Design Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 603 489
Rank change year-on-year +72 -114 +153
Permanent jobs citing Design Thinking 406 421 1,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.42% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.44% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 56 136 296
10th Percentile £40,000 £50,007 £37,875
25th Percentile £47,150 £52,500 £43,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,550 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +16.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £82,813 £89,063 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,650 £67,500 £48,869
% change year-on-year -19.04% +38.12% -11.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,921 96,445 150,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.59% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 59,902 56,808 82,456
10th Percentile £29,010 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Thinking in the UK

Design Thinking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Design Thinking in the UK

Design Thinking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Thinking over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Design Thinking in the UK

Design Thinking
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 May 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
England +56 359 £59,300 -15.29% 61
UK excluding London +111 321 £54,650 -19.04% 28
Midlands +64 91 £54,650 -2.41% 4
North of England +84 88 £73,496 +4.99% 14
North West +59 85 £73,496 +4.99% 9
South East +10 83 £63,750 -5.56% 1
London +21 81 £70,750 -21.39% 34
Work from Home +70 79 £59,300 -15.29% 43
East Midlands +52 75 £49,000 -
Scotland -37 35 £60,000 +16.81% 4
West Midlands +12 16 £54,650 -2.41% 4
South West -27 13 £62,500 +3.47% 1
Northern Ireland - 8 - - 1
Yorkshire +74 3 - - 3
East of England +4 3 £82,500 +83.33% 3

Design Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (0.99%) SAS
1 4 (0.99%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.49%) Confluence
3 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 38 (9.36%) UserZoom
2 12 (2.96%) Sketch
3 7 (1.72%) Adobe XD
4 5 (1.23%) InVision
5 4 (0.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.74%) Zeplin
7 2 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.49%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.25%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.25%) Elementor
8 1 (0.25%) InDesign
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 28 (6.90%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 247 (60.84%) Azure
2 238 (58.62%) IBM Cloud
3 131 (32.27%) Azure DevOps
4 130 (32.02%) Serverless
5 128 (31.53%) Azure Functions
6 126 (31.03%) Azure Logic Apps
7 125 (30.79%) Azure API Management
7 125 (30.79%) Azure Service Bus
8 46 (11.33%) Figma
9 32 (7.88%) SurveyMonkey
10 10 (2.46%) SaaS
11 7 (1.72%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 7 (1.72%) AWS
12 5 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (0.74%) Azure App Service
13 3 (0.74%) Google Workspace
13 3 (0.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 2 (0.49%) dbt
14 2 (0.49%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.74%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (58.87%) MongoDB
2 238 (58.62%) DB2
2 238 (58.62%) NoSQL
2 238 (58.62%) PostgreSQL
3 126 (31.03%) Relational Database
4 15 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.74%) Metadata
5 3 (0.74%) SAS EBI
5 3 (0.74%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.25%) CockroachDB
6 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.25%) Power BI
6 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (8.13%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.99%) Git
2 4 (0.99%) JIRA
3 3 (0.74%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.25%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.25%) VersionOne
4 1 (0.25%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 243 (59.85%) Public Sector
2 193 (47.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 74 (18.23%) Social Skills
4 68 (16.75%) Finance
5 47 (11.58%) Law
5 47 (11.58%) Marketing
6 31 (7.64%) Retail
7 24 (5.91%) Legal
8 19 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (4.68%) Banking
9 8 (1.97%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.74%) Local Government
12 3 (0.74%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.25%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.25%) Games
13 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (31.03%) Developer
2 125 (30.79%) Azure Developer
2 125 (30.79%) Full Stack Developer
3 113 (27.83%) Full Stack Engineer
4 111 (27.34%) Azure Engineer
5 42 (10.34%) Senior
6 38 (9.36%) User Experience Researcher
7 29 (7.14%) Lead
8 25 (6.16%) Analyst
9 24 (5.91%) Business Analyst
10 18 (4.43%) Designer
11 16 (3.94%) Product Manager
12 15 (3.69%) Senior Analyst
12 15 (3.69%) Senior Business Analyst
12 15 (3.69%) Senior Manager
13 14 (3.45%) Endur Analyst
13 14 (3.45%) Endur Business Analyst
13 14 (3.45%) ETRM Business Analyst
13 14 (3.45%) OpenLink Analyst
13 14 (3.45%) OpenLink Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (62.32%) CSS
1 253 (62.32%) HTML
2 246 (60.59%) React
3 243 (59.85%) .NET
4 242 (59.61%) ASP.NET
4 242 (59.61%) ASP.NET Core
4 242 (59.61%) Web Services
5 240 (59.11%) AngularJS
6 238 (58.62%) Backbone.js
6 238 (58.62%) Ember.js
6 238 (58.62%) jQuery
6 238 (58.62%) REST
6 238 (58.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 238 (58.62%) Vue
7 128 (31.53%) Node.js
8 4 (0.99%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.99%) Blazor
8 4 (0.99%) Entity Framework
9 2 (0.49%) Java EE
9 2 (0.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 245 (60.34%) Algorithms
1 245 (60.34%) Data Structures
2 240 (59.11%) Blockchain
3 238 (58.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 113 (27.83%) e-Learning
5 42 (10.34%) Product Ownership
6 16 (3.94%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.96%) Freedom of Information
7 12 (2.96%) Taxonomies
8 8 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.48%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.23%) Graphic Design
11 4 (0.99%) Photography
11 4 (0.99%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.49%) Life Science
12 2 (0.49%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.49%) Video Editing
13 1 (0.25%) 3D Graphics
13 1 (0.25%) Digital Media
13 1 (0.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 239 (58.87%) Android
2 238 (58.62%) Apple iOS
2 238 (58.62%) Linux
2 238 (58.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (78.57%) User Experience
2 252 (62.07%) Co-Creation
3 241 (59.36%) Artificial Intelligence
3 241 (59.36%) Design Patterns
3 241 (59.36%) Responsive Web Design
4 240 (59.11%) Full Stack Development
5 239 (58.87%) Web Development
6 238 (58.62%) MVC
6 238 (58.62%) MVVM
6 238 (58.62%) OO
6 238 (58.62%) OOP
6 238 (58.62%) SOLID
7 191 (47.04%) Agile
8 167 (41.13%) DevOps
9 155 (38.18%) Mentoring
10 125 (30.79%) API Management
10 125 (30.79%) Generative AI
11 116 (28.57%) Coaching
12 113 (27.83%) Code Quality
13 88 (21.67%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 249 (61.33%) JavaScript
2 248 (61.08%) SQL
3 245 (60.34%) C#
4 131 (32.27%) Java
5 130 (32.02%) Python
6 3 (0.74%) C++
7 2 (0.49%) Ruby
8 1 (0.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 81 (19.95%) Degree
2 12 (2.96%) Master's Degree
3 5 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.23%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.74%) MBA
5 2 (0.49%) CSPO
5 2 (0.49%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.49%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.88%) Actionable Recommendations
2 13 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.99%) WCAG
4 3 (0.74%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.25%) GDPR
5 1 (0.25%) QA
5 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (0.99%) Terraform
2 1 (0.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 238 (58.62%) IBM
1 238 (58.62%) Red Hat
2 38 (9.36%) Qualtrics
3 13 (3.20%) Adobe
4 10 (2.46%) Microsoft
5 8 (1.97%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.74%) Databricks
6 3 (0.74%) Oracle
7 2 (0.49%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.49%) Google
8 1 (0.25%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.25%) Apple
8 1 (0.25%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.25%) SAP
8 1 (0.25%) Splunk
8 1 (0.25%) Workday