Human-Centred Design Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Human-Centred Design
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Human-Centred Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Human-Centred Design 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 284 318 405
Rank change year-on-year +34 +87 +139
Contract jobs citing Human-Centred Design 20 27 72
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.18% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.20% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 26 61
10th Percentile £370 £415 £418
25th Percentile £400 £439 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £480 £479
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +0.21% -12.91%
75th Percentile £532 £544 £508
90th Percentile £626 £560 £569
UK median daily rate £487 £483 £485
% change year-on-year +0.83% -0.41% -11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £84.80
UK median hourly rate £90.00 - £72.40

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Human-Centred 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 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%

Human-Centred Design
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Human-Centred Design trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Human-Centred Design
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Human-Centred Design daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Human-Centred Design
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Human-Centred Design daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Human-Centred Design
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Human-Centred Design hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Human-Centred Design
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 2 (10.00%) CMS
1 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) GeoServer
2 1 (5.00%) TPMS
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) InVision
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) Trello
1 1 (5.00%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
2 8 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 8 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 8 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (40.00%) Serverless
3 4 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 4 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (15.00%) Figma
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (10.00%) Route 53
6 1 (5.00%) PaaS
6 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (10.00%) GIS
4 1 (5.00%) InfluxDB
4 1 (5.00%) MariaDB
4 1 (5.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (15.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) Axure RP
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 11 (55.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Legal
3 3 (15.00%) Marketing
3 3 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Military
5 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Designer
2 3 (15.00%) UX Designer
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) User Experience Architect
3 2 (10.00%) User Experience Researcher
4 1 (5.00%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Content Designer
4 1 (5.00%) Content Strategist
4 1 (5.00%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (5.00%) Human Factors Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Product Designer
4 1 (5.00%) UX Strategist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) AWS CDK
2 5 (25.00%) React
2 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (15.00%) Next.js
3 3 (15.00%) Node.js
3 3 (15.00%) PostGIS
4 2 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (10.00%) REST
4 2 (10.00%) Spring
5 1 (5.00%) CSS
5 1 (5.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (15.00%) Taxonomies
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Android
1 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Agile
2 11 (55.00%) Inclusive Design
3 10 (50.00%) User Experience
4 8 (40.00%) Scrum
5 7 (35.00%) Kanban
6 6 (30.00%) Analytics
6 6 (30.00%) TDD
6 6 (30.00%) UX Design
7 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 5 (25.00%) E-Commerce
7 5 (25.00%) Prototyping
7 5 (25.00%) User Research
8 4 (20.00%) Community of Practice
8 4 (20.00%) Customer Experience
8 4 (20.00%) DevOps
8 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
8 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 4 (20.00%) Wireframes
9 3 (15.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (25.00%) Java
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (15.00%) Bash
5 2 (10.00%) SQL
6 1 (5.00%) Groovy
6 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (5.00%) Def Stans
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Grafana
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Imperva
2 1 (5.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow