Design Thinking Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Design Thinking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Design Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Design Thinking 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 282 325 425
Rank change year-on-year +43 +100 +27
Contract jobs citing Design Thinking 22 20 52
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.15% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 35
10th Percentile £478 £336 £518
25th Percentile £570 £441 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £750 £579 £588
90th Percentile £818 £587 £665
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Design Thinking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Design Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Design Thinking trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Design Thinking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Design Thinking.

Design Thinking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Design Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Design Thinking over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Design Thinking daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Design Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Design Thinking.

Design Thinking hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Design Thinking
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (18.18%) Confluence
1 4 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) SAP CO
1 2 (9.09%) SAP FI
1 2 (9.09%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Figma
2 3 (13.64%) Miro
2 3 (13.64%) Slack
3 1 (4.55%) Azure
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
3 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (13.64%) Big Data
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) JIRA
2 3 (13.64%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.55%) GitLab
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) General Ledger
4 1 (4.55%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Designer
2 7 (31.82%) Product Designer
3 4 (18.18%) Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Agile C# Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Agile Developer
4 3 (13.64%) C# Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Architect
5 2 (9.09%) SAP CO Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) SAP FI Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Designer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Product Designer
5 2 (9.09%) Service Designer
5 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.09%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Kafka
1 3 (13.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Android
1 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Agile
2 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (22.73%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 4 (18.18%) Customer Experience
4 4 (18.18%) Product Strategy
4 4 (18.18%) Wireframes
5 3 (13.64%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (13.64%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Fintech
5 3 (13.64%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 3 (13.64%) Insurtech
5 3 (13.64%) Interaction Design
5 3 (13.64%) Parallel Programming
5 3 (13.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (13.64%) Scrum
5 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (13.64%) Use Case
5 3 (13.64%) User Experience
5 3 (13.64%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) C#
1 3 (13.64%) Java
1 3 (13.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow