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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 376 408
Rank change year-on-year +52 +32 -84
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 164 167 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.67% 0.45% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.52% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 113 179
10th Percentile £355 £353 £404
25th Percentile £450 £400 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £658 £670 £720
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.75 £41.51 £46.25
Median hourly rate £57.75 £41.68 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.57% -12.26% +129.91%
75th Percentile £95.75 £41.84 £48.75
90th Percentile £96.19 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.75 £41.68 £47.50
% change year-on-year +38.57% -12.26% +106.52%

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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
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 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 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 +58 108 £523 -0.48% 145
North of England 0 21 £525 +27.27% 36
Midlands +25 11 £419 -23.86% 8
Yorkshire +5 10 £556 +30.88% 7
North East +7 9 £638 -8.93% 10
South West +48 8 £575 +12.20% 7
North West 0 8 £405 +8.00% 19
West Midlands +18 7 £419 -35.58% 6
East of England +35 6 £450 -30.77% 1
South East +32 4 £650 +18.18% 27
East Midlands +9 4 £436 -20.73% 1
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 21 (12.80%) Confluence
2 5 (3.05%) CMS
2 5 (3.05%) Drupal
3 4 (2.44%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (9.76%) Sketch
2 13 (7.93%) Adobe XD
3 2 (1.22%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (1.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (1.22%) Blender
3 2 (1.22%) CINEMA 4D
3 2 (1.22%) Final Cut Pro
3 2 (1.22%) InVision
3 2 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.22%) Shopify
3 1 (0.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 37 (22.56%) Figma
2 30 (18.29%) AWS
3 15 (9.15%) SaaS
4 13 (7.93%) IaaS
5 11 (6.71%) Azure
6 7 (4.27%) GitHub
7 6 (3.66%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.05%) Miro
9 3 (1.83%) Slack
10 2 (1.22%) BigCommerce
10 2 (1.22%) GCP
10 2 (1.22%) Sentry
11 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 1 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.61%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.61%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.22%) SAN
1 2 (1.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.66%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.05%) Power BI
4 4 (2.44%) Qlik Sense
4 4 (2.44%) Spotfire
5 2 (1.22%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.61%) Metadata
6 1 (0.61%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (13.41%) JIRA
2 13 (7.93%) ScriptRunner
3 7 (4.27%) Axure RP
4 6 (3.66%) Git
5 3 (1.83%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.61%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.61%) GitLab
6 1 (0.61%) Grunt
6 1 (0.61%) gulp
6 1 (0.61%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.61%) Mocha
6 1 (0.61%) Selenium
6 1 (0.61%) Subversion
General
1 53 (32.32%) Social Skills
2 50 (30.49%) Public Sector
3 24 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.37%) Finance
5 7 (4.27%) Banking
5 7 (4.27%) Military
5 7 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.05%) Retail
7 4 (2.44%) Games
7 4 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.44%) Local Government
8 2 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.22%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.61%) Aviation
9 1 (0.61%) Electronics
9 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.61%) Marketing
9 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (31.71%) Designer
2 37 (22.56%) Senior
3 19 (11.59%) Developer
4 17 (10.37%) UX Designer
5 14 (8.54%) Analyst
6 13 (7.93%) User Researcher
7 12 (7.32%) Business Analyst
7 12 (7.32%) Senior Designer
8 11 (6.71%) Product Manager
8 11 (6.71%) Service Designer
8 11 (6.71%) UI Designer
9 10 (6.10%) Lead
9 10 (6.10%) Product Designer
10 9 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (5.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (5.49%) UI/UX Designer
11 8 (4.88%) Content Designer
11 8 (4.88%) Product Owner
12 7 (4.27%) JIRA Engineer
12 7 (4.27%) Senior Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.85%) CSS
2 20 (12.20%) HTML
3 10 (6.10%) React
4 5 (3.05%) Alpine.js
4 5 (3.05%) Laravel
4 5 (3.05%) Node.js
4 5 (3.05%) Tailwind CSS
5 4 (2.44%) JPA
6 3 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.22%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.22%) Framer.js
7 2 (1.22%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.22%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.22%) VML
8 1 (0.61%) Play Framework
8 1 (0.61%) PySpark
8 1 (0.61%) React Native
8 1 (0.61%) Spring
8 1 (0.61%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 1 (0.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.20%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.05%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.05%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.22%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.22%) Animation
4 2 (1.22%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.22%) NHS
5 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.61%) Hackathon
5 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.61%) Life Science
5 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.61%) Replication
5 1 (0.61%) Sports Betting
5 1 (0.61%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.83%) Linux
2 2 (1.22%) Debian
2 2 (1.22%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.61%) Android
3 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (63.41%) Agile
2 70 (42.68%) User Experience
3 58 (35.37%) User Research
4 46 (28.05%) UX Design
5 40 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (19.51%) Prototyping
7 27 (16.46%) Wireframes
8 26 (15.85%) Service Design
8 26 (15.85%) Usability Testing
9 22 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (12.20%) Interaction Design
10 20 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 18 (10.98%) Decision-Making
11 18 (10.98%) Roadmaps
11 18 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (9.76%) Analytics
12 16 (9.76%) Front End Development
13 15 (9.15%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (9.15%) Risk Management
14 14 (8.54%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (12.80%) JavaScript
2 13 (7.93%) Groovy
3 12 (7.32%) SQL
4 9 (5.49%) Python
5 7 (4.27%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.05%) Java
6 5 (3.05%) PHP
7 3 (1.83%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.22%) R
8 2 (1.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 32 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.32%) Degree
4 3 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.22%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.61%) CSPO
6 1 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (28.66%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.93%) QA
3 4 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.44%) WCAG
4 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.61%) GDPR
4 1 (0.61%) PERC
System Software
1 12 (7.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.27%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (12.80%) Adobe
2 13 (7.93%) Atlassian
3 9 (5.49%) SAP
4 5 (3.05%) Databricks
4 5 (3.05%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.05%) Oracle
5 4 (2.44%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.22%) Foundry
6 2 (1.22%) Palantir
6 2 (1.22%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.22%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.22%) VMware
7 1 (0.61%) Brio
7 1 (0.61%) Google
7 1 (0.61%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow