Human-Centred Design Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Human-Centred Design
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Human-Centred Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 84 98
Rank change year-on-year -21 +14 0
Contract jobs citing Human-Centred Design 4 29 43
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.26% 1.74% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 1.93% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 23 38
10th Percentile £478 £432 £418
25th Percentile £489 £452 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £471 £472
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% -0.16% +0.11%
75th Percentile £527 £493 £534
90th Percentile £538 £554 £579
UK median daily rate £546 £473 £470
% change year-on-year +15.43% +0.64% -1.98%

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 1,343 1,499 2,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.66% 89.92% 90.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 771 890 1,321
10th Percentile £240 £239 £250
25th Percentile £388 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 45 53
10th Percentile £13.78 £15.09 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £19.59 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £39.30 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +25.43%

Human-Centred Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Human-Centred Design job vacancy trend in Scotland

Human-Centred Design
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

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 24 December 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 -9 4 £508 +8.32% 11
Human-Centred Design
UK

Human-Centred Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Designer
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) Next.js
2 1 (25.00%) PostGIS
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Derivative
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Community of Practice
3 2 (50.00%) Content Writing
3 2 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
3 2 (50.00%) Infographics
3 2 (50.00%) Interaction Design
3 2 (50.00%) Kanban
3 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (50.00%) Storytelling
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe