Design Thinking Job Trends in West Sussex

Design Thinking
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Design Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Design Thinking 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 0.16% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - -
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £72,500 - £78,750
% change year-on-year - - +14.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 401 204 581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 65.95% 91.48% 85.19%
Number of salaries quoted 262 130 390
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,175
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,638 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,151
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.66% -1.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £73,875
South East median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% -9.09%

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Design Thinking job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Design Thinking
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Design Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Design Thinking

Design Thinking
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Thinking within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 8 April 2026. 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
Worthing - 1 £72,500 -
Design Thinking
South East

Design Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Research
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft