Design Thinking Contracts with Work from Home Options

Design Thinking
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 Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Design Thinking 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 330 413 441
Rank change year-on-year +83 +28 -77
Contract jobs citing Design Thinking 17 54 181
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.21% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.24% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 36 129
10th Percentile £324 £506 £429
25th Percentile £500 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £630
90th Percentile £587 £631 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £38.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -45.36% +78.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
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 £630
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 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Design Thinking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Design Thinking 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 Thinking.

Design Thinking 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 Thinking over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Design Thinking daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Design Thinking hourly rate 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) SAS
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.76%) Figma
2 2 (11.76%) IaaS
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.76%) PaaS
2 2 (11.76%) SaaS
2 2 (11.76%) WhatsApp
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) Miro
3 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Power BI
2 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) SAS EBI
3 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Axure RP
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Law
5 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
5 1 (5.88%) Police
5 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Designer
2 5 (29.41%) Service Designer
3 3 (17.65%) UX Designer
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Design Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Design Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Service Design Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Content Designer
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Digital UX Designer
5 1 (5.88%) Junior
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Product Designer
5 1 (5.88%) UI Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) UI/UX Designer
5 1 (5.88%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) CSS
1 1 (5.88%) CSS3
1 1 (5.88%) HTML
1 1 (5.88%) Middleware
1 1 (5.88%) Web Services
1 1 (5.88%) XML
1 1 (5.88%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (47.06%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) Service Design
3 5 (29.41%) Journey Map
3 5 (29.41%) User Experience
3 5 (29.41%) User Stories
4 4 (23.53%) Creative Thinking
4 4 (23.53%) Customer Experience
4 4 (23.53%) Customer-Centricity
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) Usability Testing
4 4 (23.53%) UX Design
5 3 (17.65%) Business Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) Coaching
5 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
5 3 (17.65%) Project Planning
5 3 (17.65%) SIPOC
5 3 (17.65%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.88%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (5.88%) Workday