User Research Contracts in Wales

User Research
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring User Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Research over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing User Research 3 0 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.01% - 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% - 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £428 - £363
25th Percentile £461 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.30%
75th Percentile £623 - £638
90th Percentile £654 - £675
UK median daily rate £485 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -11.01% +3.81% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

User 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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 262 291 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 88.22% 71.67% 87.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 186 387
10th Percentile £190 £143 £180
25th Percentile £300 £313 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £488 £553 £586
90th Percentile £616 £641 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 26
10th Percentile £13.08 £11.75 £14.63
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.41 £16.98
Median hourly rate £23.83 £19.09 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year +24.84% +5.21% -15.11%
75th Percentile £28.88 £51.75 £22.93
90th Percentile £42.38 £85.50 £49.38
UK median hourly rate £27.45 £36.50 £35.65
% change year-on-year -24.79% +2.38% +38.82%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing User Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for User Research in Wales

User Research
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Research in Wales.

Daily rate trend for User Research in Wales

User Research
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Research in Wales over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Research in Wales

User Research
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Research in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for User Research in Wales

User Research
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Research within the Wales region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
South Wales - 3 £544 - 4
User Research
UK

User Research
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Content Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Interaction Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Content Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Interaction Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior User Experience Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Domain Models
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Interaction Design
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG