Design Thinking Contracts in Central London

Design Thinking
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Design Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Design Thinking over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 164 174
Rank change year-on-year +40 +10 -21
Contract jobs citing Design Thinking 7 10 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.29% 0.27% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.29% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 21
10th Percentile £475 £448 £463
25th Percentile £485 £520 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £580 £613
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% -5.31% +22.50%
75th Percentile £564 £625 £650
90th Percentile £636 - £756
London median daily rate £500 £550 £580
% change year-on-year -9.09% -5.17% +16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £51.50 -
London median hourly rate - £38.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -45.36% +60.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,174 3,408 4,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.66% 91.27% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,544 2,315 3,192
10th Percentile £350 £325 £372
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 27 44
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.40 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.63 £18.50 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £28.98 £56.25 £52.63
90th Percentile £40.00 £88.30 £64.78
London median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +14.16%

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Design Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Design Thinking in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Thinking in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Design Thinking in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Thinking in Central London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Thinking in Central London

Design Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Thinking in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Design Thinking in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Design Thinking within the Central London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +48 7 £540 -6.90% 5
Design Thinking
London

Design Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (14.29%) SAS
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe XD
1 1 (14.29%) InVision
1 1 (14.29%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Softmar
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) dbt
1 1 (14.29%) Figma
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Mart
2 1 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) SAS EBI
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Content Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Market Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Product Management Director
3 1 (14.29%) UI Designer
3 1 (14.29%) UI/UX Designer
3 1 (14.29%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) CSS3
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Derivative
2 2 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Product Vision
3 3 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (42.86%) Product Management
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) BDD
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Coaching
4 2 (28.57%) Data Mapping
4 2 (28.57%) Epics
4 2 (28.57%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Journey Map
4 2 (28.57%) Product Backlog
4 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 2 (28.57%) User Stories
4 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Storyboarding
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Murex
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe
2 1 (14.29%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle