User-Centered Design (UCD) Contract Job Trends in England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 358 400
Rank change year-on-year +114 +42 -29
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 478 156 133
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.05% 0.56% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.62% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 112 77
10th Percentile £321 £314 £413
25th Percentile £410 £406 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £535
% change year-on-year -2.00% -6.54% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £34.36 - -
25th Percentile £45.03 £22.75 £41.51
Median hourly rate £65.40 £23.50 £41.68
Median % change year-on-year +178.30% -43.61% +16.66%
75th Percentile £70.24 £24.63 £41.84
90th Percentile £71.60 £24.85 -
UK median hourly rate £65.40 £24.25 £41.68
% change year-on-year +169.69% -41.81% +16.66%

All Process & 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 38,847 25,245 28,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.01% 90.81% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,107 16,076 18,544
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.40% -4.53%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,555 1,444 1,611
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.97
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.61% -1.28%

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

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

User-Centered Design (UCD) job vacancy trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing User-Centered Design (UCD).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing User-Centered Design (UCD)

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 17 August 2026.

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

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing User-Centered Design (UCD).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing User-Centered Design (UCD)

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 17 August 2026.

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 17 August 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
London +20 198 £525 +5.00% 70
North of England +4 104 £450 -18.18% 47
South East -11 57 £450 -28.00% 13
Midlands -11 51 £415 -0.30% 12
West Midlands -14 50 £405 -3.57% 9
North East -7 46 £425 -34.62% 15
South West -3 44 £475 -5.00% 14
Yorkshire -14 34 £500 -10.11% 16
North West -22 26 £429 +0.47% 16
East Midlands -19 1 £581 +80.43% 3
User-Centered Design (UCD)
UK

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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:

