Design Thinking Contracts in Berkshire

Design Thinking
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Design Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Design Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 - 104
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Design Thinking 5 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.43% - 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% - 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile - - £489
25th Percentile £625 - £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.97%
75th Percentile £825 - £566
90th Percentile - - £570
South East median daily rate £650 £370 £570
% change year-on-year +75.68% -35.09% +3.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Design Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Design Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Design Thinking in Berkshire

Design Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Thinking in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Design Thinking in Berkshire

Design Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Design Thinking within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wokingham - 3 £650 -
Reading - 2 £750 -
Design Thinking
South East

Design Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (60.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) UI Developer
2 1 (20.00%) UI/UX Developer
2 1 (20.00%) UX Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) User Experience
1 3 (60.00%) UX Design
2 2 (40.00%) Business Case
2 2 (40.00%) Business Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Usability Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 2 (40.00%) User Research
2 2 (40.00%) UX Research
2 2 (40.00%) Wireframes
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum