User-Centered Design (UCD) Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 35 27
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 +31
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 25 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 7.72% 0.51% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.59% 0.54% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 1 0
10th Percentile £343 - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £420 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £598 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £452 £420 -
% change year-on-year +7.62% - -

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 291 185 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 89.81% 93.43% 85.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 93 100
10th Percentile £177 £280 £248
25th Percentile £364 £354 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £600
90th Percentile £579 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £454 £475
% change year-on-year -0.88% -4.42% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 1
10th Percentile £14.05 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.59 £14.83 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% - -28.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.25 £16.50
90th Percentile £54.50 £19.93 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £27.63 £16.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +72.66% -8.57% -22.22%

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

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing User-Centered Design (UCD).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing User-Centered Design (UCD)

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 18 December 2025.

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

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) CMS
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (8.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) GitHub
2 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (8.00%) Serverless
3 1 (4.00%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (8.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Mocha
2 2 (8.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) GitLab
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
General
1 18 (72.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Local Government
3 1 (4.00%) Publishing
3 1 (4.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) User Researcher
2 5 (20.00%) Product Manager
3 4 (16.00%) Designer
3 4 (16.00%) Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Backend Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (8.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) Lead Product Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Service Designer
6 1 (4.00%) Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Content Designer
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Jest
1 4 (16.00%) Node.js
2 2 (8.00%) CSS
2 2 (8.00%) Express.js
2 2 (8.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (8.00%) HTML
2 2 (8.00%) React
2 2 (8.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (88.00%) Agile
2 13 (52.00%) User Research
3 11 (44.00%) Service Design
4 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (24.00%) Qualitative Research
5 6 (24.00%) Quantitative Research
5 6 (24.00%) User Experience
6 5 (20.00%) Product Management
6 5 (20.00%) Product Strategy
6 5 (20.00%) User Stories
7 4 (16.00%) Data Analysis
7 4 (16.00%) Ergonomics
7 4 (16.00%) Ethnography
7 4 (16.00%) Human Factors
7 4 (16.00%) Microservices
7 4 (16.00%) Product Roadmap
7 4 (16.00%) Product Vision
7 4 (16.00%) Usability Testing
7 4 (16.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (52.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (8.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (20.00%) WCAG
3 2 (8.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Grafana
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes