Empathy Maps Contract Job Trends in England

Empathy Maps
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Empathy Maps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 517 547
Rank change year-on-year -29 +30 +200
Contract jobs citing Empathy Maps 7 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.022% 0.003% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.004% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile £394 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.93%
75th Percentile £451 - £589
90th Percentile £454 - £596
UK median daily rate £400 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -20.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £72.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Empathy Maps 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,041 25,399 32,549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.71% 88.67% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,829 15,672 22,137
10th Percentile £300 £310 £310
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,820 835 1,372
10th Percentile £15.14 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +20.52%
75th Percentile £55.21 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £74.95 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +25.43%

Empathy Maps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Empathy Maps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Empathy Maps job vacancy trend in England

Empathy Maps
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Empathy Maps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Empathy Maps

Empathy Maps
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Empathy Maps within the England region over the 6 months to 23 December 2025. 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
London -2 3 £400 - 1
North East - 2 £454 -
South East - 2 £454 -
North of England - 2 £454 -
Empathy Maps
UK

Empathy Maps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe XD
1 2 (28.57%) InVision
1 2 (28.57%) Sketch
1 2 (28.57%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Figma
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Axure RP
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Designer
1 7 (100.00%) Service Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Design Thinking
1 7 (100.00%) Service Design
1 7 (100.00%) User Research
1 7 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 6 (85.71%) Acceptance Criteria
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Backlog Management
2 6 (85.71%) Data Analysis
2 6 (85.71%) Ergonomics
2 6 (85.71%) Ethnography
2 6 (85.71%) Human Factors
2 6 (85.71%) Journey Map
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) User Journey Map
2 6 (85.71%) User Stories
2 6 (85.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 5 (71.43%) Co-Creation
3 5 (71.43%) Storytelling
4 3 (42.86%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (42.86%) Human-Centred Design
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) Accessibility
1 5 (71.43%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Adobe