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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 160 95
Rank change year-on-year -18 -65 +51
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 1,652 2,295 5,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.65% 2.31% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 2.42% 3.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,067 1,342 2,142
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,500 £56,271 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +8.21% +8.94%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £94,250 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 18 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 18 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 -5 1,478 £62,500 -13.79% 344
UK excluding London +17 1,247 £60,000 -7.69% 229
Work from Home -35 708 £62,500 -10.71% 227
North of England +74 434 £61,206 -5.84% 59
London -90 358 £80,000 -5.88% 172
North West +72 299 £61,206 -5.84% 30
South East +9 257 £60,000 -7.69% 79
South West -4 199 £50,000 -9.09% 16
Midlands +23 184 £62,500 -3.85% 38
Scotland -43 103 £60,000 -13.60% 20
East Midlands +27 97 £50,000 -23.08% 16
Yorkshire +46 91 £61,206 -11.87% 19
West Midlands +4 86 £62,500 +4.17% 22
North East +19 44 £61,206 +16.58% 10
East of England -24 43 £75,000 -10.45% 5
Wales -14 18 £58,800 -2.00% 8
Northern Ireland -21 9 £54,150 -30.13% 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 97 (5.87%) Confluence
2 31 (1.88%) Apache
3 29 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.61%) Tomcat
6 9 (0.54%) CMS
6 9 (0.54%) IIS
7 8 (0.48%) Apache Pig
8 5 (0.30%) nginx
8 5 (0.30%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.24%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.18%) Orchard CMS
10 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2010
10 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.12%) Luigi
11 2 (0.12%) Magnolia
Applications
1 59 (3.57%) Sketch
2 5 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (0.30%) InVision
2 5 (0.30%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.24%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.18%) S-PLUS
5 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.061%) Blender
6 1 (0.061%) Mathematica
6 1 (0.061%) Notion
Business Applications
1 17 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.18%) Maximo
4 2 (0.12%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.12%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.061%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.061%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.061%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.061%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.061%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.061%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.061%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.061%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 658 (39.83%) Azure
2 404 (24.46%) AWS
3 269 (16.28%) Serverless
4 249 (15.07%) IBM Cloud
5 223 (13.50%) Azure DevOps
6 158 (9.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 143 (8.66%) Azure Functions
8 130 (7.87%) Azure API Management
8 130 (7.87%) Azure Logic Apps
9 105 (6.36%) SaaS
10 86 (5.21%) GCP
11 74 (4.48%) GitHub
12 64 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
13 63 (3.81%) Figma
14 59 (3.57%) Heroku
15 51 (3.09%) PaaS
16 46 (2.78%) Miro
17 42 (2.54%) Amazon Kinesis
18 41 (2.48%) Amazon S3
19 37 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.85%) Network Security
2 12 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (0.67%) HTTP
3 11 (0.67%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.36%) Intranet
4 6 (0.36%) SSL
5 5 (0.30%) DNS
5 5 (0.30%) Firewall
5 5 (0.30%) VPN
6 4 (0.24%) Multicast
6 4 (0.24%) RS-232
7 3 (0.18%) Broadband
7 3 (0.18%) NaaS
7 3 (0.18%) Wireless
8 2 (0.12%) DKIM
8 2 (0.12%) DMARC
8 2 (0.12%) FTP
8 2 (0.12%) Internet
8 2 (0.12%) SMTP
8 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 369 (22.34%) NoSQL
2 311 (18.83%) PostgreSQL
3 301 (18.22%) MongoDB
4 298 (18.04%) Relational Database
5 257 (15.56%) DB2
6 226 (13.68%) SQL Server
7 121 (7.32%) MySQL
8 76 (4.60%) RDBMS
9 67 (4.06%) Redis
10 56 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
11 41 (2.48%) Big Data
12 39 (2.36%) Oracle Database
13 36 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
14 35 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
15 34 (2.06%) DynamoDB
16 26 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
17 23 (1.39%) Apache Hive
18 19 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
19 17 (1.03%) BigQuery
19 17 (1.03%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 313 (18.95%) Git
2 147 (8.90%) JIRA
3 136 (8.23%) Visual Studio
4 112 (6.78%) Bitbucket
5 76 (4.60%) Jenkins
6 59 (3.57%) Sourcetree
7 48 (2.91%) Postman
8 45 (2.72%) JUnit
9 39 (2.36%) Maven
10 36 (2.18%) JDeveloper
11 29 (1.76%) Selenium
12 25 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
13 23 (1.39%) Cucumber
14 22 (1.33%) GitLab
14 22 (1.33%) PHPUnit
15 19 (1.15%) NUnit
16 18 (1.09%) SonarQube
17 16 (0.97%) REST Assured
17 16 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
17 16 (0.97%) TestNG
General
1 322 (19.49%) Social Skills
2 313 (18.95%) Public Sector
3 261 (15.80%) Finance
4 215 (13.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 107 (6.48%) Games
6 101 (6.11%) Law
7 94 (5.69%) Banking
8 88 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
9 81 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
10 49 (2.97%) Retail
11 41 (2.48%) Investment Banking
