Human-Centred Design Contracts in Edinburgh

Human-Centred Design
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Human-Centred Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Human-Centred Design 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 56 59 58
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +55
Contract jobs citing Human-Centred Design 11 13 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.76% 1.60% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.81% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 51
10th Percentile £450 £415 £413
25th Percentile £460 £440 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -0.94% -9.27%
75th Percentile £494 £483 £503
90th Percentile £560 £506 £545
Scotland median daily rate £487 £475 £479
% change year-on-year +2.53% -0.89% -8.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Human-Centred Design 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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Human-Centred Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Human-Centred Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Human-Centred Design in Edinburgh

Human-Centred Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Human-Centred Design in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Human-Centred Design in Edinburgh

Human-Centred Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Human-Centred Design in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Human-Centred Design in Edinburgh

Human-Centred Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (9.09%) GeoServer
1 1 (9.09%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Amazon S3
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
1 10 (90.91%) AWS Lambda
1 10 (90.91%) Serverless
2 9 (81.82%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (45.45%) AWS CodePipeline
3 5 (45.45%) OpenShift
4 3 (27.27%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (9.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (27.27%) GIS
4 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database
5 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
5 1 (9.09%) InfluxDB
5 1 (9.09%) Metadata
5 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Cypress.io
2 3 (27.27%) GitLab
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
3 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 8 (72.73%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Agile Delivery Lead
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Developer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) AWS CDK
2 5 (45.45%) PostGIS
2 5 (45.45%) React
3 4 (36.36%) Spring Boot
4 3 (27.27%) Next.js
4 3 (27.27%) Node.js
4 3 (27.27%) REST
5 2 (18.18%) Spring
6 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (9.09%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
1 11 (100.00%) Inclusive Design
2 9 (81.82%) Scrum
3 8 (72.73%) Kanban
4 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 6 (54.55%) TDD
5 5 (45.45%) Community of Practice
5 5 (45.45%) DevOps
5 5 (45.45%) Migration
6 4 (36.36%) Code Coverage
6 4 (36.36%) Code Quality
6 4 (36.36%) Data Migration
6 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (36.36%) Pair Programming
6 4 (36.36%) Requirements Analysis
6 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
6 4 (36.36%) Unit Testing
6 4 (36.36%) User Experience
7 3 (27.27%) Microservices
7 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) Java
3 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 5 (45.45%) TypeScript
4 3 (27.27%) SQL
5 2 (18.18%) Bash
6 1 (9.09%) Groovy
6 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Accessibility
1 4 (36.36%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Kibana
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Imperva
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow