Contextual Inquiry Contracts in the UK excluding London

Contextual Inquiry
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Contextual Inquiry skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Contextual Inquiry over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 395 439
Rank change year-on-year +59 +44 +62
Contract jobs citing Contextual Inquiry 3 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.019% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.023% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £315 - £525
25th Percentile £318 £525 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £322 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -41.45% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £372 £575 £616
90th Percentile £402 - £656
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +10.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Contextual Inquiry 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 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Contextual Inquiry
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Contextual Inquiry in the UK excluding London

Contextual Inquiry
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Contextual Inquiry in the UK excluding London

Contextual Inquiry
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 Contextual Inquiry within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
East Midlands - 2 £318 -
Midlands - 2 £318 -
North West - 2 £364 -
North of England - 2 £364 -
Contextual Inquiry
UK

Contextual Inquiry
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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Figma
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Designer
1 2 (66.67%) UI Designer
1 2 (66.67%) UI/UX Designer
1 2 (66.67%) UX Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior UI/UX Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior UX Designer
2 1 (33.33%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 3 (100.00%) User Research
2 2 (66.67%) A/B Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Content Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 2 (66.67%) Information Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Interaction Design
2 2 (66.67%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
2 2 (66.67%) Typography
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 2 (66.67%) UX Design
2 2 (66.67%) Web Accessibility
2 2 (66.67%) Web Development
2 2 (66.67%) Wireframes
3 1 (33.33%) Ethnography
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) IBM