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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 160 95
Rank change year-on-year -13 -65 +51
Permanent jobs citing Design Patterns 1,668 2,348 5,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.68% 2.32% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 2.43% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,074 1,380 2,173
10th Percentile £37,725 £46,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,619 £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 £86,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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 10 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 10 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 -1 1,488 £62,500 -13.79% 298
UK excluding London +14 1,261 £60,000 -7.69% 207
Work from Home -33 715 £62,500 -10.71% 221
North of England +81 436 £61,206 -5.84% 69
London -86 360 £80,000 -5.88% 112
North West +66 299 £61,206 -2.07% 38
South East +4 256 £60,000 -7.69% 47
South West +3 205 £50,000 -10.31% 16
Midlands +16 186 £62,500 -3.85% 38
Scotland -33 106 £60,000 -9.91% 22
East Midlands +25 99 £50,000 -23.08% 20
Yorkshire +49 93 £61,206 -11.87% 19
West Midlands -9 86 £62,500 +4.17% 18
North East +20 44 £61,206 +16.58% 13
East of England -18 43 £75,000 -6.25% 7
Wales -17 19 £58,800 -2.00% 5
Northern Ireland -20 10 £54,150 -21.81% 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
1 104 (6.24%) Confluence
2 31 (1.86%) Apache
3 30 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.14%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.60%) CMS
5 10 (0.60%) Tomcat
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%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.24%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
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 (3.54%) Sketch
2 5 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (0.30%) InVision
2 5 (0.30%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.18%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.12%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.060%) Blender
5 1 (0.060%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.060%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.060%) Notion
Business Applications
1 17 (1.02%) 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 (0.060%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.060%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.060%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.060%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.060%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.060%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.060%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 664 (39.81%) Azure
2 413 (24.76%) AWS
3 270 (16.19%) Serverless
4 249 (14.93%) IBM Cloud
5 222 (13.31%) Azure DevOps
6 157 (9.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 143 (8.57%) Azure Functions
8 130 (7.79%) Azure API Management
8 130 (7.79%) Azure Logic Apps
9 108 (6.47%) SaaS
10 86 (5.16%) GCP
11 74 (4.44%) GitHub
12 64 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
13 63 (3.78%) Figma
14 60 (3.60%) Heroku
15 52 (3.12%) PaaS
16 46 (2.76%) Miro
17 42 (2.52%) Amazon Kinesis
18 41 (2.46%) Amazon S3
19 37 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.72%) Network Security
1 12 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
2 11 (0.66%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.60%) HTTP
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
1 365 (21.88%) NoSQL
2 312 (18.71%) PostgreSQL
3 300 (17.99%) Relational Database
4 299 (17.93%) MongoDB
5 257 (15.41%) DB2
6 228 (13.67%) SQL Server
7 121 (7.25%) MySQL
8 77 (4.62%) RDBMS
9 68 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
10 65 (3.90%) Redis
11 42 (2.52%) Big Data
12 39 (2.34%) Oracle Database
13 36 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
14 35 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
15 34 (2.04%) DynamoDB
16 25 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
17 23 (1.38%) Apache Hive
18 20 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
19 17 (1.02%) BigQuery
19 17 (1.02%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 316 (18.94%) Git
2 154 (9.23%) JIRA
3 141 (8.45%) Visual Studio
4 120 (7.19%) Bitbucket
5 76 (4.56%) Jenkins
6 59 (3.54%) Sourcetree
7 48 (2.88%) Postman
8 46 (2.76%) JUnit
9 40 (2.40%) Maven
10 36 (2.16%) JDeveloper
11 28 (1.68%) Selenium
12 23 (1.38%) Cucumber
12 23 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
13 22 (1.32%) GitLab
13 22 (1.32%) PHPUnit
14 18 (1.08%) SonarQube
15 16 (0.96%) Android Studio
15 16 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
15 16 (0.96%) TestNG
15 16 (0.96%) WebDriver
General
1 317 (19.00%) Social Skills
2 313 (18.76%) Public Sector
3 254 (15.23%) Finance
4 216 (12.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 114 (6.83%) Games
6 100 (6.00%) Law
7 96 (5.76%) Presentation Skills
8 92 (5.52%) Banking
9 81 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
10 48 (2.88%) Retail
11 42 (2.52%) Investment Banking
12 38 (2.28%) Legal
13 35 (2.10%) Marketing
