Design Sprint Contract Job Trends in London

Design Sprints
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Design Sprint skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 - 384
Rank change year-on-year - - +110
Contract jobs citing Design Sprint 4 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.025% - 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% - 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £313 - £585
25th Percentile £331 - £628
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £700
75th Percentile £413 - -
90th Percentile £428 - -
England median daily rate £375 £475 £700
% change year-on-year -21.05% -32.14% +10.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Design Sprint 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,548 11,757 16,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.83% 91.07% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,771 7,824 11,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 159 352
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £19.54
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.96 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.68 £69.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

Design Sprint
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Design Sprint relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Design Sprint job vacancy trend in London

Design Sprint
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Design Sprint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Design Sprint

Design Sprint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Figma
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Miro
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Designer
1 2 (50.00%) Product Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) CRM Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) CRM Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) UI Architect
2 1 (25.00%) UI Designer
2 1 (25.00%) UI/UX Designer
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience Architect
2 1 (25.00%) UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
1 3 (75.00%) UX Design
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Interaction Design
2 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (50.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Journey Map
3 1 (25.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Journey Map
3 1 (25.00%) Lean UX
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Backlog
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (25.00%) UX Research
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow