User-Centered Design (UCD) Contracts in the North of England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 135 148
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 +1
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 22 43 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.66% 0.91% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.07% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 39
10th Percentile £429 - £420
25th Percentile £506 £325 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 £525
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -28.57% +0.24%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £648 £670
England median daily rate £520 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -2.35% -3.18% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,977 4,018 4,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.78% 84.66% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,919 2,427 3,429
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 387 206
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.85 £12.55 £15.73
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.74 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% -22.76% +41.32%
75th Percentile £52.13 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.63 £63.75 £63.38
England median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -24.85% +0.94% +48.60%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

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

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the North of England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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 User-Centered Design (UCD) within the North of England region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Yorkshire +10 11 £513 +20.59% 17
North East +7 10 £650 +13.04% 16
North West -9 7 £575 +53.33% 24
User-Centered Design (UCD)
England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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 8 (36.36%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.55%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Adobe XD
1 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
1 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
1 1 (4.55%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) IaaS
3 3 (13.64%) Figma
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.55%) Azure
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.55%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Miro
4 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) JIRA
2 4 (18.18%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) Grunt
3 1 (4.55%) gulp
3 1 (4.55%) Jasmine
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) Log4j
3 1 (4.55%) Mocha
3 1 (4.55%) Subversion
General
1 8 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Senior
2 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Designer
3 3 (13.64%) JIRA Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Product Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (9.09%) UI Designer
4 2 (9.09%) UI/UX Designer
4 2 (9.09%) UX Designer
5 1 (4.55%) Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.55%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) CSS
1 2 (9.09%) HTML
1 2 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (4.55%) HTML5
2 1 (4.55%) JDBC
2 1 (4.55%) JMS
2 1 (4.55%) JNDI
2 1 (4.55%) jQuery
2 1 (4.55%) Kafka
2 1 (4.55%) LDAP
2 1 (4.55%) Mustache
2 1 (4.55%) OAuth
2 1 (4.55%) React Native
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) SAML
2 1 (4.55%) Sass
2 1 (4.55%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.55%) NHS
2 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Agile
2 9 (40.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (31.82%) Scrum
3 7 (31.82%) User Experience
4 6 (27.27%) Roadmaps
5 5 (22.73%) Decision-Making
5 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) Migration
5 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (22.73%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (18.18%) Incident Management
6 4 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (18.18%) Project Management
6 4 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (18.18%) Sprint Retrospective
6 4 (18.18%) User Research
6 4 (18.18%) User Stories
6 4 (18.18%) UX Design
7 3 (13.64%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Groovy
2 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 2 (9.09%) SQL
3 1 (4.55%) Java
3 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (9.09%) CSPO
4 1 (4.55%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (40.91%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.09%) WCAG
3 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.55%) Adobe
2 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.55%) Genesys
2 1 (4.55%) IBM
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.55%) Splunk
2 1 (4.55%) TIBCO