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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 529 587
Rank change year-on-year +13 +58 +189
Contract jobs citing Co-Creation 48 29 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.078% 0.090%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.090% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 16 33
10th Percentile £473 £403 £403
25th Percentile £481 £509 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £555 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +11.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile £592 £667 £650
90th Percentile £609 £700 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £560 £463
% change year-on-year -10.71% +21.08% -28.02%

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 30,307 32,084 42,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.49% 86.09% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,872 19,308 28,607
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,195 1,576
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.87
Median hourly rate £25.08 £38.50 £43.17
Median % change year-on-year -34.87% -10.81% +30.80%
75th Percentile £42.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £39.68 £42.50
% change year-on-year -43.89% -6.64% +57.52%

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 22 October 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 14 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 22 October 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 +21 38 £543 -9.58% 149
London +24 23 £534 -11.04% 89
Work from Home +32 15 £576 +4.73% 56
UK excluding London -19 13 £500 -10.71% 97
North of England -25 5 £513 -14.58% 8
Scotland -1 3 £471 -28.95% 2
North West -10 3 £625 +4.17% 8
South East +9 2 £442 -1.89% 68
Midlands -28 2 £580 - 11
North East - 2 £475 -
South West +13 1 £475 -20.83% 3
West Midlands -22 1 £600 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
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 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.08%) Adobe XD
4 1 (2.08%) Chatbot
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.08%) SAP MDG
1 1 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.67%) Miro
2 6 (12.50%) Figma
3 5 (10.42%) Azure
4 4 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.25%) Lucidchart
6 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.17%) GitHub
6 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.08%) AWS
7 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.08%) Firebase
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.08%) SaaS
7 1 (2.08%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) 2G
1 2 (4.17%) 4G
1 2 (4.17%) 5G
1 2 (4.17%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (2.08%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Power BI
2 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.08%) GIS
3 1 (2.08%) Metadata
3 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 20 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Finance
3 4 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.17%) Legal
5 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Automotive
6 1 (2.08%) Back Office
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Digital Health
6 1 (2.08%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (2.08%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Marketing
6 1 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.08%) Publishing
6 1 (2.08%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 22 (45.83%) Designer
2 21 (43.75%) Service Designer
3 4 (8.33%) Senior
4 3 (6.25%) Analyst
4 3 (6.25%) Architect
4 3 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.17%) Development Officer
5 2 (4.17%) e-Learning Officer
5 2 (4.17%) Lead
5 2 (4.17%) Product Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Senior User Researcher
5 2 (4.17%) User Researcher
6 1 (2.08%) Applications Manager
6 1 (2.08%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Network Design Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Network Specialist
6 1 (2.08%) SAP Architect
6 1 (2.08%) Security Manager
6 1 (2.08%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.08%) D3.js
1 1 (2.08%) FastAPI
1 1 (2.08%) Flask
1 1 (2.08%) Flutter
1 1 (2.08%) Gradio
1 1 (2.08%) JSON
1 1 (2.08%) LangChain
1 1 (2.08%) Material-UI
1 1 (2.08%) Next.js
1 1 (2.08%) Node.js
1 1 (2.08%) React
1 1 (2.08%) React Native
1 1 (2.08%) RESTful
1 1 (2.08%) Streamlit
1 1 (2.08%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.17%) e-Learning
3 2 (4.17%) IoT
3 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.17%) NB-IoT
3 2 (4.17%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.08%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.08%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.08%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.08%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.08%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.08%) NHS
4 1 (2.08%) SCORM
4 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (52.08%) Service Design
2 24 (50.00%) Journey Map
2 24 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 23 (47.92%) Workshop Facilitation
4 19 (39.58%) Agile
5 17 (35.42%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 15 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (27.08%) Inclusive Design
7 13 (27.08%) Information Security
8 12 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
9 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (14.58%) User Experience
10 6 (12.50%) User Research
10 6 (12.50%) UX Design
11 5 (10.42%) AI
11 5 (10.42%) Analytics
11 5 (10.42%) Design Thinking
11 5 (10.42%) Migration
11 5 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (10.42%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.33%) Python
2 3 (6.25%) TypeScript
3 2 (4.17%) C#
3 2 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 13 (27.08%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) Degree
4 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.08%) CCNA
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 6 (12.50%) GDPR
3 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.17%) GRC
3 2 (4.17%) ISO 9001
3 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (2.08%) PMO
4 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.08%) KVM
2 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.08%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 3 (6.25%) SAP
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle
3 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.08%) Adobe
4 1 (2.08%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.08%) BMC
4 1 (2.08%) Google
4 1 (2.08%) Netlify
4 1 (2.08%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.08%) Progress
4 1 (2.08%) Remedy
4 1 (2.08%) Spotify
4 1 (2.08%) VMware