Human-Centred Design Contracts in Scotland

Human-Centred Design
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 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 102 98 85
Rank change year-on-year -4 -13 +62
Contract jobs citing Human-Centred Design 14 31 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.86% 1.40% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.58% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 30 72
10th Percentile £450 £430 £413
25th Percentile £470 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% -0.89% -8.71%
75th Percentile £553 £506 £504
90th Percentile £715 £541 £545
UK median daily rate £487 £483 £485
% change year-on-year +0.83% -0.41% -11.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Human-Centred Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Human-Centred Design in Scotland

Human-Centred Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Human-Centred Design in Scotland

Human-Centred Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Human-Centred Design in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Human-Centred Design in Scotland

Human-Centred Design
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh +3 11 £480 +0.95% 2
Glasgow -4 2 £735 +48.19% 2
Human-Centred Design
UK

Human-Centred Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (7.14%) GeoServer
1 1 (7.14%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) AWS
2 11 (78.57%) Amazon S3
2 11 (78.57%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (78.57%) Serverless
3 10 (71.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (42.86%) AWS CodePipeline
4 6 (42.86%) OpenShift
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (21.43%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (14.29%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 2 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (14.29%) Route 53
7 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (7.14%) PaaS
7 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (78.57%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (21.43%) GIS
4 2 (14.29%) MariaDB
4 2 (14.29%) MySQL
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
5 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
5 1 (7.14%) InfluxDB
5 1 (7.14%) Metadata
5 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Cypress.io
1 4 (28.57%) GitLab
2 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 2 (14.29%) Git
4 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
General
1 11 (78.57%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (78.57%) AWS CDK
2 6 (42.86%) React
2 6 (42.86%) Spring Boot
3 5 (35.71%) PostGIS
4 4 (28.57%) Spring
5 3 (21.43%) Next.js
5 3 (21.43%) Node.js
5 3 (21.43%) REST
6 2 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (7.14%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Inclusive Design
2 12 (85.71%) Agile
3 10 (71.43%) Scrum
4 9 (64.29%) Kanban
5 8 (57.14%) TDD
6 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (50.00%) DevOps
7 5 (35.71%) Community of Practice
7 5 (35.71%) Microservices
7 5 (35.71%) Migration
7 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
8 4 (28.57%) Code Coverage
8 4 (28.57%) Code Quality
8 4 (28.57%) Data Migration
8 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (28.57%) Pair Programming
8 4 (28.57%) Requirements Analysis
8 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
8 4 (28.57%) User Experience
9 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Java
1 8 (57.14%) JavaScript
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
3 3 (21.43%) Bash
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Groovy
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Accessibility
1 4 (28.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Grafana
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Imperva
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow