User-Centered Design (UCD) Contracts in the North East

User-Centered Design (UCD)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 29 36 54
Rank change year-on-year +7 +18 -22
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 9 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 2.81% 0.59% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 0.74% 1.29%
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% +24.34%
75th Percentile £650 - £622
90th Percentile £663 - £639
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +7.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
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 North East

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear +2 9 £638 -8.93% 10
User-Centered Design (UCD)
England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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