Design Sprint Contracts with Work from Home Options

Design Sprints
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 457 588
Rank change year-on-year +114 +131 -113
Contract jobs citing Design Sprint 4 9 34
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.036% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.040% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 25
10th Percentile - £503 £438
25th Percentile - £563 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.13% +9.30%
75th Percentile £550 £680 £638
90th Percentile £640 £857 £675
UK median daily rate £531 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -21.30% +22.73% +6.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,242 22,482 39,977
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.03% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,879 28,991
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 516 542
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.66 £13.78
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.29
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Design Sprint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Design Sprint trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Design Sprint.

Design Sprint daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Design Sprint over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Design Sprint daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Designer
1 3 (75.00%) Service Designer
2 1 (25.00%) UI Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS3
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
1 4 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Prototyping
2 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Service Design
2 3 (75.00%) Usability Testing
2 3 (75.00%) User Research
2 3 (75.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Design Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
3 1 (25.00%) Ideation Sessions
3 1 (25.00%) Journey Map
3 1 (25.00%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Storyboarding
3 1 (25.00%) UX Design
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Wireframes
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) MicroStrategy