User Research Contracts in Central London

User Research
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 123 131
Rank change year-on-year +15 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing User Research 18 11 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.92% 0.46% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.50% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 35
10th Percentile £441 £497 £418
25th Percentile £451 £507 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £573 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.81% +9.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £502 £632 £625
90th Percentile £559 £635 £656
London median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +1.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,816 2,188 3,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.27% 90.53% 91.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,167 1,559 2,348
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £679 £685 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £593
% change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 29
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £15.05
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.63 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £28.98 £53.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £40.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £33.00 £27.92 £37.34
% change year-on-year +18.19% -25.23% +2.55%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Research in Central London

User Research
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for User Research in Central London

User Research
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Research in Central London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Research in Central London

User Research
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for User Research in Central London

User Research
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 21 May 2025. 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
City of London +10 15 £476 -16.81% 12
City of Westminster - 2 - -
User Research
London

User Research
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Adobe XD
1 2 (11.11%) Sketch
2 1 (5.56%) SPSS
2 1 (5.56%) Stata
2 1 (5.56%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Figma
1 5 (27.78%) SaaS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Mixpanel
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) QGIS
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Games
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Designer
2 3 (16.67%) Product Designer
2 3 (16.67%) Product Owner
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Senior Designer
2 3 (16.67%) User Researcher
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Digital Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Product Designer
3 2 (11.11%) UX Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Product Owner
4 1 (5.56%) Games Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Interaction Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Mobile UX Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Pensions Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Product Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) UI Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Web Designer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 3 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.56%) NHS
3 1 (5.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Android
1 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) User Experience
2 9 (50.00%) UX Design
3 8 (44.44%) Agile
4 7 (38.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 6 (33.33%) Usability Testing
6 5 (27.78%) Product Strategy
6 5 (27.78%) Prototyping
6 5 (27.78%) Wireframes
7 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (22.22%) Product Vision
7 4 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (22.22%) Sprint Retrospective
8 3 (16.67%) Analytics
8 3 (16.67%) B2B
8 3 (16.67%) B2C
8 3 (16.67%) Interaction Design
8 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (16.67%) Scrum
8 3 (16.67%) User Stories
8 3 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.11%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Adobe
1 2 (11.11%) Optimizely
2 1 (5.56%) Brio
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft