Design Thinking Jobs in the UK excluding London

Design Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 470 566
Rank change year-on-year +31 +96 -102
Permanent jobs citing Design Thinking 138 321 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.43% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.52% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 12 25 66
10th Percentile - £46,000 £50,015
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £50,324
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £54,650 £68,474
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -20.19% +30.43%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £67,677 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,300 £69,447
% change year-on-year +1.18% -14.61% +15.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,483 61,419 55,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.65% 82.37% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 42,187 28,711
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Design Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Design Thinking in the UK excluding London

Design Thinking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Design Thinking in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Design Thinking in the UK excluding London

Design Thinking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Design Thinking in the UK excluding London

Design Thinking
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Thinking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Scotland +173 103 - - 21
South East +24 19 £55,000 -13.73% 183
North of England -27 9 £62,500 -14.96% 114
North West -69 7 £62,500 -14.96% 51
Isle of Man - 4 - -
West Midlands +45 3 - - 58
Midlands -2 3 - - 107
South West +94 2 £66,367 +6.19% 65
Yorkshire +59 2 - - 49
Design Thinking
UK

Design Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (1.45%) CMS
2 1 (0.72%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Adobe XD
1 3 (2.17%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 7 (5.07%) Figma
2 3 (2.17%) AWS
2 3 (2.17%) GCP
3 2 (1.45%) Azure
3 2 (1.45%) ChatGPT
3 2 (1.45%) Copilot Studio
3 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (1.45%) Power Automate
3 2 (1.45%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.72%) BGP
2 1 (0.72%) Firewall
2 1 (0.72%) Network Security
2 1 (0.72%) SSL
2 1 (0.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.45%) Power BI
2 1 (0.72%) MySQL
2 1 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.72%) JIRA
General
1 118 (85.51%) Finance
2 103 (74.64%) Banking
3 18 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 16 (11.59%) Law
5 14 (10.14%) Legal
6 12 (8.70%) Marketing
7 8 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.17%) Automotive
9 3 (2.17%) Health Technology
9 3 (2.17%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.45%) Retail
11 1 (0.72%) Games
11 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 105 (76.09%) Senior
2 87 (63.04%) Designer
3 82 (59.42%) UX Designer
4 80 (57.97%) Senior Designer
5 79 (57.25%) Senior UX Designer
6 21 (15.22%) Developer
6 21 (15.22%) UX Developer
7 12 (8.70%) Senior Manager
8 11 (7.97%) Senior Developer
8 11 (7.97%) Senior UX Developer
9 9 (6.52%) Deployment Manager
10 4 (2.90%) Development Manager
10 4 (2.90%) Finance Manager
10 4 (2.90%) Product Manager
11 3 (2.17%) Junior
11 3 (2.17%) Junior UI/UX Designer
11 3 (2.17%) Junior UX Designer
11 3 (2.17%) Senior Delivery Manager
11 3 (2.17%) UI/UX Designer
11 3 (2.17%) Visual Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.17%) CSS
1 3 (2.17%) FHIR
1 3 (2.17%) HTML
2 1 (0.72%) JSON
2 1 (0.72%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.17%) Animation
2 3 (2.17%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.17%) Public Cloud
2 3 (2.17%) Video Editing
3 2 (1.45%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.45%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.45%) NHS
3 2 (1.45%) Private Cloud
3 2 (1.45%) Social Media
4 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (90.58%) Agile
2 112 (81.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 110 (79.71%) User Experience
4 108 (78.26%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 107 (77.54%) UX Design
6 105 (76.09%) User Research
6 105 (76.09%) Wireframes
7 104 (75.36%) Project Management
8 103 (74.64%) Usability Testing
9 102 (73.91%) UX Research
10 100 (72.46%) Journey Map
10 100 (72.46%) Prototyping
11 14 (10.14%) Change Management
12 12 (8.70%) E-Commerce
13 10 (7.25%) Analytics
14 9 (6.52%) B2B
14 9 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (6.52%) CRM
14 9 (6.52%) Data Transformation
14 9 (6.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.45%) Python
1 2 (1.45%) SQL
2 1 (0.72%) Java
2 1 (0.72%) JCL
Qualifications
1 4 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (2.17%) Degree
3 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.72%) CCNP
3 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.72%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (73.91%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.17%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 3 (2.17%) Good Clinical Practice
Systems Management
1 1 (0.72%) FortiGate
1 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.72%) Puppet
1 1 (0.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (6.52%) Salesforce
2 7 (5.07%) Adobe
3 3 (2.17%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.45%) SAP
5 1 (0.72%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle