User Research Contract Job Trends in South London

User Research
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring User Research skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing User Research 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 1.10% - 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% - 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £427 - -
25th Percentile £448 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - £600
75th Percentile £526 - -
90th Percentile £543 - -
London median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

User 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 159 181 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.85% 88.73% 82.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 123 193
10th Percentile £237 £247 £350
25th Percentile £413 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £637 £567 £600
90th Percentile £738 £758 £675
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 17
10th Percentile - - £14.88
25th Percentile - £17.25 £23.46
Median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £52.19
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -62.64% +18.32%
75th Percentile £17.45 £71.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £17.98 £73.75 £66.06
London median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £39.42
% change year-on-year -9.29% -11.21% +8.00%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing User Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for User Research in South London

User Research
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing User Research.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing User Research

User Research
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Research in South London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Research in South London

User Research
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 South London region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Croydon - 2 £490 - 1
User Research
London

User Research
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (50.00%) Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) D3.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (50.00%) Interaction Design
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 1 (50.00%) Service Design
1 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG