User Research Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

User Research
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring User Research skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing User Research 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.43% - 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% - 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £402 £600 £400
% change year-on-year -33.00% +50.00% -27.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 120 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 80.43% 83.92% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 69 85
10th Percentile £160 £295 £328
25th Percentile £350 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% +6.48%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £720
90th Percentile £708 £624 £740
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 17 47
10th Percentile £25.15 £21.49 £12.95
25th Percentile £41.94 £26.25 £41.31
Median hourly rate £45.46 £43.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +5.72% -6.89% +13.81%
75th Percentile £61.09 £51.00 -
90th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £30.95 £30.00
% change year-on-year +37.92% +3.17% -20.00%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Research relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

User Research job vacancy trend in Lancashire

User Research
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing User Research.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing User Research

User Research
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Research within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
Blackpool - 1 £350 -
User Research
North West

User Research
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Google Tag Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Looker
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Performance Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Measurement
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft