Design Sprint Contracts in England

Design Sprints
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Design Sprint skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Design Sprint over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 613 751
Rank change year-on-year +77 +138 -134
Contract jobs citing Design Sprint 6 26 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.054% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.061% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 18 34
10th Percentile £541 £506 £426
25th Percentile £547 £581 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £690 £556
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +24.04% +3.49%
75th Percentile £656 £700 £638
90th Percentile £683 - £679
UK median daily rate £531 £680 £563
% change year-on-year -21.88% +20.89% +4.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,636 42,957 64,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.67% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,638 30,177 45,793
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,518 1,713
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Design Sprint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Design Sprint in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Sprint in England.

Daily rate trend for Design Sprint in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Sprint in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Sprint in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Design Sprint within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +86 5 £631 -9.82% 1
South East +7 1 £575 +9.52% 1
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (33.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Adobe XD
1 2 (33.33%) InVision
1 2 (33.33%) Sketch
1 2 (33.33%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior User Researcher
1 2 (33.33%) UI Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) User Researcher
1 2 (33.33%) UX Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) UI Designer
2 1 (16.67%) UI/UX Designer
2 1 (16.67%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) CSS3
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) User Experience
2 4 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 3 (50.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Design Thinking
3 3 (50.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
3 3 (50.00%) Ideation Sessions
3 3 (50.00%) Information Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Journey Map
3 3 (50.00%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Product Vision
3 3 (50.00%) Service Design
3 3 (50.00%) Storyboarding
3 3 (50.00%) User Journey Map
3 3 (50.00%) User Stories
3 3 (50.00%) UX Design
3 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe