User Research Contracts in England

User Research
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for User Research skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Research over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 211 177
Rank change year-on-year -78 -34 -26
Contract jobs citing User Research 270 667 1,178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.73% 1.32% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.46% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 524 915
10th Percentile £363 £407 £406
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £588
90th Percentile - £675 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.48% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile - - £18.95
25th Percentile £25.25 - £20.46
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £23.50
75th Percentile £37.75 - £52.30
90th Percentile £59.35 - £59.89
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -43.33% +80.00% +43.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

User Research 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing User Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for User Research in England

User Research
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Research in England.

Daily rate trend for User Research in England

User Research
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Research in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Research in England

User Research
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Research in England.

Hourly rate trend for User Research in England

User Research
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Research in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Research in England

User Research
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Research within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London -54 161 £531 -3.41% 60
North of England -29 52 £413 -25.00% 33
North West -12 27 £363 -34.09% 20
Yorkshire -25 18 £475 -13.64% 10
South East -9 8 £488 +8.33% 9
North East +19 7 £606 +16.31% 3
South West -6 6 £625 +11.86% 6
West Midlands -14 4 £450 -21.74% 9
Midlands -23 4 £450 -21.74% 14
User Research
UK

User Research
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 8 (2.96%) govService
2 3 (1.11%) CMS
2 3 (1.11%) Confluence
3 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.37%) SAS
3 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 31 (11.48%) Sketch
2 16 (5.93%) Adobe XD
3 11 (4.07%) InVision
4 10 (3.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (1.85%) Zeplin
6 3 (1.11%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.74%) Trello
7 2 (0.74%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.37%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (22.96%) Figma
2 48 (17.78%) AWS
3 10 (3.70%) Miro
4 7 (2.59%) Azure
5 6 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.74%) GitHub
6 2 (0.74%) SaaS
7 1 (0.37%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.37%) Apigee
7 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.37%) Kong
7 1 (0.37%) Pendo
7 1 (0.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.59%) Intranet
2 1 (0.37%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (17.04%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.37%) Metadata
2 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.37%) Power BI
2 1 (0.37%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (4.44%) Axure RP
2 11 (4.07%) JIRA
3 2 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.37%) Appium
4 1 (0.37%) Git
4 1 (0.37%) Maven
4 1 (0.37%) Postman
4 1 (0.37%) Selenium
4 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 63 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 55 (20.37%) Public Sector
3 27 (10.00%) Finance
4 12 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.44%) Marketing
5 6 (2.22%) Publishing
6 5 (1.85%) Health Technology
6 5 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.48%) Banking
7 4 (1.48%) Games
7 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.48%) Legal
7 4 (1.48%) Local Government
8 3 (1.11%) Advertising
8 3 (1.11%) Retail
9 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.74%) Military
9 2 (0.74%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (37.04%) Designer
2 61 (22.59%) Senior
3 49 (18.15%) User Researcher
4 46 (17.04%) Software Engineer
5 43 (15.93%) UX Designer
6 33 (12.22%) Senior Software Engineer
7 23 (8.52%) Service Designer
8 14 (5.19%) Interaction Designer
8 14 (5.19%) Product Manager
9 13 (4.81%) Senior Designer
10 12 (4.44%) Head of Customer Experience
10 12 (4.44%) Head of Digital
10 12 (4.44%) Lead
11 11 (4.07%) Analyst
12 10 (3.70%) UI Designer
12 10 (3.70%) UI/UX Designer
13 9 (3.33%) Content Designer
13 9 (3.33%) Senior User Researcher
14 8 (2.96%) Business Analyst
15 7 (2.59%) Lead Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (17.41%) Kafka
2 17 (6.30%) HTML
3 15 (5.56%) CSS
4 2 (0.74%) RESTful
4 2 (0.74%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.74%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (0.37%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.37%) D3.js
5 1 (0.37%) JSON
5 1 (0.37%) Node.js
5 1 (0.37%) React
5 1 (0.37%) React Native
5 1 (0.37%) Spring
5 1 (0.37%) Vue
5 1 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.52%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.07%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.22%) Graphic Design
4 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.85%) Onboarding
4 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.11%) Mobile Games
6 2 (0.74%) Blog
6 2 (0.74%) CMDB
6 2 (0.74%) NHS
7 1 (0.37%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.37%) BYOD
7 1 (0.37%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.37%) EPoS
7 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.37%) Infotainment
7 1 (0.37%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.37%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.74%) Android
1 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (55.93%) User Experience
2 146 (54.07%) Agile
3 129 (47.78%) UX Design
4 84 (31.11%) UX Research
5 68 (25.19%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 63 (23.33%) Service Design
7 56 (20.74%) Software Engineering
8 50 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
9 49 (18.15%) Fintech
10 45 (16.67%) Usability Testing
11 43 (15.93%) Prototyping
12 39 (14.44%) Wireframes
13 33 (12.22%) Interaction Design
14 30 (11.11%) User Stories
15 27 (10.00%) Journey Map
15 27 (10.00%) Mentoring
15 27 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
16 22 (8.15%) Analytics
17 21 (7.78%) Design Thinking
18 20 (7.41%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 46 (17.04%) Go
2 12 (4.44%) JavaScript
3 3 (1.11%) Java
4 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
4 1 (0.37%) Python
4 1 (0.37%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.15%) Degree
4 7 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.48%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.48%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.11%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (14.07%) Accessibility
2 11 (4.07%) Actionable Recommendations
3 10 (3.70%) WCAG
4 4 (1.48%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.11%) QA
6 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (17.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (17.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.74%) Ansible
3 1 (0.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (11.11%) Adobe
2 4 (1.48%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.48%) ServiceNow
3 2 (0.74%) Brio
3 2 (0.74%) SAP
4 1 (0.37%) Checkmarx