Human-Centred Design Contracts

Human-Centred Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Human-Centred Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Human-Centred Design over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 598 683
Rank change year-on-year +44 +85 -148
Contract jobs citing Human-Centred Design 44 121 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.23% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 96 118
10th Percentile £415 £409 £437
25th Percentile £456 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £485 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% -11.82% +17.02%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £600
90th Percentile £550 £594 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £479 £528
% change year-on-year -0.31% -9.19% +17.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £72.40 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £84.80 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Human-Centred Design 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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Human-Centred Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Human-Centred Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Human-Centred Design in the UK

Human-Centred Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Human-Centred Design.

Daily rate trend for Human-Centred Design in the UK

Human-Centred Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Human-Centred Design over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Human-Centred Design in the UK

Human-Centred Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Human-Centred Design.

Hourly rate trend for Human-Centred Design in the UK

Human-Centred Design
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Human-Centred Design within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
UK excluding London +10 34 £478 -0.31% 4
Scotland -12 31 £475 -0.84%
Work from Home +85 27 £480 +0.16% 7
England +106 9 £525 -2.42% 11
London +82 6 £525 -8.70% 7
North of England +34 3 £513 +13.89%
Yorkshire - 2 £513 -
North West +15 1 - -

Human-Centred Design
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 3 (6.82%) CMS
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) GeoServer
Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Sketch
2 5 (11.36%) Adobe XD
3 1 (2.27%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 24 (54.55%) AWS
2 19 (43.18%) Amazon S3
2 19 (43.18%) AWS CloudFormation
2 19 (43.18%) AWS Lambda
2 19 (43.18%) Serverless
3 13 (29.55%) OpenShift
4 6 (13.64%) Figma
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (47.73%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (40.91%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.82%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.55%) GIS
5 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (22.73%) Cypress.io
3 5 (11.36%) GitLab
4 3 (6.82%) JIRA
5 1 (2.27%) Git
General
1 23 (52.27%) Public Sector
2 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Finance
5 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Health Technology
5 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Advertising
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Legal
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.27%) Marketing
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
6 1 (2.27%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (54.55%) Developer
2 9 (20.45%) Full Stack Developer
3 8 (18.18%) Designer
4 5 (11.36%) Java Developer
4 5 (11.36%) Lead
4 5 (11.36%) Software Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Interaction Designer
5 4 (9.09%) Technical Leader
6 3 (6.82%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Pega Developer
6 3 (6.82%) User Researcher
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Content Designer
7 2 (4.55%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Product Designer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.55%) User Experience Researcher
8 1 (2.27%) Java Software Developer
8 1 (2.27%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (50.00%) React
2 21 (47.73%) AWS CDK
3 19 (43.18%) CSS
3 19 (43.18%) HTML
4 11 (25.00%) REST
5 10 (22.73%) Spring
5 10 (22.73%) Spring Boot
6 8 (18.18%) Node.js
6 8 (18.18%) Spring Security
7 7 (15.91%) OAuth
7 7 (15.91%) OAuth2
8 6 (13.64%) Spring MVC
8 6 (13.64%) Spring Web Flow
9 5 (11.36%) Thymeleaf
10 4 (9.09%) PostGIS
11 3 (6.82%) JSON
11 3 (6.82%) JSP
11 3 (6.82%) RabbitMQ
12 1 (2.27%) Java EE
12 1 (2.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.27%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Android
1 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
1 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (70.45%) Agile
2 28 (63.64%) Inclusive Design
3 21 (47.73%) User Experience
4 20 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (45.45%) Test Automation
5 18 (40.91%) CI/CD
5 18 (40.91%) Pair Programming
6 17 (38.64%) Analytics
7 16 (36.36%) Code Quality
7 16 (36.36%) Microservices
7 16 (36.36%) TDD
7 16 (36.36%) Unit Testing
8 14 (31.82%) DevOps
9 12 (27.27%) Product Roadmap
9 12 (27.27%) Roadmaps
10 10 (22.73%) Architecture Roadmap
11 9 (20.45%) Code Coverage
11 9 (20.45%) Full Stack Development
11 9 (20.45%) Mentoring
11 9 (20.45%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 24 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 19 (43.18%) Java
2 19 (43.18%) TypeScript
3 12 (27.27%) Python
4 8 (18.18%) SQL
5 4 (9.09%) Bash
6 2 (4.55%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.27%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (68.18%) Accessibility
2 6 (13.64%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (4.55%) GDPR
3 2 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 10 (22.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (38.64%) Grafana
2 3 (6.82%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) Adobe
2 3 (6.82%) Oracle
2 3 (6.82%) Pega
3 1 (2.27%) Brio