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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 204 162
Rank change year-on-year -68 -42 +1
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 203 246 470
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 1.46% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.56% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 141 159 252
10th Percentile £48,565 £47,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £116,250 £100,000 £88,723
UK median annual salary £70,932 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.42% +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 20,083 15,814 19,645
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.74% 93.84% 88.19%
Number of salaries quoted 14,322 8,472 11,653
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,460 £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 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% -1.67%

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 4 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 (0.99%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.49%) CMS
2 1 (0.49%) Confluence
2 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.49%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.49%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 99 (48.77%) AWS
2 59 (29.06%) Azure
3 32 (15.76%) SaaS
4 24 (11.82%) GCP
5 20 (9.85%) Snowflake
6 16 (7.88%) Serverless
7 12 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (5.91%) GitHub
8 9 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (4.43%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (3.45%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.45%) ChatGPT
10 5 (2.46%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (2.46%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (2.46%) Slack
11 4 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.97%) Azure Databricks
11 4 (1.97%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.97%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.36%) Broadband
2 6 (2.96%) Network Security
3 3 (1.48%) Firewall
4 2 (0.99%) DNS
5 1 (0.49%) Internet
5 1 (0.49%) LAN
5 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.49%) TETRA
5 1 (0.49%) VoIP
5 1 (0.49%) WAN
5 1 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.27%) SQL Server
2 22 (10.84%) Redis
3 11 (5.42%) MongoDB
4 10 (4.93%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.43%) MySQL
6 8 (3.94%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.48%) Metadata
9 3 (1.48%) Stardog
9 3 (1.48%) Triplestore
10 2 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.99%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.99%) Power BI
10 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.49%) GIS
11 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.49%) SQLite
11 1 (0.49%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 47 (23.15%) Git
2 12 (5.91%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.42%) GitLab
4 4 (1.97%) Selenium
5 3 (1.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.48%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.48%) JUnit
5 3 (1.48%) Maven
5 3 (1.48%) Mercurial
5 3 (1.48%) Mockito
5 3 (1.48%) Postman
5 3 (1.48%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.48%) Subversion
5 3 (1.48%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.99%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.99%) MLflow
6 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.99%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.49%) Mocha
7 1 (0.49%) SpecFlow
General
1 64 (31.53%) Social Skills
2 43 (21.18%) Finance
3 35 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 21 (10.34%) Banking
5 18 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.91%) Games
7 8 (3.94%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.94%) Legal
7 8 (3.94%) Marketing
8 5 (2.46%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.46%) Retail
9 4 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.97%) Local Government
9 4 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.48%) Back Office
10 3 (1.48%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.99%) Automotive
11 2 (0.99%) Military
11 2 (0.99%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 75 (36.95%) Developer
2 45 (22.17%) Senior
3 44 (21.67%) Lead
4 37 (18.23%) Architect
5 28 (13.79%) Software Engineer
6 23 (11.33%) Lead Developer
7 22 (10.84%) Senior Developer
8 21 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
9 20 (9.85%) Software Developer
10 18 (8.87%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 17 (8.37%) Lead Software Developer
12 15 (7.39%) Analyst
13 14 (6.90%) Java Developer
14 12 (5.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 11 (5.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 11 (5.42%) Technical Architect
16 10 (4.93%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
17 9 (4.43%) Senior Front-End Developer
17 9 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
17 9 (4.43%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (19.21%) Node.js
2 28 (13.79%) .NET
3 25 (12.32%) React
4 21 (10.34%) Vue
5 20 (9.85%) Spring
5 20 (9.85%) Spring Boot
6 19 (9.36%) REST
7 17 (8.37%) Terraform
8 13 (6.40%) CSS
9 12 (5.91%) AngularJS
10 11 (5.42%) RESTful
11 10 (4.93%) Kafka
12 8 (3.94%) .NET Core
12 8 (3.94%) HTML
13 7 (3.45%) OpenAPI
14 5 (2.46%) FastAPI
14 5 (2.46%) jQuery
14 5 (2.46%) Next.js
15 4 (1.97%) .NET Framework
15 4 (1.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.37%) AI Agents
3 16 (7.88%) Product Ownership
4 14 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (6.40%) Data Structures
6 12 (5.91%) Cyberattack
7 11 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (4.43%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (3.45%) Hackathon
10 6 (2.96%) Social Media
11 5 (2.46%) Algorithms
11 5 (2.46%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (2.46%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (1.97%) Blog
12 4 (1.97%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.97%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.97%) NHS
12 4 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.97%) Android
2 3 (1.48%) Linux
2 3 (1.48%) Unix
2 3 (1.48%) Windows
3 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (46.80%) CI/CD
2 86 (42.36%) AI
3 83 (40.89%) Agile
4 70 (34.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 67 (33.00%) Mentoring
6 66 (32.51%) Microservices
7 57 (28.08%) DevOps
8 53 (26.11%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (25.12%) Software Engineering
10 49 (24.14%) Technical Leadership
11 42 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
12 41 (20.20%) Architectural Patterns
12 41 (20.20%) Computer Science
13 37 (18.23%) Test Automation
14 34 (16.75%) SOLID
15 33 (16.26%) Clean Code
16 30 (14.78%) Coaching
17 29 (14.29%) Decision-Making
18 28 (13.79%) LLM
19 27 (13.30%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 53 (26.11%) JavaScript
2 47 (23.15%) Python
3 45 (22.17%) TypeScript
4 41 (20.20%) Java
5 27 (13.30%) C#
6 16 (7.88%) SQL
7 7 (3.45%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.46%) Ruby
9 4 (1.97%) C++
9 4 (1.97%) Rust
10 3 (1.48%) C
10 3 (1.48%) Scala
10 3 (1.48%) SHACL
10 3 (1.48%) SPARQL
10 3 (1.48%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.99%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.99%) Bicep
11 2 (0.99%) Go
11 2 (0.99%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.99%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 39 (19.21%) Degree
2 29 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (9.85%) Security Cleared
4 14 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.46%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.46%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.46%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.48%) CISM
6 3 (1.48%) CISSP
6 3 (1.48%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.49%) CCIE
7 1 (0.49%) CCNP
7 1 (0.49%) CCSA
7 1 (0.49%) CCSE
7 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.49%) JNCIE
7 1 (0.49%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.87%) QA
2 15 (7.39%) GDPR
3 13 (6.40%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.45%) WCAG
6 4 (1.97%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (1.48%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.48%) MiFID
7 3 (1.48%) NIST
7 3 (1.48%) UCITS
8 2 (0.99%) NIST 800
System Software
1 32 (15.76%) Docker
2 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (16.75%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.97%) Ansible
3 2 (0.99%) CASB
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (7.39%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.96%) Databricks
2 6 (2.96%) Google
3 4 (1.97%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.48%) Bloomberg
4 3 (1.48%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.48%) Perforce
4 3 (1.48%) Splunk
5 2 (0.99%) Adobe
5 2 (0.99%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.49%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.49%) Cisco
6 1 (0.49%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle
6 1 (0.49%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.49%) Workday