Human-Centred Design Contracts with Work from Home Options

Human-Centred Design
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 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 399 518
Rank change year-on-year +76 +119 -109
Contract jobs citing Human-Centred Design 18 69 97
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.28% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.31% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 58 76
10th Percentile £415 £416 £431
25th Percentile £431 £458 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £479 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.16% -12.82% +16.72%
75th Percentile £550 £510 £600
90th Percentile - £570 £649
UK median daily rate £483 £485 £550
% change year-on-year -0.41% -11.82% +17.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £84.80 -
UK median hourly rate - £72.40 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
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 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
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 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Human-Centred Design
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Human-Centred Design trend for jobs with a WFH option

Human-Centred Design
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 Human-Centred Design.

Human-Centred Design daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Human-Centred Design
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Human-Centred Design over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Human-Centred Design daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Human-Centred Design
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 (11.11%) CMS
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Adobe XD
1 4 (22.22%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) Amazon S3
2 7 (38.89%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (38.89%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (38.89%) Serverless
3 4 (22.22%) Figma
3 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 2 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 10 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Advertising
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Software Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Designer
3 4 (22.22%) Interaction Designer
4 3 (16.67%) Java Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Pega Developer
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (5.56%) Java Software Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (5.56%) User Experience Researcher
6 1 (5.56%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 8 (44.44%) React
3 7 (38.89%) CSS
3 7 (38.89%) HTML
3 7 (38.89%) Node.js
4 4 (22.22%) Spring
4 4 (22.22%) Spring Boot
5 3 (16.67%) REST
6 2 (11.11%) JSON
6 2 (11.11%) JSP
6 2 (11.11%) OAuth
6 2 (11.11%) OAuth2
6 2 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (11.11%) Spring MVC
6 2 (11.11%) Spring Security
6 2 (11.11%) Spring Web Flow
6 2 (11.11%) Thymeleaf
7 1 (5.56%) Java EE
7 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Agile
1 11 (61.11%) User Experience
2 10 (55.56%) Pair Programming
3 9 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
4 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (44.44%) TDD
5 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
6 6 (33.33%) Analytics
6 6 (33.33%) Code Quality
7 5 (27.78%) Architecture Roadmap
7 5 (27.78%) Code Coverage
7 5 (27.78%) ETL
7 5 (27.78%) Interaction Design
7 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
7 5 (27.78%) Microservices
7 5 (27.78%) Product Roadmap
7 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
7 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
7 5 (27.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 5 (27.78%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 8 (44.44%) Java
3 7 (38.89%) TypeScript
4 4 (22.22%) Python
5 3 (16.67%) Bash
6 2 (11.11%) SQL
7 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (77.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Grafana
2 2 (11.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Adobe
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Pega