Design Thinking Jobs in England

Design Thinking
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Design Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Design Thinking over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 557 454
Rank change year-on-year +55 -103 +181
Permanent jobs citing Design Thinking 362 389 1,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.44% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.46% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 53 123 262
10th Percentile £38,500 £50,015 £37,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £43,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,380
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +15.93% -6.39%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £104,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £59,300 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.29% +16.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Design Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,606 84,635 130,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.09% 95.60% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 53,947 50,378 73,071
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Thinking in England

Design Thinking
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Design Thinking in England.

Salary trend for Design Thinking in England

Design Thinking
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Thinking in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Design Thinking in England

Design Thinking
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Thinking within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +73 91 £54,650 -4.12% 3
North of England +89 88 £73,496 +4.99% 13
North West +56 85 £73,496 +4.99% 9
London +5 84 £80,000 -11.11% 34
South East -1 83 £63,750 -5.56% 1
East Midlands +57 75 £49,000 -
West Midlands +17 16 £54,650 -4.12% 3
South West -7 13 £62,500 +3.47% 2
Yorkshire +73 3 - - 3
East of England -15 3 £82,500 +83.33% 3
Design Thinking
UK

Design Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (1.10%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.83%) SAS
3 2 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (0.55%) Confluence
4 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.49%) Sketch
2 4 (1.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (1.10%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.83%) Zeplin
4 2 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.55%) InVision
4 2 (0.55%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.28%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.28%) Elementor
5 1 (0.28%) InDesign
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 29 (8.01%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 248 (68.51%) Azure
2 238 (65.75%) IBM Cloud
3 132 (36.46%) Serverless
4 131 (36.19%) Azure DevOps
5 128 (35.36%) Azure Functions
6 126 (34.81%) Azure Logic Apps
7 125 (34.53%) Azure API Management
7 125 (34.53%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (3.04%) Figma
9 10 (2.76%) SaaS
10 8 (2.21%) AWS
11 7 (1.93%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 5 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (0.83%) Azure App Service
13 3 (0.83%) Google Workspace
13 3 (0.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 2 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (0.55%) AWS Fargate
14 2 (0.55%) dbt
14 2 (0.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (66.02%) MongoDB
2 238 (65.75%) DB2
2 238 (65.75%) NoSQL
2 238 (65.75%) PostgreSQL
3 126 (34.81%) Relational Database
4 15 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.83%) Metadata
5 3 (0.83%) SAS EBI
5 3 (0.83%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.28%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.28%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (1.66%) Git
2 3 (0.83%) Axure RP
2 3 (0.83%) JIRA
2 3 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.28%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.28%) VersionOne
4 1 (0.28%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 243 (67.13%) Public Sector
2 156 (43.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 33 (9.12%) Retail
4 31 (8.56%) Social Skills
5 27 (7.46%) Finance
6 24 (6.63%) Legal
7 15 (4.14%) Marketing
8 12 (3.31%) Banking
9 10 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (2.21%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.21%) Law
10 8 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.83%) Local Government
12 3 (0.83%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.28%) Games
13 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (34.81%) Developer
2 125 (34.53%) Azure Developer
2 125 (34.53%) Full Stack Developer
3 113 (31.22%) Full Stack Engineer
4 111 (30.66%) Azure Engineer
5 44 (12.15%) Senior
6 28 (7.73%) Lead
7 20 (5.52%) Analyst
8 19 (5.25%) Business Analyst
8 19 (5.25%) Product Manager
9 18 (4.97%) Senior Manager
10 17 (4.70%) Designer
11 16 (4.42%) Senior Product Manager
12 14 (3.87%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (3.87%) Senior Business Analyst
13 13 (3.59%) Endur Analyst
13 13 (3.59%) Endur Business Analyst
13 13 (3.59%) ETRM Business Analyst
13 13 (3.59%) OpenLink Analyst
13 13 (3.59%) OpenLink Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (69.06%) CSS
1 250 (69.06%) HTML
2 246 (67.96%) React
3 243 (67.13%) .NET
4 242 (66.85%) AngularJS
4 242 (66.85%) ASP.NET
4 242 (66.85%) ASP.NET Core
4 242 (66.85%) Web Services
5 240 (66.30%) REST
6 238 (65.75%) Backbone.js
6 238 (65.75%) Ember.js
6 238 (65.75%) jQuery
6 238 (65.75%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 238 (65.75%) Vue
7 128 (35.36%) Node.js
8 4 (1.10%) .NET Framework
8 4 (1.10%) Blazor
8 4 (1.10%) Entity Framework
9 2 (0.55%) Java EE
9 2 (0.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 245 (67.68%) Algorithms
1 245 (67.68%) Data Structures
2 240 (66.30%) Blockchain
3 238 (65.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 113 (31.22%) e-Learning
5 44 (12.15%) Product Ownership
6 16 (4.42%) Management Information System
7 12 (3.31%) Freedom of Information
7 12 (3.31%) Taxonomies
8 8 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.66%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.38%) Graphic Design
11 4 (1.10%) Photography
12 2 (0.55%) Life Science
12 2 (0.55%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.55%) Video Editing
13 1 (0.28%) Digital Media
13 1 (0.28%) Driving Licence
13 1 (0.28%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 239 (66.02%) Android
2 238 (65.75%) Apple iOS
2 238 (65.75%) Linux
2 238 (65.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (77.07%) User Experience
2 246 (67.96%) Co-Creation
3 241 (66.57%) Design Patterns
3 241 (66.57%) Responsive Web Design
4 240 (66.30%) Artificial Intelligence
5 239 (66.02%) Full Stack Development
5 239 (66.02%) Web Development
6 238 (65.75%) MVC
6 238 (65.75%) MVVM
6 238 (65.75%) OO
6 238 (65.75%) OOP
6 238 (65.75%) SOLID
7 150 (41.44%) Agile
8 135 (37.29%) DevOps
9 125 (34.53%) API Management
9 125 (34.53%) Generative AI
10 116 (32.04%) Coaching
10 116 (32.04%) Mentoring
11 113 (31.22%) Code Quality
12 51 (14.09%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 251 (69.34%) JavaScript
2 249 (68.78%) SQL
3 245 (67.68%) C#
4 132 (36.46%) Java
5 129 (35.64%) Python
6 3 (0.83%) C++
7 2 (0.55%) Ruby
8 1 (0.28%) Go
Qualifications
1 42 (11.60%) Degree
2 6 (1.66%) Master's Degree
3 5 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.38%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.83%) MBA
5 2 (0.55%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.55%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.28%) GDPR
3 1 (0.28%) QA
3 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (0.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.10%) Terraform
2 3 (0.83%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 238 (65.75%) IBM
1 238 (65.75%) Red Hat
2 13 (3.59%) Adobe
3 10 (2.76%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.21%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.83%) Databricks
5 3 (0.83%) Oracle
6 2 (0.55%) Google
7 1 (0.28%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.28%) Apple
7 1 (0.28%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.28%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.28%) SAP
7 1 (0.28%) Splunk
7 1 (0.28%) Workday