Psychology Contracts in the UK excluding London

Psychology
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Psychology skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Psychology over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 399 478
Rank change year-on-year +37 +79 +10
Contract jobs citing Psychology 7 14 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.042% 0.067% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% 0.076% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 20
10th Percentile £313 £118 £423
25th Percentile £331 £260 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £431 £588 £583
90th Percentile £458 £650 £633
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.07 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £70.79 £43.00
% change year-on-year -11.70% +64.62% -21.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Psychology falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,041 18,439 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.81% 88.33% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,020 12,105 18,694
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £686 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 1,303 1,340
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £12.66
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Psychology
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Psychology as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Psychology in the UK excluding London

Psychology
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Psychology in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Psychology in the UK excluding London

Psychology
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Psychology in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Psychology in the UK excluding London

Psychology
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Psychology in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Psychology in the UK excluding London

Psychology
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Psychology within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Midlands - 3 £450 - 2
West Midlands - 3 £450 - 1
North West - 2 - - 1
North of England - 2 - - 1
South East +37 1 £300 -46.67%
Scotland +22 1 - - 1
Psychology
UK

Psychology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe XD
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Figma
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Mandarin Language
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Change Manager
1 3 (42.86%) IT Change Manager
1 3 (42.86%) IT Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Designer
2 2 (28.57%) UX Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Executive
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing Executive
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing Executive
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Change Management
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) User Experience
3 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (28.57%) Field Research
3 2 (28.57%) Heuristic Evaluation
3 2 (28.57%) Usability Testing
3 2 (28.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (28.57%) UX Design
3 2 (28.57%) Wireframes
4 1 (14.29%) A/B Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
4 1 (14.29%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Innovative Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Adobe