User-Centered Design (UCD) Contracts in Tyne and Wear

User-Centered Design (UCD)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User-Centered Design (UCD) over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 30 48
Rank change year-on-year +2 +18 -14
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 9 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.69% 0.82% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 0.96% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £516 - £512
25th Percentile £547 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £700 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +19.15% +18.99%
75th Percentile £650 - £622
90th Percentile £663 - £639
North East median daily rate £638 £700 £588
% change year-on-year -8.93% +19.15% +24.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 208 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.20% 85.60% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 98 255
10th Percentile £213 £297 £319
25th Percentile £350 £371 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £566 £589 £650
90th Percentile £626 £650 £736
North East median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 36 0
10th Percentile - £11.50 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
% change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Job vacancy trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Tyne and Wear

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Tyne and Wear

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Tyne and Wear

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -2 9 £638 -8.93% 8
User-Centered Design (UCD)
North East

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

Application Platforms
1 7 (77.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
1 1 (11.11%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Miro
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) JIRA
2 4 (44.44%) ScriptRunner
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
1 4 (44.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) JIRA Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Incident Management
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Agile Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (22.22%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
5 1 (11.11%) Epics
5 1 (11.11%) Service Design
5 1 (11.11%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Atlassian