Human-Centred Design Contracts in London

Human-Centred Design
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Human-Centred Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Human-Centred Design over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 389 472
Rank change year-on-year +51 +83 +58
Contract jobs citing Human-Centred Design 15 6 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.034% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.038% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 13
10th Percentile £400 £360 £418
25th Percentile £403 £375 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £623 £538 £625
90th Percentile £625 £542 £645
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
England median hourly rate £90.00 - £72.40

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,594 15,775 24,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.13% 88.57% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,860 11,304 17,662
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £438 £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 165 326 275
10th Percentile £16.10 £16.00 £18.63
25th Percentile £22.66 £20.00 £22.57
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £50.75 £46.77 £63.22
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.88 £77.30
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Human-Centred Design
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Human-Centred Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Human-Centred Design in London

Human-Centred Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Human-Centred Design in London

Human-Centred Design
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Human-Centred Design in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Human-Centred Design in London

Human-Centred Design
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 Human-Centred Design within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +11 1 - -
Human-Centred Design
England

Human-Centred Design
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 2 (13.33%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Figma
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.67%) Miro
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Eclipse
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Retail
4 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Legal
5 1 (6.67%) Marketing
5 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Product Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Designer
2 3 (20.00%) UX Designer
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) User Experience Architect
3 2 (13.33%) User Experience Researcher
3 2 (13.33%) User Researcher
4 1 (6.67%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Product Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (20.00%) Taxonomies
3 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (13.33%) Life Science
4 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.67%) Reinsurance
4 1 (6.67%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
1 9 (60.00%) Analytics
2 8 (53.33%) Decision-Making
2 8 (53.33%) E-Commerce
3 7 (46.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 7 (46.67%) User Experience
4 5 (33.33%) Business Analysis
4 5 (33.33%) Customer Experience
4 5 (33.33%) Design Thinking
4 5 (33.33%) Product Strategy
4 5 (33.33%) Project Management
4 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 5 (33.33%) User Research
4 5 (33.33%) UX Design
5 4 (26.67%) Objectives and Key Results
5 4 (26.67%) Product Requirements
5 4 (26.67%) Prototyping
5 4 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (26.67%) Wireframes
6 3 (20.00%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
1 2 (13.33%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Foundry
1 2 (13.33%) Palantir
2 1 (6.67%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.67%) Workday