Application Platforms
1 35 (7.32%) Confluence
2 10 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.88%) CMS
4 4 (0.84%) WordPress
5 3 (0.63%) Drupal
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 6 (1.26%) Sketch
2 5 (1.05%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.05%) Trello
3 4 (0.84%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.84%) UserZoom
4 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.21%) Gliffy
5 1 (0.21%) InVision
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.21%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 94 (19.67%) Azure
2 70 (14.64%) AWS
3 51 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (7.74%) Figma
5 24 (5.02%) GitHub
6 22 (4.60%) Power Platform
7 21 (4.39%) GCP
8 17 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (3.14%) Serverless
10 12 (2.51%) Google Analytics
11 11 (2.30%) Miro
12 10 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (2.09%) Firebase
13 9 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (1.88%) Power Automate
14 8 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (1.46%) SaaS
16 6 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.05%) HTTP
2 3 (0.63%) Broadband
3 2 (0.42%) Intranet
4 1 (0.21%) DNS
4 1 (0.21%) Firewall
4 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (4.18%) Power BI
3 13 (2.72%) Geospatial Data
3 13 (2.72%) Relational Database
4 11 (2.30%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.26%) Looker
5 6 (1.26%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.84%) Redis
7 3 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.63%) MySQL
8 2 (0.42%) Metadata
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.21%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.21%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (8.79%) JIRA
2 26 (5.44%) Git
3 16 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.51%) Cypress.io
5 11 (2.30%) MSI
6 10 (2.09%) fastlane
7 9 (1.88%) Postman
7 9 (1.88%) Selenium
7 9 (1.88%) WebDriver
8 6 (1.26%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.05%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.05%) Crashlytics
9 5 (1.05%) Gatling
9 5 (1.05%) Gradle
9 5 (1.05%) JMeter
9 5 (1.05%) LoadRunner
9 5 (1.05%) Xcode
10 4 (0.84%) GitLab
11 3 (0.63%) Protractor
12 2 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 282 (59.00%) Public Sector
2 208 (43.51%) Social Skills
3 96 (20.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 52 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.07%) Finance
6 28 (5.86%) Influencing Skills
7 22 (4.60%) Local Government
8 12 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.88%) Military
10 8 (1.67%) Publishing
11 7 (1.46%) Banking
11 7 (1.46%) Legal
12 6 (1.26%) Marketing
12 6 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.84%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.63%) Social Science
15 2 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.42%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.42%) Retail
15 2 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 131 (27.41%) Designer
2 78 (16.32%) Senior
3 71 (14.85%) User Researcher
4 60 (12.55%) Lead
5 54 (11.30%) Service Designer
6 44 (9.21%) Developer
7 41 (8.58%) Product Manager
8 36 (7.53%) Analyst
9 28 (5.86%) Interaction Designer
10 27 (5.65%) Software Engineer
11 24 (5.02%) Content Designer
12 21 (4.39%) Delivery Manager
12 21 (4.39%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (4.18%) Senior Designer
14 17 (3.56%) Digital Product Manager
15 16 (3.35%) UX Designer
16 15 (3.14%) Architect
17 14 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
17 14 (2.93%) Senior Developer
18 13 (2.72%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (8.16%) Django
2 37 (7.74%) RESTful
3 27 (5.65%) HTML
4 26 (5.44%) CSS
5 17 (3.56%) HTML5
5 17 (3.56%) REST
6 16 (3.35%) CSS3
6 16 (3.35%) React
7 14 (2.93%) .NET
7 14 (2.93%) PySpark
8 13 (2.72%) GeoJSON
9 12 (2.51%) .NET Framework
10 11 (2.30%) .NET Core
10 11 (2.30%) ATL
10 11 (2.30%) COM
10 11 (2.30%) MFC
10 11 (2.30%) WPF
11 10 (2.09%) Gherkin
11 10 (2.09%) OAuth
12 9 (1.88%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 48 (10.04%) Product Ownership
2 36 (7.53%) Legacy Systems
3 29 (6.07%) NHS
4 26 (5.44%) Cloud Native
5 21 (4.39%) Onboarding
6 20 (4.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (3.97%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.30%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.46%) Blog
11 5 (1.05%) Taxonomies
12 4 (0.84%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.84%) Replication
12 4 (0.84%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.63%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.63%) Social Media
14 2 (0.42%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.51%) Windows
2 8 (1.67%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.46%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (78.87%) Agile
2 194 (40.59%) User Research
3 135 (28.24%) Service Design
3 135 (28.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 122 (25.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 103 (21.55%) User Experience
6 102 (21.34%) DevOps
7 100 (20.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 90 (18.83%) Decision-Making
9 88 (18.41%) CI/CD
10 83 (17.36%) Roadmaps
11 79 (16.53%) Analytics
12 73 (15.27%) Interaction Design
13 72 (15.06%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 71 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
15 65 (13.60%) Workshop Facilitation
16 64 (13.39%) UX Design
17 61 (12.76%) AI
18 60 (12.55%) Actionable Insight
18 60 (12.55%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 74 (15.48%) Python
2 37 (7.74%) JavaScript
3 24 (5.02%) SQL
4 22 (4.60%) TypeScript
5 18 (3.77%) C#
6 17 (3.56%) Java
7 15 (3.14%) Bicep
8 7 (1.46%) Swift
9 6 (1.26%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.05%) Ruby
10 5 (1.05%) Scala
11 4 (0.84%) Bash
11 4 (0.84%) Groovy
11 4 (0.84%) PHP
12 3 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 198 (41.42%) Security Cleared
2 174 (36.40%) SC Cleared
3 53 (11.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 32 (6.69%) Degree
5 13 (2.72%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.51%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.88%) ISTQB
8 8 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.46%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.63%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.63%) PMP
11 2 (0.42%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.42%) MBA
12 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.21%) CISM
12 1 (0.21%) CRISC
12 1 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.21%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (36.82%) Accessibility
2 87 (18.20%) WCAG
3 34 (7.11%) QA
4 22 (4.60%) GDPR
5 21 (4.39%) NCSC
6 12 (2.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (2.09%) Data Quality
8 6 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 5 (1.05%) Government Security Classifications
10 4 (0.84%) PMO
11 3 (0.63%) SLA
12 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 1 (0.21%) GMP
13 1 (0.21%) GRC
13 1 (0.21%) GxP
13 1 (0.21%) HL7
13 1 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.21%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.21%) P3O
System Software
1 41 (8.58%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (9.62%) Terraform
2 41 (8.58%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.72%) Grafana
4 6 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.05%) Kibana
6 3 (0.63%) Rancher
7 2 (0.42%) Argo
7 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.21%) Ansible
8 1 (0.21%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 46 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.60%) Google
3 17 (3.56%) Dynatrace
4 10 (2.09%) Adobe
5 8 (1.67%) Palantir
6 7 (1.46%) Databricks
7 5 (1.05%) Apple
7 5 (1.05%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.05%) OneLogin
8 4 (0.84%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.84%) Splunk
9 3 (0.63%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.63%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.42%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.42%) IBM
10 2 (0.42%) Oracle
10 2 (0.42%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.42%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.42%) Sparx
11 1 (0.21%) webMethods