Inclusive Design Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Inclusive Design
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Inclusive Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Inclusive Design 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £500 £475 £438
% change year-on-year +5.26% +8.57% -12.94%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,406 1,193 1,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.33% 89.63% 84.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,609 799 1,106
10th Percentile £304 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £393 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £600
90th Percentile £664 £689 £700
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 54 118
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.36 £11.11
25th Percentile £16.10 £14.70 £14.03
Median hourly rate £23.00 £18.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.86% -19.42% +26.98%
75th Percentile £29.38 £24.21 £40.38
90th Percentile £59.50 £34.63 £58.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £33.26 £32.50
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.32% -12.87%

Inclusive Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Inclusive Design job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Inclusive Design
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Inclusive Design
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
Shropshire - 2 - - 1
Warwickshire - 1 £500 -
Inclusive Design
England

Inclusive Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
1 1 (33.33%) Storybook
1 1 (33.33%) Vite
1 1 (33.33%) webpack
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Designer
1 2 (66.67%) Service Designer
2 1 (33.33%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Design Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Fraud Detection
2 2 (66.67%) Interaction Design
2 2 (66.67%) Journey Map
2 2 (66.67%) Service Design
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) User Research
2 2 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) WCAG