UX Research Contract Job Trends in Somerset

User Experience Research (UXR)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring UX Research skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing UX Research 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.64% - 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% - 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £690
South West median daily rate £450 £575 £670
% change year-on-year -21.74% -14.18% +48.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 160 145 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 87.43% 75.52% 86.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 93 107
10th Percentile £160 £200 £185
25th Percentile £248 £369 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.06% +5.49%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £650
90th Percentile £649 £720 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 28
10th Percentile - £12.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £47.36
Median hourly rate £60.00 £25.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +140.00% -51.82% +3.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.38 £63.44
90th Percentile £64.05 £63.75 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% -

UX Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing UX Research relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

UX Research job vacancy trend in Somerset

UX Research
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing UX Research.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing UX Research

UX Research
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 UX Research within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Taunton - 3 £550 -
UX Research
South West

UX Research
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (33.33%) MODAF Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) MODAF
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) SOAR
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 3 (100.00%) NCSC
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware