User-Centered Design (UCD) Contract Job Trends in Dorset

User-Centered Design (UCD)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.99% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median daily rate £475 £500 £700
% change year-on-year -5.00% -28.57% +27.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

User-Centered Design (UCD) 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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 157 104 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 77.34% 89.66% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 68 95
10th Percentile £350 £189 £175
25th Percentile £396 £311 £176
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.79% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £636 £550 £630
90th Percentile £743 £575 £718
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 18 23
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.96 -
25th Percentile £24.13 £15.25 £13.69
Median hourly rate £60.33 £15.50 £15.62
Median % change year-on-year +289.23% -0.77% -72.25%
75th Percentile £72.02 £15.75 £47.83
90th Percentile £72.82 £67.50 £61.50
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +128.63% -61.31% -

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

User-Centered Design (UCD) job vacancy trend in Dorset

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing User-Centered Design (UCD).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing User-Centered Design (UCD)

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 25 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Poole - 2 - -
User-Centered Design (UCD)
South West

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Figma
General
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Designer
1 2 (100.00%) UI Designer
1 2 (100.00%) UI/UX Designer
1 2 (100.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) B2B
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
1 2 (100.00%) Product Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
1 2 (100.00%) Wireframes
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility