Design Thinking Jobs in Edinburgh

Design Thinking
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Design Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Design Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 - 133
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Permanent jobs citing Design Thinking 7 0 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% - 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% - 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £50,015
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £51,367
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.25%
75th Percentile - - £52,718
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary - £60,000 £51,367
% change year-on-year - +16.81% +2.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 846 1,331 1,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.13% 88.56% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 360 934 1,082
10th Percentile £26,156 £35,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £38,063 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Design Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Design Thinking in Edinburgh

Design Thinking
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Design Thinking in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Design Thinking in Edinburgh

Design Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (14.29%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) ChatGPT
2 2 (28.57%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) BGP
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Visual Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Product Ownership
2 3 (42.86%) Public Cloud
3 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
3 2 (28.57%) Private Cloud
3 2 (28.57%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Observability
3 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 3 (42.86%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (42.86%) Release Train
4 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Creative Thinking
5 2 (28.57%) Project Management
5 2 (28.57%) Storytelling
5 2 (28.57%) User Experience
5 2 (28.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (28.57%) UX Design
5 2 (28.57%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle