User-Centered Design (UCD) Contract Job Trends in Somerset

User-Centered Design (UCD)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 2.73% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
South West median daily rate £475 £500 £756
% change year-on-year -5.00% -33.88% +37.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 316 160 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 78.41% 93.57% 74.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 99 99
10th Percentile £355 £225 £200
25th Percentile £413 £373 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -1.89% +8.72%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £600
90th Percentile £726 £775 £640
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 24 32
10th Percentile £26.65 £15.65 £12.50
25th Percentile £50.31 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -50.74%
75th Percentile £58.75 £60.94 £40.00
90th Percentile £63.38 £63.75 £59.93
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £26.89 £55.25
% change year-on-year +113.83% -51.33% -15.00%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

User-Centered Design (UCD) job vacancy trend in Somerset

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing User-Centered Design (UCD).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing User-Centered Design (UCD)

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in Somerset over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Somerset

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 9 July 2026. 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
Taunton - 11 £475 - 1
User-Centered Design (UCD)
South West

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (63.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (81.82%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Git
1 7 (63.64%) JIRA
1 7 (63.64%) MSI
General
1 7 (63.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum Master
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Leader
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) GeoJSON
1 9 (81.82%) RESTful
2 7 (63.64%) .NET
2 7 (63.64%) .NET Core
2 7 (63.64%) .NET Framework
2 7 (63.64%) ATL
2 7 (63.64%) COM
2 7 (63.64%) CSS
2 7 (63.64%) CSS3
2 7 (63.64%) HTML
2 7 (63.64%) HTML5
2 7 (63.64%) MFC
2 7 (63.64%) REST
2 7 (63.64%) WPF
3 2 (18.18%) OpenAPI
3 2 (18.18%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Cloud Native
1 9 (81.82%) Onboarding
2 5 (45.45%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
4 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (81.82%) API Design
2 9 (81.82%) DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) DevSecOps
2 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (81.82%) Knowledge Transfer
3 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) Containerisation
3 7 (63.64%) Dependency Management
3 7 (63.64%) Deployment Automation
3 7 (63.64%) Design Patterns
3 7 (63.64%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 7 (63.64%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (63.64%) Microservices
3 7 (63.64%) SOLID
3 7 (63.64%) Static Application Security Testing
3 7 (63.64%) Virtual Environments
4 5 (45.45%) API Development
4 5 (45.45%) Client Onboarding
4 5 (45.45%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Bicep
2 7 (63.64%) C#
2 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
2 7 (63.64%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) TypeScript
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (81.82%) NCSC
2 7 (63.64%) Accessibility
2 7 (63.64%) WCAG
3 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Terraform
2 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft