Co-Creation Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Co-Creation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Co-Creation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 348 407
Rank change year-on-year -19 +59 +68
Contract jobs citing Co-Creation 13 13 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.080% 0.076% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.091% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 6
10th Percentile £417 £412 £297
25th Percentile £468 £488 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £560 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +21.08% -28.02%
75th Percentile £579 £632 £580
90th Percentile £599 £670 £607
UK median daily rate £543 £555 £500
% change year-on-year -2.25% +11.00% -21.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Co-Creation 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,457 14,304 18,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.18% 83.68% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,718 8,119 12,228
10th Percentile £225 £244 £250
25th Percentile £370 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £671 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,593 961 1,290
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.40 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.27 £39.68 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.89% -6.64% +57.52%
75th Percentile £38.94 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.85 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £38.50 £43.17
% change year-on-year -34.87% -10.81% +30.80%

Co-Creation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Co-Creation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Co-Creation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Co-Creation
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Co-Creation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Co-Creation

Co-Creation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Co-Creation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Co-Creation in the UK excluding London

Co-Creation
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Co-Creation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Co-Creation

Co-Creation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Co-Creation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
North of England -25 5 £513 -14.58% 8
Scotland -1 3 £471 -28.95% 2
North West -10 3 £625 +4.17% 8
South East +9 2 £442 -1.89% 67
Midlands -28 2 £580 - 11
North East - 2 £475 -
South West +13 1 £475 -20.83% 3
West Midlands -22 1 £600 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
East Midlands - 1 £560 - 6
Co-Creation
UK

Co-Creation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Chatbot
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Figma
1 2 (15.38%) Lucidchart
1 2 (15.38%) Miro
1 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Firebase
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) 2G
1 1 (7.69%) 4G
1 1 (7.69%) 5G
1 1 (7.69%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Automotive
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Publishing
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Designer
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Senior User Researcher
2 2 (15.38%) Service Designer
2 2 (15.38%) User Researcher
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Design Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Network Design Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Programme Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.69%) D3.js
1 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
1 1 (7.69%) Flask
1 1 (7.69%) Flutter
1 1 (7.69%) Gradio
1 1 (7.69%) JSON
1 1 (7.69%) LangChain
1 1 (7.69%) Material-UI
1 1 (7.69%) Next.js
1 1 (7.69%) Node.js
1 1 (7.69%) React
1 1 (7.69%) React Native
1 1 (7.69%) RESTful
1 1 (7.69%) Streamlit
1 1 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
1 2 (15.38%) Web Conferencing
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.69%) Educational Technology
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Learning Management System
2 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) NB-IoT
2 1 (7.69%) SCORM
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Service Design
3 5 (38.46%) Journey Map
3 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (38.46%) User Experience
4 4 (30.77%) Project Management
4 4 (30.77%) UX Design
4 4 (30.77%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Coaching
5 3 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (23.08%) User Research
6 2 (15.38%) Contextual Inquiry
6 2 (15.38%) Customer Journey Map
6 2 (15.38%) Human-Centred Design
6 2 (15.38%) Line Management
6 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Systems Thinking
6 2 (15.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.69%) PMP
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.69%) ISO 9001
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Alteryx
1 1 (7.69%) BMC
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) Netlify
1 1 (7.69%) OpenAI
1 1 (7.69%) Progress
1 1 (7.69%) Remedy