User-Centered Design (UCD) Contracts in Leeds

User-Centered Design (UCD)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 50 53 76
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 -13
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 10 10 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.15% 1.25% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 1.45% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 15
10th Percentile £432 £283 £456
25th Percentile £506 £294 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +30.88% -29.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £650
90th Percentile £650 £558 £750
West Yorkshire median daily rate £556 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +30.88% -29.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

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

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

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

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

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

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

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Leeds

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 5 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) IaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (10.00%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) JIRA
2 4 (40.00%) ScriptRunner
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
1 4 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) UI Designer
3 1 (10.00%) UI/UX Designer
3 1 (10.00%) User Researcher
3 1 (10.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (10.00%) NHS
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Backlog Management
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Kanban
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 2 (20.00%) User Stories
4 2 (20.00%) UX Design
4 2 (20.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Groovy
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (10.00%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Atlassian