User-Centered Design (UCD) Contracts in Central London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User-Centered Design (UCD) over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 136 184
Rank change year-on-year +9 +48 -30
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 9 14 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.38% 0.47% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.52% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 19
10th Percentile £538 £396 £361
25th Percentile £539 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £469 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -14.77% +10.00%
75th Percentile £647 £643 £628
90th Percentile £709 £671 £660
London median daily rate £550 £550 £570
% change year-on-year - -3.51% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £72.50 -
London median hourly rate £39.00 £72.50 -
% change year-on-year -46.21% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

User-Centered Design (UCD) 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,164 2,670 4,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 91.54% 89.78% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,358 1,875 2,975
10th Percentile £375 £361 £360
25th Percentile £469 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £800
London median daily rate £550 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 20 53
10th Percentile £19.30 £16.73 £17.45
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.45 £21.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.75 £43.24
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% -24.26% +26.25%
75th Percentile £78.75 £56.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £127.30 £69.25 £78.75
London median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year - - +8.70%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Central London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in Central London.

Daily rate trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Central London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in Central London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Central London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in Central London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
City of London +17 8 £575 +22.67% 6
West End of London - 1 £540 -
City of Westminster - 1 £540 -
User-Centered Design (UCD)
London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (22.22%) Adobe XD
1 2 (22.22%) Sketch
2 1 (11.11%) InVision
2 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (11.11%) OmniGraffle
2 1 (11.11%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Figma
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Designer
2 3 (33.33%) Product Designer
3 2 (22.22%) User Researcher
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Interaction Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Product Director
4 1 (11.11%) Product Management Director
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior UX Designer
4 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Interaction Design
1 6 (66.67%) Wireframes
2 5 (55.56%) User Research
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) User Experience
4 3 (33.33%) Prototyping
4 3 (33.33%) UX Design
5 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
5 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 2 (22.22%) Service Design
5 2 (22.22%) Usability Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
6 1 (11.11%) Coaching
6 1 (11.11%) Customer Insight
6 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (11.11%) Ethnographic Research
6 1 (11.11%) Ethnography
6 1 (11.11%) Information Architecture
6 1 (11.11%) Presales
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Adobe