Design Patterns
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Design Patterns skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Design Patterns over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 155 96
Rank change year-on-year -13 -59 +52
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 1,705 2,423 5,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.73% 2.34% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 2.45% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,080 1,417 2,197
10th Percentile £37,500 £46,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +8.21% +10.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Design Patterns is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Design Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Design Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Design Patterns in the UK

Design Patterns
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Design Patterns.

Salary trend for Design Patterns in the UK

Design Patterns
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Patterns over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Design Patterns in the UK

Design Patterns
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Patterns within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -6 1,511 £62,500 -13.79% 315
UK excluding London +23 1,292 £60,000 -4.00% 212
Work from Home -24 750 £62,500 -10.71% 207
North of England +77 442 £61,206 -5.84% 66
London -86 364 £80,000 -5.88% 128
North West +80 304 £61,206 -1.48% 36
South East +8 260 £60,000 -4.00% 50
South West 0 211 £50,000 -9.09% 16
Midlands +47 190 £62,500 - 39
Scotland -35 112 £60,000 -9.91% 25
East Midlands +32 102 £50,000 -23.08% 20
Yorkshire +44 94 £61,206 -11.87% 16
West Midlands +10 87 £63,750 +6.25% 19
North East +19 44 £61,206 +16.58% 15
East of England -23 42 £75,000 -6.25% 11
Wales -9 21 £58,800 -2.00% 4
Northern Ireland -13 14 £58,800 -3.61% 5

