UX Research Contracts in the City of London

User Experience Research (UXR)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 125 171
Rank change year-on-year +8 +46 -15
Contract jobs citing UX Research 6 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 0.091% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.10% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £560 - £453
25th Percentile £575 £483 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £496 £475
Median % change year-on-year +20.97% +4.42% -20.83%
75th Percentile - £509 £501
90th Percentile - - £510
Central London median daily rate £600 £496 £495
% change year-on-year +20.97% +0.20% -17.50%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,985 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.56% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 1,404 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £356 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £809 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -15.66%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%

UX Research
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Research in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UX Research in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for UX Research in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UX Research in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for UX Research in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (16.67%) Adobe XD
1 1 (16.67%) Sketch
1 1 (16.67%) SPSS
1 1 (16.67%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AppsFlyer
2 1 (16.67%) Figma
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
1 3 (50.00%) User Experience Researcher
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Email Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior User Experience Researcher
3 1 (16.67%) Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Product Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Product Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior UI Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior UI/UX Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior UX Designer
3 1 (16.67%) UI Designer
3 1 (16.67%) UI/UX Designer
3 1 (16.67%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) CSS
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (16.67%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) User Experience
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (50.00%) Data Science
4 3 (50.00%) Usability Testing
4 3 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (50.00%) UX Design
5 2 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (33.33%) Competitor Analysis
5 2 (33.33%) Design Thinking
5 2 (33.33%) Email Marketing
5 2 (33.33%) Qualitative Research
5 2 (33.33%) Quantitative Research
5 2 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
5 2 (33.33%) Storytelling
5 2 (33.33%) Use Case
5 2 (33.33%) Validation
5 2 (33.33%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe