User-Centered Design (UCD) Contracts in Lancashire

User-Centered Design (UCD)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 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 27 29 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.14% 1.54% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.95% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 -
North West median daily rate £405 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +8.00% -6.25% -23.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 158 154 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 90.29% 78.97% 87.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 74 118
10th Percentile £400 £313 £339
25th Percentile £463 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £538 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% +0.94% +11.52%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £630 £747 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 51 42
10th Percentile £14.62 - £22.31
25th Percentile £23.87 £16.06 £28.85
Median hourly rate £28.75 £19.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.90% -54.87% +7.59%
75th Percentile £43.94 £46.03 £49.52
90th Percentile £60.59 £48.00 £53.43
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

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

Job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Lancashire

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in Lancashire.

Daily rate trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Lancashire

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in Lancashire.

Hourly rate trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Lancashire

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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-Centered Design (UCD) within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Blackpool +6 2 - - 1
User-Centered Design (UCD)
North West

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) ScriptRunner
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian