Design Sprint Contracts in England

Design Sprints
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Design Sprint skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Design Sprint over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 631 740
Rank change year-on-year +102 +109 -129
Contract jobs citing Design Sprint 7 29 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.057% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.063% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 19 35
10th Percentile £571 £513 £423
25th Percentile £592 £600 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% +22.73% +22.22%
75th Percentile £667 £700 £631
90th Percentile £687 - £660
UK median daily rate £500 £663 £550
% change year-on-year -24.53% +20.45% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Design Sprint is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,208 45,878 64,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.28% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,179 32,145 45,991
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,233 1,631 1,786
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.23
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.19
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Design Sprint
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Design Sprint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Design Sprint in England

Design Sprint
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Sprint in England.

Daily rate trend for Design Sprint in England

Design Sprint
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Sprint in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Sprint in England

Design Sprint
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 Design Sprint within the England region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +91 7 £631 -9.82% 1
Design Sprint
UK

Design Sprint
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 6 (85.71%) InVision
1 6 (85.71%) Sketch
2 2 (28.57%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Figma
2 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Axure RP
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Designer
1 5 (71.43%) UX Designer
2 2 (28.57%) UI Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) UX Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) UI Designer
3 1 (14.29%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) CSS
1 3 (42.86%) CSS3
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 7 (100.00%) Design Thinking
1 7 (100.00%) Journey Map
1 7 (100.00%) Product Vision
1 7 (100.00%) Storyboarding
1 7 (100.00%) User Experience
1 7 (100.00%) UX Design
1 7 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 7 (100.00%) Wireframes
1 7 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 4 (57.14%) Storytelling
2 4 (57.14%) Strategic Thinking
2 4 (57.14%) User Research
2 4 (57.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (42.86%) Asset Management
3 3 (42.86%) Information Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) User Journey Map
3 3 (42.86%) User Stories
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe