User-Centered Design (UCD) Contracts in England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User-Centered Design (UCD) over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 417 387
Rank change year-on-year +63 -30 -42
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 146 139 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.37% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.43% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 80 192
10th Percentile £325 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -0.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £591 £628 £638
90th Percentile £650 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £543
% change year-on-year - -7.83% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile - - £24.40
25th Percentile £22.75 £41.51 £28.04
Median hourly rate £57.75 £41.68 £35.73
Median % change year-on-year +38.57% +16.66% -45.04%
75th Percentile £95.75 £41.84 £43.04
90th Percentile £96.19 - £46.47
UK median hourly rate £25.11 £41.68 £35.73
% change year-on-year -39.75% +16.66% -45.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

User-Centered Design (UCD) 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 23,765 31,961 42,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.03% 85.51% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,278 20,746 29,768
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,187 2,306 1,553
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.82
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in England.

Daily rate trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in England.

Hourly rate trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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-Centered Design (UCD) within the England region over the 6 months to 3 July 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 +72 95 £500 -8.26% 140
North of England -7 24 £550 +33.33% 54
Yorkshire +8 13 £513 +6.77% 17
North East +6 11 £638 +10.87% 6
Midlands +19 9 £436 -27.29% 26
South East +36 6 £625 +12.61% 31
North West -9 6 £550 +46.67% 31
East of England - 6 £450 - 3
East Midlands +7 5 £436 -20.73% 5
South West +24 4 £500 -33.88% 30
West Midlands +9 4 £436 -32.88% 21
User-Centered Design (UCD)
UK

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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 18 (12.33%) Confluence
2 4 (2.74%) CMS
3 3 (2.05%) Drupal
3 3 (2.05%) WebSphere
3 3 (2.05%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (8.22%) Sketch
2 10 (6.85%) Adobe XD
3 3 (2.05%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.37%) InVision
4 2 (1.37%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 27 (18.49%) Figma
2 24 (16.44%) AWS
3 13 (8.90%) Azure
3 13 (8.90%) IaaS
4 11 (7.53%) SaaS
5 8 (5.48%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.42%) GitHub
7 3 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.05%) IBM Cloud
7 3 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.05%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.37%) GCP
8 2 (1.37%) Miro
8 2 (1.37%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.68%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.68%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.74%) SAN
1 4 (2.74%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.05%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.11%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.42%) Power BI
4 4 (2.74%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.74%) Qlik Sense
4 4 (2.74%) Spotfire
5 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (13.01%) JIRA
2 13 (8.90%) ScriptRunner
3 12 (8.22%) Axure RP
4 5 (3.42%) Git
5 3 (2.05%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.05%) Log4j
6 1 (0.68%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
General
1 44 (30.14%) Public Sector
2 43 (29.45%) Social Skills
3 24 (16.44%) Finance
4 21 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.48%) Banking
6 7 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.11%) Military
8 5 (3.42%) Legal
9 4 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.74%) Local Government
9 4 (2.74%) Marketing
9 4 (2.74%) Retail
10 3 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.68%) Electronics
12 1 (0.68%) Games
12 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Law
12 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (34.93%) Designer
2 31 (21.23%) Senior
3 19 (13.01%) Developer
4 16 (10.96%) UX Designer
5 11 (7.53%) Analyst
5 11 (7.53%) Service Designer
6 10 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (6.85%) Product Designer
7 9 (6.16%) Content Designer
7 9 (6.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.48%) Business Analyst
8 8 (5.48%) Product Manager
8 8 (5.48%) Product Owner
8 8 (5.48%) User Researcher
9 7 (4.79%) JIRA Engineer
9 7 (4.79%) Junior
9 7 (4.79%) Lead
9 7 (4.79%) Senior Designer
9 7 (4.79%) UI Designer
10 6 (4.11%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.70%) CSS
2 15 (10.27%) HTML
3 5 (3.42%) Alpine.js
3 5 (3.42%) Laravel
3 5 (3.42%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (2.74%) JPA
4 4 (2.74%) Node.js
4 4 (2.74%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.05%) JDBC
5 3 (2.05%) JMS
5 3 (2.05%) JNDI
5 3 (2.05%) LDAP
5 3 (2.05%) OAuth
5 3 (2.05%) React
5 3 (2.05%) SAML
5 3 (2.05%) WebSphere MQ
6 2 (1.37%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.37%) Kafka
6 2 (1.37%) Next.js
6 2 (1.37%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.75%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.79%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.42%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.74%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.05%) Blog
6 2 (1.37%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.37%) NHS
7 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.68%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.68%) Life Science
7 1 (0.68%) Replication
7 1 (0.68%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.68%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.11%) Android
1 6 (4.11%) Apple iOS
1 6 (4.11%) Linux
2 4 (2.74%) Debian
2 4 (2.74%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.37%) Windows
3 2 (1.37%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (62.33%) Agile
2 60 (41.10%) User Experience
3 44 (30.14%) User Research
4 43 (29.45%) UX Design
5 33 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (19.18%) Prototyping
6 28 (19.18%) Service Design
7 27 (18.49%) Wireframes
8 21 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (12.33%) Roadmaps
10 17 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (11.64%) Decision-Making
10 17 (11.64%) Project Management
10 17 (11.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (11.64%) Usability Testing
11 16 (10.96%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (10.27%) Interaction Design
12 15 (10.27%) Migration
12 15 (10.27%) Workshop Facilitation
13 14 (9.59%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.96%) JavaScript
2 15 (10.27%) SQL
3 13 (8.90%) Groovy
4 10 (6.85%) Python
5 5 (3.42%) Java
5 5 (3.42%) PHP
5 5 (3.42%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.37%) R
6 2 (1.37%) Scala
7 1 (0.68%) C#
7 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.49%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.48%) Degree
4 4 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.05%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.37%) CSPO
6 2 (1.37%) IBM Certification
6 2 (1.37%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (26.71%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.48%) QA
3 2 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.37%) WCAG
4 1 (0.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (4.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.05%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (10.27%) Adobe
2 13 (8.90%) Atlassian
3 8 (5.48%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.79%) Red Hat
4 7 (4.79%) SAP
5 4 (2.74%) Databricks
5 4 (2.74%) VMware
6 3 (2.05%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.05%) Genesys
6 3 (2.05%) IBM
6 3 (2.05%) Splunk
7 2 (1.37%) Foundry
7 2 (1.37%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.37%) Oracle
7 2 (1.37%) Palantir
7 2 (1.37%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.37%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.68%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.68%) Northgate
8 1 (0.68%) Virgin Media