User Research Contracts in the North West

User Research
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 108 95 103
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 -31
Contract jobs citing User Research 25 54 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.94% 1.74% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.93% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 40 66
10th Percentile - £394 £400
25th Percentile £325 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £575 £524
Median % change year-on-year -36.96% +9.79% +3.20%
75th Percentile £388 £630 £550
90th Percentile £585 £650 £638
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,277 2,793 3,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.86% 90.24% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,451 1,960 2,613
10th Percentile £308 £313 £240
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 138 169
10th Percentile £10.96 £16.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.02 £23.06
Median % change year-on-year -30.92% +51.88% +26.48%
75th Percentile £46.18 £48.56 £50.78
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
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 the North West

Job postings citing User Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for User Research in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Research in the North West.

Daily rate trend for User Research in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for User Research in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Manchester -1 25 £363 -36.96% 13
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (4.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
General
1 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.00%) Legal
2 1 (4.00%) Marketing
2 1 (4.00%) Military
2 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) User Researcher
2 8 (32.00%) Designer
3 6 (24.00%) Interaction Designer
4 4 (16.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 4 (16.00%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (16.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Content Designer
6 1 (4.00%) Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Digital Executive
6 1 (4.00%) E-Commerce Executive
6 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Product Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Product Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Quantitative Researcher
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Designer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Interaction Designer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Product Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Senior User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) CSS
1 4 (16.00%) HTML
2 1 (4.00%) Spring
2 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) BYOD
1 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Agile
2 15 (60.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 12 (48.00%) User Experience
4 11 (44.00%) UX Design
5 8 (32.00%) Front End Development
5 8 (32.00%) Prototyping
5 8 (32.00%) Usability Testing
6 7 (28.00%) Actionable Insight
6 7 (28.00%) Interaction Design
6 7 (28.00%) Service Design
7 6 (24.00%) Data Science
7 6 (24.00%) Design Persona
7 6 (24.00%) Ergonomics
7 6 (24.00%) Ethnography
7 6 (24.00%) Focus Group
7 6 (24.00%) Guerrilla Testing
7 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
7 6 (24.00%) Qualitative Research
7 6 (24.00%) Quantitative Research
7 6 (24.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform