Design Thinking Jobs in the North West

Design Thinking
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Design Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Design Thinking over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 207 267 285
Rank change year-on-year +60 +18 -38
Permanent jobs citing Design Thinking 84 31 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.87% 0.39% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.41% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1 27 16
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +64.71% -16.26%
75th Percentile £82,500 - £63,688
90th Percentile - £85,000 £79,375
England median annual salary £59,300 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.29% +16.67% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Design Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,075 7,639 8,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.17% 95.75% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 6,151 3,950 5,365
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,396 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Design Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Design Thinking in the North West

Design Thinking
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Design Thinking in the North West.

Salary trend for Design Thinking in the North West

Design Thinking
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Thinking within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Manchester +66 70 £75,000 +7.14% 4
Cheshire -3 13 - - 1
Lancashire -13 1 - -
Design Thinking
England

Design Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.19%) InVision
1 1 (1.19%) Sketch
1 1 (1.19%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 78 (92.86%) Azure
1 78 (92.86%) IBM Cloud
2 41 (48.81%) Azure API Management
2 41 (48.81%) Azure DevOps
2 41 (48.81%) Azure Functions
2 41 (48.81%) Azure Logic Apps
2 41 (48.81%) Azure Service Bus
2 41 (48.81%) Serverless
3 3 (3.57%) SaaS
4 1 (1.19%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (92.86%) DB2
1 78 (92.86%) MongoDB
1 78 (92.86%) NoSQL
1 78 (92.86%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (48.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Axure RP
General
1 79 (94.05%) Public Sector
2 37 (44.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (4.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.19%) Marketing
4 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (48.81%) Azure Developer
1 41 (48.81%) Developer
1 41 (48.81%) Full Stack Developer
2 37 (44.05%) Azure Engineer
2 37 (44.05%) Full Stack Engineer
3 3 (3.57%) Consultant
3 3 (3.57%) Innovation Consultant
4 1 (1.19%) Analyst
4 1 (1.19%) Business Analyst
4 1 (1.19%) Designer
4 1 (1.19%) Junior
4 1 (1.19%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (1.19%) Junior Business Analyst
4 1 (1.19%) Service Designer
4 1 (1.19%) User Experience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (92.86%) .NET
1 78 (92.86%) AngularJS
1 78 (92.86%) ASP.NET
1 78 (92.86%) ASP.NET Core
1 78 (92.86%) Backbone.js
1 78 (92.86%) CSS
1 78 (92.86%) Ember.js
1 78 (92.86%) HTML
1 78 (92.86%) jQuery
1 78 (92.86%) React
1 78 (92.86%) REST
1 78 (92.86%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 78 (92.86%) Vue
1 78 (92.86%) Web Services
2 41 (48.81%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 78 (92.86%) Algorithms
1 78 (92.86%) Blockchain
1 78 (92.86%) Data Structures
1 78 (92.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 37 (44.05%) e-Learning
3 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 78 (92.86%) Android
1 78 (92.86%) Apple iOS
1 78 (92.86%) Linux
1 78 (92.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (97.62%) Co-Creation
2 80 (95.24%) User Experience
3 78 (92.86%) Artificial Intelligence
3 78 (92.86%) Design Patterns
3 78 (92.86%) Full Stack Development
3 78 (92.86%) MVC
3 78 (92.86%) MVVM
3 78 (92.86%) OO
3 78 (92.86%) OOP
3 78 (92.86%) Responsive Web Design
3 78 (92.86%) SOLID
3 78 (92.86%) Web Development
4 41 (48.81%) API Management
4 41 (48.81%) DevOps
4 41 (48.81%) Generative AI
5 40 (47.62%) Agile
6 37 (44.05%) Coaching
6 37 (44.05%) Code Quality
6 37 (44.05%) Mentoring
7 4 (4.76%) Design Sprint
Programming Languages
1 78 (92.86%) C#
1 78 (92.86%) JavaScript
1 78 (92.86%) SQL
2 41 (48.81%) Java
2 41 (48.81%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.19%) WCAG
Vendors
1 78 (92.86%) IBM
1 78 (92.86%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.19%) Adobe
2 1 (1.19%) Alteryx
2 1 (1.19%) Workday