Design Thinking Contracts

Design Thinking
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 510 556 503
Rank change year-on-year +46 -53 -48
Contract jobs citing Design Thinking 74 141 377
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.25% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.28% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 77 265
10th Percentile £263 £461 £425
25th Percentile £391 £512 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £675
90th Percentile £638 £643 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £27.53 £39.50
25th Percentile - £31.31 £50.00
Median hourly rate - £38.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -45.36% +60.92%
75th Percentile - £45.81 £72.50
90th Percentile - £49.98 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Design Thinking in the UK

Design Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Thinking over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Thinking in the UK

Design Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Thinking in the UK

Design Thinking
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +21 67 £500 -9.09% 47
London +39 48 £500 -9.09% 28
UK excluding London +4 18 £525 -4.55% 17
Work from Home +80 15 £550 - 20
North of England +9 6 £525 -12.50% 10
South East +7 5 £370 -29.52% 1
Scotland +50 3 £550 -
North East +10 3 £450 - 2
Yorkshire +10 2 £525 +8.81%
South West +2 2 - - 2
North West +10 1 - - 8
East of England +5 1 £600 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £513 -

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 14 (18.92%) SharePoint
2 11 (14.86%) Confluence
3 3 (4.05%) CMS
4 2 (2.70%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Sketch
2 4 (5.41%) Adobe XD
2 4 (5.41%) InVision
3 3 (4.05%) UserZoom
4 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.70%) OmniGraffle
4 2 (2.70%) UXPin
5 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Softmar
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.62%) Power Platform
2 15 (20.27%) Azure
3 11 (14.86%) Figma
4 10 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (13.51%) Serverless
5 9 (12.16%) Azure Functions
5 9 (12.16%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (12.16%) GitHub
5 9 (12.16%) Power Automate
5 9 (12.16%) PowerApps
6 4 (5.41%) Miro
7 3 (4.05%) AWS
8 2 (2.70%) dbt
8 2 (2.70%) IaaS
8 2 (2.70%) PaaS
8 2 (2.70%) SaaS
8 2 (2.70%) WhatsApp
9 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.35%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.62%) Power BI
2 10 (13.51%) NoSQL
2 10 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (13.51%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.05%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.70%) SAS EBI
5 1 (1.35%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.35%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.35%) Metadata
5 1 (1.35%) Redis
5 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (14.86%) JIRA
2 9 (12.16%) GitLab
3 3 (4.05%) Axure RP
4 2 (2.70%) Balsamiq
5 1 (1.35%) Git
5 1 (1.35%) webpack
General
1 36 (48.65%) Social Skills
2 23 (31.08%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (17.57%) Banking
4 11 (14.86%) Finance
5 5 (6.76%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (5.41%) Retail
7 3 (4.05%) Law
7 3 (4.05%) Marketing
8 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.35%) Games
9 1 (1.35%) Legal
9 1 (1.35%) Police
9 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (44.59%) Designer
2 18 (24.32%) Service Designer
3 10 (13.51%) Developer
3 10 (13.51%) UX Designer
4 9 (12.16%) Applications Developer
4 9 (12.16%) Power Apps Developer
5 5 (6.76%) Analyst
5 5 (6.76%) Consultant
5 5 (6.76%) UI Designer
5 5 (6.76%) UI/UX Designer
6 3 (4.05%) Architect
6 3 (4.05%) Content Designer
6 3 (4.05%) Operations Analyst
6 3 (4.05%) Product Designer
6 3 (4.05%) Security Analyst
6 3 (4.05%) Security Operations Analyst
6 3 (4.05%) Senior
6 3 (4.05%) User Experience Consultant
7 2 (2.70%) Data Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.11%) CSS
1 6 (8.11%) HTML
2 5 (6.76%) CSS3
3 2 (2.70%) Framer.js
3 2 (2.70%) HTML5
4 1 (1.35%) D3.js
4 1 (1.35%) Kafka
4 1 (1.35%) Node.js
4 1 (1.35%) React
4 1 (1.35%) RESTful
4 1 (1.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.86%) Product Ownership
2 9 (12.16%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.76%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.70%) Hackathon
4 2 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.70%) iSeries
5 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.35%) FMCG
5 1 (1.35%) Mobile Games
5 1 (1.35%) Robotics
5 1 (1.35%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.11%) Linux
2 4 (5.41%) Windows
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (51.35%) Agile
2 26 (35.14%) User Experience
3 25 (33.78%) Service Design
4 24 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (27.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (27.03%) UX Design
6 17 (22.97%) User Stories
7 15 (20.27%) User Research
8 14 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (18.92%) Journey Map
8 14 (18.92%) Strategic Thinking
8 14 (18.92%) Workshop Facilitation
9 13 (17.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 12 (16.22%) Creative Thinking
10 12 (16.22%) Customer-Centricity
11 11 (14.86%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (13.51%) Customer Experience
12 10 (13.51%) Use Case
13 9 (12.16%) Change Management
13 9 (12.16%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.16%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.41%) Python
3 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.46%) Degree
3 4 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.05%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.70%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.16%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.70%) WCAG
3 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
Vendors
1 15 (20.27%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.22%) Oracle
3 3 (4.05%) Adobe
3 3 (4.05%) MicroStrategy
3 3 (4.05%) Splunk
4 2 (2.70%) Cadence
5 1 (1.35%) Aprimo
5 1 (1.35%) BigPanda
5 1 (1.35%) Qualtrics
5 1 (1.35%) Sybase