Diary Studies Contracts

Diary Studies
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Diary Studies skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Diary Studies over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 588 667
Rank change year-on-year +38 +79 +149
Contract jobs citing Diary Studies 4 1 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.002% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.003% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 11
10th Percentile £515 - £505
25th Percentile £519 £375 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -30.43% -0.86%
75th Percentile £575 £425 £588
90th Percentile - - £625
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £563
% change year-on-year - - +0.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Diary Studies 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,679 35,651 49,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.34% 85.41% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,626 22,859 33,990
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,574 2,252 1,634
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £16.81 £18.49
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -10.31% +61.35%
75th Percentile £50.94 £62.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.63 £72.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.57 £38.12 £40.59
% change year-on-year -38.18% -6.09% +88.79%

Diary Studies
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Diary Studies as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Diary Studies in the UK

Diary Studies
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Diary Studies.

Daily rate trend for Diary Studies in the UK

Diary Studies
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Diary Studies within the UK over the 6 months to 20 July 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
England +50 4 £550 +37.50% 8
London +40 3 £550 +37.50% 5
South East - 1 - - 1
Work from Home - 1 £525 - 8
UK excluding London - 1 - - 5

Diary Studies
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) User Researcher
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Qualitative Research
1 4 (100.00%) Quantitative Research
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) Contextual Inquiry
2 3 (75.00%) Ethnography
2 3 (75.00%) Usability Testing
2 3 (75.00%) User Research
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (50.00%) Ethnographic Research
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (25.00%) ANOVA
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (25.00%) Storytelling
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Technology Enablement
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility