Design Thinking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Design Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Design Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Design Thinking over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 409 414
Rank change year-on-year +28 +5 -41
Contract jobs citing Design Thinking 12 50 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.21% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.23% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 31 64
10th Percentile £355 £475 £381
25th Percentile £408 £512 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £600
90th Percentile £598 £711 £698
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £36.19
25th Percentile - - £41.73
Median hourly rate - - £52.20
75th Percentile - - £61.43
90th Percentile - - £66.21
UK median hourly rate - £38.25 £69.70
% change year-on-year - -45.12% +77.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Design Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,621 21,550 27,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.74% 89.52% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,547 14,954 19,191
10th Percentile £246 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,041 1,307 1,363
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.10
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Thinking in the UK excluding London

Design Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Design Thinking in the UK excluding London

Design Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Thinking in the UK excluding London

Design Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Thinking in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Design Thinking in the UK excluding London

Design Thinking
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 Thinking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Yorkshire +22 4 £475 -5.00% 1
North of England +19 4 £475 -20.83% 13
Scotland +36 3 £550 - 2
South East +1 3 £370 -35.09% 2
East of England - 1 £600 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £513 -
Design Thinking
UK

Design Thinking
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 (8.33%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Adobe XD
1 2 (16.67%) InVision
1 2 (16.67%) Sketch
1 2 (16.67%) Zeplin
2 1 (8.33%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Figma
1 2 (16.67%) IaaS
1 2 (16.67%) PaaS
1 2 (16.67%) SaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (8.33%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Axure RP
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Designer
1 5 (41.67%) Service Designer
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Operations Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Design Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Design Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Service Design Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce Architect
4 1 (8.33%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (58.33%) Service Design
3 5 (41.67%) User Research
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Co-Creation
5 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (25.00%) Journey Map
5 3 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 3 (25.00%) Usability Testing
5 3 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (16.67%) Backlog Management
6 2 (16.67%) Creative Thinking
6 2 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
6 2 (16.67%) Ethnography
6 2 (16.67%) Storytelling
6 2 (16.67%) User Journey Map
6 2 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (25.00%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) Adobe
3 1 (8.33%) Qualtrics