Ethnography Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Ethnography
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Ethnography skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ethnography 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 297 341 442
Rank change year-on-year +44 +101 +124
Contract jobs citing Ethnography 7 4 35
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.026% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.030% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 25
10th Percentile £325 £418 £484
25th Percentile £353 £425 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.22% -20.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £464 £475 £575
90th Percentile £489 £483 £595
UK median daily rate £433 £400 £563
% change year-on-year +8.19% -28.89% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Ethnography 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%

Ethnography
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Ethnography trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Ethnography
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Ethnography daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Ethnography
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Ethnography daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Ethnography
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) InVision
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (14.29%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Figma
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Axure RP
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Local Government
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) User Researcher
2 2 (28.57%) User Experience Researcher
3 1 (14.29%) Designer
3 1 (14.29%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Ethnographic Research
1 6 (85.71%) User Research
2 4 (57.14%) User Experience
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Focus Group
3 3 (42.86%) Prototyping
3 3 (42.86%) Quantitative Research
3 3 (42.86%) Usability Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (28.57%) Customer Insight
4 2 (28.57%) Qualitative Research
4 2 (28.57%) Rapid Prototyping
4 2 (28.57%) Social Listening
4 2 (28.57%) User Stories
4 2 (28.57%) UX Design
4 2 (28.57%) UX Research
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 1 (14.29%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (14.29%) IBM
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft