Human-Centred Design Contracts

Human-Centred Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Human-Centred Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Human-Centred Design over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 600 686
Rank change year-on-year +42 +86 -141
Contract jobs citing Human-Centred Design 42 116 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.097% 0.20% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.22% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 91 129
10th Percentile £428 £406 £431
25th Percentile £456 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £485 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% -11.82% +17.02%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £600
90th Percentile £550 £588 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £525
% change year-on-year -0.84% -8.76% +17.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £72.40 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £84.80 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Human-Centred Design 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 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
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 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Human-Centred Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Human-Centred Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Human-Centred Design in the UK

Human-Centred Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Human-Centred Design in the UK

Human-Centred Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Human-Centred Design over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Human-Centred Design in the UK

Human-Centred Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Human-Centred Design in the UK

Human-Centred Design
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Human-Centred Design within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
UK excluding London +3 33 £475 -0.84% 21
Scotland -8 30 £475 -0.89% 1
Work from Home +85 26 £480 +0.16% 23
England +99 8 £525 - 33
London +95 5 £525 -8.70% 13
North of England +33 3 £513 +13.89% 8
Yorkshire - 2 £513 - 1
North West +26 1 - - 6

Human-Centred Design
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 3 (7.14%) CMS
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Adobe XD
1 5 (11.90%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 23 (54.76%) AWS
2 18 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 18 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
2 18 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
2 18 (42.86%) Serverless
3 12 (28.57%) OpenShift
4 5 (11.90%) Figma
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (47.62%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (40.48%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.14%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.76%) GIS
5 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Jenkins
2 9 (21.43%) Cypress.io
3 5 (11.90%) GitLab
4 3 (7.14%) JIRA
5 1 (2.38%) Git
General
1 23 (54.76%) Public Sector
2 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Finance
5 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Health Technology
5 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.38%) Advertising
6 1 (2.38%) Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.38%) Retail
6 1 (2.38%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (57.14%) Developer
2 9 (21.43%) Full Stack Developer
3 7 (16.67%) Designer
4 5 (11.90%) Java Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Software Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Interaction Designer
5 4 (9.52%) Lead
6 3 (7.14%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Pega Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Technical Leader
6 3 (7.14%) User Researcher
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Content Designer
7 2 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.76%) User Experience Researcher
8 1 (2.38%) Agile Delivery Lead
8 1 (2.38%) Product Designer
8 1 (2.38%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (50.00%) React
2 20 (47.62%) AWS CDK
3 17 (40.48%) CSS
3 17 (40.48%) HTML
4 11 (26.19%) REST
5 10 (23.81%) Spring
5 10 (23.81%) Spring Boot
6 8 (19.05%) Node.js
6 8 (19.05%) Spring Security
7 7 (16.67%) OAuth
7 7 (16.67%) OAuth2
8 6 (14.29%) Spring MVC
8 6 (14.29%) Spring Web Flow
9 5 (11.90%) Thymeleaf
10 4 (9.52%) PostGIS
11 3 (7.14%) JSON
11 3 (7.14%) JSP
11 3 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
12 1 (2.38%) Java EE
12 1 (2.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.38%) NHS
2 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (71.43%) Agile
2 27 (64.29%) Inclusive Design
3 19 (45.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (45.24%) Test Automation
3 19 (45.24%) User Experience
4 18 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 18 (42.86%) Pair Programming
5 17 (40.48%) Analytics
6 16 (38.10%) Code Quality
6 16 (38.10%) TDD
7 15 (35.71%) Microservices
7 15 (35.71%) Unit Testing
8 14 (33.33%) DevOps
9 11 (26.19%) Product Roadmap
9 11 (26.19%) Roadmaps
10 9 (21.43%) Architecture Roadmap
10 9 (21.43%) Code Coverage
10 9 (21.43%) Full Stack Development
10 9 (21.43%) Requirements Analysis
11 8 (19.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (54.76%) JavaScript
2 19 (45.24%) Java
3 18 (42.86%) TypeScript
4 12 (28.57%) Python
5 8 (19.05%) SQL
6 4 (9.52%) Bash
7 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.38%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (69.05%) Accessibility
2 6 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (4.76%) GDPR
3 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 10 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (38.10%) Grafana
2 3 (7.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Adobe
2 3 (7.14%) Oracle
2 3 (7.14%) Pega
3 1 (2.38%) Brio