Design Thinking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Design Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Design Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Design Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 375 438
Rank change year-on-year +24 +63 +5
Contract jobs citing Design Thinking 18 38 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.18% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.21% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 23 48
10th Percentile £405 £450 £425
25th Percentile £439 £506 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% +7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £570
90th Percentile £688 £700 £715
UK median daily rate £450 £568 £575
% change year-on-year -20.76% -1.24% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £51.75
25th Percentile £26.42 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £27.67 £70.07 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.51% +27.40% -
75th Percentile £28.93 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £58.25
UK median hourly rate £27.67 £70.07 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.51% +33.47% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Design Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,041 18,439 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.81% 88.33% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,020 12,105 18,694
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £686 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 1,303 1,340
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £12.66
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Design Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Design Thinking in the UK excluding London

Design Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Thinking in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Design Thinking in the UK excluding London

Design Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Thinking in the UK excluding London

Design Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Thinking in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Design Thinking in the UK excluding London

Design Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
North of England +26 6 £675 +28.57% 3
South East +30 4 £565 -14.72% 2
South West +26 3 - -
Scotland +22 3 £410 -25.45%
North East -5 3 £450 -
Yorkshire +18 2 £675 +45.16% 1
North West +20 1 - - 2
East of England +18 1 - - 1
Midlands +5 1 - - 4
West Midlands +3 1 - - 2
Design Thinking
UK

Design Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 4 (22.22%) InVision
1 4 (22.22%) OmniGraffle
1 4 (22.22%) Sketch
1 4 (22.22%) UXPin
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
1 2 (11.11%) Figma
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Axure RP
1 4 (22.22%) Balsamiq
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Designer
2 6 (33.33%) UX Designer
3 4 (22.22%) UI Designer
3 4 (22.22%) UI/UX Designer
4 3 (16.67%) Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Interaction Designer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) User Experience Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Lead
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Designer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior UX Designer
6 1 (5.56%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) HTML
2 4 (22.22%) CSS
2 4 (22.22%) CSS3
2 4 (22.22%) Framer.js
2 4 (22.22%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Hackathon
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 9 (50.00%) User Experience
3 7 (38.89%) User Research
4 6 (33.33%) Prototyping
5 5 (27.78%) Service Design
5 5 (27.78%) UX Design
6 4 (22.22%) A/B Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Heuristic Analysis
6 4 (22.22%) Mobile First
6 4 (22.22%) Product Vision
6 4 (22.22%) Rapid Prototyping
6 4 (22.22%) Responsive Web Design
6 4 (22.22%) User Stories
6 4 (22.22%) Wireframes
7 3 (16.67%) Agile
7 3 (16.67%) Interaction Design
8 2 (11.11%) Information Security
8 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
8 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker