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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

design patterns

161 live US technical postings name design patterns in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 161 postings naming design patterns that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer77.6%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer9.9%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer5%
  4. 4AI Engineer1.9%
  5. 5Frontend Engineer1.9%
  6. 6Security Engineer1.9%
  7. 7DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.2%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where design patterns is named
n = 101
10th
$130k
25th
$145k
Median
$174k
75th
$208k
90th
$231k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA13.7%
  2. 2New York, NY5.6%
  3. 3Remote5.6%
  4. 4San Diego, CA5.6%
  5. 5Austin, TX3.7%
  6. 6Seattle, WA2.5%
  7. 7Washington, DC2.5%
  8. 8Chicago, IL1.9%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.