UX Research Contracts in the UK excluding London

User Experience Research (UXR)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring UX Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UX Research 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 354 390 421
Rank change year-on-year +36 +31 +5
Contract jobs citing UX Research 15 23 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.090% 0.11% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.12% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 63
10th Percentile £341 £420 £405
25th Percentile £356 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £548
90th Percentile £550 £681 £619
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -7.14% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £30.75 - -
25th Percentile £31.21 - -
Median hourly rate £32.21 £70.07 -
Median % change year-on-year -54.04% - -
75th Percentile £32.98 - -
90th Percentile £33.32 - -
UK median hourly rate £33.27 £55.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -39.51% +8.91% +19.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

UX Research 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%

UX Research
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Research in the UK excluding London

UX Research
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for UX Research in the UK excluding London

UX Research
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for UX Research in the UK excluding London

UX Research
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Research in the UK excluding London

UX Research
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 UX Research 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 +10 7 £356 -23.03% 1
East Midlands - 5 £356 - 1
South East +36 3 £500 -6.19% 2
Scotland +26 2 £441 +3.65%
North of England +24 2 - - 6
Yorkshire +16 2 - -
West Midlands +3 2 - -
South West +24 1 £575 -14.18% 4
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UK

UX Research
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 (13.33%) Adobe XD
1 2 (13.33%) Sketch
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Axure RP
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Automotive
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Designer
1 6 (40.00%) UX Designer
2 5 (33.33%) User Experience Researcher
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Designer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior UX Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Product Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior User Experience Researcher
5 1 (6.67%) Senior User Researcher
5 1 (6.67%) Software Designer
5 1 (6.67%) UI Designer
5 1 (6.67%) UI/UX Designer
5 1 (6.67%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) CSS
1 3 (20.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Android
1 2 (13.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) User Experience
2 10 (66.67%) UX Design
3 6 (40.00%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) Prototyping
4 5 (33.33%) User Research
5 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) Qualitative Research
5 4 (26.67%) Wireframes
5 4 (26.67%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (20.00%) Usability Testing
6 3 (20.00%) User Stories
6 3 (20.00%) Web Development
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis
7 2 (13.33%) Ergonomics
7 2 (13.33%) Human Factors
7 2 (13.33%) Line Management
7 2 (13.33%) Project Management
7 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Java
1 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Adobe
2 1 (6.67%) Cadence