User-Centered Design (UCD) Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 60 72
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -3
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 16 9 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.14% 1.06% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 1.25% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 17
10th Percentile £373 £488 £433
25th Percentile £409 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% - +2.09%
75th Percentile £619 £688 £650
90th Percentile £650 - £690
Yorkshire median daily rate £506 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -7.95% +1.85% +0.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

User-Centered Design (UCD) 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 663 719 1,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 88.64% 84.99% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 461 832
10th Percentile £285 £350 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 21
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £13.17
Median hourly rate £25.50 £15.68 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.63% -12.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £81.25 £33.75 £21.31
90th Percentile - £38.75 £26.78
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £15.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +47.60% -25.00% +6.10%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in West Yorkshire

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing User-Centered Design (UCD).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing User-Centered Design (UCD)

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in West Yorkshire

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Leeds +4 16 £506 -7.95% 13
Halifax - 1 £500 -
User-Centered Design (UCD)
Yorkshire

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (31.25%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
2 1 (6.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.25%) Figma
3 1 (6.25%) IBM Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Log4j
General
1 7 (43.75%) Public Sector
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Designer
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) JIRA Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Content Designer
4 2 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) User Researcher
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
5 1 (6.25%) WebSphere Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) WebSphere Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
1 1 (6.25%) JDBC
1 1 (6.25%) JMS
1 1 (6.25%) JNDI
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) LDAP
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth
1 1 (6.25%) React Native
1 1 (6.25%) SAML
1 1 (6.25%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) NHS
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (31.25%) Migration
3 5 (31.25%) Service Design
4 4 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 4 (25.00%) Kanban
4 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Scrum
4 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (18.75%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (18.75%) Sprint Retrospective
5 3 (18.75%) User Experience
5 3 (18.75%) User Research
5 3 (18.75%) UX Design
6 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) TIBCO
2 1 (6.25%) Virgin Media