UX Research Contracts in Central London

User Experience Research (UXR)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring UX Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UX 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 124 130 166
Rank change year-on-year +6 +36 -6
Contract jobs citing UX Research 5 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.25% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £560 - £454
25th Percentile £575 £483 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £496 £495
Median % change year-on-year +20.97% +0.20% -17.50%
75th Percentile - £509 £549
90th Percentile - - £610
London median daily rate £531 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -3.51% -8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

UX 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 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Research in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for UX Research in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Research in Central London

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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 UX Research within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 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 5 £600 +20.97% 4
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London

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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 1 (20.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (20.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AppsFlyer
2 1 (20.00%) Figma
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Marketing
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Email Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior User Experience Researcher
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience Researcher
3 1 (20.00%) Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Product Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Product Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior UI Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior UI/UX Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior UX Designer
3 1 (20.00%) UI Designer
3 1 (20.00%) UI/UX Designer
3 1 (20.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) User Experience
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (60.00%) UX Design
4 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Competitor Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Data Science
4 2 (40.00%) Design Thinking
4 2 (40.00%) Email Marketing
4 2 (40.00%) Qualitative Research
4 2 (40.00%) Quantitative Research
4 2 (40.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (40.00%) Storytelling
4 2 (40.00%) Usability Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Use Case
4 2 (40.00%) Validation
4 2 (40.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (40.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe