User-Centered Design (UCD) Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 27 25 47
Rank change year-on-year -2 +22 -13
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 9 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.04% 0.95% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 1.13% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £516 - £512
25th Percentile £547 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £700 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +19.15% +18.99%
75th Percentile £650 - £622
90th Percentile £663 - £639
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £638 £700 £588
% change year-on-year -8.93% +19.15% +18.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 177 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 84.75% 84.29% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 89 243
10th Percentile £225 £335 £352
25th Percentile £358 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £650
90th Percentile £629 £650 £740
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £500 £565
% change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 0
10th Percentile £21.05 £18.25 -
25th Percentile £30.50 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 -
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.35 £68.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -5.71% - -

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Job vacancy trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Newcastle upon Tyne

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Daily rate trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Newcastle upon Tyne

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Daily rate histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Newcastle upon Tyne

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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 7 (77.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
1 1 (11.11%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Miro
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) JIRA
2 4 (44.44%) ScriptRunner
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
1 4 (44.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) JIRA Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Incident Management
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Agile Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (22.22%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
5 1 (11.11%) Epics
5 1 (11.11%) Service Design
5 1 (11.11%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Atlassian