Human-Centred Design Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Human-Centred Design
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Human-Centred Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 51 57
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 +15
Contract jobs citing Human-Centred Design 4 19 28
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.68% 3.04% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 3.31% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 25
10th Percentile £478 £432 £432
25th Percentile £489 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £469 £480
Median % change year-on-year +8.32% -2.29% +1.05%
75th Percentile £527 £482 £538
90th Percentile £538 £493 £588
Scotland median daily rate £508 £471 £472
% change year-on-year +7.86% -0.16% +0.11%

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 537 574 823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.33% 91.84% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 307 493
10th Percentile £224 £229 £205
25th Percentile £406 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £626
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 26 10
10th Percentile £17.36 £17.32 £13.12
25th Percentile - £21.01 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +33.96% -14.33%
75th Percentile £35.75 £24.18 £31.97
90th Percentile £64.00 £26.28 £54.48
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%

Human-Centred Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Human-Centred Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Human-Centred Design job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Human-Centred Design
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Human-Centred Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Human-Centred Design

Human-Centred Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Designer
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) Next.js
2 1 (25.00%) PostGIS
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Derivative
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Community of Practice
3 2 (50.00%) Content Writing
3 2 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
3 2 (50.00%) Infographics
3 2 (50.00%) Interaction Design
3 2 (50.00%) Kanban
3 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (50.00%) Storytelling
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe