Persona Development Contract Job Trends in England

Persona Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Persona Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 480 554
Rank change year-on-year -78 +74 +146
Contract jobs citing Persona Development 8 9 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.023% 0.035% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.039% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £390 £442 -
25th Percentile - £608 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -42.57% +27.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £450 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £402 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -42.57% +27.27% -15.38%

All Process & 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 30,243 23,214 32,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.45% 89.92% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,352 14,394 21,863
10th Percentile £311 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,888 728 2,002
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.32
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.04% - -
75th Percentile £60.61 £65.00 £61.04
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.33 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% -

Persona Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Persona Development job vacancy trend in England

Persona Development
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Persona Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Persona Development

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 18 February 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
North of England - 3 £402 - 1
North West - 3 £402 - 1
London -42 2 - - 2
West Midlands - 2 £450 -
Midlands - 2 £450 -
South West - 1 - - 1
Persona Development
UK

Persona Development
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 1 (12.50%) Adobe XD
1 1 (12.50%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Figma
2 1 (12.50%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 5 (62.50%) Presentation Skills
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) User Experience Researcher
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Content Strategist
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) User Researcher
3 1 (12.50%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) User Experience
1 6 (75.00%) UX Design
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Service Design
2 5 (62.50%) Sprint Planning
2 5 (62.50%) Usability Testing
2 5 (62.50%) User Research
2 5 (62.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (50.00%) Ethnography
3 4 (50.00%) Experimental Design
3 4 (50.00%) Information Architecture
3 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 4 (50.00%) Quantitative Analysis
3 4 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (50.00%) Time Management
3 4 (50.00%) UX Research
3 4 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Hotjar