Contextual Inquiry Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Contextual Inquiry
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Contextual Inquiry skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Contextual Inquiry 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 300 343 472
Rank change year-on-year +43 +129 +128
Contract jobs citing Contextual Inquiry 4 2 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.013% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.015% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £328 - £533
25th Percentile £350 £525 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -28.18% -4.35% +8.49%
75th Percentile £436 £575 £588
90th Percentile £459 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +10.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Contextual Inquiry falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Contextual Inquiry
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Contextual Inquiry as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Contextual Inquiry trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Contextual Inquiry
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Contextual Inquiry.

Contextual Inquiry daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Contextual Inquiry
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Contextual Inquiry over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Contextual Inquiry daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Contextual Inquiry
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (25.00%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Figma
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) User Researcher
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) UI Designer
2 1 (25.00%) UI/UX Designer
2 1 (25.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 4 (100.00%) User Research
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) A/B Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Content Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Ethnographic Research
4 1 (25.00%) Ethnography
4 1 (25.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (25.00%) Interaction Design
4 1 (25.00%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (25.00%) Remote Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Service Design
4 1 (25.00%) Typography
4 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (25.00%) Web Accessibility
4 1 (25.00%) Web Development
4 1 (25.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
1 1 (25.00%) IBM