Ethnography Contracts

Ethnography
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Ethnography skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ethnography over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 637 732
Rank change year-on-year +67 +95 -75
Contract jobs citing Ethnography 14 60 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 37 69
10th Percentile - £450 £413
25th Percentile £325 £540 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% +7.14% +2.44%
75th Percentile £475 £588 £558
90th Percentile £503 £627 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £550 £501
% change year-on-year -36.36% +9.73% -2.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Ethnography 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% -

Ethnography
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Ethnography in the UK

Ethnography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Ethnography in the UK

Ethnography
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethnography over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ethnography in the UK

Ethnography
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Ethnography in the UK

Ethnography
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ethnography within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +54 9 £350 -37.78% 7
UK excluding London +17 9 £350 -36.36% 3
North of England +19 8 £350 -37.28% 1
North West - 6 £350 -
Work from Home +84 4 £450 -20.00% 2
Yorkshire +10 2 - - 1
London +54 1 £525 -6.67% 3
Scotland +45 1 £475 -17.39%

Ethnography
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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe XD
1 1 (7.14%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Figma
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) User Researcher
2 3 (21.43%) Designer
2 3 (21.43%) Service Designer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Designer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Service Designer
4 1 (7.14%) User Experience Researcher
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) User Research
2 13 (92.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 11 (78.57%) Agile
3 11 (78.57%) User Experience
4 10 (71.43%) Usability Testing
5 9 (64.29%) Actionable Insight
5 9 (64.29%) Ergonomics
5 9 (64.29%) Human Factors
5 9 (64.29%) Service Design
6 8 (57.14%) Design Persona
6 8 (57.14%) Mentoring
7 7 (50.00%) Focus Group
7 7 (50.00%) Qualitative Research
7 7 (50.00%) Quantitative Research
7 7 (50.00%) UX Design
8 6 (42.86%) Data Science
8 6 (42.86%) Front End Development
8 6 (42.86%) Guerrilla Testing
8 6 (42.86%) Market Research
8 6 (42.86%) Requirements Gathering
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe