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

User-Centered Design (UCD)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 89 97
Rank change year-on-year -21 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 16 9 16
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.96% 0.63% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.75% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 12
10th Percentile £393 £488 £426
25th Percentile £426 £500 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +12.00% -0.25%
75th Percentile £631 £688 £586
90th Percentile £650 - £619
England median daily rate £495 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -13.16% +3.64% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,504 1,207 1,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.95% 84.52% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 972 695 1,158
10th Percentile £263 £288 £300
25th Percentile £380 £404 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £620
90th Percentile £650 £654 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 39 29
10th Percentile £17.36 - £14.89
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.55 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -10.84% +12.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £26.78
90th Percentile £75.50 £50.25 £44.10
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

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

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

User-Centered Design (UCD) job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

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

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

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

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

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

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
West Yorkshire -4 16 £525 -6.25% 6
South Yorkshire - 4 £650 -
User-Centered Design (UCD)
England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) 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%) Azure
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%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
1 4 (25.00%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Log4j
2 1 (6.25%) Mocha
General
1 9 (56.25%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Digital Health
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) 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
3 3 (18.75%) Product Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Content Designer
4 2 (12.50%) Service Designer
5 1 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (6.25%) JIRA Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
5 1 (6.25%) User Researcher
5 1 (6.25%) WebSphere Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
1 1 (6.25%) CSS
1 1 (6.25%) Express.js
1 1 (6.25%) HTML
1 1 (6.25%) JDBC
1 1 (6.25%) Jest
1 1 (6.25%) JMS
1 1 (6.25%) JNDI
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) LDAP
1 1 (6.25%) Node.js
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth
1 1 (6.25%) React
1 1 (6.25%) SAML
1 1 (6.25%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) NHS
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (31.25%) 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%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (25.00%) Programme Governance
5 3 (18.75%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 3 (18.75%) Cost Control
5 3 (18.75%) Product Backlog
5 3 (18.75%) Product Roadmap
5 3 (18.75%) Product Vision
5 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
6 2 (12.50%) Kanban
6 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 2 (12.50%) Scrum
6 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
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