Design Persona Contracts with Work from Home Options

Design Personas
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Design Persona skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Design Persona over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 454 578
Rank change year-on-year +107 +124 -109
Contract jobs citing Design Persona 2 12 42
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.013% 0.048% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.053% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 15
10th Percentile - £400 -
25th Percentile - £476 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £555 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £579 £540
90th Percentile - £620 -
UK median daily rate £350 £555 £525
% change year-on-year -36.94% +5.71% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Design Persona is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,143 22,599 40,333
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.00% 89.72% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,800 15,969 29,287
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 519 542
10th Percentile £14.96 £18.63 £14.28
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £37.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +42.69% +52.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Design Persona
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Design Persona as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Design Persona trend for jobs with a WFH option

Design Persona
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Design Persona.

Design Persona daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Design Persona
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) User Researcher
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Customer Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Ergonomics
1 2 (100.00%) Ethnography
1 2 (100.00%) Human Factors
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Research
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility