UX Research Contracts in England

User Experience Research (UXR)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring UX Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UX Research over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 469 466
Rank change year-on-year +50 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing UX Research 75 85 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.23% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.27% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 61 114
10th Percentile £290 £409 £329
25th Percentile £422 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.69% +23.81% -1.87%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £617
90th Percentile £675 - £696
UK median daily rate £531 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -18.36% +23.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £35.40
25th Percentile £48.25 - £39.47
Median hourly rate £49.50 - £47.50
75th Percentile £50.75 - £68.13
90th Percentile - - £79.75
UK median hourly rate £49.50 - £51.25
% change year-on-year - - +1.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

UX 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 23,377 31,762 42,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.15% 85.55% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,054 20,587 29,761
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 £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.57% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,168 2,328 1,554
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% +46.03%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.00 £75.80
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing UX Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for UX Research in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UX Research in England.

Daily rate trend for UX Research in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Research in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Research in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UX Research in England.

Hourly rate trend for UX Research in England

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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 UX Research within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +51 49 £531 -3.51% 282
North of England +18 17 £257 -63.36% 41
North West +15 9 £313 - 22
South East +56 7 £650 +36.84% 22
Yorkshire +3 4 £575 - 17
North East +2 4 £200 -71.43% 2
South West +36 1 £675 +50.00% 18
East of England - 1 £575 - 11
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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 11 (14.67%) Confluence
2 5 (6.67%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Chatbot
1 4 (5.33%) UserZoom
2 3 (4.00%) Sketch
3 2 (2.67%) InVision
4 1 (1.33%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (1.33%) SPSS
4 1 (1.33%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 24 (32.00%) Figma
2 4 (5.33%) Google Analytics
3 2 (2.67%) AppsFlyer
3 2 (2.67%) SaaS
4 1 (1.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (1.33%) Azure
4 1 (1.33%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) Mixpanel
2 2 (2.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (14.67%) JIRA
2 5 (6.67%) Axure RP
General
1 26 (34.67%) Finance
2 16 (21.33%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.00%) Banking
4 9 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.67%) Retail
6 6 (8.00%) Digital Health
6 6 (8.00%) Legal
7 5 (6.67%) Marketing
7 5 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 5 (6.67%) Retail Banking
8 4 (5.33%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (5.33%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.67%) Police
10 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.33%) Games
10 1 (1.33%) German Language
10 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 27 (36.00%) Designer
2 25 (33.33%) User Experience Researcher
3 15 (20.00%) Senior
4 11 (14.67%) UX Designer
5 7 (9.33%) Senior Designer
6 6 (8.00%) Senior User Experience Researcher
7 5 (6.67%) Product Designer
7 5 (6.67%) UI Designer
8 4 (5.33%) Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Architect
8 4 (5.33%) Business Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Senior UX Designer
8 4 (5.33%) User Researcher
9 3 (4.00%) Lead
9 3 (4.00%) Technical Leader
9 3 (4.00%) Wealth Management Business Analyst
10 2 (2.67%) Consultant
10 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Architect
10 2 (2.67%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.67%) CSS
1 8 (10.67%) HTML
2 2 (2.67%) Kafka
3 1 (1.33%) Babylonjs
3 1 (1.33%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.33%) React
3 1 (1.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (1.33%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (1.33%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.67%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.00%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.33%) Life Science
4 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.33%) Animation
5 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.33%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (1.33%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Android
1 4 (5.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) User Experience
2 45 (60.00%) UX Design
3 33 (44.00%) User Research
4 22 (29.33%) Agile
5 20 (26.67%) Prototyping
6 18 (24.00%) Usability Testing
7 17 (22.67%) Analytics
8 15 (20.00%) Design Thinking
8 15 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (20.00%) Wireframes
9 14 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (17.33%) Actionable Insight
10 13 (17.33%) Product Strategy
10 13 (17.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 12 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
12 11 (14.67%) Roadmaps
13 10 (13.33%) Responsive Web Design
13 10 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
14 9 (12.00%) Qualitative Research
14 9 (12.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (4.00%) SQL
3 1 (1.33%) Python
3 1 (1.33%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (12.00%) Degree
2 7 (9.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.33%) PhD
3 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.67%) CISSP
4 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (4.00%) WCAG
3 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (5.33%) Google
1 4 (5.33%) Hotjar
2 3 (4.00%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (4.00%) Genesys
3 2 (2.67%) Adobe
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle
3 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 2 (2.67%) SAP
3 2 (2.67%) VMware
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.33%) Qualtrics