Contextual Inquiry Job Trends in the North East

Contextual Inquiry
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Contextual Inquiry skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Contextual Inquiry 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.056% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £62,875 - -
25th Percentile £63,438 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 - -
75th Percentile £68,438 - -
90th Percentile £68,625 - -
England median annual salary £66,250 - £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

Contextual Inquiry falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,549 809 1,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.30% 82.38% 80.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,889 494 556
10th Percentile £32,700 £25,087 £25,004
25th Percentile £41,250 £28,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -7.10% -8.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £75,000 £79,800
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

Contextual Inquiry
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Contextual Inquiry relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Contextual Inquiry job vacancy trend in the North East

Contextual Inquiry
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Contextual Inquiry.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Contextual Inquiry

Contextual Inquiry
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Contextual Inquiry within the North East region over the 6 months to 10 October 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear - 2 £66,250 - 2
Contextual Inquiry
England

Contextual Inquiry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior User Researcher
2 1 (50.00%) Senior UX Designer
2 1 (50.00%) User Researcher
2 1 (50.00%) UX Designer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Docs as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Human-in-the-Loop
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusive Design
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) User Research
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
1 2 (100.00%) UX Research
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG