Empathy Maps Contracts

Empathy Maps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Empathy Maps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Empathy Maps over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 - 832
Rank change year-on-year - - -149
Contract jobs citing Empathy Maps 7 0 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% - 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% - 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile - - £396
25th Percentile £425 - £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.35%
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile £538 - £719
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Empathy Maps 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Empathy Maps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Empathy Maps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Empathy Maps in the UK

Empathy Maps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Empathy Maps.

Daily rate trend for Empathy Maps in the UK

Empathy Maps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Empathy Maps over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Empathy Maps in the UK

Empathy Maps
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Empathy Maps within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 - 6 £463 - 2
England - 6 £463 - 2

Empathy Maps
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:

Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Adobe XD
1 3 (42.86%) InVision
1 3 (42.86%) Sketch
1 3 (42.86%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Figma
2 2 (28.57%) Miro
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Axure RP
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Designer
1 6 (85.71%) Service Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Service Design Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Service Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Service Transition Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Transition Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Service Design
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Design Thinking
2 6 (85.71%) Storytelling
2 6 (85.71%) User Research
3 5 (71.43%) Acceptance Criteria
3 5 (71.43%) Backlog Management
3 5 (71.43%) Data Analysis
3 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (71.43%) Usability Testing
3 5 (71.43%) User Stories
3 5 (71.43%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (57.14%) Ergonomics
4 4 (57.14%) Ethnography
4 4 (57.14%) Human Factors
4 4 (57.14%) Journey Map
4 4 (57.14%) User Journey Map
4 4 (57.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (42.86%) Co-Creation
5 3 (42.86%) Customer-Centricity
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) Accessibility
1 5 (71.43%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Adobe