Inclusive Design Contract Job Trends

Inclusive Design
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Inclusive Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 504 552
Rank change year-on-year -8 +48 +95
Contract jobs citing Inclusive Design 72 40 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 31 46
10th Percentile £410 £420 £406
25th Percentile £450 £445 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £471 £472
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% -0.16% -0.68%
75th Percentile £573 £494 £520
90th Percentile £622 £594 £572
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £470 £470
% change year-on-year +11.28% - -0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £27.67 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -57.43% -
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 32,537 30,122 39,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.36% 88.11% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,461 18,405 26,081
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,095 985 1,517
10th Percentile £14.57 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.52 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.69% -26.97% +39.06%

Inclusive Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Inclusive Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Inclusive Design job vacancy trend in the UK

Inclusive Design
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Inclusive Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Inclusive Design

Inclusive Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inclusive Design over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Inclusive Design in the UK

Inclusive Design
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Inclusive Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Inclusive Design

Inclusive Design
Top 10 Contract Job 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 19 December 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 +12 50 £515 +8.42% 96
London +19 33 £480 +2.40% 11
Work from Home -8 19 £565 +20.47% 54
UK excluding London -57 12 £523 +11.28% 92
Scotland -22 5 £448 -4.58% 4
North of England -45 5 £550 - 27
North West - 3 £525 - 11
Yorkshire -40 2 £550 - 14
East of England -20 1 - - 15
South West - 1 £725 - 9

Inclusive Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Adobe XD
1 5 (6.94%) Sketch
2 1 (1.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.39%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.39%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (1.39%) InVision
2 1 (1.39%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.94%) Figma
2 9 (12.50%) Miro
3 3 (4.17%) AWS
3 3 (4.17%) Slack
4 2 (2.78%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.78%) GitHub
4 2 (2.78%) Google Analytics
4 2 (2.78%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.78%) SaaS
4 2 (2.78%) Serverless
4 2 (2.78%) Smartsheet
5 1 (1.39%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.39%) Lucidchart
5 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.39%) Power BI
2 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (11.11%) JIRA
2 3 (4.17%) Axure RP
3 2 (2.78%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.78%) Git
4 1 (1.39%) GitLab
General
1 27 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 26 (36.11%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.56%) Finance
4 3 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (1.39%) Arabic Language
5 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Law
5 1 (1.39%) Legal
5 1 (1.39%) Military
5 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Publishing
5 1 (1.39%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.39%) Thai Language
5 1 (1.39%) Urdu Language
Job Titles
1 48 (66.67%) Designer
2 24 (33.33%) Service Designer
3 11 (15.28%) Senior
4 8 (11.11%) Product Designer
4 8 (11.11%) User Researcher
4 8 (11.11%) UX Designer
5 7 (9.72%) Senior Designer
6 5 (6.94%) Developer
6 5 (6.94%) Graphic Designer
7 4 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (4.17%) Senior Product Designer
8 3 (4.17%) Senior UX Designer
8 3 (4.17%) UI Designer
9 2 (2.78%) Auditor
9 2 (2.78%) Interaction Designer
9 2 (2.78%) Lead
9 2 (2.78%) Operations Manager
9 2 (2.78%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.78%) Senior Service Designer
9 2 (2.78%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.11%) CSS
1 8 (11.11%) HTML
2 6 (8.33%) React
3 2 (2.78%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.78%) AWS CDK
3 2 (2.78%) CSS3
3 2 (2.78%) D3.js
3 2 (2.78%) HTML5
3 2 (2.78%) LESS
3 2 (2.78%) Node.js
3 2 (2.78%) Sass
3 2 (2.78%) Vue
4 1 (1.39%) Core Data
4 1 (1.39%) Next.js
4 1 (1.39%) PostGIS
4 1 (1.39%) REST
4 1 (1.39%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 5 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.78%) NHS
4 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.39%) Blog
5 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.39%) Derivative
5 1 (1.39%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.17%) Android
3 1 (1.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (48.61%) Service Design
2 29 (40.28%) Agile
3 28 (38.89%) User Experience
4 25 (34.72%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 22 (30.56%) User Research
6 18 (25.00%) Journey Map
7 16 (22.22%) Usability Testing
7 16 (22.22%) UX Design
8 15 (20.83%) Co-Creation
8 15 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (20.83%) Workshop Facilitation
9 14 (19.44%) Prototyping
9 14 (19.44%) Roadmaps
10 11 (15.28%) Actionable Insight
10 11 (15.28%) Information Security
10 11 (15.28%) Strategic Roadmap
10 11 (15.28%) Wireframes
11 8 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
11 8 (11.11%) Interaction Design
11 8 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.94%) JavaScript
2 4 (5.56%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.39%) Python
3 1 (1.39%) SQL
3 1 (1.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 24 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (91.67%) Accessibility
2 27 (37.50%) WCAG
3 3 (4.17%) QA
4 2 (2.78%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.39%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.78%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (9.72%) Adobe
2 4 (5.56%) Hotjar
3 2 (2.78%) Google
4 1 (1.39%) Databricks
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle
4 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.39%) SAP
4 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow