User Research Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

User Research
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring User Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Research over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 22 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +13
Contract jobs citing User Research 7 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.54% 4.03% 4.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.24% 4.48% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile - £404 £466
25th Percentile £200 £410 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £420 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.60% -26.96% +6.98%
75th Percentile £447 £450 £612
90th Percentile £450 £468 £630
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £313 £420 £575
% change year-on-year -25.60% -26.96% +6.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 165 134 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 83.33% 89.93% 88.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 79 108
10th Percentile £250 £341 £350
25th Percentile £425 £391 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -14.29% -0.94%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £480 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.20% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 6
10th Percentile £13.71 £17.83 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.25 £18.19
Median hourly rate £18.28 £21.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +8.86% +19.70%
75th Percentile £20.63 £65.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £37.60 £70.00 £32.88
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £17.15 £21.50 £19.75
% change year-on-year -20.23% +8.86% +19.70%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing User Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for User Research in Newcastle upon Tyne

User Research
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Research in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for User Research in Newcastle upon Tyne

User Research
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Research in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Research in Newcastle upon Tyne

User Research
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) Miro
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) User Experience Researcher
2 2 (28.57%) Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Content Designer
3 1 (14.29%) User Researcher
3 1 (14.29%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) Semantic HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (57.14%) User Experience
2 3 (42.86%) A/B Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Design Thinking
2 3 (42.86%) Fintech
2 3 (42.86%) UX Research
3 2 (28.57%) Usability Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Business Process Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Refactoring
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) UML
4 1 (14.29%) User Stories
4 1 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
1 3 (42.86%) WCAG
2 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations