Co-Design Contract Job Trends in England

Co-Design (Participatory Design)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Co-Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Co-Design 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.011% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £474 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 - -
75th Percentile £583 - -
90th Percentile £592 - -
UK median daily rate £380 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Co-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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,840 25,197 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.30% 90.74% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,270 16,131 18,863
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 1,391 1,702
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £18.18
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.45 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

Co-Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Co-Design job vacancy trend in England

Co-Design
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Co-Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Co-Design

Co-Design
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Co-Design in England over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Co-Design in England

Co-Design
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Co-Design within the England region over the 6 months to 2 August 2026. 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
London - 3 £583 - 1
Midlands - 1 £380 -
West Midlands - 1 £380 -
East of England - 1 - - 1
Co-Design
UK

Co-Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Hudi
1 2 (40.00%) Big Data
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Presto
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Local Government
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Scala Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior UI Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior UX Designer
2 1 (20.00%) UI Designer
2 1 (20.00%) User Researcher
2 1 (20.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) Play Framework
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Interaction Design
2 3 (60.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Insight
3 2 (40.00%) Data Sharing
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Human-Centred Design
3 2 (40.00%) Inclusive Design
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Secrets Management
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Scala
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kibana
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe