User Research Contracts in England

User Research
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for User Research skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Research over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 200 184
Rank change year-on-year -105 -16 -36
Contract jobs citing User Research 254 662 1,134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.69% 1.35% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.49% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 518 879
10th Percentile £363 £409 £406
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +7.42%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £588
90th Percentile - £671 £650
UK median daily rate £539 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.57% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile - - £19.41
25th Percentile £25.25 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £25.75 - £57.38
90th Percentile - - £65.15
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £45.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -43.33% +76.47% +48.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

User Research is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,802 44,352 63,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 31,133 45,414
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,738
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for User Research in England

User Research
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Research in England.

Daily rate trend for User Research in England

User Research
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Research in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Research in England

User Research
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Research in England.

Hourly rate trend for User Research in England

User Research
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 User Research within the England region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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 -66 147 £539 -2.05% 57
North of England -41 53 £388 -29.55% 30
North West -5 27 £363 -36.96% 19
Yorkshire -23 19 £500 -9.09% 6
North East +14 7 £606 +16.31% 5
South East -17 7 £450 - 9
South West -19 6 £625 +8.70% 4
Midlands -15 4 £450 -18.18% 13
West Midlands -26 4 £450 -18.18% 9
User Research
UK

User Research
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.15%) govService
2 4 (1.57%) Confluence
3 3 (1.18%) CMS
4 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.39%) SAS
4 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (7.87%) Sketch
2 11 (4.33%) Adobe XD
3 6 (2.36%) InVision
4 5 (1.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (1.18%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.79%) Trello
6 2 (0.79%) UserZoom
6 2 (0.79%) Zeplin
7 1 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.39%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (18.90%) Figma
2 47 (18.50%) AWS
3 10 (3.94%) Miro
4 8 (3.15%) Azure
5 6 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.18%) GitHub
7 2 (0.79%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.39%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (0.39%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.39%) Apigee
8 1 (0.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.39%) Kong
8 1 (0.39%) Pendo
8 1 (0.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.76%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (17.32%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.79%) Power BI
3 1 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.39%) Metadata
3 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.39%) Power Query
3 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (5.12%) JIRA
2 6 (2.36%) Axure RP
3 3 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.79%) Appium
4 2 (0.79%) Postman
4 2 (0.79%) Selenium
4 2 (0.79%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.39%) Git
5 1 (0.39%) JMeter
5 1 (0.39%) JUnit
5 1 (0.39%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.39%) Maven
5 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 56 (22.05%) Social Skills
2 50 (19.69%) Public Sector
3 31 (12.20%) Finance
4 10 (3.94%) Marketing
5 8 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.36%) Banking
7 5 (1.97%) Health Technology
7 5 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.97%) Publishing
8 4 (1.57%) Games
8 4 (1.57%) Local Government
9 3 (1.18%) Advertising
9 3 (1.18%) Legal
9 3 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.18%) Retail
10 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Military
10 2 (0.79%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 85 (33.46%) Designer
2 56 (22.05%) Senior
3 50 (19.69%) User Researcher
4 44 (17.32%) Software Engineer
5 35 (13.78%) UX Designer
6 31 (12.20%) Senior Software Engineer
7 19 (7.48%) Service Designer
8 14 (5.51%) Interaction Designer
8 14 (5.51%) Product Manager
9 13 (5.12%) Analyst
10 12 (4.72%) Head of Customer Experience
10 12 (4.72%) Head of Digital
11 11 (4.33%) Lead
11 11 (4.33%) Senior Designer
12 10 (3.94%) Business Analyst
13 8 (3.15%) Senior User Researcher
14 7 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
14 7 (2.76%) UI Designer
14 7 (2.76%) UI/UX Designer
14 7 (2.76%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (17.72%) Kafka
2 15 (5.91%) HTML
3 13 (5.12%) CSS
4 3 (1.18%) RESTful
5 2 (0.79%) Node.js
5 2 (0.79%) React Native
5 2 (0.79%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.79%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 1 (0.39%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.39%) D3.js
6 1 (0.39%) JSON
6 1 (0.39%) React
6 1 (0.39%) Spring
6 1 (0.39%) Vue
6 1 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.27%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.94%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.36%) Onboarding
4 5 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.18%) Graphic Design
5 3 (1.18%) Mobile Games
6 2 (0.79%) Blog
6 2 (0.79%) CMDB
6 2 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.79%) NHS
7 1 (0.39%) BYOD
7 1 (0.39%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.39%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.39%) EPoS
7 1 (0.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.39%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.39%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.79%) Android
1 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (55.51%) Agile
2 136 (53.54%) User Experience
3 116 (45.67%) UX Design
4 75 (29.53%) UX Research
5 65 (25.59%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 57 (22.44%) Service Design
6 57 (22.44%) Software Engineering
7 47 (18.50%) Fintech
8 44 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (16.14%) Prototyping
10 38 (14.96%) Usability Testing
11 32 (12.60%) Wireframes
12 30 (11.81%) Interaction Design
13 27 (10.63%) User Stories
14 26 (10.24%) Mentoring
15 24 (9.45%) Analytics
16 23 (9.06%) Workshop Facilitation
17 21 (8.27%) Roadmaps
18 20 (7.87%) Customer Experience
18 20 (7.87%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 44 (17.32%) Go
2 11 (4.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (1.97%) Java
4 2 (0.79%) Python
4 2 (0.79%) Swift
5 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.63%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.87%) Degree
4 7 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.97%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.57%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.57%) Accessibility
2 11 (4.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 8 (3.15%) WCAG
4 4 (1.57%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.79%) QA
6 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (17.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (17.72%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.18%) Ansible
3 1 (0.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (7.87%) Adobe
2 4 (1.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.57%) ServiceNow
3 2 (0.79%) Brio
3 2 (0.79%) Checkmarx
3 2 (0.79%) SAP
4 1 (0.39%) Virgin Media