User Research Contract Job Trends in Croydon

User Research
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring User Research skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing User Research 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 2.41% - 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% - 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £427 - -
25th Percentile £448 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - £600
75th Percentile £526 - -
90th Percentile £543 - -
South London median daily rate £490 - £600

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73 88 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 87.95% 91.67% 85.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 53 101
10th Percentile £304 £380 £380
25th Percentile £475 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £630 £540 £583
90th Percentile £709 £567 £650
South London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £19.50 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £52.19
% change year-on-year -18.77% -62.64% +18.32%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for User Research in Croydon

User Research
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing User Research.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing User Research

User Research
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Research in Croydon over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Research in Croydon

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (50.00%) Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) D3.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (50.00%) Interaction Design
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 1 (50.00%) Service Design
1 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG