User Research Contracts in Glasgow

User Research
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring User Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Research 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 72 69 60
Rank change year-on-year -3 -9 -22
Contract jobs citing User Research 7 13 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.88% 1.48% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.61% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 22
10th Percentile £251 £508 £406
25th Percentile £290 £534 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £575 £420
Median % change year-on-year -34.87% +36.90% -12.73%
75th Percentile £491 £588 £560
90th Percentile £586 £589 £599
Scotland median daily rate £425 £529 £437
% change year-on-year -19.62% +21.06% -8.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

User 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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing User Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for User Research in Glasgow

User Research
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Research in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for User Research in Glasgow

User Research
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Research in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Research in Glasgow

User Research
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe XD
1 2 (28.57%) Sketch
2 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Figma
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Designer
2 4 (57.14%) Service Designer
3 3 (42.86%) UX Designer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Designer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Service Designer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior UX Designer
4 2 (28.57%) UX Service Designer
5 1 (14.29%) Consultant
5 1 (14.29%) Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Digital Developer
5 1 (14.29%) UI Consultant
5 1 (14.29%) User Experience Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Usability Testing
1 6 (85.71%) User Experience
2 5 (71.43%) Service Design
2 5 (71.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 5 (71.43%) UX Design
2 5 (71.43%) Wireframes
3 3 (42.86%) A/B Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) API Management
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Data Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Data Security
3 3 (42.86%) Design Thinking
3 3 (42.86%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
3 3 (42.86%) Information Governance
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (28.57%) Digital Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (28.57%) WCAG
3 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe