Design Thinking Jobs in the UK excluding London

Design Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Design Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Design Thinking over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 561 514
Rank change year-on-year +96 -47 +82
Permanent jobs citing Design Thinking 321 188 376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.32% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.33% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25 65 115
10th Percentile £46,000 - £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,015 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,650 £67,500 £50,300
Median % change year-on-year -19.04% +34.19% -8.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,715 £69,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £59,300 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.29% +16.67% -3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Design Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,715 56,667 67,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.64% 95.62% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 41,241 29,107 41,040
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Design Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Design Thinking in the UK excluding London

Design Thinking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Design Thinking in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Design Thinking in the UK excluding London

Design Thinking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Design Thinking in the UK excluding London

Design Thinking
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Thinking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +68 91 £54,650 -4.12% 4
North of England +87 88 £73,496 +4.99% 11
North West +55 85 £73,496 +4.99% 7
South East +6 83 £63,750 -5.56%
East Midlands +60 75 £49,000 - 1
Scotland -46 35 £60,000 +16.81% 4
West Midlands +15 16 £54,650 -4.12% 3
South West -25 13 £62,500 +3.47% 2
Northern Ireland - 8 - -
Yorkshire +70 3 - - 3
East of England -11 3 £82,500 +83.33% 2
Design Thinking
UK

Design Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (0.93%) SAS
2 2 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 38 (11.84%) UserZoom
2 10 (3.12%) Sketch
3 6 (1.87%) Adobe XD
4 4 (1.25%) InVision
5 2 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.31%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 231 (71.96%) Azure
2 228 (71.03%) IBM Cloud
3 116 (36.14%) Azure DevOps
3 116 (36.14%) Azure Logic Apps
3 116 (36.14%) Serverless
4 115 (35.83%) Azure API Management
4 115 (35.83%) Azure Functions
4 115 (35.83%) Azure Service Bus
5 42 (13.08%) Figma
6 32 (9.97%) SurveyMonkey
7 6 (1.87%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 6 (1.87%) SaaS
8 2 (0.62%) AWS
8 2 (0.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.31%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.31%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.31%) Boomi
9 1 (0.31%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.31%) GitHub
9 1 (0.31%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.93%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (71.34%) MongoDB
2 228 (71.03%) DB2
2 228 (71.03%) NoSQL
2 228 (71.03%) PostgreSQL
3 116 (36.14%) Relational Database
4 15 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.93%) Metadata
5 3 (0.93%) SAS EBI
6 2 (0.62%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.31%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 33 (10.28%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.93%) Axure RP
2 3 (0.93%) JIRA
3 1 (0.31%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.31%) VersionOne
3 1 (0.31%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 229 (71.34%) Public Sector
2 163 (50.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 56 (17.45%) Finance
4 49 (15.26%) Social Skills
5 47 (14.64%) Law
6 39 (12.15%) Marketing
7 17 (5.30%) Legal
8 16 (4.98%) Banking
9 10 (3.12%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (2.49%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.62%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.62%) Retail
14 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.31%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 116 (36.14%) Developer
2 115 (35.83%) Azure Developer
2 115 (35.83%) Full Stack Developer
3 113 (35.20%) Full Stack Engineer
4 110 (34.27%) Azure Engineer
5 35 (10.90%) User Experience Researcher
6 17 (5.30%) Lead
7 11 (3.43%) Data Manager
8 9 (2.80%) Designer
9 8 (2.49%) Data Governance Analyst
9 8 (2.49%) Data Governance Manager
9 8 (2.49%) Governance Manager
10 6 (1.87%) Strategy Manager
11 5 (1.56%) Analyst
11 5 (1.56%) UX Designer
12 4 (1.25%) Architect
12 4 (1.25%) Business Analyst
12 4 (1.25%) Consultant
12 4 (1.25%) Information Manager
12 4 (1.25%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (74.77%) CSS
1 240 (74.77%) HTML
2 236 (73.52%) React
3 229 (71.34%) .NET
3 229 (71.34%) Web Services
4 228 (71.03%) AngularJS
4 228 (71.03%) ASP.NET
4 228 (71.03%) ASP.NET Core
4 228 (71.03%) Backbone.js
4 228 (71.03%) Ember.js
4 228 (71.03%) jQuery
4 228 (71.03%) REST
4 228 (71.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 228 (71.03%) Vue
5 118 (36.76%) Node.js
6 2 (0.62%) EDI
6 2 (0.62%) Java EE
6 2 (0.62%) RESTful
6 2 (0.62%) Spring
6 2 (0.62%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 229 (71.34%) Algorithms
1 229 (71.34%) Blockchain
1 229 (71.34%) Data Structures
2 228 (71.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 113 (35.20%) e-Learning
4 15 (4.67%) Product Ownership
5 14 (4.36%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.74%) Freedom of Information
6 12 (3.74%) Taxonomies
7 8 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.62%) Graphic Design
8 2 (0.62%) Life Science
8 2 (0.62%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.62%) Photography
9 1 (0.31%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 229 (71.34%) Android
2 228 (71.03%) Apple iOS
2 228 (71.03%) Linux
2 228 (71.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (90.03%) User Experience
2 242 (75.39%) Co-Creation
3 230 (71.65%) Design Patterns
3 230 (71.65%) Full Stack Development
3 230 (71.65%) Responsive Web Design
4 229 (71.34%) Artificial Intelligence
5 228 (71.03%) MVC
5 228 (71.03%) MVVM
5 228 (71.03%) OO
5 228 (71.03%) OOP
5 228 (71.03%) SOLID
5 228 (71.03%) Web Development
6 167 (52.02%) Agile
7 152 (47.35%) Mentoring
8 150 (46.73%) DevOps
9 115 (35.83%) API Management
9 115 (35.83%) Generative AI
10 114 (35.51%) Coaching
11 113 (35.20%) Code Quality
12 51 (15.89%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 237 (73.83%) JavaScript
2 230 (71.65%) SQL
3 229 (71.34%) C#
4 118 (36.76%) Java
4 118 (36.76%) Python
5 2 (0.62%) Ruby
6 1 (0.31%) Go
Qualifications
1 52 (16.20%) Degree
2 8 (2.49%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.31%) MBA
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.31%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.31%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.97%) Actionable Recommendations
2 13 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.25%) WCAG
4 2 (0.62%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.31%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (0.31%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 228 (71.03%) IBM
1 228 (71.03%) Red Hat
2 38 (11.84%) Qualtrics
3 8 (2.49%) Adobe
4 3 (0.93%) Oracle
4 3 (0.93%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.62%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.62%) Google
6 1 (0.31%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.31%) Databricks
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.31%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.31%) Splunk
6 1 (0.31%) Workday