Design Sprint Contracts in the UK excluding London

Design Sprints
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Design Sprint skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Design Sprint over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 373 418
Rank change year-on-year +1 +45 +92
Contract jobs citing Design Sprint 2 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.016% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.020% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £474 - £448
25th Percentile £478 - £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% -25.93% +22.73%
75th Percentile £493 £556 £731
90th Percentile £497 £590 £758
UK median daily rate £471 £500 £680
% change year-on-year -5.79% -26.47% +23.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Design Sprint 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 13,799 15,124 19,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.31% 83.07% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,279 9,091 12,946
10th Percentile £240 £250 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,370 1,541 1,187
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.65 £17.36
Median hourly rate £22.92 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.07% +13.33% +70.45%
75th Percentile £44.95 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.04
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% -1.35% +56.60%

Design Sprint
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Design Sprint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Design Sprint in the UK excluding London

Design Sprint
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Sprint in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Design Sprint in the UK excluding London

Design Sprint
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 Design Sprint within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
Scotland - 2 £486 - 5
Design Sprint
UK

Design Sprint
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior User Researcher
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience Researcher
1 1 (50.00%) User Researcher
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Co-Creation
1 2 (100.00%) Journey Map
1 2 (100.00%) Service Design
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) User Research
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Contextual Inquiry
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) UX Research
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft