User Research Contracts in Manchester

User Research
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 73 81
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing User Research 24 40 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.66% 2.24% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 2.47% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 28 50
10th Percentile - £400 £406
25th Percentile £325 £472 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% +11.90% +0.38%
75th Percentile £388 £644 £586
90th Percentile £558 £646 £650
North West median daily rate £350 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -39.13% +9.52% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,247 1,618 2,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.36% 90.49% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 1,188 1,827
10th Percentile £325 £318 £264
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 55 52
10th Percentile £12.46 £15.73 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.28 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% +17.43%
75th Percentile £61.25 £39.80 £56.25
90th Percentile £73.30 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.34%

User Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for User Research in Manchester

User Research
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for User Research in Manchester

User Research
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Research in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Research in Manchester

User Research
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
General
1 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.17%) Finance
2 1 (4.17%) Legal
2 1 (4.17%) Marketing
2 1 (4.17%) Military
2 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) User Researcher
2 8 (33.33%) Designer
3 6 (25.00%) Interaction Designer
4 4 (16.67%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 4 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (16.67%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Content Designer
6 1 (4.17%) Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Digital Executive
6 1 (4.17%) E-Commerce Executive
6 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Product Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Product Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Quantitative Researcher
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Designer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Interaction Designer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Product Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Senior User Researcher
6 1 (4.17%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) CSS
1 4 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (4.17%) Spring
2 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Agile
2 14 (58.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 12 (50.00%) User Experience
4 11 (45.83%) UX Design
5 8 (33.33%) Front End Development
5 8 (33.33%) Prototyping
6 7 (29.17%) Actionable Insight
6 7 (29.17%) Interaction Design
6 7 (29.17%) Service Design
6 7 (29.17%) Usability Testing
7 6 (25.00%) Data Science
7 6 (25.00%) Design Persona
7 6 (25.00%) Ergonomics
7 6 (25.00%) Ethnography
7 6 (25.00%) Focus Group
7 6 (25.00%) Guerrilla Testing
7 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 6 (25.00%) Qualitative Research
7 6 (25.00%) Quantitative Research
7 6 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.17%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform