Design Thinking Contracts with Work from Home Options

Design Thinking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 406 457
Rank change year-on-year +80 +51 -82
Contract jobs citing Design Thinking 15 51 166
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.21% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.24% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 34 123
10th Percentile £310 £504 £425
25th Percentile £506 - £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +17.95%
75th Percentile £584 £561 £638
90th Percentile £588 £604 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £38.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -45.36% +60.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Design Thinking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Design Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Design Thinking trend for jobs with a WFH option

Design Thinking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Design Thinking.

Design Thinking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Design Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Design Thinking over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Design Thinking daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Design Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Design Thinking.

Design Thinking hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Design Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (13.33%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (13.33%) Figma
2 2 (13.33%) IaaS
2 2 (13.33%) PaaS
2 2 (13.33%) SaaS
2 2 (13.33%) WhatsApp
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Power BI
2 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) SAS EBI
3 1 (6.67%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Axure RP
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Legal
5 1 (6.67%) Police
5 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Designer
2 5 (33.33%) Service Designer
3 3 (20.00%) UX Designer
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Data Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Design Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Design Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Service Design Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Digital UX Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Junior
5 1 (6.67%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Junior Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) UI Designer
5 1 (6.67%) UI Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) UI/UX Designer
5 1 (6.67%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) CSS
1 1 (6.67%) CSS3
1 1 (6.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (53.33%) Service Design
3 7 (46.67%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) Journey Map
4 5 (33.33%) User Experience
4 5 (33.33%) User Stories
5 4 (26.67%) Creative Thinking
5 4 (26.67%) Customer Experience
5 4 (26.67%) Customer-Centricity
5 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) Usability Testing
5 4 (26.67%) UX Design
6 3 (20.00%) Change Management
6 3 (20.00%) Coaching
6 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (20.00%) Service Delivery
6 3 (20.00%) Service Management
6 3 (20.00%) SIPOC
6 3 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) MicroStrategy