Design Thinking Contracts in the Midlands

Design Thinking
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 7 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 147 198
Rank change year-on-year +16 +51 -21
Contract jobs citing Design Thinking 1 4 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.037% 0.13% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.16% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 15
10th Percentile - - £345
25th Percentile - - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile - - £694
90th Percentile - - £783
England median daily rate £450 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -18.18% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.50
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - £37.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £27.67 £70.07 £57.50
% change year-on-year -60.51% +21.86% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,192 2,571 4,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.76% 85.73% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,440 1,776 3,199
10th Percentile £263 £250 £252
25th Percentile £377 £375 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +13.14%
75th Percentile £612 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £701 £657
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 95 115
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.38 £10.69
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.00 £14.34
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +52.78% +20.00%
75th Percentile £40.97 £51.50 £30.44
90th Percentile £54.00 £67.50 £36.50
England median hourly rate £43.00 £42.50 £28.90
% change year-on-year +1.18% +47.06% +37.62%

Design Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Thinking in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Thinking in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Design Thinking in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Design Thinking within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 September 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
West Midlands +14 1 - -
Design Thinking
England

Design Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Co-Creation
1 1 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Measurement
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation