 3 (2.00%) LAN
3 3 (2.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (2.00%) WAN
3 3 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.00%) NoSQL
2 15 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.00%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.33%) MySQL
5 7 (4.67%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.33%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.33%) Redis
7 2 (1.33%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.67%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.67%) GIS
8 1 (0.67%) Metadata
8 1 (0.67%) Power BI
8 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (27.33%) GitLab
2 35 (23.33%) Jenkins
3 34 (22.67%) SonarQube
4 25 (16.67%) Git
5 3 (2.00%) Android Studio
6 2 (1.33%) Storybook
6 2 (1.33%) Xcode
7 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.67%) XCUITest
General
1 41 (27.33%) Games
2 36 (24.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (22.67%) Marketing
4 23 (15.33%) Social Skills
5 20 (13.33%) Finance
6 19 (12.67%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (10.00%) Banking
8 11 (7.33%) Investment Banking
9 7 (4.67%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.33%) Legal
11 4 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (2.00%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.67%) Back Office
13 1 (0.67%) iGaming
13 1 (0.67%) Law
13 1 (0.67%) Military
13 1 (0.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 57 (38.00%) Developer
2 54 (36.00%) Architect
3 33 (22.00%) Salesforce Architect
4 30 (20.00%) Lead
4 30 (20.00%) Technical Architect
5 28 (18.67%) Senior
6 22 (14.67%) Lead Developer
7 18 (12.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 10 (6.67%) Analyst
8 10 (6.67%) Java Engineer
8 10 (6.67%) Principal Developer
8 10 (6.67%) Salesforce Solution Architect
8 10 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 10 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (6.00%) C# Developer
9 9 (6.00%) Java Developer
9 9 (6.00%) Team Leader
10 8 (5.33%) .NET Developer
10 8 (5.33%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (5.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (34.67%) REST
2 34 (22.67%) Lightning Web Components
2 34 (22.67%) SOAP
2 34 (22.67%) Visualforce
3 28 (18.67%) React
4 22 (14.67%) .NET
5 19 (12.67%) Spring Boot
6 18 (12.00%) Spring
7 14 (9.33%) AngularJS
8 12 (8.00%) RESTful
9 9 (6.00%) CSS
9 9 (6.00%) HTML
9 9 (6.00%) Vue
10 8 (5.33%) Node.js
11 7 (4.67%) .NET Framework
11 7 (4.67%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (4.67%) Razor View Engine
12 5 (3.33%) ASP.NET
12 5 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web Forms
12 5 (3.33%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 59 (39.33%) Product Ownership
2 22 (14.67%) Cloud Native
3 14 (9.33%) Data Structures
3 14 (9.33%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (6.00%) Legacy Applications
5 8 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (4.67%) Blockchain
6 7 (4.67%) Hedge funds
7 6 (4.00%) AI Agents
7 6 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (4.00%) Cyberattack
7 6 (4.00%) Mobile App
7 6 (4.00%) Public Cloud
8 5 (3.33%) Web3
9 4 (2.67%) Algorithms
10 3 (2.00%) Client/Server
10 3 (2.00%) Data Centre
10 3 (2.00%) IoT
10 3 (2.00%) PKI
11 2 (1.33%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.33%) Android
2 4 (2.67%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (65.33%) Agile
2 86 (57.33%) CI/CD
3 77 (51.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 73 (48.67%) DevOps
5 50 (33.33%) Event-Driven
6 49 (32.67%) Mentoring
7 47 (31.33%) Continuous Delivery
8 46 (30.67%) Scrum
9 45 (30.00%) Roadmaps
10 44 (29.33%) Microservices
11 43 (28.67%) Continuous Integration
12 41 (27.33%) TOGAF
13 39 (26.00%) OO
14 38 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (24.67%) Technology Roadmap
16 36 (24.00%) Architectural Patterns
16 36 (24.00%) Software Engineering
17 35 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
18 34 (22.67%) Community of Practice
18 34 (22.67%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
Programming Languages
1 35 (23.33%) Apex Code
1 35 (23.33%) SOQL
2 34 (22.67%) SOSL
3 27 (18.00%) Java
4 23 (15.33%) Python
5 19 (12.67%) JavaScript
5 19 (12.67%) TypeScript
6 15 (10.00%) C#
7 14 (9.33%) SQL
8 7 (4.67%) Rust
9 5 (3.33%) Go
10 4 (2.67%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.00%) C
11 3 (2.00%) C++
11 3 (2.00%) Swift
12 2 (1.33%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.33%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.33%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.67%) Bicep
13 1 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (18.67%) Degree
2 15 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.00%) DBS Check
4 9 (6.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.00%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.00%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.00%) CCIE
6 3 (2.00%) CCIE Security
6 3 (2.00%) CCNP
6 3 (2.00%) CCSA
6 3 (2.00%) CCSE
6 3 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.00%) JNCIE
6 3 (2.00%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) PhD
7 1 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.33%) QA
2 8 (5.33%) GDPR
3 2 (1.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.33%) GRC
3 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.33%) WCAG
4 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (15.33%) Docker
2 5 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (12.67%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.67%) Terraform
3 4 (2.67%) Ansible
4 2 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.67%) Grafana
5 1 (0.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 35 (23.33%) Salesforce
2 34 (22.67%) Splunk
3 13 (8.67%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.67%) Google
5 4 (2.67%) Foundry
6 3 (2.00%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.00%) Cisco
6 3 (2.00%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.00%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.33%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.33%) Oracle
7 2 (1.33%) SendGrid
7 2 (1.33%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.67%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.67%) Apple
8 1 (0.67%) Databricks
8 1 (0.67%) IBM
8 1 (0.67%) Syncfusion
8 1 (0.67%) Telerik