Human-Centred Design Contracts

Human-Centred Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 579 675
Rank change year-on-year +28 +96 -123
Contract jobs citing Human-Centred Design 28 115 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% 0.22% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 91 139
10th Percentile £415 £406 £428
25th Percentile £456 £456 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £485 £545
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% -11.01% +15.96%
75th Percentile £541 £536 £600
90th Percentile £550 £600 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £525
% change year-on-year -0.84% -8.76% +16.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £72.40 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £84.80 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Human-Centred Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Human-Centred Design in the UK

Human-Centred Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Human-Centred Design in the UK

Human-Centred Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Human-Centred Design over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Human-Centred Design in the UK

Human-Centred Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Human-Centred Design in the UK

Human-Centred Design
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 20 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
UK excluding London -15 19 £475 -0.84% 9
Work from Home +62 16 £496 +3.44% 10
Scotland -17 16 £469 -2.14% 2
England +93 8 £525 -4.55% 15
London +82 5 £525 -8.70% 8
North of England +30 2 £513 +13.89%
Yorkshire - 2 £513 -
South West - 1 £875 - 1

Human-Centred Design
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 2 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Adobe XD
1 5 (17.86%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) AWS
2 11 (39.29%) Amazon S3
2 11 (39.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 11 (39.29%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (39.29%) Serverless
3 7 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 5 (17.86%) Figma
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (46.43%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (35.71%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
4 3 (10.71%) Oracle Database
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (7.14%) GIS
5 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (3.57%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 15 (53.57%) Public Sector
2 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Finance
5 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Health Technology
5 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Advertising
6 1 (3.57%) Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Legal
6 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
6 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Designer
3 5 (17.86%) Software Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Interaction Designer
4 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Content Designer
5 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 2 (7.14%) User Experience Researcher
5 2 (7.14%) User Researcher
6 1 (3.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.57%) Java Software Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Product Designer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (3.57%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (46.43%) AWS CDK
2 11 (39.29%) React
3 8 (28.57%) CSS
3 8 (28.57%) HTML
3 8 (28.57%) Node.js
4 6 (21.43%) Spring
4 6 (21.43%) Spring Boot
5 5 (17.86%) REST
6 4 (14.29%) OAuth
6 4 (14.29%) OAuth2
6 4 (14.29%) PostGIS
6 4 (14.29%) Spring Security
7 3 (10.71%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (7.14%) Spring MVC
8 2 (7.14%) Spring Web Flow
8 2 (7.14%) Thymeleaf
9 1 (3.57%) Java EE
9 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) NHS
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Agile
2 14 (50.00%) User Experience
3 13 (46.43%) CI/CD
3 13 (46.43%) Inclusive Design
4 11 (39.29%) Analytics
4 11 (39.29%) Code Quality
4 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (39.29%) TDD
5 10 (35.71%) Pair Programming
6 9 (32.14%) DevOps
7 8 (28.57%) Microservices
7 8 (28.57%) Test Automation
7 8 (28.57%) Unit Testing
8 7 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
8 7 (25.00%) Roadmaps
8 7 (25.00%) Usability Testing
8 7 (25.00%) UX Research
9 6 (21.43%) Code Coverage
9 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
10 5 (17.86%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) JavaScript
2 9 (32.14%) Java
2 9 (32.14%) TypeScript
3 7 (25.00%) Python
4 4 (14.29%) Bash
4 4 (14.29%) SQL
5 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.57%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (64.29%) Accessibility
2 3 (10.71%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (7.14%) GDPR
3 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Grafana
2 3 (10.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Adobe
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Brio