User Research Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

User Research
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring User Research skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing User Research 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 2.31% - 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% - 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - £343
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - £550
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - £590
North West median daily rate £415 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -30.83% +4.35% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 146 160 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 84.39% 70.48% 84.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 76 125
10th Percentile £129 £176 £225
25th Percentile £213 £213 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% -16.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £544 £518 £550
90th Percentile £684 £600 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 13
10th Percentile - £16.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £12.21 £18.11 £16.25
Median hourly rate £14.76 £22.88 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.50% +20.39% +8.57%
75th Percentile £17.44 £40.00 £29.00
90th Percentile - £54.00 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +59.09%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for User Research in Merseyside

User Research
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

User Research
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Liverpool - 4 £510 - 2
User Research
North West

User Research
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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