UX Research Contracts in the North West

User Experience Research (UXR)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring UX Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UX Research over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 126 125
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +47
Contract jobs citing UX Research 4 7 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.20% 0.26% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.31% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 15
10th Percentile £223 £544 £440
25th Percentile £257 £553 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -46.72% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £444 £609 £600
90th Percentile £523 £611 £615
England median daily rate £535 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -17.69% +18.18% +2.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

UX Research 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 1,766 2,277 2,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.06% 85.86% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,451 1,960
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £390 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £663 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 253 138
10th Percentile £15.34 £10.96 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.75 £13.50 £22.44
Median hourly rate £31.76 £24.19 £35.02
Median % change year-on-year +31.29% -30.92% +51.88%
75th Percentile £63.00 £46.18 £48.56
90th Percentile £84.06 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.54
% change year-on-year -22.16% -0.11% +46.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for UX 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 UX Research in the North West.

Daily rate trend for UX Research in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Research in the North West over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX 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 UX Research within the North West region over the 6 months to 21 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 +13 2 £375 -36.17% 17
Cheshire - 2 £313 - 4
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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) InVision
1 2 (50.00%) UserZoom
2 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Axure RP
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Legal
3 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) User Experience Researcher
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Android
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Prototyping
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) User Research
2 3 (75.00%) UX Design
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Benchmarking
3 2 (50.00%) Co-Creation
3 2 (50.00%) Ethnographic Research
3 2 (50.00%) Ethnography
3 2 (50.00%) Guerrilla Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Human-Centred Design
3 2 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
3 2 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (50.00%) Task Model
3 2 (50.00%) Usability Testing
3 2 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (25.00%) Genesys