Inclusive Design Contracts

Inclusive Design
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Inclusive Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Inclusive 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 482 542 599
Rank change year-on-year +60 +57 +172
Contract jobs citing Inclusive Design 38 40 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.092% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.11% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 36 98
10th Percentile £373 £414 £413
25th Percentile £464 £448 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £485
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -3.04% -3.00%
75th Percentile £545 £506 £537
90th Percentile £668 £572 £611
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +1.05% -1.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.67 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £27.67 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Inclusive 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%

Inclusive Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Inclusive Design in the UK

Inclusive Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Inclusive Design in the UK

Inclusive Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inclusive Design over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Inclusive Design in the UK

Inclusive Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Inclusive Design in the UK

Inclusive Design
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Inclusive 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
UK excluding London +45 21 £480 +1.05% 12
Work from Home +35 17 £497 +3.54% 12
England +66 16 £500 +11.11% 32
Scotland -4 16 £494 +4.00%
London +47 10 £515 +14.44% 22
South West +47 2 £363 - 2
North West +18 2 £313 -43.09% 3
North of England +18 2 £313 -32.32% 4
South East - 1 £650 - 6

Inclusive 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 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) GeoServer
2 1 (2.63%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Adobe XD
1 2 (5.26%) InVision
1 2 (5.26%) Sketch
1 2 (5.26%) UserZoom
2 1 (2.63%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (36.84%) AWS
1 14 (36.84%) Figma
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 5 (13.16%) Miro
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (7.89%) AWS Step Functions
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%) Route 53
7 2 (5.26%) SaaS
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%) Git
1 4 (10.53%) GitLab
2 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.26%) Axure RP
3 2 (5.26%) JIRA
3 2 (5.26%) Storybook
3 2 (5.26%) Vite
3 2 (5.26%) webpack
4 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
General
1 22 (57.89%) Public Sector
2 14 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 10 (26.32%) Finance
4 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Banking
5 3 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Legal
6 2 (5.26%) Retail
7 1 (2.63%) Games
7 1 (2.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Designer
1 10 (26.32%) User Researcher
2 6 (15.79%) Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Senior
3 5 (13.16%) Senior Designer
3 5 (13.16%) UX Designer
4 4 (10.53%) Senior UX Designer
5 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Product Designer
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Head of Engineering
6 2 (5.26%) Lead
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Product Designer
6 2 (5.26%) Service Designer
6 2 (5.26%) UI Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Artworker
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Games Designer
7 1 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.95%) AWS CDK
2 8 (21.05%) React
3 6 (15.79%) Spring Boot
4 5 (13.16%) CSS
4 5 (13.16%) HTML
4 5 (13.16%) PostGIS
4 5 (13.16%) REST
5 4 (10.53%) Spring
6 3 (7.89%) Next.js
6 3 (7.89%) Node.js
7 2 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (5.26%) Redux
8 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.63%) RESTful
8 1 (2.63%) TypeORM
8 1 (2.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (10.53%) Mobile App
3 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Animation
5 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.63%) Sports Betting
5 1 (2.63%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Android
1 2 (5.26%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) Agile
2 19 (50.00%) User Experience
3 17 (44.74%) Human-Centred Design
4 16 (42.11%) Usability Testing
4 16 (42.11%) User Research
5 15 (39.47%) UX Design
6 12 (31.58%) Scrum
7 11 (28.95%) Kanban
8 10 (26.32%) Service Design
9 9 (23.68%) CI/CD
9 9 (23.68%) Prototyping
10 8 (21.05%) Actionable Insight
10 8 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (21.05%) TDD
10 8 (21.05%) UX Research
11 7 (18.42%) DevOps
11 7 (18.42%) Mentoring
11 7 (18.42%) Qualitative Research
11 7 (18.42%) Quantitative Research
11 7 (18.42%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) JavaScript
2 8 (21.05%) Java
2 8 (21.05%) Python
3 5 (13.16%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.89%) Bash
4 3 (7.89%) SQL
5 1 (2.63%) Groovy
5 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (65.79%) Accessibility
2 6 (15.79%) WCAG
3 5 (13.16%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (10.53%) Actionable Recommendations
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%) Adobe
1 3 (7.89%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (5.26%) Imperva
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow