Co-Design Contract Job Trends

Co-Design (Participatory Design)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Co-Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 650 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Co-Design 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.005% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £572 - -
25th Percentile £576 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 - -
75th Percentile £591 - -
90th Percentile £595 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Co-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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 44,261 28,859 36,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.68% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,507 18,191 23,560
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,650 1,433 2,509
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.50 £16.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -3.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.32 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.83 £38.12
% change year-on-year +77.04% -34.86% +8.82%

Co-Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Co-Design job vacancy trend in the UK

Co-Design
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Co-Design
Top 3 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-Design within the UK over the 6 months to 7 July 2026. 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
London - 2 £583 - 1
England - 2 £583 - 1
Work from Home - 2 £583 - 3

Co-Design
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 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Hudi
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Presto
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Play Framework
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Data Sharing
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Scala
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk