Ethnography Contracts in the North of England

Ethnography
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Ethnography skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ethnography over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 178 214
Rank change year-on-year +15 +36 +13
Contract jobs citing Ethnography 3 11 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.091% 0.23% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.27% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 3
10th Percentile £322 - £544
25th Percentile £337 £325 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 £350 £558
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -37.28% +3.57%
75th Percentile £395 £400 £579
90th Percentile £412 £425 £592
England median daily rate £433 £400 £563
% change year-on-year +8.19% -28.89% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Ethnography 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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,970 4,081 5,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.97% 85.83% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,907 2,497 3,663
10th Percentile £263 £300 £304
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £684
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 357 205
10th Percentile £13.70 £11.04 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.31 £12.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +62.25% -36.03% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.59 £44.74 £45.05
90th Percentile £83.41 £55.40 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Ethnography
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Ethnography as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Ethnography in the North of England

Ethnography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ethnography in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Ethnography in the North of England

Ethnography
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ethnography within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West +11 3 £364 +4.00%
Ethnography
England

Ethnography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) InVision
1 2 (66.67%) UserZoom
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Axure RP
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) User Researcher
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
1 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Ethnographic Research
1 3 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 3 (100.00%) User Research
2 2 (66.67%) Benchmarking
2 2 (66.67%) Co-Creation
2 2 (66.67%) Guerrilla Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Human-Centred Design
2 2 (66.67%) Inclusive Design
2 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
2 2 (66.67%) Rapid Prototyping
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Task Model
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) UX Design
2 2 (66.67%) UX Research
2 2 (66.67%) Wireframes
3 1 (33.33%) Qualitative Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (33.33%) IBM