User-Centered Design (UCD) Contract Job Trends in London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 268 262
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 +101
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 131 101 147
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 0.67% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.74% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 58 98
10th Percentile £348 £424 £394
25th Percentile £413 £461 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -9.13%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £716
England median daily rate £463 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -17.59% +2.05% -2.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - £39.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -46.21% -
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.00 £39.00 £48.23
% change year-on-year -35.90% -19.13% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,036 13,640 17,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.47% 89.99% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,595 8,770 12,218
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £765 £800 £792
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 164 234
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.65 £18.52
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.31
Median hourly rate £29.50 £36.65 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.51% +6.23% -12.66%
75th Percentile £47.94 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

User-Centered Design (UCD) job vacancy trend in London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing User-Centered Design (UCD).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing User-Centered Design (UCD)

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in London over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

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

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing User-Centered Design (UCD).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing User-Centered Design (UCD)

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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-Centered Design (UCD) within the London region over the 6 months to 15 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 +8 15 £538 -6.52% 8
South London -6 3 £468 -19.81% 2
East London +3 2 £495 -8.76%
User-Centered Design (UCD)
England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.58%) Confluence
2 1 (0.76%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (7.63%) Sketch
2 9 (6.87%) Adobe XD
3 5 (3.82%) Trello
4 2 (1.53%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (1.53%) InVision
5 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (19.85%) Figma
2 17 (12.98%) Azure
3 10 (7.63%) Miro
4 9 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.11%) AWS
5 8 (6.11%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.05%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 4 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.05%) dbt
7 4 (3.05%) Serverless
8 3 (2.29%) GCP
8 3 (2.29%) SaaS
9 2 (1.53%) Asana
9 2 (1.53%) Lucidchart
9 2 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.76%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.34%) Power BI
3 4 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.05%) Redis
4 2 (1.53%) MySQL
4 2 (1.53%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (8.40%) JIRA
2 9 (6.87%) Axure RP
2 9 (6.87%) Git
3 5 (3.82%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.29%) GitLab
General
1 68 (51.91%) Public Sector
2 51 (38.93%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.40%) Finance
5 9 (6.87%) Marketing
6 6 (4.58%) Legal
6 6 (4.58%) Local Government
7 5 (3.82%) Banking
8 4 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.53%) Digital Health
10 2 (1.53%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Electronics
11 1 (0.76%) Front Office
11 1 (0.76%) Law
11 1 (0.76%) Publishing
11 1 (0.76%) Retail
11 1 (0.76%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 48 (36.64%) Designer
2 22 (16.79%) Service Designer
3 19 (14.50%) User Researcher
4 17 (12.98%) Senior
5 15 (11.45%) Product Manager
6 14 (10.69%) UX Designer
7 9 (6.87%) Lead
8 7 (5.34%) Delivery Manager
8 7 (5.34%) Developer
9 6 (4.58%) Content Designer
9 6 (4.58%) Product Designer
9 6 (4.58%) Senior User Researcher
10 5 (3.82%) Analyst
10 5 (3.82%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.82%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.05%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (3.05%) Digital Designer
11 4 (3.05%) Senior Designer
11 4 (3.05%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.82%) AngularJS
1 5 (3.82%) PySpark
1 5 (3.82%) React
2 4 (3.05%) ARM Templates
2 4 (3.05%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (3.05%) Kafka
2 4 (3.05%) Keycloak
3 3 (2.29%) CSS
3 3 (2.29%) HTML
3 3 (2.29%) RESTful
3 3 (2.29%) Spring
3 3 (2.29%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.53%) D3.js
4 2 (1.53%) Framer.js
4 2 (1.53%) Hibernate
4 2 (1.53%) JPA
4 2 (1.53%) JSON
4 2 (1.53%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (1.53%) Vue
4 2 (1.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.63%) NHS
2 9 (6.87%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.82%) AI Agents
3 5 (3.82%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.05%) Blog
4 4 (3.05%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.05%) Replication
5 3 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.53%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.53%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.53%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.53%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.76%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.76%) Linux
1 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (68.70%) Agile
2 56 (42.75%) User Research
3 46 (35.11%) Service Design
4 45 (34.35%) User Experience
5 36 (27.48%) UX Design
6 23 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (17.56%) Roadmaps
7 22 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (16.03%) Decision-Making
9 20 (15.27%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 20 (15.27%) Workshop Facilitation
10 19 (14.50%) Usability Testing
11 18 (13.74%) DevOps
11 18 (13.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (12.98%) Journey Map
13 16 (12.21%) Design Thinking
13 16 (12.21%) Quantitative Research
14 15 (11.45%) Qualitative Research
15 14 (10.69%) Infrastructure as Code
15 14 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.16%) Python
2 10 (7.63%) SQL
3 7 (5.34%) Java
4 5 (3.82%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.05%) Bash
5 4 (3.05%) Groovy
6 3 (2.29%) Ruby
6 3 (2.29%) Scala
7 2 (1.53%) C#
7 2 (1.53%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (31.30%) Security Cleared
2 39 (29.77%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.87%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.82%) Degree
5 3 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.29%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.53%) OCP
7 1 (0.76%) CSPO
7 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (25.19%) Accessibility
2 10 (7.63%) WCAG
3 7 (5.34%) GDPR
4 6 (4.58%) QA
5 2 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (9.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (9.92%) Terraform
2 12 (9.16%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.05%) Grafana
3 4 (3.05%) Prometheus
3 4 (3.05%) Rancher
Vendors
1 11 (8.40%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.63%) Adobe
3 5 (3.82%) OneLogin
3 5 (3.82%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.05%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.29%) Oracle
5 3 (2.29%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.53%) Google
7 1 (0.76%) Palantir
7 1 (0.76%) Qualtrics
7 1 (0.76%) SAP