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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 362 364
Rank change year-on-year +47 +2 +24
Contract jobs citing UX Research 24 32 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.16% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.19% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 52
10th Percentile £200 £406 £316
25th Percentile £335 £447 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +13.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £594 £577 £578
90th Percentile £678 £625 £623
UK median daily rate £521 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -19.89% +18.18% +3.77%

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 11,714 17,075 20,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.67% 84.25% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,208 14,243
10th Percentile £234 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 858 2,062 1,260
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.27% +1.39% +40.19%

UX Research
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 21 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 21 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 +17 9 £200 -66.67% 34
South East +43 6 £600 +17.07% 38
Scotland 0 5 £425 -5.56% 4
North West +6 4 £313 -46.72% 22
North East -3 4 £200 -71.43% 2
South West +39 2 £625 +38.89% 10
Yorkshire +13 1 - - 10
Northern Ireland -9 1 £450 -12.20% 1
East of England - 1 £575 - 16
UX Research
UK

UX Research
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 (20.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) UserZoom
2 2 (8.33%) InVision
3 1 (4.17%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) Axure RP
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Legal
5 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) User Experience Researcher
2 7 (29.17%) Designer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) UX Designer
5 2 (8.33%) Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Product Designer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Designer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior User Experience Researcher
5 2 (8.33%) Senior UX Designer
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Leader
6 1 (4.17%) Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Content Designer
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) User Experience Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) CSS
1 2 (8.33%) HTML
1 2 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Android
1 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) User Experience
2 16 (66.67%) User Research
3 12 (50.00%) Agile
4 11 (45.83%) UX Design
5 8 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (33.33%) Usability Testing
6 7 (29.17%) Analytics
6 7 (29.17%) Design Thinking
7 6 (25.00%) Wireframes
8 5 (20.83%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
8 5 (20.83%) User Stories
8 5 (20.83%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 4 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
9 4 (16.67%) Fintech
9 4 (16.67%) Project Management
9 4 (16.67%) Prototyping
9 4 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (16.67%) Scrum
9 4 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) CISSP
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (8.33%) VMware
2 1 (4.17%) Genesys
2 1 (4.17%) Qualtrics