12 38 (2.30%) Legal
13 35 (2.12%) Marketing
14 24 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
15 22 (1.33%) Prime Brokerage
16 20 (1.21%) Front Office
16 20 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (1.21%) Tech for Good
17 16 (0.97%) Manufacturing
17 16 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 781 (47.28%) Developer
2 442 (26.76%) Senior
3 257 (15.56%) Lead
4 222 (13.44%) Software Engineer
5 207 (12.53%) Full Stack Developer
6 205 (12.41%) Architect
7 202 (12.23%) Senior Developer
8 186 (11.26%) .NET Developer
9 153 (9.26%) Full Stack Engineer
10 149 (9.02%) Azure Developer
11 130 (7.87%) Azure Engineer
12 120 (7.26%) Software Developer
13 112 (6.78%) C# Developer
13 112 (6.78%) Solutions Architect
14 100 (6.05%) Designer
15 83 (5.02%) Technical Leader
16 79 (4.78%) 3D Developer
16 79 (4.78%) Games Developer
16 79 (4.78%) Senior Architect
16 79 (4.78%) Unity 3D Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 680 (41.16%) .NET
2 470 (28.45%) React
3 469 (28.39%) HTML
4 445 (26.94%) CSS
5 426 (25.79%) AngularJS
6 393 (23.79%) REST
7 375 (22.70%) ASP.NET
8 357 (21.61%) Vue
9 335 (20.28%) Web Services
10 323 (19.55%) jQuery
11 295 (17.86%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 247 (14.95%) ASP.NET Core
13 239 (14.47%) Ember.js
14 238 (14.41%) Backbone.js
15 221 (13.38%) Node.js
16 166 (10.05%) .NET Core
17 164 (9.93%) RESTful
18 144 (8.72%) Spring
19 131 (7.93%) .NET Framework
20 103 (6.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 351 (21.25%) Data Structures
2 335 (20.28%) Algorithms
3 251 (15.19%) Blockchain
4 249 (15.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 121 (7.32%) e-Learning
6 107 (6.48%) Cloud Native
7 91 (5.51%) Client/Server
8 79 (4.78%) Virtual Reality
9 75 (4.54%) Public Cloud
10 56 (3.39%) Product Ownership
11 46 (2.78%) Mobile App
12 44 (2.66%) Management Information System
13 35 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
14 33 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
15 28 (1.69%) IoT
16 27 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
16 27 (1.63%) Video\Live Streaming
17 23 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
18 22 (1.33%) Virtual Team
19 20 (1.21%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 293 (17.74%) Android
2 288 (17.43%) Linux
3 271 (16.40%) Apple iOS
4 264 (15.98%) Windows
5 8 (0.48%) Ubuntu
5 8 (0.48%) VME
6 7 (0.42%) Unix
7 5 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (45.94%) Agile
2 554 (33.54%) DevOps
3 494 (29.90%) Software Engineering
4 444 (26.88%) Full Stack Development
5 443 (26.82%) OOP
6 422 (25.54%) OO
7 397 (24.03%) MVC
8 387 (23.43%) SOLID
8 387 (23.43%) User Experience
9 365 (22.09%) Mentoring
10 360 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
11 339 (20.52%) Microservices
12 328 (19.85%) Artificial Intelligence
13 325 (19.67%) Coaching
14 308 (18.64%) MVVM
15 298 (18.04%) Web Development
16 275 (16.65%) CI/CD
17 247 (14.95%) Code Quality
18 242 (14.65%) Responsive Web Design
19 241 (14.59%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 811 (49.09%) C#
2 613 (37.11%) SQL
3 594 (35.96%) JavaScript
4 463 (28.03%) Java
5 322 (19.49%) Python
6 134 (8.11%) TypeScript
7 80 (4.84%) PHP
8 66 (4.00%) Bash
9 59 (3.57%) Ruby
10 53 (3.21%) Go
11 41 (2.48%) Kotlin
12 36 (2.18%) Perl
13 35 (2.12%) T-SQL
14 34 (2.06%) C
15 27 (1.63%) PowerShell
16 26 (1.57%) C++
17 25 (1.51%) VB.NET
18 19 (1.15%) Swift
19 16 (0.97%) Scala
20 11 (0.67%) XPath
Qualifications
1 302 (18.28%) Degree
2 166 (10.05%) Security Cleared
3 157 (9.50%) SC Cleared
4 127 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 89 (5.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 30 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 19 (1.15%) Master's Degree
8 16 (0.97%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.42%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (0.36%) SANS
11 5 (0.30%) CISA
11 5 (0.30%) CISM
11 5 (0.30%) CISSP
11 5 (0.30%) CRISC
12 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.18%) MCPD
13 3 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (9.14%) QA
2 87 (5.27%) Accessibility
3 68 (4.12%) WCAG
4 20 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 15 (0.91%) GDPR
6 9 (0.54%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.54%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.42%) NIST
8 6 (0.36%) GAAP
8 6 (0.36%) IFRS
9 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.18%) GRC
10 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.12%) ISO 9000
11 2 (0.12%) SEPA
12 1 (0.061%) PMO
12 1 (0.061%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 165 (9.99%) Docker
2 18 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.48%) HDFS
4 1 (0.061%) RACF
4 1 (0.061%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 144 (8.72%) Kubernetes
2 89 (5.39%) Terraform
3 20 (1.21%) Ansible
4 11 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 11 (0.67%) Grafana
5 7 (0.42%) Progress Chef
5 7 (0.42%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.42%) Puppet
6 6 (0.36%) Kibana
7 5 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.18%) logstash
9 2 (0.12%) Control-M
Vendors
1 281 (17.01%) Microsoft
2 270 (16.34%) IBM
3 248 (15.01%) Red Hat
4 137 (8.29%) Oracle
5 61 (3.69%) Google
6 35 (2.12%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.09%) Databricks
8 17 (1.03%) Xamarin
9 14 (0.85%) SAP
10 12 (0.73%) MuleSoft
11 10 (0.61%) New Relic
12 8 (0.48%) Informatica
12 8 (0.48%) Micro Focus
12 8 (0.48%) Teradata
12 8 (0.48%) Xero
13 7 (0.42%) Guidewire
13 7 (0.42%) SaltStack
14 6 (0.36%) PeopleSoft
15 5 (0.30%) Adobe
15 5 (0.30%) PayPal