User-Centered Design (UCD) Contracts in the UK excluding London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User-Centered Design (UCD) over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 299 323
Rank change year-on-year +28 +24 -78
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 65 101 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.49% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.57% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 73 111
10th Percentile £321 £325 £388
25th Percentile £401 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +2.20% -
75th Percentile £608 £560 £588
90th Percentile £675 £640 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £88.50 - -
Median hourly rate £92.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.75 £41.68 £47.50
% change year-on-year +38.57% -12.26% +106.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

User-Centered Design (UCD) 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 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
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 £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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 User-Centered Design (UCD) within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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 0 21 £525 +27.27% 36
Scotland -3 14 £531 +18.06% 9
Midlands +25 11 £419 -23.86% 8
Yorkshire +5 10 £556 +30.88% 7
North East +7 9 £638 -8.93% 10
South West +48 8 £575 +12.20% 7
North West 0 8 £405 +8.00% 19
West Midlands +18 7 £419 -35.58% 6
East of England +35 6 £450 -30.77% 1
South East +32 4 £650 +18.18% 27
East Midlands +9 4 £436 -20.73% 1
Wales - 4 £319 - 9
User-Centered Design (UCD)
UK

User-Centered Design (UCD)
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 8 (12.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Adobe XD
1 5 (7.69%) Sketch
2 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.62%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.54%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.46%) AWS
2 11 (16.92%) Figma
3 9 (13.85%) SaaS
4 6 (9.23%) Azure
5 4 (6.15%) Google Analytics
5 4 (6.15%) IaaS
6 3 (4.62%) Google Data Studio
6 3 (4.62%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.54%) GCP
8 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.54%) Miro
8 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) SAN
1 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.31%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.62%) Tableau
4 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.54%) Metadata
5 1 (1.54%) Power BI
5 1 (1.54%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (12.31%) JIRA
2 7 (10.77%) Git
3 4 (6.15%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.54%) GitLab
4 1 (1.54%) Grunt
4 1 (1.54%) gulp
4 1 (1.54%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.54%) Mocha
4 1 (1.54%) Selenium
4 1 (1.54%) Subversion
General
1 26 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 17 (26.15%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.08%) Finance
4 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.08%) Welsh Language
5 1 (1.54%) Banking
5 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.54%) Military
5 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (35.38%) Designer
2 13 (20.00%) Service Designer
3 11 (16.92%) Developer
4 10 (15.38%) Lead
4 10 (15.38%) Senior
4 10 (15.38%) UX Designer
5 5 (7.69%) Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.62%) JIRA Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Lead Designer
7 3 (4.62%) Performance Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Product Manager
7 3 (4.62%) Product Owner
7 3 (4.62%) Senior Designer
7 3 (4.62%) Senior Service Designer
7 3 (4.62%) UI Designer
7 3 (4.62%) UI/UX Designer
7 3 (4.62%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.46%) CSS
2 7 (10.77%) HTML
3 5 (7.69%) Alpine.js
3 5 (7.69%) Laravel
3 5 (7.69%) Node.js
3 5 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (6.15%) React
5 2 (3.08%) RESTful
5 2 (3.08%) Vue
6 1 (1.54%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.54%) HTML5
6 1 (1.54%) jQuery
6 1 (1.54%) Mustache
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.54%) Play Framework
6 1 (1.54%) PySpark
6 1 (1.54%) React Native
6 1 (1.54%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.62%) NHS
3 2 (3.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) Android
2 2 (3.08%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.08%) Debian
2 2 (3.08%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.54%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (58.46%) Agile
2 23 (35.38%) User Experience
3 22 (33.85%) User Research
4 21 (32.31%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (32.31%) Service Design
5 18 (27.69%) Prototyping
6 15 (23.08%) UX Design
7 12 (18.46%) Decision-Making
8 11 (16.92%) CI/CD
8 11 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (16.92%) Wireframes
9 10 (15.38%) Analytics
9 10 (15.38%) Roadmaps
10 9 (13.85%) Microservices
11 8 (12.31%) Usability Testing
11 8 (12.31%) User Stories
12 7 (10.77%) Data Security
12 7 (10.77%) Software Engineering
12 7 (10.77%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.85%) Python
1 9 (13.85%) SQL
2 8 (12.31%) JavaScript
3 5 (7.69%) PHP
4 4 (6.15%) Groovy
5 1 (1.54%) Java
5 1 (1.54%) Scala
5 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) Degree
4 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.08%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.54%) CSPO
5 1 (1.54%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (29.23%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.15%) WCAG
3 3 (4.62%) QA
4 2 (3.08%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.54%) GDPR
5 1 (1.54%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (9.23%) Adobe
2 5 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.15%) Atlassian
3 4 (6.15%) Google
4 2 (3.08%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.08%) VMware
5 1 (1.54%) Databricks
5 1 (1.54%) Hotjar
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle
5 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow