Design Thinking Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Design Thinking
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Design Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +39
Contract jobs citing Design Thinking 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.30% - 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% - 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £386 - -
25th Percentile £416 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 - -
75th Percentile £470 - -
90th Percentile £506 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £452 - -

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 275 185 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 90.46% 93.91% 85.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 89 101
10th Percentile £170 £305 £250
25th Percentile £352 £358 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £538 £585 £588
90th Percentile £600 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 20 7
10th Percentile £13.98 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.63 £17.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.86% -10.26% +14.71%
75th Percentile £53.19 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £32.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £17.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.89% +11.76%

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Design Thinking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Design Thinking job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Design Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Design Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Design Thinking

Design Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Thinking in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Design Thinking in Newcastle upon Tyne

Design Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Figma
1 2 (28.57%) Lucidchart
1 2 (28.57%) Miro
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Postman
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Designer
2 6 (85.71%) Service Designer
3 2 (28.57%) UX Designer
3 2 (28.57%) UX Service Designer
4 1 (14.29%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Swagger
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Human-Centred Design
1 6 (85.71%) Journey Map
1 6 (85.71%) Service Design
2 5 (71.43%) Workshop Facilitation
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Co-Creation
3 4 (57.14%) Ethnography
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (57.14%) User Journey Map
4 3 (42.86%) User Research
5 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (28.57%) Backlog Management
5 2 (28.57%) Customer Journey Map
5 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Data Management
5 2 (28.57%) Ethnographic Research
5 2 (28.57%) Storytelling
5 2 (28.57%) Systems Thinking
5 2 (28.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (28.57%) UX Research
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
1 2 (28.57%) WCAG