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 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 595 635
Rank change year-on-year +39 +40 -68
Contract jobs citing Human-Centred Design 28 102 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.20% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 80 159
10th Percentile £415 £444 £431
25th Percentile £453 £468 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £491 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% -8.70% +15.59%
75th Percentile £528 £539 £588
90th Percentile £550 £625 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £483 £525
% change year-on-year -1.55% -8.10% +16.67%
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 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 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -25 21 £475 -1.55% 4
Work from Home +78 18 £490 +1.03% 9
Scotland -3 18 £469 -2.34% 1
England +67 6 £513 -10.87% 8
London +64 3 £444 -26.00% 6
Yorkshire - 2 £513 -
North of England - 2 £513 -
South West - 1 £875 -

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 2 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Adobe XD
1 5 (17.86%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) AWS
2 13 (46.43%) Amazon S3
2 13 (46.43%) AWS CloudFormation
2 13 (46.43%) AWS Lambda
2 13 (46.43%) Serverless
3 9 (32.14%) OpenShift
4 5 (17.86%) Figma
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (53.57%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (42.86%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
4 3 (10.71%) Oracle Database
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (7.14%) GIS
5 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.57%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 15 (53.57%) Public Sector
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Finance
5 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Health Technology
5 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Advertising
6 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Legal
6 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (57.14%) Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Designer
3 5 (17.86%) Software Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Interaction Designer
4 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 2 (7.14%) User Researcher
5 2 (7.14%) UX Designer
6 1 (3.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.57%) Java Software Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Product Designer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (3.57%) UI Designer
6 1 (3.57%) UI/UX Designer
6 1 (3.57%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (53.57%) AWS CDK
2 13 (46.43%) React
3 10 (35.71%) CSS
3 10 (35.71%) HTML
4 8 (28.57%) Node.js
5 7 (25.00%) REST
5 7 (25.00%) Spring
5 7 (25.00%) Spring Boot
6 5 (17.86%) OAuth
6 5 (17.86%) OAuth2
6 5 (17.86%) Spring Security
7 4 (14.29%) PostGIS
8 3 (10.71%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (10.71%) Spring MVC
8 3 (10.71%) Spring Web Flow
8 3 (10.71%) Thymeleaf
9 1 (3.57%) Java EE
9 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) Agile
2 16 (57.14%) User Experience
3 15 (53.57%) CI/CD
3 15 (53.57%) Inclusive Design
4 13 (46.43%) Code Quality
4 13 (46.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (46.43%) TDD
5 12 (42.86%) Pair Programming
6 11 (39.29%) Analytics
6 11 (39.29%) DevOps
7 10 (35.71%) Microservices
7 10 (35.71%) Test Automation
7 10 (35.71%) Unit Testing
8 8 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
8 8 (28.57%) Roadmaps
9 7 (25.00%) Code Coverage
9 7 (25.00%) Usability Testing
10 6 (21.43%) Architecture Roadmap
10 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
10 6 (21.43%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) JavaScript
2 11 (39.29%) Java
2 11 (39.29%) TypeScript
3 7 (25.00%) Python
4 5 (17.86%) SQL
5 4 (14.29%) Bash
6 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.57%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (64.29%) Accessibility
2 3 (10.71%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (39.29%) Grafana
2 3 (10.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Adobe
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Brio