User Research Contracts in England

User Research
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring User Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Research over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 197 193
Rank change year-on-year -116 -4 -41
Contract jobs citing User Research 245 639 1,077
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 1.36% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.51% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 509 838
10th Percentile £353 £410 £406
25th Percentile £456 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £663 £625 £592
90th Percentile £675 £666 £650
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.86% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile - - £14.85
25th Percentile £25.25 - £19.69
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £25.75 - £52.30
90th Percentile - - £59.66
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 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 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -74 143 £538 -2.27% 32
North of England -44 51 £375 -32.31% 26
North West -13 23 £350 -39.13% 15
Yorkshire -30 17 £513 -6.82% 6
North East +13 11 £496 -22.16% 5
South West -27 8 £625 +4.17% 3
South East -23 7 £488 +8.33% 5
Midlands -24 4 £388 -29.55% 2
East Midlands -1 2 £313 -47.92%
West Midlands -22 2 £481 -12.50% 2
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 (3.27%) govService
2 6 (2.45%) Confluence
3 3 (1.22%) CMS
4 2 (0.82%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (7.35%) Sketch
2 14 (5.71%) Adobe XD
3 6 (2.45%) InVision
4 5 (2.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (2.04%) Photoshop
5 4 (1.63%) Trello
6 3 (1.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.82%) OmniGraffle
7 2 (0.82%) SPSS
7 2 (0.82%) UXPin
8 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.41%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.41%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 44 (17.96%) AWS
1 44 (17.96%) Figma
2 12 (4.90%) Miro
3 7 (2.86%) Azure
4 4 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (1.63%) GitHub
5 3 (1.22%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.82%) SaaS
7 1 (0.41%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.41%) Apigee
7 1 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.41%) Kong
7 1 (0.41%) Pendo
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.45%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.51%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.63%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.22%) Power BI
4 2 (0.82%) Tableau
5 1 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (4.90%) JIRA
2 6 (2.45%) Axure RP
3 5 (2.04%) Balsamiq
4 4 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.63%) JUnit
4 4 (1.63%) LoadRunner
5 3 (1.22%) Appium
5 3 (1.22%) Gatling
5 3 (1.22%) Postman
5 3 (1.22%) Selenium
5 3 (1.22%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.41%) Git
6 1 (0.41%) JMeter
6 1 (0.41%) Maven
6 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 58 (23.67%) Social Skills
2 45 (18.37%) Public Sector
3 31 (12.65%) Finance
4 14 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.08%) Banking
5 10 (4.08%) Marketing
6 6 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.04%) Health Technology
8 4 (1.63%) Legal
8 4 (1.63%) Local Government
9 3 (1.22%) Advertising
9 3 (1.22%) Games
9 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.22%) Publishing
9 3 (1.22%) Retail
10 2 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.82%) Military
10 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 83 (33.88%) Designer
2 46 (18.78%) Senior
3 40 (16.33%) User Researcher
4 38 (15.51%) Software Engineer
5 37 (15.10%) UX Designer
6 25 (10.20%) Senior Software Engineer
7 17 (6.94%) UI Designer
8 16 (6.53%) Product Manager
8 16 (6.53%) Service Designer
9 15 (6.12%) UI/UX Designer
10 12 (4.90%) Analyst
10 12 (4.90%) Head of Customer Experience
10 12 (4.90%) Head of Digital
11 11 (4.49%) Interaction Designer
12 10 (4.08%) Senior Designer
13 9 (3.67%) Business Analyst
13 9 (3.67%) Developer
14 8 (3.27%) Lead
15 7 (2.86%) Content Designer
16 6 (2.45%) Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (15.92%) Kafka
2 17 (6.94%) HTML
3 15 (6.12%) CSS
4 4 (1.63%) RESTful
5 3 (1.22%) Node.js
5 3 (1.22%) React Native
6 2 (0.82%) CSS3
6 2 (0.82%) Framer.js
6 2 (0.82%) HTML5
6 2 (0.82%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.41%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.41%) D3.js
7 1 (0.41%) JSON
7 1 (0.41%) React
7 1 (0.41%) Spring
7 1 (0.41%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 1 (0.41%) Vue
7 1 (0.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.39%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.90%) Mobile App
3 7 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.04%) Graphic Design
5 4 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.22%) Mobile Games
7 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.82%) NHS
8 1 (0.41%) Blog
8 1 (0.41%) CMDB
8 1 (0.41%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.41%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.41%) EPoS
8 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.41%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.41%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.22%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.82%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (55.10%) Agile
2 133 (54.29%) User Experience
3 108 (44.08%) UX Design
4 66 (26.94%) UX Research
5 58 (23.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 54 (22.04%) Software Engineering
7 52 (21.22%) Service Design
8 49 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (18.78%) Prototyping
10 42 (17.14%) Fintech
11 39 (15.92%) Usability Testing
12 38 (15.51%) Wireframes
13 28 (11.43%) Interaction Design
14 26 (10.61%) Roadmaps
15 24 (9.80%) User Stories
16 21 (8.57%) Analytics
16 21 (8.57%) Mentoring
17 20 (8.16%) Customer Experience
17 20 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
18 18 (7.35%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 38 (15.51%) Go
2 14 (5.71%) JavaScript
3 8 (3.27%) Java
4 3 (1.22%) Python
4 3 (1.22%) Swift
5 2 (0.82%) SQL
6 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 32 (13.06%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.02%) Degree
3 24 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.08%) Master's Degree
5 8 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (15.10%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.67%) Actionable Recommendations
3 8 (3.27%) WCAG
4 4 (1.63%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.82%) QA
6 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (15.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (15.92%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.63%) Ansible
3 1 (0.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (9.39%) Adobe
2 4 (1.63%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.22%) Checkmarx
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.22%) Salesforce
4 2 (0.82%) Brio
4 2 (0.82%) SAP
5 1 (0.41%) Virgin Media