Focus Group Contracts in the UK excluding London

Focus Groups
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Focus Group skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Focus Group over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 422 484
Rank change year-on-year +44 +62 -81
Contract jobs citing Focus Group 20 33 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.097% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 30
10th Percentile £260 £320 £277
25th Percentile £278 £363 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% - -2.70%
75th Percentile £381 £600 £524
90th Percentile £488 - £538
UK median daily rate £390 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -17.89% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 - £53.00
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £61.00 - £50.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Focus Group is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,539 21,424 27,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.73% 89.49% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,477 14,871 19,220
10th Percentile £250 £255 £232
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,058 1,303 1,363
10th Percentile £12.33 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.34 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Focus Group
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Focus Group in the UK excluding London

Focus Group
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Focus Group in the UK excluding London

Focus Group
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Focus Group in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Focus Group in the UK excluding London

Focus Group
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Focus Group in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Focus Group in the UK excluding London

Focus Group
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 Focus Group within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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 +28 10 £350 -41.67% 14
North West +22 8 £350 -30.00% 6
South West +31 5 £270 - 2
Scotland +40 4 £378 -29.65% 2
Yorkshire +14 2 £463 -22.92% 5
South East +21 1 - - 4
Focus Group
UK

Focus Group
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 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.00%) SaaS
2 1 (5.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (15.00%) Advertising
4 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Law
6 1 (5.00%) Finance
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) User Researcher
2 4 (20.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) IT Trainer
2 4 (20.00%) Trainer
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Change Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) IT Manager
3 2 (10.00%) SAP Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) HR Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Procurement Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Life Science
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 11 (55.00%) User Experience
2 10 (50.00%) Agile
3 9 (45.00%) User Research
3 9 (45.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 8 (40.00%) Ethnography
4 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 8 (40.00%) Qualitative Research
4 8 (40.00%) Usability Testing
4 8 (40.00%) UX Design
5 7 (35.00%) Actionable Insight
5 7 (35.00%) Data Science
5 7 (35.00%) Design Persona
5 7 (35.00%) Ergonomics
5 7 (35.00%) Front End Development
5 7 (35.00%) Guerrilla Testing
5 7 (35.00%) Human Factors
5 7 (35.00%) Market Research
5 7 (35.00%) Quantitative Research
5 7 (35.00%) Service Design
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) PMO
3 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) SAP