Persona Development Contract Job Trends

Persona Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Persona Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 547 633
Rank change year-on-year -16 +86 +185
Contract jobs citing Persona Development 2 9 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.025% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% 0.028% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £442 £185
25th Percentile £463 £608 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £488 - £788
90th Percentile - - £915
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - £550

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 31,960 31,635 41,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.93% 86.21% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,027 19,055 27,781
10th Percentile £295 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,098 1,126 1,593
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -19.54% +24.29%
75th Percentile £44.40 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.53 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -31.42% -24.83% +48.81%

Persona Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Persona Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Persona Development job vacancy trend in the UK

Persona Development
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Persona Development

Persona Development
Top 5 Contract Job 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 14 November 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
UK excluding London - 2 £475 - 5
England -34 1 - - 6
Scotland - 1 £475 -
South West - 1 - - 3
Work from Home - 1 - - 3

Persona Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (50.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
1 1 (50.00%) Google Analytics
General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) User Researcher
1 1 (50.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Journey Map
1 2 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) User Research
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (50.00%) Focus Group
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile First
2 1 (50.00%) Qualitative Research
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) User Journey Map
2 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Hotjar