Design Thinking Contracts in London

Design Thinking
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Design Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Design Thinking 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 320 329 408
Rank change year-on-year +9 +79 0
Contract jobs citing Design Thinking 33 62 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.39% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 47 48
10th Percentile £265 £280 £434
25th Percentile £449 £378 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £725 £571 £625
90th Percentile £780 £590 £691
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £27.53
25th Percentile - - £31.31
Median hourly rate - - £38.25
75th Percentile - - £45.81
90th Percentile - - £49.98
England median hourly rate - - £38.25
% change year-on-year - - -45.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Design Thinking 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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Design Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Design Thinking in London

Design Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Thinking in London.

Daily rate trend for Design Thinking in London

Design Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Thinking in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Design Thinking in London

Design Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Thinking in London.

Hourly rate trend for Design Thinking in London

Design Thinking
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Design Thinking within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Central London 0 3 £600 +11.11% 2
Design Thinking
England

Design Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (15.15%) Confluence
1 5 (15.15%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (3.03%) Moodle
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) Adobe XD
2 1 (3.03%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.03%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) SAP CO
1 2 (6.06%) SAP FI
1 2 (6.06%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) Figma
2 5 (15.15%) Miro
3 3 (9.09%) Azure
3 3 (9.09%) GitHub
3 3 (9.09%) Slack
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Functions
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.06%) Power Automate
4 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.06%) PowerApps
4 2 (6.06%) Serverless
5 1 (3.03%) AWS
5 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.03%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (9.09%) Big Data
2 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.06%) Power BI
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) JIRA
2 3 (9.09%) Visual Studio
3 2 (6.06%) GitLab
4 1 (3.03%) Postman
General
1 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (21.21%) Banking
3 7 (21.21%) Finance
4 4 (12.12%) Retail
5 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (6.06%) General Ledger
6 2 (6.06%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Designer
2 7 (21.21%) Senior
3 5 (15.15%) Developer
3 5 (15.15%) Product Designer
3 5 (15.15%) User Experience Researcher
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Designer
4 4 (12.12%) UX Designer
5 3 (9.09%) Agile C# Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Agile Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) C# Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Consultant
5 3 (9.09%) Senior User Experience Researcher
6 2 (6.06%) Automation Developer
6 2 (6.06%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Product Designer
6 2 (6.06%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) REST
2 3 (9.09%) Kafka
3 2 (6.06%) CSS
3 2 (6.06%) HTML
4 1 (3.03%) Middleware
4 1 (3.03%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.03%) Swagger
4 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.06%) Life Science
4 1 (3.03%) Educational Technology
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Learning Management System
4 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.03%) VLE
4 1 (3.03%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) Agile
2 11 (33.33%) User Experience
2 11 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 10 (30.30%) User Research
4 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (24.24%) UX Research
6 7 (21.21%) Analytics
6 7 (21.21%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (21.21%) Journey Map
6 7 (21.21%) UX Design
7 6 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
7 6 (18.18%) Product Strategy
7 6 (18.18%) Project Management
7 6 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (18.18%) Validation
8 5 (15.15%) Decision-Making
8 5 (15.15%) Fintech
8 5 (15.15%) Human-Centred Design
8 5 (15.15%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.09%) C#
1 3 (9.09%) Java
1 3 (9.09%) SQL
2 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.06%) Python
2 2 (6.06%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.06%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.03%) WCAG
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Oracle
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) SAP
3 2 (6.06%) Foundry
3 2 (6.06%) Palantir
4 1 (3.03%) Adobe
4 1 (3.03%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow