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

User-Centered Design (UCD)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 - 75
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.29% - 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% - 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £408
25th Percentile - - £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £420
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.08%
75th Percentile - - £434
90th Percentile - - £436
South East median daily rate £593 £565 £475
% change year-on-year +4.87% +18.95% -6.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 330 455 683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 94.29% 85.53% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 328 552
10th Percentile £204 £203 £200
25th Percentile £250 £275 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -11.90% -
75th Percentile £550 £556 £638
90th Percentile £600 £641 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 35 29
10th Percentile £16.49 £12.33 £21.89
25th Percentile £25.15 £30.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £71.90
90th Percentile - £76.86 £77.67
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -63.85% +8.21% +75.90%

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

Job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Surrey

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

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

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

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

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 21 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
Staines - 1 £375 -
User-Centered Design (UCD)
South East

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) OCA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle