Design Thinking Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Design Thinking
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Design Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Design Thinking 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 - -
75th Percentile £64,450 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £60,100 - £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +24.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Design Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 686 774 552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 76.22% 86.38% 91.09%
Number of salaries quoted 479 349 355
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,790 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £88,250
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Design Thinking job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Design Thinking
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Design Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Design Thinking

Design Thinking
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Thinking within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 27 December 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 1 £60,100 - 1
Design Thinking
East of England

Design Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check