Hotjar Contract Job Trends

Hotjar
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Hotjar products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hotjar over the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Hotjar.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 569 653
Rank change year-on-year +30 +84 +192
Contract jobs citing Hotjar 10 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.003% 0.008%
As % of the Vendors category 0.065% 0.006% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £406 - £380
25th Percentile £415 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £300 £425
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% -29.41% +3.03%
75th Percentile £516 - £463
90th Percentile £546 - £470
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.25 - -
Median hourly rate £13.50 - -
75th Percentile £13.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.50 - -

All Vendors
UK

Hotjar falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,353 16,741 22,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.20% 44.07% 44.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,389 10,206 14,556
10th Percentile £275 £288 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.38%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 789 711 639
10th Percentile £14.62 £14.16 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.62 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -29.41% +85.43%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £64.08
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.35 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -26.40% -27.50% +100.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Hotjar in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hotjar.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hotjar

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hotjar over the 6 months to 5 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hotjar in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hotjar.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hotjar

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Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hotjar within the UK over the 6 months to 5 September 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 +28 9 £450 +50.00% 29
UK excluding London - 8 £475 - 21
North of England - 5 £450 - 1
North West - 4 - -
South East - 2 - - 15
London +22 1 £440 +46.67% 13
South West - 1 £500 - 1
Work from Home - 1 £565 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £450 - 1

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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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) IBM Domino
2 2 (20.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe XD
1 2 (20.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (20.00%) Sketch
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (10.00%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Google Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Figma
3 1 (10.00%) Contentsquare
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Mixpanel
2 2 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (10.00%) Looker
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (30.00%) Marketing
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) User Experience Researcher
2 3 (30.00%) Designer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) UX Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Product Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Product Designer
4 1 (10.00%) UI Designer
4 1 (10.00%) UI/UX Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) User Experience
2 9 (90.00%) Analytics
3 7 (70.00%) Usability Testing
4 6 (60.00%) UX Design
5 5 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (50.00%) Behavioural Analytics
6 4 (40.00%) Customer Insight
6 4 (40.00%) Product Strategy
6 4 (40.00%) Qualitative Research
6 4 (40.00%) Quantitative Research
6 4 (40.00%) UX Research
7 3 (30.00%) Agile
7 3 (30.00%) Customer Experience
7 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (30.00%) Web Analytics
8 2 (20.00%) Content Management
8 2 (20.00%) Copywriting
8 2 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
8 2 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
8 2 (20.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (20.00%) QA
3 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (10.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Google
2 4 (40.00%) Adobe
3 1 (10.00%) Optimizely
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow