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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 387 389
Rank change year-on-year +53 +2 -67
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 142 151 257
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.59% 0.41% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.48% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 97 191
10th Percentile £361 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £400 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +6.28%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £653 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £543
% change year-on-year +2.50% -7.83% +4.33%
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% -26.92%
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% -26.92%

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 21,947 31,578 42,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.31% 85.86% 89.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,275 20,635 30,003
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 2,303 1,521
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.81
Median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £59.93 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +62 91 £520 -2.35% 84
North of England -10 21 £600 +50.00% 118
Midlands +20 10 £410 -25.45% 94
Yorkshire +16 10 £556 +30.88% 45
North East +4 10 £650 +13.04% 21
North West -7 7 £575 +53.33% 52
South East +51 6 £650 +18.18% 167
West Midlands +19 6 £410 -36.92% 48
East of England - 6 £450 - 71
East Midlands +10 4 £436 -20.73% 40
South West +39 3 £500 -17.53% 55
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 (12.68%) Confluence
2 5 (3.52%) CMS
3 3 (2.11%) Drupal
Applications
1 9 (6.34%) Sketch
2 7 (4.93%) Adobe XD
3 3 (2.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.41%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (1.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.41%) Blender
4 2 (1.41%) CINEMA 4D
4 2 (1.41%) Final Cut Pro
4 2 (1.41%) InVision
4 2 (1.41%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Shopify
2 1 (0.70%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 30 (21.13%) Figma
2 25 (17.61%) AWS
3 13 (9.15%) Azure
3 13 (9.15%) IaaS
4 10 (7.04%) SaaS
5 9 (6.34%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.23%) GitHub
7 4 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.41%) BigCommerce
9 2 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.41%) GCP
9 2 (1.41%) Miro
9 2 (1.41%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.41%) Sentry
10 1 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.70%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.41%) SAN
1 2 (1.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.23%) MongoDB
2 6 (4.23%) Power BI
3 4 (2.82%) Qlik Sense
3 4 (2.82%) Spotfire
4 3 (2.11%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.70%) Metadata
5 1 (0.70%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (13.38%) JIRA
2 13 (9.15%) ScriptRunner
3 7 (4.93%) Axure RP
4 6 (4.23%) Git
5 3 (2.11%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.70%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.70%) Grunt
6 1 (0.70%) gulp
6 1 (0.70%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.70%) Mocha
6 1 (0.70%) Subversion
General
1 44 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 42 (29.58%) Public Sector
3 19 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (13.38%) Finance
4 8 (5.63%) Banking
5 7 (4.93%) Military
5 7 (4.93%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.23%) Retail
7 4 (2.82%) Games
7 4 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.82%) Legal
8 3 (2.11%) Local Government
9 2 (1.41%) Marketing
9 2 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.70%) Electronics
10 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.70%) Law
10 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (32.39%) Designer
2 35 (24.65%) Senior
3 19 (13.38%) Developer
4 14 (9.86%) UX Designer
5 12 (8.45%) Analyst
6 11 (7.75%) User Researcher
7 10 (7.04%) Lead
7 10 (7.04%) Senior Designer
7 10 (7.04%) UI Designer
8 9 (6.34%) Business Analyst
8 9 (6.34%) Content Designer
8 9 (6.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (6.34%) Product Designer
8 9 (6.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.63%) Product Owner
9 8 (5.63%) Service Designer
9 8 (5.63%) UI/UX Designer
10 7 (4.93%) JIRA Engineer
10 7 (4.93%) Junior
10 7 (4.93%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.38%) CSS
2 14 (9.86%) HTML
3 5 (3.52%) Alpine.js
3 5 (3.52%) JPA
3 5 (3.52%) Laravel
3 5 (3.52%) Node.js
3 5 (3.52%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (2.11%) React
4 3 (2.11%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.41%) Framer.js
5 2 (1.41%) VML
6 1 (0.70%) .NET
6 1 (0.70%) jQuery
6 1 (0.70%) JSON
6 1 (0.70%) Middleware
6 1 (0.70%) Mustache
6 1 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.70%) PySpark
6 1 (0.70%) React Native
6 1 (0.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.38%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.23%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.41%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.41%) Animation
5 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.70%) Blog
6 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.70%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.70%) Life Science
6 1 (0.70%) NHS
6 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.70%) Replication
6 1 (0.70%) Sports Betting
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.11%) Linux
2 2 (1.41%) Debian
2 2 (1.41%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.70%) Android
3 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (62.68%) Agile
2 61 (42.96%) User Experience
3 49 (34.51%) User Research
4 43 (30.28%) UX Design
5 29 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (18.31%) Prototyping
6 26 (18.31%) Service Design
7 24 (16.90%) Wireframes
8 21 (14.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (13.38%) Usability Testing
10 17 (11.97%) Interaction Design
10 17 (11.97%) Project Management
11 16 (11.27%) Performance Tuning
11 16 (11.27%) Roadmaps
11 16 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (10.56%) Decision-Making
13 14 (9.86%) Analytics
13 14 (9.86%) Requirements Gathering
13 14 (9.86%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.56%) JavaScript
1 15 (10.56%) SQL
2 13 (9.15%) Groovy
3 8 (5.63%) Python
4 6 (4.23%) Java
5 5 (3.52%) PHP
5 5 (3.52%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.11%) Kotlin
6 3 (2.11%) Scala
7 2 (1.41%) R
8 1 (0.70%) C#
8 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (21.13%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.04%) Degree
4 3 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.41%) CSPO
5 2 (1.41%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.41%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.70%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (31.69%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.93%) QA
3 3 (2.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (2.11%) WCAG
4 2 (1.41%) GDPR
5 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.70%) PERC
System Software
1 6 (4.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.52%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (10.56%) Adobe
2 13 (9.15%) Atlassian
3 9 (6.34%) SAP
4 6 (4.23%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.52%) Databricks
6 4 (2.82%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.11%) Genesys
8 2 (1.41%) Foundry
8 2 (1.41%) Oracle
8 2 (1.41%) Palantir
8 2 (1.41%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.41%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.41%) VMware
9 1 (0.70%) Google
9 1 (0.70%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.70%) Northgate