Persona Development Contracts

Persona Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Persona Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Persona Development 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 515 580 715
Rank change year-on-year +65 +135 +138
Contract jobs citing Persona Development 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.005% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.005% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £371 - £425
25th Percentile £430 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.64%
75th Percentile £822 - £588
90th Percentile £884 - £625
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Persona Development 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Persona Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Persona Development in the UK

Persona Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Persona Development.

Daily rate trend for Persona Development in the UK

Persona Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Persona Development over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Persona Development in the UK

Persona Development
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Persona Development within the UK 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
England +60 5 £600 - 10
London - 5 £600 - 8

Persona Development
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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (20.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Figma
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
1 2 (40.00%) UX Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Service Designer
2 1 (20.00%) User Researcher
2 1 (20.00%) UX Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) User Experience
1 4 (80.00%) User Research
1 4 (80.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 3 (60.00%) Journey Map
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Business Transformation
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Design Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Usability Testing
3 2 (40.00%) UX Design
3 2 (40.00%) UX Research
3 2 (40.00%) Webhook
4 1 (20.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (20.00%) User Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft