Design Thinking Contracts

Design Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Design Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Design Thinking over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 548 497
Rank change year-on-year +45 -51 -43
Contract jobs citing Design Thinking 73 140 390
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.25% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.28% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 77 272
10th Percentile £274 £450 £425
25th Percentile £406 £513 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £675
90th Percentile £615 £660 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £27.53 £39.50
25th Percentile - £31.31 £50.00
Median hourly rate - £38.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -45.36% +60.92%
75th Percentile - £45.81 £72.50
90th Percentile - £49.98 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Design Thinking 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 36,593 50,587 79,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.80% 89.68% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,580 35,017 55,732
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,483 1,675 1,881
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.78 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Thinking in the UK

Design Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Design Thinking in the UK

Design Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Thinking over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Thinking in the UK

Design Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Thinking.

Hourly rate trend for Design Thinking in the UK

Design Thinking
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Design Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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 +29 66 £500 -9.09% 61
London +49 50 £500 -9.09% 39
Work from Home +82 16 £538 -2.27% 23
UK excluding London +28 15 £525 -4.55% 30
North of England +25 6 £525 -12.50% 7
South East +4 4 £370 -29.52% 10
Scotland +33 3 £550 - 3
North East +14 3 £450 - 1
Yorkshire +7 2 £525 +8.81%
North West +19 1 - - 6
East of England +9 1 £600 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £513 -

Design Thinking
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 13 (17.81%) SharePoint
2 10 (13.70%) Confluence
3 3 (4.11%) CMS
4 2 (2.74%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (9.59%) Sketch
2 5 (6.85%) Adobe XD
2 5 (6.85%) InVision
3 3 (4.11%) UserZoom
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.37%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.37%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (1.37%) UXPin
5 1 (1.37%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Softmar
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.55%) Power Platform
2 13 (17.81%) Figma
3 11 (15.07%) Azure
4 9 (12.33%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (12.33%) Serverless
5 8 (10.96%) Azure Functions
5 8 (10.96%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (10.96%) GitHub
5 8 (10.96%) Power Automate
5 8 (10.96%) PowerApps
6 4 (5.48%) Miro
7 2 (2.74%) dbt
7 2 (2.74%) IaaS
7 2 (2.74%) PaaS
7 2 (2.74%) SaaS
7 2 (2.74%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.37%) AWS
8 1 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.37%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.55%) Power BI
2 9 (12.33%) NoSQL
2 9 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (12.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.11%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (2.74%) Data Mart
4 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.74%) SAS EBI
5 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.37%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.37%) Metadata
5 1 (1.37%) Redis
5 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (12.33%) JIRA
2 8 (10.96%) GitLab
3 4 (5.48%) Axure RP
4 1 (1.37%) Balsamiq
4 1 (1.37%) Git
4 1 (1.37%) webpack
General
1 35 (47.95%) Social Skills
2 21 (28.77%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.44%) Banking
3 12 (16.44%) Finance
4 4 (5.48%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.11%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.11%) Law
5 3 (4.11%) Marketing
6 2 (2.74%) Retail
7 1 (1.37%) Games
7 1 (1.37%) Legal
7 1 (1.37%) Police
7 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (47.95%) Designer
2 19 (26.03%) Service Designer
3 9 (12.33%) Developer
3 9 (12.33%) UX Designer
4 7 (9.59%) Analyst
4 7 (9.59%) Applications Developer
4 7 (9.59%) Power Apps Developer
5 5 (6.85%) Consultant
5 5 (6.85%) Content Designer
6 4 (5.48%) Senior
7 3 (4.11%) Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Operations Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Product Designer
7 3 (4.11%) Security Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Security Operations Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) UI Designer
7 3 (4.11%) UI/UX Designer
7 3 (4.11%) User Experience Consultant
8 2 (2.74%) Applications Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.85%) CSS
1 5 (6.85%) HTML
2 4 (5.48%) CSS3
3 2 (2.74%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.37%) D3.js
4 1 (1.37%) Framer.js
4 1 (1.37%) HTML5
4 1 (1.37%) Kafka
4 1 (1.37%) Node.js
4 1 (1.37%) React
4 1 (1.37%) RESTful
4 1 (1.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.44%) Product Ownership
2 9 (12.33%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.85%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.74%) Derivative
4 2 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.37%) FMCG
5 1 (1.37%) Mobile Games
5 1 (1.37%) Robotics
5 1 (1.37%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Linux
1 4 (5.48%) Windows
2 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (53.42%) Agile
2 26 (35.62%) Service Design
3 25 (34.25%) User Experience
4 24 (32.88%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (28.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (26.03%) UX Design
7 17 (23.29%) User Stories
8 16 (21.92%) Journey Map
8 16 (21.92%) User Research
8 16 (21.92%) Workshop Facilitation
9 15 (20.55%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 14 (19.18%) Strategic Thinking
11 13 (17.81%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (16.44%) Creative Thinking
13 11 (15.07%) Customer-Centricity
13 11 (15.07%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (13.70%) Coaching
14 10 (13.70%) Customer Experience
14 10 (13.70%) Use Case
15 9 (12.33%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.48%) Python
3 2 (2.74%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.74%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.22%) Degree
3 5 (6.85%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.11%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.07%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.11%) WCAG
3 2 (2.74%) QA
4 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
Vendors
1 14 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.07%) Oracle
3 4 (5.48%) Adobe
4 3 (4.11%) MicroStrategy
4 3 (4.11%) Splunk
5 2 (2.74%) Cadence
5 2 (2.74%) Murex
6 1 (1.37%) Aprimo
6 1 (1.37%) BigPanda
6 1 (1.37%) Qualtrics
6 1 (1.37%) Sybase