User Research Contracts in London

User Research
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for User Research skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Research over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 181 194
Rank change year-on-year -63 +13 -46
Contract jobs citing User Research 147 377 599
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.84% 1.45% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.59% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 302 454
10th Percentile £400 £425 £405
25th Percentile £463 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £681
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - £26.21
25th Percentile £25.25 - £41.90
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £57.56
75th Percentile £25.75 - £65.19
90th Percentile - - £65.53
England median hourly rate £25.50 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - +51.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

User Research is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,484 23,644 35,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.60% 90.88% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,107 17,068 26,253
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 267 420
10th Percentile £15.81 £18.30 £17.24
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.45 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £37.34 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.23% +2.55% +13.78%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.88 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.83 £82.50 £67.56
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing User Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for User Research in London

User Research
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Research in London.

Daily rate trend for User Research in London

User Research
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Research in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Research in London

User Research
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Research in London.

Hourly rate trend for User Research in London

User Research
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Research within the London region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Central London +8 11 £573 +9.05% 2
South London +5 1 £500 -
East London - 1 £600 - 8
User Research
England

User Research
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (5.44%) govService
2 2 (1.36%) CMS
2 2 (1.36%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.68%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (10.88%) Sketch
2 10 (6.80%) Adobe XD
3 5 (3.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (2.04%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.36%) InVision
5 2 (1.36%) Trello
6 1 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.68%) SPSS
6 1 (0.68%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.68%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (27.89%) Figma
2 18 (12.24%) AWS
3 9 (6.12%) Miro
4 8 (5.44%) Azure
5 6 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.04%) GitHub
7 2 (1.36%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.68%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.68%) Apigee
8 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.68%) Kong
8 1 (0.68%) Pendo
8 1 (0.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.08%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.20%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.36%) Power BI
2 2 (1.36%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.36%) Tableau
3 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 11 (7.48%) JIRA
2 4 (2.72%) Axure RP
3 3 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.36%) Appium
4 2 (1.36%) JUnit
4 2 (1.36%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.36%) Postman
4 2 (1.36%) Selenium
4 2 (1.36%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.68%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.68%) Gatling
5 1 (0.68%) Git
5 1 (0.68%) JMeter
5 1 (0.68%) Maven
5 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 45 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.41%) Public Sector
3 18 (12.24%) Finance
4 7 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.76%) Marketing
5 6 (4.08%) Banking
6 4 (2.72%) Games
6 4 (2.72%) Local Government
6 4 (2.72%) Publishing
7 2 (1.36%) Advertising
7 2 (1.36%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.36%) Retail
8 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Legal
8 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Police
8 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 58 (39.46%) Designer
2 28 (19.05%) Senior
3 27 (18.37%) UX Designer
4 19 (12.93%) User Researcher
5 15 (10.20%) Senior Software Engineer
5 15 (10.20%) Software Engineer
6 12 (8.16%) Head of Customer Experience
6 12 (8.16%) Head of Digital
7 11 (7.48%) Service Designer
8 9 (6.12%) Lead
9 8 (5.44%) Analyst
9 8 (5.44%) Product Manager
10 7 (4.76%) Business Analyst
10 7 (4.76%) Senior Designer
11 6 (4.08%) Interaction Designer
12 5 (3.40%) Lead Designer
12 5 (3.40%) Senior UX Designer
12 5 (3.40%) UI Designer
12 5 (3.40%) UI/UX Designer
13 4 (2.72%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.88%) Kafka
2 9 (6.12%) HTML
3 8 (5.44%) CSS
4 3 (2.04%) RESTful
5 2 (1.36%) Node.js
5 2 (1.36%) React Native
5 2 (1.36%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.68%) D3.js
6 1 (0.68%) JSON
6 1 (0.68%) React
6 1 (0.68%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.48%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.12%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.40%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.04%) Graphic Design
4 3 (2.04%) Mobile Games
5 2 (1.36%) CMDB
5 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.68%) Blog
6 1 (0.68%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.36%) Android
1 2 (1.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (47.62%) User Experience
2 64 (43.54%) Agile
3 58 (39.46%) UX Design
4 38 (25.85%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (25.17%) Service Design
6 32 (21.77%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 29 (19.73%) UX Research
8 27 (18.37%) Prototyping
9 25 (17.01%) Usability Testing
10 24 (16.33%) Wireframes
11 20 (13.61%) Customer Experience
12 19 (12.93%) Software Engineering
13 18 (12.24%) Fintech
14 17 (11.56%) Workshop Facilitation
15 16 (10.88%) Analytics
16 15 (10.20%) Collaborative Working
16 15 (10.20%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 15 (10.20%) User Stories
17 14 (9.52%) Interaction Design
18 13 (8.84%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.20%) Go
2 8 (5.44%) JavaScript
3 5 (3.40%) Java
4 3 (2.04%) Python
5 2 (1.36%) SQL
5 2 (1.36%) Swift
6 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 24 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.97%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.24%) Degree
4 6 (4.08%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.04%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.65%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.40%) WCAG
3 3 (2.04%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) QA
4 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (10.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (10.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.04%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (12.93%) Adobe
2 2 (1.36%) Checkmarx
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.68%) SAP
3 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.68%) Virgin Media