Co-Creation Contract Job Trends

Co-Creation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Co-Creation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 530 563
Rank change year-on-year +9 +33 +193
Contract jobs citing Co-Creation 60 34 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.098% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 18 38
10th Percentile £413 £404 £375
25th Percentile £475 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +4.88% -10.87%
75th Percentile £595 £660 £650
90th Percentile £622 £700 £836
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £555 £588
% change year-on-year -9.91% -5.53% -6.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,261 30,399 39,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.54% 87.91% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,301 18,546 26,335
10th Percentile £300 £306 £310
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,097 1,021 1,510
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.53 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.23% -26.97% +37.98%

Co-Creation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Co-Creation job vacancy trend in the UK

Co-Creation
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Co-Creation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Co-Creation over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Co-Creation in the UK

Co-Creation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Co-Creation
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 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
England -12 49 £543 -9.58% 114
London +12 29 £553 -7.92% 33
Work from Home +26 22 £575 +9.52% 21
UK excluding London -42 16 £500 -9.91% 98
North of England -32 6 £454 -24.33% 20
South East +4 5 £454 +0.89% 33
Midlands -35 5 £580 - 17
West Midlands -34 4 £600 - 10
North West -18 3 £625 +4.17% 11
North East - 3 £454 - 2
Scotland 0 1 £500 -24.59% 6
South West -8 1 £475 -20.83% 8
East Midlands - 1 £560 - 6

Co-Creation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Adobe XD
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.33%) InVision
2 2 (3.33%) Sketch
2 2 (3.33%) Zeplin
3 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.33%) Figma
2 6 (10.00%) Miro
3 5 (8.33%) Azure
3 5 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (3.33%) GitHub
4 2 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.67%) AWS
5 1 (1.67%) Firebase
5 1 (1.67%) Lucidchart
5 1 (1.67%) SaaS
5 1 (1.67%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) 2G
1 2 (3.33%) 4G
1 2 (3.33%) 5G
1 2 (3.33%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) Power BI
2 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.67%) GIS
3 1 (1.67%) Metadata
3 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) Axure RP
General
1 26 (43.33%) Public Sector
2 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.33%) Finance
4 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Banking
4 4 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Legal
5 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.33%) Marketing
6 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Automotive
7 1 (1.67%) Back Office
7 1 (1.67%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.67%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.67%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.67%) Publishing
7 1 (1.67%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 32 (53.33%) Designer
2 27 (45.00%) Service Designer
3 5 (8.33%) Product Designer
4 4 (6.67%) Architect
4 4 (6.67%) Lead
4 4 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.00%) Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) Product Manager
5 3 (5.00%) Senior
6 2 (3.33%) Development Officer
6 2 (3.33%) e-Learning Officer
6 2 (3.33%) Lead Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Project Manager
6 2 (3.33%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Senior Designer
6 2 (3.33%) Senior Service Designer
6 2 (3.33%) Strategy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.67%) D3.js
1 1 (1.67%) FastAPI
1 1 (1.67%) Flask
1 1 (1.67%) Flutter
1 1 (1.67%) Gradio
1 1 (1.67%) JSON
1 1 (1.67%) LangChain
1 1 (1.67%) Material-UI
1 1 (1.67%) Next.js
1 1 (1.67%) Node.js
1 1 (1.67%) React
1 1 (1.67%) React Native
1 1 (1.67%) RESTful
1 1 (1.67%) Streamlit
1 1 (1.67%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
1 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.33%) e-Learning
2 2 (3.33%) IoT
2 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.33%) NB-IoT
3 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.67%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.67%) Educational Technology
3 1 (1.67%) Learning Management System
3 1 (1.67%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.67%) NHS
3 1 (1.67%) SCORM
3 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.00%) Service Design
2 32 (53.33%) Journey Map
3 30 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 26 (43.33%) Roadmaps
5 25 (41.67%) Agile
6 23 (38.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 15 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (25.00%) Inclusive Design
7 15 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (23.33%) Information Security
9 13 (21.67%) Strategic Roadmap
10 12 (20.00%) User Research
11 11 (18.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (16.67%) Design Thinking
13 9 (15.00%) Prototyping
14 8 (13.33%) AI
14 8 (13.33%) Backlog Management
14 8 (13.33%) Human-Centred Design
14 8 (13.33%) User Journey Map
14 8 (13.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.33%) Python
2 3 (5.00%) SQL
2 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (3.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.67%) CCNA
4 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 6 (10.00%) WCAG
3 5 (8.33%) GDPR
4 3 (5.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.33%) GRC
5 2 (3.33%) ISO 9001
5 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.33%) PMO
6 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.00%) Adobe
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) SAP
4 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.67%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.67%) BMC
5 1 (1.67%) Google
5 1 (1.67%) Netlify
5 1 (1.67%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.67%) Progress
5 1 (1.67%) Remedy
5 1 (1.67%) Spotify