Cognitive Psychology Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cognitive Psychology
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cognitive Psychology skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cognitive Psychology over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 393 451
Rank change year-on-year +60 +58 +60
Contract jobs citing Cognitive Psychology 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.005% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.006% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £544
25th Percentile - - £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £400 £558
Median % change year-on-year -21.75% -28.32% +6.29%
75th Percentile - - £579
90th Percentile - - £592
UK median daily rate £313 £400 £579
% change year-on-year -21.75% -30.92% +5.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Cognitive Psychology 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Cognitive Psychology
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cognitive Psychology as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cognitive Psychology in the UK excluding London

Cognitive Psychology
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cognitive Psychology in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cognitive Psychology in the UK excluding London

Cognitive Psychology
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cognitive Psychology within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
North of England +11 1 £313 -21.75%
North West - 1 £313 -
Cognitive Psychology
UK

Cognitive Psychology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) InVision
1 1 (100.00%) UserZoom
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Axure RP
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) Co-Creation
1 1 (100.00%) Ergonomics
1 1 (100.00%) Ethnographic Research
1 1 (100.00%) Ethnography
1 1 (100.00%) Guerrilla Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Human Factors
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Psychology
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Task Model
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CA Agile Central