User Research Job Trends in Woking

User Research
Surrey > Woking

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Woking requiring User Research skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 12 27
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 +3
Permanent jobs citing User Research 4 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Woking 2.88% 2.33% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 2.33% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £45,875 - -
25th Percentile £47,188 - £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 - £31,500
75th Percentile £57,188 - £33,250
90th Percentile £59,625 - -
Surrey median annual salary £51,250 £65,000 £31,500
% change year-on-year -21.15% +106.35% -37.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Woking

User Research 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 Woking.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 93 43 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Woking 66.91% 100.00% 87.97%
Number of salaries quoted 83 23 119
10th Percentile £42,000 £31,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,125 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
Surrey median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -16.67%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Woking

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing User Research relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Woking.

User Research job vacancy trend in Woking

User Research
Salary Trend in Woking

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Woking citing User Research.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Woking citing User Research

User Research
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Woking 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Broadband
General
1 2 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Digital User Researcher
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) Service Design
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (50.00%) DesignOps
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Customer Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Empathy Maps
2 2 (50.00%) Journey Map
2 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Map
2 2 (50.00%) Storytelling
2 2 (50.00%) Systems Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe