User-Centered Design (UCD) Contracts in Manchester

User-Centered Design (UCD)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 75 74 109
Rank change year-on-year -1 +35 +8
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 4 22 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.43% 1.45% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 1.67% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 5
10th Percentile £375 - £340
25th Percentile £394 £325 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +34.00% -6.25% -23.81%
75th Percentile £623 £491 -
90th Percentile £663 £638 £430
North West median daily rate £405 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +8.00% -6.25% -23.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Grunt
1 1 (25.00%) gulp
1 1 (25.00%) Jasmine
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Mocha
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Mustache
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Sass
1 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
3 1 (25.00%) Product Vision
3 1 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Web Accessibility
3 1 (25.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow