User Research Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

User Research
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Liverpool requiring User Research skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing User Research 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 2.63% - 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% - 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - £224
75th Percentile - - £226
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median daily rate £510 - £550

All Process and Methodology Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 131 132 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 86.18% 70.97% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 58 98
10th Percentile £169 £153 £225
25th Percentile £303 £202 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £376 £463
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% -18.65% -2.63%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £563
90th Percentile £687 £600 £600
Merseyside median daily rate £425 £420 £475
% change year-on-year +1.19% -11.58% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 12
10th Percentile - £18.79 £15.35
25th Percentile - £22.22 £16.25
Median hourly rate £12.21 £22.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.62% +14.38% +16.79%
75th Percentile £17.30 £36.00 £34.25
90th Percentile £17.44 £38.40 £50.00
Merseyside median hourly rate £12.21 £22.88 £20.00
% change year-on-year -46.62% +14.38% +14.09%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for User Research in Liverpool

User Research
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

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

User Research
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
1 4 (100.00%) POJO
1 4 (100.00%) React
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (100.00%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) API Development
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes