UX Research Contracts with Work from Home Options

User Experience Research (UXR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring UX Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UX Research over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 367 407
Rank change year-on-year +85 +40 -8
Contract jobs citing UX Research 59 90 224
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.38% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.42% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 64 166
10th Percentile £413 £354 £400
25th Percentile £544 £420 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +24.40% -0.48% +16.67%
75th Percentile £675 £610 £575
90th Percentile - £838 £625
UK median daily rate £650 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +23.81% - +12.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £49.66
25th Percentile - £52.50 £50.27
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.56
Median % change year-on-year - +4.65% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £63.05
90th Percentile - - £76.20
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year - +8.91% +20.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

UX 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing UX Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

UX Research trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing UX Research.

UX Research daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing UX Research over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

UX Research daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing UX Research.

UX Research hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 2 (3.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Adobe XD
1 5 (8.47%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 26 (44.07%) AWS
2 17 (28.81%) Figma
3 7 (11.86%) Miro
4 4 (6.78%) Azure
4 4 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.39%) Asana
6 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (44.07%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) JIRA
General
1 20 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.86%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.17%) Finance
3 6 (10.17%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Publishing
6 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Advertising
7 1 (1.69%) Legal
7 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 26 (44.07%) Software Engineer
2 22 (37.29%) Senior
3 16 (27.12%) Designer
4 13 (22.03%) Senior Software Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) UX Designer
6 6 (10.17%) Senior Designer
7 5 (8.47%) Analyst
7 5 (8.47%) Business Analyst
8 4 (6.78%) Interaction Designer
8 4 (6.78%) Senior UX Designer
8 4 (6.78%) User Experience Researcher
9 3 (5.08%) Product Designer
10 2 (3.39%) Agile Delivery Lead
10 2 (3.39%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 2 (3.39%) Architect
10 2 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
10 2 (3.39%) Lead
10 2 (3.39%) Senior Product Designer
10 2 (3.39%) User Experience Architect
11 1 (1.69%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (44.07%) Kafka
2 5 (8.47%) CSS
2 5 (8.47%) HTML
3 3 (5.08%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.39%) ADO
4 2 (3.39%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.08%) Android
2 2 (3.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) User Experience
2 45 (76.27%) UX Design
3 42 (71.19%) User Research
4 41 (69.49%) Agile
5 28 (47.46%) Fintech
6 26 (44.07%) Software Engineering
7 10 (16.95%) Usability Testing
7 10 (16.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 8 (13.56%) Wireframes
9 7 (11.86%) Interaction Design
9 7 (11.86%) Scrum
10 6 (10.17%) Prototyping
11 5 (8.47%) B2B
11 5 (8.47%) Coaching
11 5 (8.47%) Epics
11 5 (8.47%) Human-Centred Design
11 5 (8.47%) Service Design
11 5 (8.47%) Story Mapping
11 5 (8.47%) User Stories
11 5 (8.47%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 26 (44.07%) Go
2 2 (3.39%) Java
2 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (8.47%) Degree
2 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 2 (3.39%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 26 (44.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (44.07%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (8.47%) Adobe
1 5 (8.47%) Cadence
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft