User Research Contracts in Coventry

User Research
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry 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 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 18 26 33
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing User Research 1 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 1.03% 0.70% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.73% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £471
25th Percentile £456 £488 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -1.96% +4.08%
75th Percentile £469 £513 £533
90th Percentile - - £542
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +22.22% -21.74% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86 137 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 88.66% 95.80% 85.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 111 164
10th Percentile £207 £363 £250
25th Percentile £363 £425 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £575
90th Percentile £640 £688 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £13.57
25th Percentile - - £15.18
Median hourly rate - - £17.86
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.89%
75th Percentile - - £20.54
90th Percentile - - £22.15
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for User Research in Coventry

User Research
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Daily rate trend for User Research in Coventry

User Research
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Content Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Designer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)