Design Thinking Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Design Thinking
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 30 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Design Thinking 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.69% - 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% - 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £563 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £200 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 177 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 84.75% 84.29% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 89 243
10th Percentile £225 £335 £352
25th Percentile £358 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £650
90th Percentile £629 £650 £740
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £500 £565
% change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 0
10th Percentile £21.05 £18.25 -
25th Percentile £30.50 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 -
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.35 £68.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -5.71% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Design Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Design Thinking in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Thinking in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Design Thinking in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Daily rate histogram for Design Thinking in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Figma
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Designer
1 3 (50.00%) User Experience Researcher
2 2 (33.33%) Product Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Swagger
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Fintech
2 3 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) User Research
2 3 (50.00%) UX Research
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Wireframes
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (16.67%) UML
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree