Focus Group Contracts

Focus Groups
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Focus Group skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Focus Group over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 642 713
Rank change year-on-year +87 +71 -49
Contract jobs citing Focus Group 29 55 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.099% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.11% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 41 101
10th Percentile £264 £325 £369
25th Percentile £292 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £420 £600 £575
90th Percentile £488 £625 £618
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £400 £498
% change year-on-year -12.50% -19.60% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £19.80
25th Percentile £60.50 - £20.24
Median hourly rate £61.00 - £26.00
75th Percentile £61.50 - £40.75
90th Percentile - - £47.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Focus Group 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Focus Group
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Focus Group as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Focus Group in the UK

Focus Group
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Focus Group.

Daily rate trend for Focus Group in the UK

Focus Group
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Focus Group over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Focus Group in the UK

Focus Group
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Focus Group.

Hourly rate trend for Focus Group in the UK

Focus Group
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Focus Group within the UK over the 6 months to 13 June 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
England +64 24 £350 -29.11% 43
UK excluding London +20 18 £350 -12.50% 32
London +69 10 £390 -29.09% 12
Work from Home +103 9 £378 -3.21% 29
North of England +14 7 £350 -41.67% 14
North West +18 6 £350 -36.36% 6
Scotland +52 5 £281 -47.68%
South West +6 5 £270 - 3
South East +12 1 - - 4
Yorkshire +8 1 £525 -12.50% 6

Focus Group
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (3.45%) SAS
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.45%) Photoshop
1 1 (3.45%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) SaaS
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.45%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Azure
3 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.45%) Figma
3 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.45%) Smartsheet
3 1 (3.45%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) Intranet
2 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.45%) Power BI
General
1 15 (51.72%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
3 4 (13.79%) Manufacturing
4 3 (10.34%) Advertising
4 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Finance
5 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Law
5 2 (6.90%) Legal
5 2 (6.90%) Marketing
6 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) User Researcher
2 4 (13.79%) IT Trainer
2 4 (13.79%) Trainer
3 3 (10.34%) Designer
3 3 (10.34%) IT Manager
3 3 (10.34%) User Experience Researcher
4 2 (6.90%) Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Service Designer
5 1 (3.45%) Communications Specialist
5 1 (3.45%) Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) HR Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Lead
5 1 (3.45%) Lead Designer
5 1 (3.45%) Lead Service Designer
5 1 (3.45%) Network Designer
5 1 (3.45%) Network Service Designer
5 1 (3.45%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Quantitative Researcher
5 1 (3.45%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Life Science
2 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) User Experience
2 12 (41.38%) Qualitative Research
3 11 (37.93%) Actionable Insight
3 11 (37.93%) Data Science
3 11 (37.93%) Quantitative Research
3 11 (37.93%) Requirements Gathering
4 10 (34.48%) User Research
5 9 (31.03%) Agile
5 9 (31.03%) Service Design
5 9 (31.03%) Usability Testing
5 9 (31.03%) UX Design
6 8 (27.59%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 7 (24.14%) Decision-Making
7 7 (24.14%) Ethnography
7 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
7 7 (24.14%) Psychology
8 6 (20.69%) Ergonomics
8 6 (20.69%) Front End Development
8 6 (20.69%) Guerrilla Testing
8 6 (20.69%) Sociology
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Degree
2 6 (20.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Adobe