UX Research Contracts in the UK excluding London

User Experience Research (UXR)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring UX Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UX Research 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 321 365 362
Rank change year-on-year +44 -3 +40
Contract jobs citing UX Research 18 34 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.16% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.19% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 56
10th Percentile £200 £406 £331
25th Percentile £257 £447 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £438
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +17.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £577 £561
90th Percentile £683 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £521 £650 £544
% change year-on-year -19.89% +19.54% +2.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

UX Research 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%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Research in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for UX Research in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Research in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Research in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Research in the UK excluding London

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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 UX Research 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
North of England +19 9 £200 -66.67% 16
South East +43 4 £650 +26.83% 17
North West +11 4 £257 -56.34% 13
North East -2 4 £200 -71.43% 1
South West +44 2 £625 +38.89% 8
Scotland +8 2 £425 -5.56% 4
Yorkshire +6 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland -12 1 £450 -12.20%
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UK

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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 5 (27.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) UserZoom
2 2 (11.11%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) JIRA
2 3 (16.67%) Axure RP
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) User Experience Researcher
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Designer
3 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.56%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Content Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior User Experience Researcher
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) UI Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) User Experience Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) User Researcher
4 1 (5.56%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) CSS
1 2 (11.11%) HTML
1 2 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Android
1 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) User Experience
2 13 (72.22%) User Research
3 10 (55.56%) Agile
4 8 (44.44%) UX Design
5 7 (38.89%) Analytics
5 7 (38.89%) Design Thinking
6 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (33.33%) Wireframes
7 5 (27.78%) Usability Testing
7 5 (27.78%) User Stories
8 4 (22.22%) A/B Testing
8 4 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (22.22%) Fintech
8 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
8 4 (22.22%) Scrum
9 3 (16.67%) Co-Creation
9 3 (16.67%) Prototyping
9 3 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) CISSP
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (11.11%) VMware
2 1 (5.56%) Qualtrics