Empathy Maps Contract Job Trends in London

Empathy Maps
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Empathy Maps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 372 392
Rank change year-on-year -8 +20 +153
Contract jobs citing Empathy Maps 4 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.028% 0.007% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.007% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £419 - £592
90th Percentile £430 - £597
England median daily rate £425 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -20.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £72.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Empathy Maps 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,161 13,523 16,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.38% 90.14% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,663 8,690 11,795
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 165 236
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.04 £18.42
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £33.35
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +9.46% -13.52%
75th Percentile £52.66 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +24.47%

Empathy Maps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Empathy Maps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Empathy Maps job vacancy trend in London

Empathy Maps
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Empathy Maps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Empathy Maps

Empathy Maps
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Empathy Maps within the London region over the 6 months to 24 December 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
Central London - 1 £400 -
Empathy Maps
England

Empathy Maps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (25.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (25.00%) InVision
1 1 (25.00%) Sketch
1 1 (25.00%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Figma
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Copilot
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Axure RP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Designer
1 3 (75.00%) Service Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Design Thinking
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Service Design
2 3 (75.00%) User Research
2 3 (75.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (50.00%) Backlog Management
3 2 (50.00%) Co-Creation
3 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Ergonomics
3 2 (50.00%) Ethnography
3 2 (50.00%) Human Factors
3 2 (50.00%) Journey Map
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Storytelling
3 2 (50.00%) Usability Testing
3 2 (50.00%) User Journey Map
3 2 (50.00%) User Stories
3 2 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) WCAG
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft