Human-Centred Design Contracts in the UK excluding London

Human-Centred Design
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Human-Centred Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Human-Centred Design over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 355 362
Rank change year-on-year +40 +7 +96
Contract jobs citing Human-Centred Design 22 33 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.16% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.19% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 31 75
10th Percentile £419 £431 £409
25th Percentile £450 £456 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -0.84% -8.76%
75th Percentile £528 £506 £506
90th Percentile £698 £538 £545
UK median daily rate £480 £483 £485
% change year-on-year -0.62% -0.41% -11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £84.80
UK median hourly rate £90.00 - £72.40

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,463 17,414 21,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.37% 84.70% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,190 10,403 14,840
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 832 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.56
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
% change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%

Human-Centred Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Human-Centred Design in the UK excluding London

Human-Centred Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Human-Centred Design in the UK excluding London

Human-Centred Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Human-Centred Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Human-Centred Design in the UK excluding London

Human-Centred Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Human-Centred Design in the UK excluding London

Human-Centred Design
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 Human-Centred Design within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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 -4 14 £487 +2.53% 5
South West - 5 £475 - 2
North of England +23 3 £313 -38.93% 6
North West +16 3 £313 - 3
Human-Centred Design
UK

Human-Centred Design
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 2 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) GeoServer
2 1 (4.55%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) InVision
1 2 (9.09%) UserZoom
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 11 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 11 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (50.00%) Serverless
3 10 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (27.27%) AWS CodePipeline
4 6 (27.27%) OpenShift
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (13.64%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (9.09%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (9.09%) Route 53
7 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.55%) PaaS
7 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (22.73%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (13.64%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (13.64%) GIS
4 2 (9.09%) MariaDB
4 2 (9.09%) MySQL
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
5 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.55%) InfluxDB
5 1 (4.55%) Metadata
5 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Cypress.io
1 4 (18.18%) GitLab
2 3 (13.64%) Axure RP
2 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.09%) Git
3 2 (9.09%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.55%) Rational DOORS
General
1 13 (59.09%) Public Sector
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Head of Engineering
3 2 (9.09%) Product Owner
4 1 (4.55%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Agile Product Owner
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Human Factors Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) User Experience Researcher
4 1 (4.55%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 6 (27.27%) React
2 6 (27.27%) Spring Boot
3 5 (22.73%) PostGIS
4 4 (18.18%) Spring
5 3 (13.64%) Next.js
5 3 (13.64%) Node.js
5 3 (13.64%) REST
6 2 (9.09%) CSS
6 2 (9.09%) HTML
6 2 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (4.55%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Android
1 2 (9.09%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Agile
1 16 (72.73%) Inclusive Design
2 10 (45.45%) Scrum
3 9 (40.91%) Kanban
4 8 (36.36%) TDD
5 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
5 7 (31.82%) DevOps
6 6 (27.27%) User Experience
7 5 (22.73%) Community of Practice
7 5 (22.73%) Microservices
7 5 (22.73%) Migration
7 5 (22.73%) Roadmaps
7 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
8 4 (18.18%) Code Coverage
8 4 (18.18%) Code Quality
8 4 (18.18%) Data Migration
8 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (18.18%) Pair Programming
8 4 (18.18%) Product Roadmap
8 4 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 8 (36.36%) Java
2 8 (36.36%) Python
3 5 (22.73%) TypeScript
4 3 (13.64%) Bash
4 3 (13.64%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) Groovy
5 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
1 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) Accessibility
2 4 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.55%) Def Stans
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Grafana
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (9.09%) Imperva
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow