Psychology Contracts in the UK excluding London

Psychology
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Psychology skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Psychology over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 355 393
Rank change year-on-year -9 +38 +109
Contract jobs citing Psychology 9 14 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.077% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.065% 0.092% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 11
10th Percentile £200 £282 £500
25th Percentile £241 £374 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -45.24% -2.78% +0.47%
75th Percentile £357 £650 £644
90th Percentile £440 £695 £675
UK median daily rate £357 £435 £550
% change year-on-year -17.95% -21.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £86.40 £70.07
Median % change year-on-year - +23.31% -
UK median hourly rate - £86.40 £70.07
% change year-on-year - +23.31% +38.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 13,741 15,179 19,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.32% 83.10% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,237 9,121 12,951
10th Percentile £240 £250 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,363 1,547 1,182
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.84 £17.30
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.75% +13.33% +70.45%
75th Percentile £44.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.09
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £41.80
% change year-on-year -39.40% -0.72% +57.74%

Psychology
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Psychology in the UK excluding London

Psychology
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Psychology in the UK excluding London

Psychology
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Psychology in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Psychology in the UK excluding London

Psychology
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Psychology in the UK excluding London

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 Psychology within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 August 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 East - 6 £288 - 7
East of England +3 1 £475 - 2
Midlands -10 1 - - 3
West Midlands -10 1 - - 3
North West - 1 £313 - 9
North of England - 1 £313 - 14
Psychology
UK

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 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (11.11%) InVision
1 1 (11.11%) OmniGraffle
1 1 (11.11%) Sketch
1 1 (11.11%) UserZoom
1 1 (11.11%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Axure RP
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Marketing
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Local Government
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Digital Executive
1 4 (44.44%) E-Commerce Executive
2 2 (22.22%) User Researcher
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior UX Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) User Experience Researcher
3 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Analytics
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) CRM
2 4 (44.44%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 4 (44.44%) Digital Marketing
2 4 (44.44%) E-Commerce
2 4 (44.44%) Email Marketing
2 4 (44.44%) User Experience
3 3 (33.33%) Ethnography
3 3 (33.33%) Usability Testing
3 3 (33.33%) User Research
4 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (22.22%) Benchmarking
4 2 (22.22%) Cognitive Psychology
4 2 (22.22%) Ergonomics
4 2 (22.22%) Human Factors
4 2 (22.22%) User Stories
4 2 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (22.22%) UX Design
4 2 (22.22%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe
1 1 (11.11%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (11.11%) Capita