Human-Centred Design Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Human-Centred Design
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Human-Centred Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - 94
Rank change year-on-year - - +33
Contract jobs citing Human-Centred Design 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.43% - 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £326
25th Percentile £400 - £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £368
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.33%
75th Percentile - - £388
90th Percentile £623 - £395
North West median daily rate £600 - £368
% change year-on-year - - -18.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,050 954 1,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.36% 90.68% 87.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 571 959
10th Percentile £303 £294 £306
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £585
90th Percentile £638 £680 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 33 44
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.93 £13.04
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -16.13% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £33.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £80.33
North West median hourly rate £41.86 £30.40 £40.25
% change year-on-year +37.68% -24.47% +11.81%

Human-Centred Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Human-Centred Design job vacancy trend in Manchester

Human-Centred Design
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Human-Centred Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Human-Centred Design

Human-Centred Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Human-Centred Design in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Human-Centred Design in Manchester

Human-Centred Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Power Automate
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Figma
2 2 (40.00%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
1 3 (60.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Designer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Designer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior UX Designer
2 2 (40.00%) Service Design Architect
2 2 (40.00%) UX Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Business Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Business Process Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) IVR
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 3 (60.00%) BPMN
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Case Management
1 3 (60.00%) Change Management
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) KYC
1 3 (60.00%) Logistics
1 3 (60.00%) OCR
1 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) Service Design
1 3 (60.00%) Target Operating Model
1 3 (60.00%) WFM
2 2 (40.00%) Client Onboarding
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) UX Design
2 2 (40.00%) UX Research
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Genesys
1 3 (60.00%) Salesforce
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
1 3 (60.00%) UiPath