User Research Contract Job Trends in the City of London

User Research
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring User Research skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 110 124
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 +31
Contract jobs citing User Research 22 14 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.30% 0.67% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 0.73% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 19
10th Percentile £403 £494 £448
25th Percentile £425 £528 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £622 £631
90th Percentile £673 £650 £693
Central London median daily rate £468 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -18.70% +2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.25 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £56.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £54.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,599 1,911 2,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.56% 91.79% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,170 1,765
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £421 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 17
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.07 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +54.55% -45.54%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.84% -38.14%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Research relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

User Research job vacancy trend in the City of London

User Research
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing User Research.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing User Research

User Research
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Research in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Research in the City of London

User Research
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing User Research.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing User Research

User Research
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
1 1 (4.55%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Figma
2 3 (13.64%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) GitHub
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.55%) Dagster
4 1 (4.55%) dbt
4 1 (4.55%) Miro
4 1 (4.55%) Prefect
4 1 (4.55%) SaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Mixpanel
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.55%) MySQL
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Legal
4 2 (9.09%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Marketing
4 2 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Designer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior
2 5 (22.73%) User Researcher
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Designer
4 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Digital Product Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Product Designer
4 2 (9.09%) Product Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Product Designer
4 2 (9.09%) UX Designer
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Content Designer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Digital Product Owner
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Digital Product Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Service Designer
5 1 (4.55%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) FastAPI
1 2 (9.09%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.55%) D3.js
2 1 (4.55%) LangGraph
2 1 (4.55%) React
2 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Android
1 2 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) Roadmaps
2 7 (31.82%) User Experience
3 5 (22.73%) Product Strategy
3 5 (22.73%) Storytelling
3 5 (22.73%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 5 (22.73%) UX Design
4 4 (18.18%) AI
4 4 (18.18%) LLM
4 4 (18.18%) Prototyping
5 3 (13.64%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (13.64%) Contextual Inquiry
5 3 (13.64%) Conversational AI
5 3 (13.64%) Conversational UI
5 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (13.64%) Data Science
5 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (13.64%) Generative AI
5 3 (13.64%) Product Backlog
5 3 (13.64%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.09%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Optimizely
2 1 (4.55%) Adobe
2 1 (4.55%) Genesys
2 1 (4.55%) Qualtrics
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.55%) Workday