Design Sprint Contracts in England

Design Sprints
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Design Sprint skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Design Sprint over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 615 729
Rank change year-on-year +69 +114 -117
Contract jobs citing Design Sprint 8 30 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.061% 0.069%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.068% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 37
10th Percentile £541 £519 £438
25th Percentile £547 £600 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £678 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.13% +23.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £656 £700 £625
90th Percentile £683 - £653
UK median daily rate £531 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -21.30% +22.73% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Design Sprint 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,870 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,878 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.90 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Design Sprint
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Design Sprint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Design Sprint in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Sprint in England.

Daily rate trend for Design Sprint in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Sprint in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Sprint in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Design Sprint within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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
London +88 7 £631 -9.82% 2
South East +7 1 £575 +9.52%
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (12.50%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) InVision
1 5 (62.50%) Sketch
2 2 (25.00%) Adobe XD
3 1 (12.50%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Figma
2 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Axure RP
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Designer
1 4 (50.00%) UX Designer
2 2 (25.00%) UI Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) UX Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior User Researcher
3 1 (12.50%) UI Designer
3 1 (12.50%) UI/UX Designer
3 1 (12.50%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) CSS3
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
1 7 (87.50%) User Experience
1 7 (87.50%) Workshop Facilitation
2 6 (75.00%) Data Visualisation
2 6 (75.00%) Design Thinking
2 6 (75.00%) Journey Map
2 6 (75.00%) Product Vision
2 6 (75.00%) Storyboarding
2 6 (75.00%) UX Design
2 6 (75.00%) Visualisation
2 6 (75.00%) Wireframes
3 4 (50.00%) User Research
4 3 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (37.50%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 3 (37.50%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Storytelling
4 3 (37.50%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (37.50%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe