Human-Centred Design Contracts

Human-Centred Design
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Human-Centred Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Human-Centred Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 538 597
Rank change year-on-year +56 +59 +92
Contract jobs citing Human-Centred Design 38 44 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.10% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.12% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 41 96
10th Percentile £400 £415 £409
25th Percentile £421 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £483 £485
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% -0.41% -11.82%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £534
90th Percentile £654 £550 £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £478 £479
% change year-on-year +0.52% -0.31% -9.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62.48
25th Percentile - - £66.20
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £72.40
75th Percentile - - £78.60
90th Percentile - - £82.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £90.00 - £84.80

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Human-Centred 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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 +70 22 £500 -4.76% 117
UK excluding London +50 21 £480 +0.52% 93
Work from Home +34 20 £480 -0.05% 94
London +47 15 £530 +0.95% 37
Scotland -4 14 £487 +2.53% 7
South West - 5 £475 - 11
North of England +18 2 £313 -38.93% 23
North West +18 2 £313 - 11

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 (7.89%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) CMS
3 1 (2.63%) GeoServer
3 1 (2.63%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) InVision
1 2 (5.26%) UserZoom
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) AWS
2 11 (28.95%) Amazon S3
2 11 (28.95%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (28.95%) Serverless
3 10 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (15.79%) AWS CodePipeline
4 6 (15.79%) OpenShift
5 4 (10.53%) Figma
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (7.89%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (5.26%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (5.26%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (5.26%) Miro
7 2 (5.26%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.95%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (13.16%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.89%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (7.89%) GIS
4 2 (5.26%) MariaDB
4 2 (5.26%) MySQL
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.63%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.63%) Metadata
5 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Cypress.io
1 4 (10.53%) GitLab
1 4 (10.53%) JIRA
2 3 (7.89%) Axure RP
2 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.26%) Git
4 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.63%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.63%) Rational DOORS
General
1 16 (42.11%) Public Sector
2 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 8 (21.05%) Finance
4 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (18.42%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Legal
5 3 (7.89%) Marketing
5 3 (7.89%) Retail
6 2 (5.26%) Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.63%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Military
7 1 (2.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (15.79%) Developer
2 4 (10.53%) Designer
2 4 (10.53%) Product Manager
2 4 (10.53%) UX Designer
3 3 (7.89%) Analyst
3 3 (7.89%) Business Analyst
3 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) User Experience Researcher
3 3 (7.89%) User Researcher
4 2 (5.26%) Architect
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Developer
4 2 (5.26%) Head of Engineering
4 2 (5.26%) Product Owner
4 2 (5.26%) User Experience Architect
5 1 (2.63%) Agile Business Analyst
5 1 (2.63%) Contracts Manager
5 1 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Project Manager
5 1 (2.63%) Senior Designer
5 1 (2.63%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.95%) AWS CDK
2 6 (15.79%) React
2 6 (15.79%) Spring Boot
3 5 (13.16%) PostGIS
4 4 (10.53%) Spring
5 3 (7.89%) Next.js
5 3 (7.89%) Node.js
5 3 (7.89%) REST
6 2 (5.26%) CSS
6 2 (5.26%) HTML
6 2 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.63%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.16%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
4 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.89%) Taxonomies
5 2 (5.26%) Algorithms
5 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (5.26%) Life Science
5 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.63%) Reinsurance
6 1 (2.63%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Android
1 3 (7.89%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) Agile
2 17 (44.74%) Inclusive Design
3 15 (39.47%) User Experience
4 12 (31.58%) Analytics
5 10 (26.32%) Decision-Making
5 10 (26.32%) Roadmaps
5 10 (26.32%) Scrum
6 9 (23.68%) Kanban
6 9 (23.68%) UX Design
7 8 (21.05%) Customer Experience
7 8 (21.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 8 (21.05%) DevOps
7 8 (21.05%) E-Commerce
7 8 (21.05%) Requirements Gathering
7 8 (21.05%) TDD
7 8 (21.05%) User Research
8 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
8 7 (18.42%) Design Thinking
8 7 (18.42%) Project Management
8 7 (18.42%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 10 (26.32%) JavaScript
1 10 (26.32%) Python
2 8 (21.05%) Java
3 5 (13.16%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.89%) Bash
4 3 (7.89%) SQL
5 2 (5.26%) R
6 1 (2.63%) Groovy
6 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) Accessibility
2 4 (10.53%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.63%) Def Stans
3 1 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Grafana
2 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.63%) Ansible
3 1 (2.63%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (5.26%) Foundry
2 2 (5.26%) Imperva
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle
2 2 (5.26%) Palantir
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.63%) Workday