Design Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 106 (6.22%) Confluence
2 31 (1.82%) Apache
3 30 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.11%) SharePoint
5 11 (0.65%) CMS
6 10 (0.59%) Tomcat
7 9 (0.53%) IIS
8 8 (0.47%) Apache Pig
9 5 (0.29%) nginx
9 5 (0.29%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.23%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.18%) Orchard CMS
11 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2010
11 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.12%) Luigi
12 2 (0.12%) Magnolia
Applications
1 59 (3.46%) Sketch
2 5 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (0.29%) InVision
2 5 (0.29%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.18%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.12%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.059%) Blender
5 1 (0.059%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.059%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.059%) Notion
Business Applications
1 20 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.18%) Maximo
4 2 (0.12%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.12%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.059%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.059%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.059%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.059%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.059%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.059%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.059%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.059%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 674 (39.53%) Azure
2 425 (24.93%) AWS
3 292 (17.13%) Serverless
4 249 (14.60%) IBM Cloud
5 221 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
6 157 (9.21%) Azure Service Bus
7 144 (8.45%) Azure Functions
8 131 (7.68%) Azure API Management
8 131 (7.68%) Azure Logic Apps
9 105 (6.16%) SaaS
10 84 (4.93%) GCP
11 72 (4.22%) GitHub
12 64 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
13 63 (3.70%) Figma
14 60 (3.52%) Heroku
15 49 (2.87%) PaaS
16 46 (2.70%) Miro
17 42 (2.46%) Amazon Kinesis
18 41 (2.40%) Amazon S3
19 37 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
2 11 (0.65%) Network Security
3 10 (0.59%) HTTP
4 9 (0.53%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.35%) Intranet
5 6 (0.35%) SSL
6 5 (0.29%) DNS
6 5 (0.29%) Firewall
6 5 (0.29%) VPN
7 4 (0.23%) RS-232
8 3 (0.18%) Broadband
8 3 (0.18%) NaaS
8 3 (0.18%) Wireless
9 2 (0.12%) DKIM
9 2 (0.12%) DMARC
9 2 (0.12%) FTP
9 2 (0.12%) Internet
9 2 (0.12%) Multicast
9 2 (0.12%) SMTP
9 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 364 (21.35%) NoSQL
2 312 (18.30%) PostgreSQL
3 302 (17.71%) Relational Database
4 296 (17.36%) MongoDB
5 257 (15.07%) DB2
6 231 (13.55%) SQL Server
7 118 (6.92%) MySQL
8 80 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
9 78 (4.57%) RDBMS
10 63 (3.70%) Redis
11 42 (2.46%) Big Data
12 39 (2.29%) Oracle Database
13 35 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
13 35 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
13 35 (2.05%) DynamoDB
14 23 (1.35%) Apache Hive
14 23 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
16 17 (1.00%) BigQuery
16 17 (1.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 335 (19.65%) Git
2 156 (9.15%) JIRA
3 143 (8.39%) Visual Studio
4 121 (7.10%) Bitbucket
5 76 (4.46%) Jenkins
6 59 (3.46%) Sourcetree
7 49 (2.87%) Postman
8 46 (2.70%) JUnit
9 40 (2.35%) Maven
10 36 (2.11%) JDeveloper
11 28 (1.64%) Selenium
12 23 (1.35%) Cucumber
13 22 (1.29%) GitLab
13 22 (1.29%) PHPUnit
14 19 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
15 18 (1.06%) SonarQube
16 16 (0.94%) Android Studio
16 16 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
16 16 (0.94%) TestNG
16 16 (0.94%) WebDriver
General
1 317 (18.59%) Public Sector
2 315 (18.48%) Social Skills
3 253 (14.84%) Finance
4 221 (12.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (6.74%) Games
6 98 (5.75%) Law
7 97 (5.69%) Presentation Skills
8 94 (5.51%) Banking
9 81 (4.75%) Analytical Skills
10 53 (3.11%) Retail
11 42 (2.46%) Investment Banking
12 38 (2.23%) Legal
13 37 (2.17%) Marketing
14 23 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
15 22 (1.29%) Front Office
15 22 (1.29%) Prime Brokerage
16 20 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (1.17%) Tech for Good
17 15 (0.88%) Back Office
17 15 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 790 (46.33%) Developer
2 460 (26.98%) Senior
3 260 (15.25%) Lead
4 241 (14.13%) Software Engineer
5 227 (13.31%) Architect
6 208 (12.20%) Full Stack Developer
7 199 (11.67%) Senior Developer
8 183 (10.73%) .NET Developer
9 154 (9.03%) Full Stack Engineer
10 145 (8.50%) Azure Developer
11 133 (7.80%) Solutions Architect
12 126 (7.39%) Azure Engineer
13 119 (6.98%) Software Developer
14 106 (6.22%) Designer
15 105 (6.16%) C# Developer
16 102 (5.98%) Senior Architect
17 88 (5.16%) 3D Developer
17 88 (5.16%) Games Developer
17 88 (5.16%) Unity 3D Developer
18 83 (4.87%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 679 (39.82%) .NET
2 491 (28.80%) React
3 472 (27.68%) HTML
4 448 (26.28%) CSS
5 425 (24.93%) AngularJS
6 394 (23.11%) REST
7 373 (21.88%) ASP.NET
8 355 (20.82%) Vue
9 336 (19.71%) Web Services
10 324 (19.00%) jQuery
11 294 (17.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 247 (14.49%) ASP.NET Core
13 239 (14.02%) Ember.js
14 238 (13.96%) Backbone.js
15 223 (13.08%) Node.js
16 165 (9.68%) .NET Core
16 165 (9.68%) Spring
17 158 (9.27%) RESTful
18 126 (7.39%) .NET Framework
19 104 (6.10%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 372 (21.82%) Data Structures
2 335 (19.65%) Algorithms
3 251 (14.72%) Blockchain
3 251 (14.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 133 (7.80%) Cloud Native
5 121 (7.10%) e-Learning
6 90 (5.28%) Client/Server
7 88 (5.16%) Virtual Reality
8 72 (4.22%) Public Cloud
9 56 (3.28%) Product Ownership
10 46 (2.70%) Mobile App
11 43 (2.52%) Management Information System
12 38 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
13 32 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
14 28 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
15 27 (1.58%) IoT
16 26 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
17 23 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
18 22 (1.29%) Onboarding
19 20 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 292 (17.13%) Android
2 291 (17.07%) Linux
3 270 (15.84%) Apple iOS
4 261 (15.31%) Windows
5 8 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.41%) Unix
6 7 (0.41%) VME
7 5 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 777 (45.57%) Agile
2 548 (32.14%) DevOps
3 518 (30.38%) Software Engineering
4 446 (26.16%) OOP
5 439 (25.75%) Full Stack Development
6 427 (25.04%) OO
7 395 (23.17%) MVC
8 388 (22.76%) SOLID
9 386 (22.64%) Mentoring
9 386 (22.64%) User Experience
10 375 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
11 360 (21.11%) Microservices
12 343 (20.12%) Coaching
13 326 (19.12%) Artificial Intelligence
14 308 (18.06%) MVVM
15 296 (17.36%) Web Development
16 277 (16.25%) CI/CD
17 268 (15.72%) Scrum
18 264 (15.48%) Code Quality
19 242 (14.19%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 840 (49.27%) C#
2 617 (36.19%) SQL
3 599 (35.13%) JavaScript
4 488 (28.62%) Java
5 349 (20.47%) Python
6 137 (8.04%) TypeScript
7 79 (4.63%) PHP
8 77 (4.52%) Ruby
9 64 (3.75%) Bash
10 53 (3.11%) Go
11 41 (2.40%) Kotlin
12 39 (2.29%) T-SQL
13 36 (2.11%) Perl
14 32 (1.88%) C
15 25 (1.47%) C++
15 25 (1.47%) VB.NET
16 24 (1.41%) PowerShell
17 19 (1.11%) Swift
18 16 (0.94%) Scala
19 12 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 310 (18.18%) Degree
2 181 (10.62%) Security Cleared
3 173 (10.15%) SC Cleared
4 125 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 99 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 30 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 24 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
8 20 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 15 (0.88%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.41%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.35%) SANS
12 5 (0.29%) CISA
12 5 (0.29%) CISM
12 5 (0.29%) CISSP
12 5 (0.29%) CRISC
13 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.23%) PhD
14 3 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (8.97%) QA
2 86 (5.04%) Accessibility
3 69 (4.05%) WCAG
4 29 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 15 (0.88%) GDPR
6 10 (0.59%) Data Quality
7 9 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.41%) NIST
9 6 (0.35%) GAAP
9 6 (0.35%) IFRS
10 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.18%) GRC
12 3 (0.18%) ISO 9000
13 2 (0.12%) SEPA
13 2 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
14 1 (0.059%) PMO
System Software
1 162 (9.50%) Docker
2 16 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.47%) HDFS
4 1 (0.059%) RACF
4 1 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 140 (8.21%) Kubernetes
2 86 (5.04%) Terraform
3 16 (0.94%) Ansible
4 10 (0.59%) Grafana
5 9 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.41%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.41%) Puppet
7 5 (0.29%) Kibana
8 4 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.18%) logstash
10 2 (0.12%) Control-M
11 1 (0.059%) Rancher
Vendors
1 289 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 269 (15.78%) IBM
3 248 (14.55%) Red Hat
4 136 (7.98%) Oracle
5 60 (3.52%) Google
6 34 (1.99%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.11%) Databricks
8 17 (1.00%) Xamarin
9 14 (0.82%) SAP
10 11 (0.65%) MuleSoft
11 10 (0.59%) New Relic
12 8 (0.47%) Informatica
12 8 (0.47%) Teradata
12 8 (0.47%) Xero
13 7 (0.41%) Guidewire
13 7 (0.41%) Micro Focus
13 7 (0.41%) SaltStack
14 6 (0.35%) PeopleSoft
15 5 (0.29%) F5
15 5 (0.29%) PayPal