User Research Contracts in the North West

User Research
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for User Research skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Research over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 101 105
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -32
Contract jobs citing User Research 27 55 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.97% 1.71% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.88% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 41 66
10th Percentile - £325 £363
25th Percentile £325 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% +8.64% +1.25%
75th Percentile £388 £600 £538
90th Percentile £585 £650 £619
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +8.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

User Research is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,393 2,921 3,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.30% 90.71% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,532 2,076 2,595
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £591 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 147 165
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.61 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.30 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +13.51%
75th Percentile £45.88 £48.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £59.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing User Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for User Research in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Research in the North West.

Daily rate trend for User Research in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Research in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Research in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Research within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Manchester -3 27 £363 -34.09% 12
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (3.70%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
General
1 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.41%) Legal
3 1 (3.70%) Finance
3 1 (3.70%) Marketing
3 1 (3.70%) Military
3 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) User Researcher
2 8 (29.63%) Designer
3 5 (18.52%) Interaction Designer
4 4 (14.81%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 4 (14.81%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (11.11%) Senior
6 2 (7.41%) Content Designer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Digital Executive
7 1 (3.70%) Digital User Researcher
7 1 (3.70%) E-Commerce Executive
7 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Product Delivery Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Product Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Quantitative Researcher
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Product Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Senior User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) CSS
1 4 (14.81%) HTML
2 1 (3.70%) Spring
2 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) BYOD
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Agile
2 16 (59.26%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 12 (44.44%) User Experience
4 11 (40.74%) UX Design
5 8 (29.63%) Actionable Insight
5 8 (29.63%) Usability Testing
6 7 (25.93%) Front End Development
6 7 (25.93%) Interaction Design
6 7 (25.93%) Prototyping
6 7 (25.93%) Service Design
7 6 (22.22%) Data Science
7 6 (22.22%) Ergonomics
7 6 (22.22%) Ethnography
7 6 (22.22%) Focus Group
7 6 (22.22%) Guerrilla Testing
7 6 (22.22%) Human Factors
7 6 (22.22%) Market Research
7 6 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 6 (22.22%) Qualitative Research
7 6 (22.22%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform