Design Sprint Contracts

Design Sprints
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Design Sprint skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Design Sprint over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 665 790
Rank change year-on-year +86 +125 -103
Contract jobs citing Design Sprint 11 34 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.059% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.065% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 40
10th Percentile - £536 £436
25th Percentile £500 £600 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £678 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% +23.18% +6.02%
75th Percentile £602 £700 £628
90th Percentile £656 - £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £613 £539
% change year-on-year -6.12% +13.69% +16.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Design Sprint is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Design Sprint
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Design Sprint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Design Sprint in the UK

Design Sprint
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Sprint.

Daily rate trend for Design Sprint in the UK

Design Sprint
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Sprint over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Sprint in the UK

Design Sprint
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Design Sprint within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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 +85 8 £575 -15.13% 5
London +86 7 £631 -9.82% 2
Work from Home +113 4 £500 -16.67% 6
UK excluding London +45 1 £575 -6.12% 4
South East +15 1 £575 +9.52% 1

Design Sprint
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (9.09%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (45.45%) InVision
1 5 (45.45%) Sketch
2 2 (18.18%) Adobe XD
3 1 (9.09%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Figma
2 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Axure RP
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Designer
2 4 (36.36%) UX Designer
3 3 (27.27%) Service Designer
4 2 (18.18%) UI Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) UX Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior User Researcher
5 1 (9.09%) UI Designer
5 1 (9.09%) UI/UX Designer
5 1 (9.09%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) CSS
1 3 (27.27%) CSS3
1 3 (27.27%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) User Experience
1 10 (90.91%) Workshop Facilitation
2 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) User Research
3 6 (54.55%) Data Visualisation
3 6 (54.55%) Design Thinking
3 6 (54.55%) Journey Map
3 6 (54.55%) Product Vision
3 6 (54.55%) Storyboarding
3 6 (54.55%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 6 (54.55%) UX Design
3 6 (54.55%) Visualisation
3 6 (54.55%) Wireframes
4 5 (45.45%) Service Design
5 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (36.36%) Prototyping
5 4 (36.36%) Usability Testing
6 3 (27.27%) Asset Management
6 3 (27.27%) Information Architecture
6 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe