Design Thinking Contracts

Design Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 500 555 507
Rank change year-on-year +55 -48 -58
Contract jobs citing Design Thinking 73 146 383
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.26% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.28% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 80 262
10th Percentile £299 £463 £430
25th Percentile £391 £523 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £611 £675
90th Percentile £599 £676 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Thinking in the UK

Design Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Design Thinking in the UK

Design Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Thinking over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Thinking in the UK

Design Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Thinking in the UK

Design Thinking
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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
England +26 66 £500 -9.09% 56
London +61 51 £500 -9.09% 34
Work from Home +88 16 £538 -2.27% 37
UK excluding London +18 14 £525 -4.55% 21
North of England +13 6 £525 -12.50% 10
Scotland +48 3 £550 - 4
North East +13 3 £450 - 2
South East +8 3 £370 -33.33%
Yorkshire +17 2 £525 +5.00% 3
North West +13 1 - - 6
East of England +12 1 £600 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £513 -

Design Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (17.81%) SharePoint
2 11 (15.07%) Confluence
3 3 (4.11%) CMS
4 2 (2.74%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (10.96%) Sketch
2 6 (8.22%) Adobe XD
2 6 (8.22%) InVision
3 3 (4.11%) UserZoom
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.74%) Zeplin
5 1 (1.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Softmar
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.92%) Power Platform
2 15 (20.55%) Figma
3 11 (15.07%) Azure
4 10 (13.70%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (13.70%) Serverless
5 9 (12.33%) Azure Functions
5 9 (12.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (12.33%) GitHub
5 9 (12.33%) Power Automate
5 9 (12.33%) PowerApps
6 4 (5.48%) Miro
7 2 (2.74%) dbt
7 2 (2.74%) IaaS
7 2 (2.74%) PaaS
7 2 (2.74%) SaaS
7 2 (2.74%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.37%) AWS
8 1 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.37%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.92%) Power BI
2 10 (13.70%) NoSQL
3 9 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (12.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.11%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (2.74%) Data Mart
5 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.74%) SAS EBI
6 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.37%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.37%) Metadata
6 1 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (13.70%) JIRA
2 9 (12.33%) GitLab
3 5 (6.85%) Axure RP
4 1 (1.37%) Git
4 1 (1.37%) webpack
General
1 37 (50.68%) Social Skills
2 22 (30.14%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (17.81%) Finance
4 12 (16.44%) Banking
5 4 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.48%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.11%) Law
6 3 (4.11%) Marketing
7 2 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Retail
8 1 (1.37%) Games
8 1 (1.37%) Legal
8 1 (1.37%) Police
8 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (47.95%) Designer
2 19 (26.03%) Service Designer
3 10 (13.70%) Developer
4 9 (12.33%) UX Designer
5 7 (9.59%) Applications Developer
5 7 (9.59%) Power Apps Developer
6 6 (8.22%) Analyst
6 6 (8.22%) Consultant
7 5 (6.85%) Content Designer
8 4 (5.48%) Senior
9 3 (4.11%) Applications Consultant
9 3 (4.11%) Architect
9 3 (4.11%) Business Analyst
9 3 (4.11%) Operations Analyst
9 3 (4.11%) Power Apps Consultant
9 3 (4.11%) Product Designer
9 3 (4.11%) Security Analyst
9 3 (4.11%) Security Operations Analyst
9 3 (4.11%) User Experience Consultant
10 2 (2.74%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.48%) CSS
1 4 (5.48%) HTML
2 3 (4.11%) CSS3
3 2 (2.74%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.37%) D3.js
4 1 (1.37%) Kafka
4 1 (1.37%) Node.js
4 1 (1.37%) React
4 1 (1.37%) RESTful
4 1 (1.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.44%) Product Ownership
2 9 (12.33%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.85%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.74%) Derivative
4 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.37%) FMCG
5 1 (1.37%) Mobile Games
5 1 (1.37%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.11%) Linux
1 3 (4.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (56.16%) Agile
2 26 (35.62%) Service Design
3 25 (34.25%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (34.25%) User Experience
4 20 (27.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (26.03%) UX Design
6 18 (24.66%) Journey Map
6 18 (24.66%) Workshop Facilitation
7 17 (23.29%) User Research
7 17 (23.29%) User Stories
8 16 (21.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 14 (19.18%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (19.18%) Strategic Thinking
10 12 (16.44%) Creative Thinking
10 12 (16.44%) Customer-Centricity
11 11 (15.07%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (13.70%) Coaching
12 10 (13.70%) Storytelling
12 10 (13.70%) Usability Testing
12 10 (13.70%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.11%) Python
3 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.22%) Degree
3 5 (6.85%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.11%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.07%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.48%) WCAG
3 2 (2.74%) QA
4 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
Vendors
1 14 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.07%) Oracle
3 5 (6.85%) Adobe
4 3 (4.11%) MicroStrategy
4 3 (4.11%) Splunk
5 2 (2.74%) Cadence
5 2 (2.74%) Murex
6 1 (1.37%) Aprimo
6 1 (1.37%) Qualtrics