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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 31 46
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 -7
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 10 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.29% 1.93% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 2.41% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £518 £475 -
25th Percentile £569 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £495
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +16.16% +5.32%
75th Percentile £663 £638 -
90th Percentile £675 £675 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -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 241 249 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 79.28% 80.06% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 112 249
10th Percentile £216 £263 £241
25th Percentile £355 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £559 £590 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 48 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.74
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.97 £34.98
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.50 £39.34
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -52.97% +138.42%
75th Percentile £33.40 £48.75 £43.07
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 £44.94
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 29 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 +4 10 £650 -7.14% 16
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 (70.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (10.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) IaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Miro
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) JIRA
2 4 (40.00%) ScriptRunner
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
1 4 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Product Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) JIRA Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (30.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (30.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (20.00%) Agile Project Management
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Project Management
5 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
6 1 (10.00%) Coaching
6 1 (10.00%) DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) UML
6 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Atlassian