Inclusive Design Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Inclusive Design
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Inclusive Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 324 352
Rank change year-on-year -57 +28 +29
Contract jobs citing Inclusive Design 12 33 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.066% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.25% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 43
10th Percentile £410 £420 £413
25th Percentile £456 £450 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £470 £470
Median % change year-on-year +11.28% - -0.53%
75th Percentile £550 £493 £516
90th Percentile £606 £618 £574
UK median daily rate £500 £471 £472
% change year-on-year +6.16% -0.16% -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.67 -
UK median hourly rate - £27.67 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -57.43% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Inclusive 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 15,617 13,041 17,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.01% 86.97% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,535 7,668 11,224
10th Percentile £220 £235 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,767 762 1,227
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.03 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% -26.97% +39.06%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Inclusive Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Inclusive Design job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Inclusive Design
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Inclusive Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Inclusive Design

Inclusive Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inclusive Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Inclusive Design in the UK excluding London

Inclusive 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 Inclusive Design within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 December 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 -22 5 £448 -4.58%
North of England -45 5 £550 - 8
North West - 3 £525 - 4
Yorkshire -40 2 £550 - 4
East of England -20 1 - -
South West - 1 £725 -
Inclusive Design
UK

Inclusive Design
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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe XD
1 1 (8.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Figma
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (16.67%) Miro
2 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 2 (16.67%) Serverless
2 2 (16.67%) Slack
2 2 (16.67%) Smartsheet
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Axure RP
2 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Designer
2 4 (33.33%) UX Designer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Operations Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Designer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior UX Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Data Visualisation Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Graphic Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Head of Design
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
5 1 (8.33%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) CSS
1 3 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (16.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (8.33%) Next.js
3 1 (8.33%) PostGIS
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Derivative
1 1 (8.33%) Digital Media
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) User Experience
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) User Research
3 5 (41.67%) UX Design
4 4 (33.33%) Service Design
4 4 (33.33%) Usability Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (25.00%) Human-Centred Design
5 3 (25.00%) Interaction Design
5 3 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (25.00%) Wireframes
6 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (16.67%) DesignOps
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (16.67%) Kanban
6 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 2 (16.67%) Prototyping
6 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
1 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (33.33%) WCAG
3 1 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks