User-Centered Design (UCD) Contract Job Trends in South London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 34 42
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 +18
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.81% 0.99% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.12% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £422 £542 £565
25th Percentile £436 £546 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £558 £675
Median % change year-on-year -16.14% -17.41% -
75th Percentile £496 £576 £750
90th Percentile £507 £583 -
London median daily rate £495 £569 £555
% change year-on-year -12.97% +2.48% -2.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 179 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.55% 88.18% 83.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 114 188
10th Percentile £241 £225 £231
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £489 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -5.10% -6.36%
75th Percentile £630 £582 £588
90th Percentile £722 £734 £675
London median daily rate £543 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 14
10th Percentile - - £17.42
25th Percentile - £17.25 £32.70
Median hourly rate £17.98 £19.50 £53.60
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% -63.62% +21.50%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £55.59
90th Percentile - £75.79 £66.78
London median hourly rate £30.50 £37.50 £39.42
% change year-on-year -18.67% -4.87% -0.20%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

User-Centered Design (UCD) job vacancy trend in South London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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-Centered Design (UCD) within the South London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Croydon -4 2 £468 -16.14%
Bromley - 1 - - 3
User-Centered Design (UCD)
London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) React
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) D3.js
2 1 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG