User Research Contracts in Bristol

User Research
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring User Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Research over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 73 80
Rank change year-on-year +20 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing User Research 2 1 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.37% 0.095% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.11% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 20
10th Percentile £215 - £411
25th Percentile £263 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 - £559
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.18%
75th Percentile £423 - £644
90th Percentile £469 - £650
South West median daily rate £575 £625 £568
% change year-on-year -8.00% +10.13% +9.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

User Research 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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 493 879 1,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.81% 83.16% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 484 750
10th Percentile £222 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £567 £602 £631
90th Percentile £657 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 184 220
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £42.51 £45.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +36.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £83.88
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for User Research in Bristol

User Research
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for User Research in Bristol

User Research
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Research in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Research in Bristol

User Research
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (50.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
1 1 (50.00%) Google Analytics
General
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Designer
1 2 (100.00%) UX Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Content Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Content Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Digital UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Interaction Design
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (50.00%) Content Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (50.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Journey Map
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Identification
2 1 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Hotjar