Design Thinking Contracts in the North of England

Design Thinking
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Design Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Design Thinking over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 204 224
Rank change year-on-year +28 +20 -41
Contract jobs citing Design Thinking 4 14 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.084% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% 0.26% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 9
10th Percentile - £515 £325
25th Percentile £425 £575 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +33.33% +80.00%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £527
90th Percentile - £663 £549
England median daily rate £500 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -9.91% -3.48% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Design Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,077 5,319 6,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.92% 90.94% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,519 3,696 4,718
10th Percentile £285 £300 £230
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £557
90th Percentile £675 £688 £645
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 216 268
10th Percentile £11.00 £10.63 £10.65
25th Percentile £12.40 £14.73 £13.09
Median hourly rate £17.50 £27.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +48.65% -
75th Percentile £44.07 £45.05 £32.97
90th Percentile £52.69 £65.00 £51.99
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Design Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Design Thinking in the North of England

Design Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Thinking in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Design Thinking in the North of England

Design Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
Yorkshire +20 4 £475 -5.00%
Design Thinking
England

Design Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe XD
1 2 (50.00%) InVision
1 2 (50.00%) Sketch
1 2 (50.00%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
1 2 (50.00%) IaaS
1 2 (50.00%) PaaS
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Axure RP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Design Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Designer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Design Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Service Design Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Service Designer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Service Design
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 2 (50.00%) Co-Creation
2 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Ergonomics
2 2 (50.00%) Ethnography
2 2 (50.00%) Human Factors
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Storytelling
2 2 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 2 (50.00%) User Journey Map
2 2 (50.00%) User Stories
2 2 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (50.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe