User Researcher Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

User Researcher
UK > Work from Home

The median User Researcher daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £464, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 311 323
Rank change year-on-year +24 +12 -27
Contract jobs requiring a User Researcher 17 34 156
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.22% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.24% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 136
10th Percentile £400 £340 £401
25th Percentile £408 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -9.52% +2.44%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £569
90th Percentile £546 £638 £597
UK median daily rate £486 £475 £544
% change year-on-year +2.32% -12.60% +5.02%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

User Researcher
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured User Researcher in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

User Researcher trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

User Researcher
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

User Researcher daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

User Researcher
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

User Researcher daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

User Researcher Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, User Researcher contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring User Researcher in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) User Research
2 11 (64.71%) Public Sector
3 10 (58.82%) Agile
4 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
5 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
6 7 (41.18%) Usability Testing
7 6 (35.29%) Actionable Insight
7 6 (35.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 5 (29.41%) Quantitative Research
8 5 (29.41%) Accessibility
9 4 (23.53%) Qualitative Research
9 4 (23.53%) Ethnography
9 4 (23.53%) Ethnographic Research
10 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
10 3 (17.65%) User Experience
10 3 (17.65%) Contextual Inquiry
10 3 (17.65%) Focus Group
11 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
11 2 (11.76%) Journey Map
11 2 (11.76%) Social Listening
11 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
11 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
11 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (11.76%) Customer Engagement
11 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 2 (11.76%) Customer Insight
11 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (11.76%) Service Design
12 1 (5.88%) Wireframes

User Researcher Skill Set
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 (5.88%) Adobe XD
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Axure RP
1 1 (5.88%) Balsamiq
General
1 11 (64.71%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) CSS
1 1 (5.88%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) User Research
2 10 (58.82%) Agile
3 7 (41.18%) Usability Testing
4 6 (35.29%) Actionable Insight
4 6 (35.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 5 (29.41%) Quantitative Research
6 4 (23.53%) Ethnographic Research
6 4 (23.53%) Ethnography
6 4 (23.53%) Qualitative Research
7 3 (17.65%) Contextual Inquiry
7 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
7 3 (17.65%) Focus Group
7 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (17.65%) User Experience
8 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (11.76%) Customer Engagement
8 2 (11.76%) Journey Map
8 2 (11.76%) Service Design
8 2 (11.76%) Social Listening
8 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.88%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Adobe
1 1 (5.88%) IBM