User-Centered Design (UCD) Contracts in the Midlands

User-Centered Design (UCD)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 100 125 157
Rank change year-on-year +25 +32 +16
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 11 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.57% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.35% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 9
10th Percentile £318 £505 £263
25th Percentile £332 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -23.86% +0.92% +13.25%
75th Percentile £530 £575 £650
90th Percentile £550 £650 -
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +7.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

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

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

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

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

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

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

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +18 7 £419 -35.58% 6
East Midlands +9 4 £436 -20.73% 1
User-Centered Design (UCD)
England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Figma
1 2 (18.18%) IaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SAN
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) Metadata
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
1 2 (18.18%) ScriptRunner
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Designer
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Digital User Researcher
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) UI Designer
2 2 (18.18%) UI/UX Designer
2 2 (18.18%) User Researcher
2 2 (18.18%) UX Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Content Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Junior UI/UX Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Junior UX Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) CSS
1 3 (27.27%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) Play Framework
2 1 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Debian
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
1 8 (72.73%) Prototyping
2 6 (54.55%) User Research
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
3 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) User Experience
3 3 (27.27%) Web Development
4 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Information Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) Usability Testing
4 2 (18.18%) User Stories
4 2 (18.18%) UX Design
4 2 (18.18%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Groovy
3 1 (9.09%) Scala
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) PERC
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe
1 2 (18.18%) Atlassian
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks