Design Thinking Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Design Thinking
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wokingham requiring Design Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 26 20
Rank change year-on-year -24 -6 -
Contract jobs citing Design Thinking 2 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 0.50% 2.81% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 3.01% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile £355 £563 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £613 £565
Median % change year-on-year -41.47% +8.41% -
75th Percentile £362 £675 £573
90th Percentile £363 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £359 £650 £565
% change year-on-year -44.85% +15.04% +5.12%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wokingham

Design Thinking 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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 325 166 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 81.86% 93.26% 96.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 100 50
10th Percentile £303 £350 £315
25th Percentile £368 £407 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £588
90th Percentile £587 £675 £655
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.30 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.25 £61.50 £60.80
% change year-on-year +35.38% +1.14% -4.76%

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

Design Thinking job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Design Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Design Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Design Thinking

Design Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham 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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Lucidchart
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Balsamiq
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 2 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Epics
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) User Research
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
1 2 (100.00%) Wireframes
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared