Design Thinking Jobs

Design Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 547 585 446
Rank change year-on-year +38 -139 +210
Permanent jobs citing Design Thinking 407 396 1,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.42% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.44% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 59 122 321
10th Percentile £41,500 £50,001 £38,000
25th Percentile £47,475 £51,563 £43,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,300 £69,447 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.61% +15.75% -3.23%
75th Percentile £91,150 £85,000 £83,925
90th Percentile £122,500 £99,900 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,650 £67,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -19.04% +28.57% -4.55%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Design Thinking in the UK

Design Thinking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Thinking over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Design Thinking in the UK

Design Thinking
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +29 361 £60,000 -14.29% 52
UK excluding London +84 319 £54,650 -19.04% 19
Midlands +60 91 £54,650 -4.12% 4
North of England +76 88 £73,496 +4.99% 7
North West +49 85 £73,496 +4.99% 5
London +32 84 £82,500 +3.13% 33
South East -1 82 £63,750 -5.56% 2
Work from Home +40 77 £59,300 -15.29% 17
East Midlands +49 75 £49,000 -
Scotland -44 34 £60,000 +16.81% 3
West Midlands -10 16 £54,650 -4.12% 4
South West -23 13 £62,500 +3.47% 3
Northern Ireland - 8 - -
Yorkshire +53 3 - -
East of England -18 3 £82,500 +34.69%

