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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 211 171
Rank change year-on-year -59 -40 -10
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 197 229 476
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 1.41% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.52% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 127 149 277
10th Percentile £50,468 £46,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £116,250 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,782 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.62% +11.11% -2.86%

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 19,495 15,078 20,328
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.33% 93.14% 87.68%
Number of salaries quoted 14,036 8,555 12,692
10th Percentile £34,250 £29,913 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,549 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 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 (2.03%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.51%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 95 (48.22%) AWS
2 57 (28.93%) Azure
3 30 (15.23%) SaaS
4 25 (12.69%) GCP
5 18 (9.14%) Snowflake
6 13 (6.60%) GitHub
6 13 (6.60%) Serverless
7 9 (4.57%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (4.57%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (3.05%) ChatGPT
9 5 (2.54%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (2.54%) Slack
10 4 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.03%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.03%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.03%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.52%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.20%) Broadband
2 8 (4.06%) Network Security
3 5 (2.54%) Firewall
4 3 (1.52%) LAN
4 3 (1.52%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.52%) WAN
4 3 (1.52%) Wireless
5 2 (1.02%) DNS
6 1 (0.51%) Internet
6 1 (0.51%) TETRA
6 1 (0.51%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.23%) SQL Server
2 22 (11.17%) Redis
3 9 (4.57%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.06%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.06%) MySQL
4 8 (4.06%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.52%) Stardog
6 3 (1.52%) Triplestore
7 2 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.02%) Power BI
7 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.51%) GIS
8 1 (0.51%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.51%) Metadata
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.51%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 47 (23.86%) Git
2 19 (9.64%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.63%) GitLab
4 10 (5.08%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.03%) Selenium
6 3 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.52%) JUnit
6 3 (1.52%) Maven
6 3 (1.52%) Mercurial
6 3 (1.52%) Mockito
6 3 (1.52%) Postman
6 3 (1.52%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.02%) Subversion
7 2 (1.02%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.51%) JIRA
8 1 (0.51%) Mocha
8 1 (0.51%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (27.41%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.80%) Finance
3 31 (15.74%) Public Sector
4 23 (11.68%) Banking
5 19 (9.64%) Games
6 17 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.09%) Investment Banking
7 12 (6.09%) Marketing
8 11 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.05%) Legal
10 5 (2.54%) Aerospace
11 4 (2.03%) Local Government
11 4 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.52%) Back Office
12 3 (1.52%) Prime Brokerage
12 3 (1.52%) Retail
12 3 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.02%) Automotive
13 2 (1.02%) Military
13 2 (1.02%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 73 (37.06%) Developer
2 45 (22.84%) Senior
3 42 (21.32%) Lead
4 39 (19.80%) Architect
5 26 (13.20%) Software Engineer
6 23 (11.68%) Lead Developer
7 22 (11.17%) Senior Developer
8 21 (10.66%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (10.66%) Software Developer
9 18 (9.14%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (8.63%) Lead Software Developer
11 15 (7.61%) Analyst
11 15 (7.61%) Technical Architect
12 12 (6.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 12 (6.09%) Java Developer
13 11 (5.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (5.08%) Java Engineer
14 10 (5.08%) Senior Front-End Developer
15 8 (4.06%) Principal Developer
15 8 (4.06%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (19.80%) Node.js
2 28 (14.21%) REST
3 27 (13.71%) React
4 25 (12.69%) .NET
5 22 (11.17%) Spring Boot
6 21 (10.66%) Vue
7 19 (9.64%) Spring
8 18 (9.14%) Terraform
9 15 (7.61%) AngularJS
10 13 (6.60%) CSS
11 11 (5.58%) RESTful
12 8 (4.06%) HTML
12 8 (4.06%) Lightning Web Components
12 8 (4.06%) SOAP
13 7 (3.55%) Kafka
13 7 (3.55%) OpenAPI
13 7 (3.55%) Visualforce
14 6 (3.05%) .NET Core
14 6 (3.05%) Web Services
15 5 (2.54%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.17%) Cloud Native
1 22 (11.17%) Product Ownership
2 17 (8.63%) AI Agents
3 14 (7.11%) Cyber Threat
4 13 (6.60%) Data Structures
5 12 (6.09%) Cyberattack
5 12 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.55%) Hackathon
8 6 (3.05%) Hedge funds
8 6 (3.05%) Social Media
9 5 (2.54%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.54%) Blockchain
9 5 (2.54%) Client/Server
9 5 (2.54%) Cyber Defence
9 5 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.54%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (2.03%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.03%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.03%) Android
2 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (47.72%) CI/CD
2 82 (41.62%) Agile
3 79 (40.10%) AI
4 74 (37.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 63 (31.98%) Microservices
6 61 (30.96%) Mentoring
7 59 (29.95%) DevOps
8 53 (26.90%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (25.38%) Software Engineering
10 46 (23.35%) Technical Leadership
11 41 (20.81%) Computer Science
11 41 (20.81%) Full-Stack Development
12 40 (20.30%) Architectural Patterns
13 36 (18.27%) Test Automation
14 33 (16.75%) SOLID
15 31 (15.74%) Clean Code
16 28 (14.21%) Decision-Making
17 27 (13.71%) Coaching
17 27 (13.71%) DevSecOps
17 27 (13.71%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 49 (24.87%) JavaScript
2 46 (23.35%) TypeScript
3 43 (21.83%) Python
4 41 (20.81%) Java
5 23 (11.68%) C#
6 15 (7.61%) SQL
7 9 (4.57%) Apex Code
7 9 (4.57%) SOQL
8 8 (4.06%) SOSL
9 7 (3.55%) Kotlin
10 6 (3.05%) Rust
11 5 (2.54%) Ruby
12 4 (2.03%) C++
12 4 (2.03%) Go
13 3 (1.52%) C
13 3 (1.52%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.52%) Scala
13 3 (1.52%) SHACL
13 3 (1.52%) SPARQL
13 3 (1.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (20.81%) Degree
2 30 (15.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (10.66%) Security Cleared
4 15 (7.61%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.55%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.55%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.54%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.52%) CCIE
7 3 (1.52%) CCIE Security
7 3 (1.52%) CCNP
7 3 (1.52%) CCSA
7 3 (1.52%) CCSE
7 3 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.52%) CISM
7 3 (1.52%) CISSP
7 3 (1.52%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.52%) JNCIE
7 3 (1.52%) JNCIP
7 3 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.12%) QA
2 13 (6.60%) GDPR
3 11 (5.58%) Accessibility
4 8 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.55%) WCAG
6 5 (2.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (1.52%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.52%) MiFID
7 3 (1.52%) NIST
7 3 (1.52%) UCITS
8 2 (1.02%) NIST 800
System Software
1 28 (14.21%) Docker
2 2 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (15.74%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.55%) Ansible
3 2 (1.02%) CASB
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.51%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (7.11%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.08%) Splunk
3 9 (4.57%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.05%) Google
5 4 (2.03%) Databricks
6 3 (1.52%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.52%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.52%) Cisco
6 3 (1.52%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.52%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.52%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.52%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.52%) Perforce
7 2 (1.02%) Adobe
7 2 (1.02%) Oracle
8 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.51%) IBM
8 1 (0.51%) Workday