14 24 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
15 22 (1.32%) Front Office
15 22 (1.32%) Prime Brokerage
16 20 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (1.20%) Tech for Good
17 15 (0.90%) Back Office
17 15 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 787 (47.18%) Developer
2 448 (26.86%) Senior
3 256 (15.35%) Lead
4 221 (13.25%) Software Engineer
5 215 (12.89%) Architect
6 206 (12.35%) Full Stack Developer
7 199 (11.93%) Senior Developer
8 182 (10.91%) .NET Developer
9 153 (9.17%) Full Stack Engineer
10 146 (8.75%) Azure Developer
11 129 (7.73%) Azure Engineer
12 124 (7.43%) Solutions Architect
13 119 (7.13%) Software Developer
14 109 (6.53%) C# Developer
15 101 (6.06%) Designer
16 91 (5.46%) Senior Architect
17 87 (5.22%) 3D Developer
17 87 (5.22%) Games Developer
17 87 (5.22%) Unity 3D Developer
18 82 (4.92%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 677 (40.59%) .NET
2 471 (28.24%) HTML
3 468 (28.06%) React
4 447 (26.80%) CSS
5 425 (25.48%) AngularJS
6 392 (23.50%) REST
7 374 (22.42%) ASP.NET
8 355 (21.28%) Vue
9 336 (20.14%) Web Services
10 323 (19.36%) jQuery
11 295 (17.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 247 (14.81%) ASP.NET Core
13 239 (14.33%) Ember.js
14 238 (14.27%) Backbone.js
15 221 (13.25%) Node.js
16 164 (9.83%) .NET Core
17 160 (9.59%) RESTful
18 144 (8.63%) Spring
19 127 (7.61%) .NET Framework
20 103 (6.18%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 362 (21.70%) Data Structures
2 334 (20.02%) Algorithms
3 251 (15.05%) Blockchain
4 250 (14.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 121 (7.25%) e-Learning
6 120 (7.19%) Cloud Native
7 91 (5.46%) Client/Server
8 87 (5.22%) Virtual Reality
9 75 (4.50%) Public Cloud
10 54 (3.24%) Product Ownership
11 46 (2.76%) Mobile App
12 43 (2.58%) Management Information System
13 36 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
14 32 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
15 28 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
15 28 (1.68%) Video\Live Streaming
16 27 (1.62%) IoT
17 23 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
18 21 (1.26%) Onboarding
19 20 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 292 (17.51%) Android
2 290 (17.39%) Linux
3 270 (16.19%) Apple iOS
4 263 (15.77%) 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
1 771 (46.22%) Agile
2 547 (32.79%) DevOps
3 498 (29.86%) Software Engineering
4 445 (26.68%) OOP
5 439 (26.32%) Full Stack Development
6 422 (25.30%) OO
7 396 (23.74%) MVC
8 389 (23.32%) SOLID
9 387 (23.20%) User Experience
10 365 (21.88%) Mentoring
11 355 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
12 342 (20.50%) Microservices
13 326 (19.54%) Artificial Intelligence
13 326 (19.54%) Coaching
14 307 (18.41%) MVVM
15 298 (17.87%) Web Development
16 275 (16.49%) CI/CD
17 255 (15.29%) Scrum
18 245 (14.69%) Code Quality
19 242 (14.51%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 817 (48.98%) C#
2 614 (36.81%) SQL
3 595 (35.67%) JavaScript
4 464 (27.82%) Java
5 327 (19.60%) Python
6 135 (8.09%) TypeScript
7 79 (4.74%) PHP
8 66 (3.96%) Bash
9 58 (3.48%) Ruby
10 53 (3.18%) Go
11 41 (2.46%) Kotlin
12 36 (2.16%) Perl
12 36 (2.16%) T-SQL
13 34 (2.04%) C
14 26 (1.56%) C++
14 26 (1.56%) PowerShell
15 25 (1.50%) VB.NET
16 19 (1.14%) Swift
17 17 (1.02%) Scala
18 12 (0.72%) R
Qualifications
1 308 (18.47%) Degree
2 174 (10.43%) Security Cleared
3 165 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 126 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 97 (5.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 30 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 20 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 15 (0.90%) AWS Certification
9 12 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.42%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.36%) SANS
12 5 (0.30%) CISA
12 5 (0.30%) CISM
12 5 (0.30%) CISSP
12 5 (0.30%) CRISC
13 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.24%) PhD
14 3 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (8.99%) QA
2 86 (5.16%) Accessibility
3 69 (4.14%) WCAG
4 28 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 15 (0.90%) 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
11 2 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.060%) PMO
System Software
1 163 (9.77%) Docker
2 18 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.48%) HDFS
4 1 (0.060%) RACF
4 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 142 (8.51%) Kubernetes
2 89 (5.34%) Terraform
3 19 (1.14%) Ansible
4 11 (0.66%) Grafana
5 10 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.42%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.42%) Puppet
7 6 (0.36%) Kibana
8 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.18%) logstash
10 2 (0.12%) Control-M
11 1 (0.060%) Rancher
Vendors
1 290 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 269 (16.13%) IBM
3 248 (14.87%) Red Hat
4 136 (8.15%) Oracle
5 62 (3.72%) Google
6 34 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.14%) Databricks
8 17 (1.02%) Xamarin
9 14 (0.84%) SAP
10 11 (0.66%) MuleSoft
11 10 (0.60%) 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%) F5
15 5 (0.30%) PayPal