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 5 (1.23%) Cloud Foundry
2 4 (0.98%) Confluence
2 4 (0.98%) SAS
2 4 (0.98%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (8.85%) UserZoom
2 12 (2.95%) Sketch
3 7 (1.72%) Adobe XD
4 5 (1.23%) InVision
5 4 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.74%) Zeplin
7 2 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.49%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.25%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.25%) Elementor
8 1 (0.25%) InDesign
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 28 (6.88%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 250 (61.43%) Azure
2 238 (58.48%) IBM Cloud
3 135 (33.17%) Serverless
4 130 (31.94%) Azure DevOps
5 128 (31.45%) Azure Functions
6 126 (30.96%) Azure Logic Apps
7 125 (30.71%) Azure API Management
7 125 (30.71%) Azure Service Bus
8 44 (10.81%) Figma
9 30 (7.37%) SurveyMonkey
10 10 (2.46%) AWS
10 10 (2.46%) SaaS
11 7 (1.72%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 5 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (0.98%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (0.74%) Azure App Service
14 3 (0.74%) Google Workspace
14 3 (0.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 2 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.74%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (58.72%) MongoDB
2 238 (58.48%) DB2
2 238 (58.48%) NoSQL
2 238 (58.48%) PostgreSQL
3 126 (30.96%) Relational Database
4 15 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.74%) Metadata
6 3 (0.74%) SAS EBI
7 2 (0.49%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.25%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 31 (7.62%) Jenkins
2 8 (1.97%) Git
3 5 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.74%) Axure RP
5 3 (0.74%) JIRA
6 1 (0.25%) Dreamweaver
6 1 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.25%) VersionOne
6 1 (0.25%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 244 (59.95%) Public Sector
2 191 (46.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 72 (17.69%) Social Skills
4 66 (16.22%) Finance
5 45 (11.06%) Law
5 45 (11.06%) Marketing
6 31 (7.62%) Retail
7 24 (5.90%) Legal
8 19 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
9 18 (4.42%) Banking
10 8 (1.97%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.74%) Local Government
12 3 (0.74%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.25%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.25%) Games
13 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (30.96%) Developer
2 125 (30.71%) Azure Developer
2 125 (30.71%) Full Stack Developer
3 113 (27.76%) Full Stack Engineer
4 111 (27.27%) Azure Engineer
5 42 (10.32%) Senior
6 36 (8.85%) User Experience Researcher
7 33 (8.11%) Lead
8 22 (5.41%) Analyst
9 21 (5.16%) Business Analyst
10 19 (4.67%) Designer
11 18 (4.42%) Product Manager
12 17 (4.18%) Senior Manager
13 15 (3.69%) Senior Product Manager
14 13 (3.19%) Senior Analyst
14 13 (3.19%) Senior Business Analyst
15 12 (2.95%) Endur Analyst
15 12 (2.95%) Endur Business Analyst
15 12 (2.95%) OpenLink Analyst
15 12 (2.95%) OpenLink Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (62.16%) CSS
1 253 (62.16%) HTML
2 246 (60.44%) React
3 244 (59.95%) AngularJS
4 243 (59.71%) .NET
5 242 (59.46%) ASP.NET
5 242 (59.46%) ASP.NET Core
5 242 (59.46%) REST
5 242 (59.46%) Web Services
6 238 (58.48%) Backbone.js
6 238 (58.48%) Ember.js
6 238 (58.48%) jQuery
6 238 (58.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 238 (58.48%) Vue
7 128 (31.45%) Node.js
8 5 (1.23%) JSON
9 4 (0.98%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.98%) Blazor
9 4 (0.98%) Entity Framework
10 2 (0.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 245 (60.20%) Algorithms
1 245 (60.20%) Data Structures
2 240 (58.97%) Blockchain
3 238 (58.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 113 (27.76%) e-Learning
5 46 (11.30%) Product Ownership
6 16 (3.93%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.95%) Freedom of Information
7 12 (2.95%) Taxonomies
8 8 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.97%) Reinsurance
9 6 (1.47%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.23%) Graphic Design
11 4 (0.98%) Photography
12 2 (0.49%) Life Science
12 2 (0.49%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.49%) Video Editing
13 1 (0.25%) Digital Media
13 1 (0.25%) Driving Licence
13 1 (0.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 239 (58.72%) Android
2 238 (58.48%) Apple iOS
2 238 (58.48%) Linux
2 238 (58.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (77.89%) User Experience
2 252 (61.92%) Co-Creation
3 241 (59.21%) Artificial Intelligence
3 241 (59.21%) Design Patterns
3 241 (59.21%) Responsive Web Design
4 240 (58.97%) Full Stack Development
5 239 (58.72%) Web Development
6 238 (58.48%) MVC
6 238 (58.48%) MVVM
6 238 (58.48%) OO
6 238 (58.48%) OOP
6 238 (58.48%) SOLID
7 193 (47.42%) Agile
8 164 (40.29%) DevOps
9 153 (37.59%) Mentoring
10 125 (30.71%) API Management
10 125 (30.71%) Generative AI
11 116 (28.50%) Coaching
12 113 (27.76%) Code Quality
13 86 (21.13%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 253 (62.16%) JavaScript
2 251 (61.67%) SQL
3 245 (60.20%) C#
4 134 (32.92%) Java
5 129 (31.70%) Python
6 3 (0.74%) C++
7 2 (0.49%) Ruby
8 1 (0.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 77 (18.92%) Degree
2 12 (2.95%) Master's Degree
3 5 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.23%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.74%) MBA
4 3 (0.74%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.74%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.49%) CSPO
6 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.25%) MAPM
6 1 (0.25%) MBCS
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.37%) Actionable Recommendations
2 14 (3.44%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.98%) WCAG
4 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.25%) GDPR
5 1 (0.25%) QA
System Software
1 5 (1.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (1.23%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.98%) Terraform
3 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 238 (58.48%) IBM
1 238 (58.48%) Red Hat
2 36 (8.85%) Qualtrics
3 13 (3.19%) Adobe
4 10 (2.46%) Microsoft
5 8 (1.97%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.74%) Databricks
6 3 (0.74%) Oracle
7 2 (0.49%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.49%) Google
8 1 (0.25%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.25%) Apple
8 1 (0.25%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.25%) SAP
8 1 (0.25%) Splunk
8 1 (0.25%) Workday