Persona Development Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Persona Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Persona Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 - 403
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Persona Development 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% - 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% - 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £190
25th Percentile £463 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £550
75th Percentile £488 - £775
90th Percentile - - £910
UK median daily rate £475 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -32.14% +27.27% -15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Persona Development 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 15,332 14,078 18,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 88.21% 84.15% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,330 8,071 11,946
10th Percentile £219 £250 £250
25th Percentile £367 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,738 894 1,289
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.26 £18.53 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £33.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -31.42% -24.83% +48.81%
75th Percentile £43.72 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.54% +24.29%

Persona Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Persona Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Persona Development job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Persona Development
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Persona Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Persona Development

Persona Development
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 Persona Development within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
South West - 1 - - 3
Scotland - 1 £475 -
Persona Development
UK

Persona Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (50.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
1 1 (50.00%) Google Analytics
General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) User Researcher
1 1 (50.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Journey Map
1 2 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) User Research
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (50.00%) Focus Group
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile First
2 1 (50.00%) Qualitative Research
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) User Journey Map
2 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Hotjar