Human-Centred Design Contracts in Scotland

Human-Centred Design
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Human-Centred Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Human-Centred Design over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 91 136
Rank change year-on-year -15 +45 -32
Contract jobs citing Human-Centred Design 16 79 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.75% 2.93% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 3.17% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 68 37
10th Percentile £415 £411 £450
25th Percentile £434 £456 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £479 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.19% -8.71% +15.38%
75th Percentile £486 £509 £550
90th Percentile £506 £545 £575
UK median daily rate £486 £485 £550
% change year-on-year +0.21% -11.78% +16.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Human-Centred Design 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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,887 2,493 3,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.10% 92.54% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,767 2,243
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 46
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £18.29
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.00 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -57.25% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Human-Centred Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Human-Centred Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Human-Centred Design in Scotland

Human-Centred Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Human-Centred Design in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Human-Centred Design in Scotland

Human-Centred Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Human-Centred Design in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Human-Centred Design in Scotland

Human-Centred Design
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Human-Centred Design within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 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
Edinburgh -13 6 £453 -5.63% 1
Glasgow +6 5 £486 -7.21%
Human-Centred Design
UK

Human-Centred Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) AWS
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon S3
2 11 (68.75%) AWS CloudFormation
2 11 (68.75%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (68.75%) Serverless
3 7 (43.75%) OpenShift
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (81.25%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (62.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
4 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (12.50%) GIS
5 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 11 (68.75%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Software Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (6.25%) Java Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (81.25%) AWS CDK
2 11 (68.75%) React
3 8 (50.00%) CSS
3 8 (50.00%) HTML
3 8 (50.00%) Node.js
4 6 (37.50%) Spring
4 6 (37.50%) Spring Boot
5 5 (31.25%) REST
6 4 (25.00%) OAuth
6 4 (25.00%) OAuth2
6 4 (25.00%) PostGIS
6 4 (25.00%) Spring Security
7 3 (18.75%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (12.50%) Spring MVC
8 2 (12.50%) Spring Web Flow
8 2 (12.50%) Thymeleaf
9 1 (6.25%) Java EE
9 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Agile
2 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 13 (81.25%) Inclusive Design
3 11 (68.75%) Code Quality
3 11 (68.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (68.75%) TDD
4 10 (62.50%) Pair Programming
5 9 (56.25%) Analytics
5 9 (56.25%) DevOps
6 8 (50.00%) Microservices
6 8 (50.00%) Test Automation
6 8 (50.00%) Unit Testing
7 7 (43.75%) User Experience
8 6 (37.50%) Code Coverage
8 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
9 5 (31.25%) Architecture Roadmap
9 5 (31.25%) Kanban
9 5 (31.25%) Product Roadmap
9 5 (31.25%) Requirements Analysis
9 5 (31.25%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) JavaScript
2 9 (56.25%) Java
2 9 (56.25%) TypeScript
3 7 (43.75%) Python
4 4 (25.00%) Bash
4 4 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 1 (6.25%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (75.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (18.75%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Grafana
2 3 (18.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle