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

User-Centered Design (UCD)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 112 112 144
Rank change year-on-year 0 +32 -2
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 8 25 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 0.91% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 1.05% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 6
10th Percentile £333 - £350
25th Percentile £363 £325 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -6.25% -23.44%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £438
90th Percentile £654 £650 £525
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +7.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
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 West

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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-Centered Design (UCD) within the North West 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
Manchester -1 4 £503 +34.00% 14
Lancashire +2 2 - - 10
Cheshire - 1 £313 - 4
User-Centered Design (UCD)
England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Grunt
2 1 (12.50%) gulp
2 1 (12.50%) Jasmine
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Mocha
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Designer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Product Owner
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Product Owner
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) UI Designer
3 1 (12.50%) UI/UX Designer
3 1 (12.50%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) HTML5
2 1 (12.50%) jQuery
2 1 (12.50%) Mustache
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Sass
2 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) User Experience
2 3 (37.50%) Web Development
3 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Web Accessibility
4 1 (12.50%) A/B Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 1 (12.50%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (12.50%) Interaction Design
4 1 (12.50%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
4 1 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Typography
4 1 (12.50%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Groovy
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow