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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 552 581 632
Rank change year-on-year +29 +51 -69
Contract jobs citing Human-Centred Design 27 103 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.073% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 81 153
10th Percentile £415 £446 £430
25th Percentile £456 £468 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £489 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -9.02% +14.36%
75th Percentile £531 £545 £600
90th Percentile £550 £625 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £483 £525
% change year-on-year -1.55% -8.10% +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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -5 21 £475 -1.55% 18
Work from Home +69 18 £490 +1.03% 11
Scotland -10 18 £469 -2.34% 1
England +75 5 £525 -8.70% 25
London +79 2 £438 -25.53% 8
Yorkshire - 2 £513 -
North of England - 2 £513 - 5
South West - 1 £875 -

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 (7.41%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Adobe XD
1 5 (18.52%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) AWS
2 13 (48.15%) Amazon S3
2 13 (48.15%) AWS CloudFormation
2 13 (48.15%) AWS Lambda
2 13 (48.15%) Serverless
3 9 (33.33%) OpenShift
4 5 (18.52%) Figma
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (7.41%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (44.44%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (14.81%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (11.11%) Oracle Database
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (7.41%) GIS
5 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 15 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Finance
5 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Health Technology
5 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.70%) Advertising
6 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (59.26%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Designer
2 5 (18.52%) Software Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Full Stack Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Interaction Designer
3 4 (14.81%) Java Developer
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 2 (7.41%) User Researcher
5 1 (3.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (3.70%) Java Software Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Product Designer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (3.70%) User Experience Researcher
5 1 (3.70%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (55.56%) AWS CDK
2 13 (48.15%) React
3 10 (37.04%) CSS
3 10 (37.04%) HTML
4 8 (29.63%) Node.js
5 7 (25.93%) REST
5 7 (25.93%) Spring
5 7 (25.93%) Spring Boot
6 5 (18.52%) OAuth
6 5 (18.52%) OAuth2
6 5 (18.52%) Spring Security
7 4 (14.81%) PostGIS
8 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (11.11%) Spring MVC
8 3 (11.11%) Spring Web Flow
8 3 (11.11%) Thymeleaf
9 1 (3.70%) Java EE
9 1 (3.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Agile
2 15 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 15 (55.56%) Inclusive Design
2 15 (55.56%) User Experience
3 13 (48.15%) Code Quality
3 13 (48.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (48.15%) TDD
4 12 (44.44%) Pair Programming
5 11 (40.74%) Analytics
5 11 (40.74%) DevOps
6 10 (37.04%) Microservices
6 10 (37.04%) Test Automation
6 10 (37.04%) Unit Testing
7 8 (29.63%) Product Roadmap
7 8 (29.63%) Roadmaps
8 7 (25.93%) Code Coverage
8 7 (25.93%) Usability Testing
9 6 (22.22%) Mentoring
9 6 (22.22%) Requirements Analysis
9 6 (22.22%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) JavaScript
2 11 (40.74%) Java
2 11 (40.74%) TypeScript
3 7 (25.93%) Python
4 5 (18.52%) SQL
5 4 (14.81%) Bash
6 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.70%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (7.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) Grafana
2 3 (11.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Adobe
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Brio