Design Thinking Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Design Thinking
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 37 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - +38
Contract jobs citing Design Thinking 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 2.18% - 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% - 1.26%
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 - -
North East median daily rate £452 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 291 205 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 90.65% 92.34% 85.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 100 108
10th Percentile £170 £305 £224
25th Percentile £350 £357 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £580
90th Percentile £596 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £450 £473 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 8
10th Percentile £14.05 £13.75 £16.03
25th Percentile £16.46 £15.44 £16.81
Median hourly rate £19.25 £17.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £52.63 £50.00 £23.19
90th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £32.53
North East median hourly rate £24.08 £28.14 £19.75
% change year-on-year -14.41% +42.46% -1.25%

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Design Thinking job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Design Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Design Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Design Thinking

Design Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

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

Daily rate histogram for Design Thinking in Tyne and Wear

Design Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 28 November 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 7 £452 - 1
Design Thinking
North East

Design Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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