Persona Development Contracts in England

Persona Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Persona Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Persona Development over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 539 670
Rank change year-on-year +58 +131 +111
Contract jobs citing Persona Development 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.020% 0.005% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.006% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £371 - £425
25th Percentile £430 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.64%
75th Percentile £822 - £588
90th Percentile £884 - £625
UK median daily rate £600 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -10.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Persona Development 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 22,247 32,161 45,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.13% 86.56% 90.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,550 21,078 31,861
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 2,252 1,585
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.93 £10.91
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Persona Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Persona Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Persona Development in England

Persona Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Persona Development in England.

Daily rate trend for Persona Development in England

Persona Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Persona Development in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Persona Development in England

Persona Development
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 Persona Development within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 - 5 £600 - 5
Persona Development
UK

Persona Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (20.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (20.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Figma
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
1 2 (40.00%) UX Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Service Designer
2 1 (20.00%) User Researcher
2 1 (20.00%) UX Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) User Experience
1 4 (80.00%) User Research
1 4 (80.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 3 (60.00%) Journey Map
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Business Transformation
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Design Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Usability Testing
3 2 (40.00%) UX Design
3 2 (40.00%) UX Research
3 2 (40.00%) Webhook
4 1 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (20.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft