User Research Contracts in London

User Research
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 190 190
Rank change year-on-year -47 0 -43
Contract jobs citing User Research 161 386 624
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.91% 1.43% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.57% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 306 471
10th Percentile £375 £418 £405
25th Percentile £444 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £601 £625 £612
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £22.72
25th Percentile £25.25 - £33.18
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £50.61
75th Percentile £37.75 - £58.18
90th Percentile £59.35 - £62.72
England median hourly rate £25.50 - £23.50
% change year-on-year - - +11.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,676 24,638 35,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.11% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,227 17,712 26,145
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £50.88
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Research in London

User Research
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for User Research in London

User Research
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Research in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Research in London

User Research
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for User Research in London

User Research
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Research in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Research in London

User Research
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Central London +3 13 £573 +14.50% 1
South London +11 1 £500 -
East London - 1 £600 - 1
User Research
England

User Research
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (4.97%) govService
2 2 (1.24%) CMS
2 2 (1.24%) Confluence
3 1 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.62%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.62%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (15.53%) Sketch
2 12 (7.45%) Adobe XD
3 8 (4.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 8 (4.97%) InVision
4 3 (1.86%) Photoshop
4 3 (1.86%) Zeplin
5 2 (1.24%) Trello
6 1 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.62%) SPSS
6 1 (0.62%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (32.30%) Figma
2 17 (10.56%) AWS
3 9 (5.59%) Miro
4 6 (3.73%) Azure
4 6 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.24%) GitHub
5 2 (1.24%) SaaS
6 1 (0.62%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.62%) Apigee
6 1 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.62%) Kong
6 1 (0.62%) Pendo
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.73%) Intranet
2 1 (0.62%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.94%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (6.21%) Axure RP
2 9 (5.59%) JIRA
3 2 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.62%) Appium
4 1 (0.62%) Git
4 1 (0.62%) Maven
4 1 (0.62%) Postman
4 1 (0.62%) Selenium
4 1 (0.62%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.62%) webpack
General
1 49 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.88%) Public Sector
3 18 (11.18%) Finance
4 9 (5.59%) Marketing
5 8 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.11%) Publishing
7 4 (2.48%) Banking
7 4 (2.48%) Games
7 4 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.48%) Local Government
8 2 (1.24%) Advertising
8 2 (1.24%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.24%) Retail
9 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Legal
9 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Police
Job Titles
1 71 (44.10%) Designer
2 35 (21.74%) UX Designer
3 33 (20.50%) Senior
4 21 (13.04%) User Researcher
5 16 (9.94%) Senior Software Engineer
5 16 (9.94%) Software Engineer
6 14 (8.70%) Service Designer
7 12 (7.45%) Head of Customer Experience
7 12 (7.45%) Head of Digital
7 12 (7.45%) Lead
8 10 (6.21%) Senior Designer
9 8 (4.97%) Analyst
9 8 (4.97%) Product Manager
10 7 (4.35%) Business Analyst
10 7 (4.35%) Lead Designer
10 7 (4.35%) Senior UX Designer
11 6 (3.73%) Interaction Designer
11 6 (3.73%) UI Designer
11 6 (3.73%) UI/UX Designer
12 4 (2.48%) Content Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.56%) Kafka
2 10 (6.21%) HTML
3 9 (5.59%) CSS
4 2 (1.24%) RESTful
4 2 (1.24%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (0.62%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.62%) D3.js
5 1 (0.62%) JSON
5 1 (0.62%) Node.js
5 1 (0.62%) React
5 1 (0.62%) React Native
5 1 (0.62%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.62%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.45%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.21%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.48%) Graphic Design
5 3 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.86%) Mobile Games
5 3 (1.86%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.24%) CMDB
7 1 (0.62%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.62%) Blog
7 1 (0.62%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.62%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.62%) Mixed Reality
7 1 (0.62%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.62%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.24%) Android
1 2 (1.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (49.69%) User Experience
2 68 (42.24%) Agile
3 67 (41.61%) UX Design
4 42 (26.09%) Service Design
5 39 (24.22%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (22.98%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 35 (21.74%) UX Research
8 29 (18.01%) Wireframes
9 28 (17.39%) Prototyping
10 26 (16.15%) Usability Testing
11 22 (13.66%) Workshop Facilitation
12 20 (12.42%) Customer Experience
13 19 (11.80%) Fintech
13 19 (11.80%) User Stories
14 18 (11.18%) Design Thinking
15 17 (10.56%) Analytics
15 17 (10.56%) Interaction Design
15 17 (10.56%) Software Engineering
16 16 (9.94%) Journey Map
16 16 (9.94%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.94%) Go
2 8 (4.97%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.24%) Java
4 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
4 1 (0.62%) Python
4 1 (0.62%) Swift
Qualifications
1 25 (15.53%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.80%) Degree
4 5 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.48%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.86%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.15%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.73%) WCAG
3 3 (1.86%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.62%) QA
4 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (10.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.24%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (14.91%) Adobe
2 1 (0.62%) Checkmarx
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.62%) SAP
2 1 (0.62%) ServiceNow