User Research Contracts in London

User Research
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for User Research skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Research over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 184 193
Rank change year-on-year -52 +9 -44
Contract jobs citing User Research 149 381 597
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.84% 1.45% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.59% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 300 450
10th Percentile £380 £425 £405
25th Percentile £450 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £601 £625 £614
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £22.72
25th Percentile £25.25 - £33.18
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £50.61
75th Percentile £25.75 - £58.18
90th Percentile - - £62.72
England median hourly rate £25.50 - £23.50
% change year-on-year - - +37.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

User Research is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,694 23,906 35,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.70% 90.95% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,256 17,189 26,035
10th Percentile £340 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 270 421
10th Percentile £15.97 £18.45 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.19 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £80.23 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Research in London

User Research
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Research in London.

Daily rate trend for User Research in London

User Research
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Research in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Research in London

User Research
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Research in London.

Hourly rate trend for User Research in London

User Research
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 User Research within the London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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 +9 11 £573 +11.71% 4
South London +9 1 £500 -
East London - 1 £600 - 2
User Research
England

User Research
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (5.37%) govService
2 2 (1.34%) CMS
2 2 (1.34%) Confluence
3 1 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.67%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.67%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (13.42%) Sketch
2 11 (7.38%) Adobe XD
3 6 (4.03%) InVision
4 5 (3.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (2.01%) Photoshop
5 3 (2.01%) Zeplin
6 2 (1.34%) Trello
7 1 (0.67%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.67%) SPSS
7 1 (0.67%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (28.86%) Figma
2 18 (12.08%) AWS
3 8 (5.37%) Miro
4 7 (4.70%) Azure
5 6 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.34%) GitHub
7 1 (0.67%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.67%) Apigee
7 1 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.67%) Kong
7 1 (0.67%) Pendo
7 1 (0.67%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.03%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.74%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.67%) Power BI
2 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.04%) JIRA
2 7 (4.70%) Axure RP
3 2 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.67%) Appium
4 1 (0.67%) Git
4 1 (0.67%) JMeter
4 1 (0.67%) JUnit
4 1 (0.67%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.67%) Maven
4 1 (0.67%) Postman
4 1 (0.67%) Selenium
4 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.67%) webpack
General
1 44 (29.53%) Social Skills
2 29 (19.46%) Public Sector
3 18 (12.08%) Finance
4 7 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.70%) Marketing
5 5 (3.36%) Publishing
6 4 (2.68%) Banking
6 4 (2.68%) Games
6 4 (2.68%) Local Government
7 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.34%) Advertising
8 2 (1.34%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.34%) Retail
9 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Legal
9 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Police
9 1 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 62 (41.61%) Designer
2 30 (20.13%) Senior
3 29 (19.46%) UX Designer
4 19 (12.75%) User Researcher
5 16 (10.74%) Senior Software Engineer
5 16 (10.74%) Software Engineer
6 14 (9.40%) Service Designer
7 12 (8.05%) Head of Customer Experience
7 12 (8.05%) Head of Digital
7 12 (8.05%) Lead
8 9 (6.04%) Analyst
9 8 (5.37%) Business Analyst
9 8 (5.37%) Product Manager
9 8 (5.37%) Senior Designer
10 6 (4.03%) Lead Designer
11 5 (3.36%) Interaction Designer
11 5 (3.36%) Senior UX Designer
11 5 (3.36%) UI Designer
11 5 (3.36%) UI/UX Designer
12 4 (2.68%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.41%) Kafka
2 8 (5.37%) HTML
3 7 (4.70%) CSS
4 2 (1.34%) RESTful
4 2 (1.34%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (0.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.67%) D3.js
5 1 (0.67%) JSON
5 1 (0.67%) Node.js
5 1 (0.67%) React
5 1 (0.67%) React Native
5 1 (0.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.04%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.70%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.01%) Graphic Design
4 3 (2.01%) Mobile Games
4 3 (2.01%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.34%) CMDB
6 1 (0.67%) Blog
6 1 (0.67%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.67%) Android
1 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (46.31%) User Experience
2 63 (42.28%) Agile
3 59 (39.60%) UX Design
4 40 (26.85%) Service Design
5 38 (25.50%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (22.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 29 (19.46%) UX Research
8 25 (16.78%) Usability Testing
8 25 (16.78%) Wireframes
9 24 (16.11%) Prototyping
10 20 (13.42%) Customer Experience
10 20 (13.42%) Workshop Facilitation
11 19 (12.75%) Fintech
11 19 (12.75%) Software Engineering
12 18 (12.08%) User Stories
13 17 (11.41%) Analytics
14 16 (10.74%) Design Thinking
15 15 (10.07%) Collaborative Working
15 15 (10.07%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 15 (10.07%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.74%) Go
2 7 (4.70%) JavaScript
3 4 (2.68%) Java
4 2 (1.34%) Python
5 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.67%) SQL
5 1 (0.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 24 (16.11%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.08%) Degree
4 5 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.36%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.01%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.11%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.03%) WCAG
3 3 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.67%) QA
4 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (11.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (11.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.34%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (13.42%) Adobe
2 1 (0.67%) Checkmarx
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.67%) SAP
2 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (0.67%) Virgin Media