Design Thinking Contracts in England

Design Thinking
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Design Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Design Thinking over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 504 493
Rank change year-on-year +22 -11 -65
Contract jobs citing Design Thinking 61 134 304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.28% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.31% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 76 208
10th Percentile £263 £448 £425
25th Percentile £355 £512 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £574 £600 £695
90th Percentile £640 £663 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £27.53 £39.50
25th Percentile - £31.31 £50.00
Median hourly rate - £38.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -45.36% +60.92%
75th Percentile - £45.81 £72.50
90th Percentile - £49.98 -
UK median hourly rate - £38.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -45.36% +60.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Design Thinking 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 31,587 42,714 64,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.77% 89.96% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 29,972 45,670
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 1,513 1,726
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Thinking in England

Design Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Design Thinking in England

Design Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Thinking in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Thinking in England

Design Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Thinking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Design Thinking in England

Design Thinking
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 Thinking within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +40 45 £500 -9.09% 33
North of England +18 6 £525 -12.50% 9
South East +1 4 £370 -29.52% 2
North East +12 3 £450 - 1
Yorkshire +12 2 £525 +8.81%
North West +14 1 - - 8
East of England +8 1 £600 -
Design Thinking
UK

Design Thinking
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 13 (21.31%) SharePoint
2 10 (16.39%) Confluence
3 3 (4.92%) CMS
4 2 (3.28%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Sketch
2 4 (6.56%) Adobe XD
3 3 (4.92%) InVision
4 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (3.28%) UserZoom
5 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.64%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (1.64%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Softmar
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.59%) Power Platform
2 11 (18.03%) Azure
2 11 (18.03%) Figma
3 9 (14.75%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (14.75%) Serverless
4 8 (13.11%) Azure Functions
4 8 (13.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 8 (13.11%) GitHub
4 8 (13.11%) Power Automate
4 8 (13.11%) PowerApps
5 4 (6.56%) Miro
6 2 (3.28%) dbt
6 2 (3.28%) IaaS
6 2 (3.28%) PaaS
6 2 (3.28%) SaaS
6 2 (3.28%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.64%) AWS
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.64%) SurveyMonkey
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.59%) Power BI
2 9 (14.75%) NoSQL
2 9 (14.75%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (14.75%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.92%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.28%) SAS EBI
5 1 (1.64%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.64%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.64%) Metadata
5 1 (1.64%) Redis
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (14.75%) JIRA
2 8 (13.11%) GitLab
3 2 (3.28%) Axure RP
4 1 (1.64%) Balsamiq
4 1 (1.64%) Git
4 1 (1.64%) webpack
General
1 25 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 19 (31.15%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.39%) Finance
4 9 (14.75%) Banking
5 4 (6.56%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Law
6 3 (4.92%) Marketing
7 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.28%) Retail
8 1 (1.64%) Games
8 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Legal
8 1 (1.64%) Police
8 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 25 (40.98%) Designer
2 12 (19.67%) Service Designer
3 9 (14.75%) Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Applications Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Power Apps Developer
4 8 (13.11%) UX Designer
5 6 (9.84%) Analyst
6 5 (8.20%) Consultant
7 4 (6.56%) Senior
8 3 (4.92%) Architect
8 3 (4.92%) Content Designer
8 3 (4.92%) Operations Analyst
8 3 (4.92%) Product Designer
8 3 (4.92%) Security Analyst
8 3 (4.92%) Security Operations Analyst
8 3 (4.92%) UI Designer
8 3 (4.92%) UI/UX Designer
8 3 (4.92%) User Experience Consultant
9 2 (3.28%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Product Management Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) CSS
1 5 (8.20%) HTML
2 4 (6.56%) CSS3
3 1 (1.64%) D3.js
3 1 (1.64%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.64%) Framer.js
3 1 (1.64%) HTML5
3 1 (1.64%) Kafka
3 1 (1.64%) Node.js
3 1 (1.64%) React
3 1 (1.64%) RESTful
3 1 (1.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.84%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (8.20%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.64%) Derivative
4 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.64%) FMCG
4 1 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.64%) Mobile Games
4 1 (1.64%) Robotics
4 1 (1.64%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Linux
1 4 (6.56%) Windows
2 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (55.74%) Agile
2 23 (37.70%) User Experience
3 19 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (31.15%) Service Design
4 17 (27.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (27.87%) UX Design
5 13 (21.31%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (21.31%) User Stories
5 13 (21.31%) Workshop Facilitation
6 12 (19.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 11 (18.03%) User Research
8 10 (16.39%) Journey Map
9 9 (14.75%) Strategic Thinking
10 8 (13.11%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (11.48%) Creative Thinking
11 7 (11.48%) Customer Experience
11 7 (11.48%) Customer-Centricity
11 7 (11.48%) Usability Testing
11 7 (11.48%) Use Case
11 7 (11.48%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.75%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.56%) Python
3 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.20%) Degree
3 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.92%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.28%) WCAG
3 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
Vendors
1 14 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.03%) Oracle
3 3 (4.92%) Adobe
3 3 (4.92%) MicroStrategy
3 3 (4.92%) Splunk
4 2 (3.28%) Cadence
5 1 (1.64%) Aprimo
5 1 (1.64%) BigPanda
5 1 (1.64%) Murex
5 1 (1.64%) Sybase