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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 109 121
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 +44
Contract jobs citing User Research 20 14 24
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.15% 0.66% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 0.72% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 18
10th Percentile £402 £494 £443
25th Percentile £419 £528 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% +2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £589 £622 £622
90th Percentile £690 £650 £695
Central London median daily rate £463 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -19.57% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.25 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £72.50
75th Percentile £56.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £54.50 - £72.50

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 1,634 1,941 2,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.91% 91.69% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,189 1,764
10th Percentile £331 £375 £363
25th Percentile £420 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.37% +1.39%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -35.15%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -41.33%

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 8 November 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 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (5.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
1 3 (15.00%) Figma
1 3 (15.00%) GitHub
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.00%) Dagster
3 1 (5.00%) dbt
3 1 (5.00%) Miro
3 1 (5.00%) Prefect
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.00%) MySQL
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Legal
5 2 (10.00%) Finance
5 2 (10.00%) Retail
6 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Designer
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) User Researcher
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Digital Product Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (10.00%) Product Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Designer
4 2 (10.00%) UX Designer
5 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Content Designer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Digital Product Owner
5 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior UX Designer
5 1 (5.00%) User Experience Researcher
5 1 (5.00%) Workday Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (10.00%) D3.js
1 2 (10.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (10.00%) React
1 2 (10.00%) SQLAlchemy
1 2 (10.00%) Vue
2 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (25.00%) Storytelling
3 5 (25.00%) User Experience
3 5 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 4 (20.00%) AI
4 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (20.00%) Data Science
4 4 (20.00%) LLM
4 4 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (15.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (15.00%) Analytics
5 3 (15.00%) Conversational AI
5 3 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
5 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (15.00%) Generative AI
5 3 (15.00%) Product Strategy
5 3 (15.00%) User Stories
5 3 (15.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (15.00%) WCAG
3 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Adobe
1 1 (5.00%) Genesys
1 1 (5.00%) Qualtrics
1 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (5.00%) Workday