User Research Jobs with Work from Home Options

User Research
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for User Research skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited User Research over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 429 209
Rank change year-on-year +103 -220 +121
Permanent jobs citing User Research 301 226 1,447
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.88% 0.57% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.59% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 203 172 432
10th Percentile - £39,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,725 £45,000 £48,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £62,200 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £86,125
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

User Research is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,950 38,268 69,952
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.73% 96.05% 97.09%
Number of salaries quoted 23,425 26,570 41,531
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

User Research
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing User Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

User Research trend for jobs with a WFH option

User Research
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing User Research.

User Research salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

User Research
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing User Research over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

User Research salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

User Research
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (3.32%) Confluence
2 3 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (6.98%) Adobe XD
2 18 (5.98%) Sketch
3 10 (3.32%) InVision
4 6 (1.99%) Trello
4 6 (1.99%) UserZoom
5 4 (1.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (1.33%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.66%) Notion
6 2 (0.66%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.33%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 27 (8.97%) Endur
2 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (8.97%) Figma
2 23 (7.64%) AWS
3 14 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (2.99%) GitHub
5 7 (2.33%) dbt
6 6 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (1.99%) Google Analytics
6 6 (1.99%) SaaS
6 6 (1.99%) Serverless
7 5 (1.66%) Azure
8 4 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.33%) GCP
8 4 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (0.66%) Asana
9 2 (0.66%) IaaS
9 2 (0.66%) PaaS
9 2 (0.66%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.99%) Intranet
2 5 (1.66%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (23.26%) BigQuery
2 2 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (0.66%) Power BI
3 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (6.31%) JIRA
2 15 (4.98%) Axure RP
3 13 (4.32%) Balsamiq
4 6 (1.99%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.33%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.33%) Git
5 4 (1.33%) git-flow
5 4 (1.33%) GitLab
General
1 76 (25.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 57 (18.94%) Social Skills
3 47 (15.61%) Finance
4 40 (13.29%) Retail
5 35 (11.63%) Marketing
6 32 (10.63%) Public Sector
7 28 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (2.66%) Legal
10 7 (2.33%) Games
11 6 (1.99%) Banking
11 6 (1.99%) Law
12 5 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.66%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.33%) Automotive
14 1 (0.33%) Aviation
14 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.33%) Publishing
14 1 (0.33%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 93 (30.90%) Analyst
2 72 (23.92%) Senior
3 70 (23.26%) Designer
3 70 (23.26%) Digital Analyst
3 70 (23.26%) Digital Performance Analyst
3 70 (23.26%) Performance Analyst
4 41 (13.62%) Product Manager
5 39 (12.96%) User Researcher
6 35 (11.63%) Lead
7 34 (11.30%) UX Designer
8 23 (7.64%) Business Analyst
9 21 (6.98%) Senior Manager
9 21 (6.98%) Senior Product Manager
10 14 (4.65%) Consultant
10 14 (4.65%) User Experience Consultant
11 13 (4.32%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (4.32%) Senior Business Analyst
11 13 (4.32%) Senior Designer
12 12 (3.99%) Lead Product Manager
12 12 (3.99%) Senior User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.63%) CSS
1 32 (10.63%) HTML
2 4 (1.33%) AngularJS
2 4 (1.33%) D3.js
2 4 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.33%) Node.js
2 4 (1.33%) React
3 3 (1.00%) Ember.js
3 3 (1.00%) Kafka
3 3 (1.00%) WebGL
4 1 (0.33%) CarPlay
4 1 (0.33%) Express.js
4 1 (0.33%) RESTful
4 1 (0.33%) SVG
4 1 (0.33%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 93 (30.90%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.65%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.32%) Graphic Design
4 8 (2.66%) Blockchain
4 8 (2.66%) NHS
5 7 (2.33%) Social Media
5 7 (2.33%) Virtual Team
6 6 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.33%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.33%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.00%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.00%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.00%) Life Science
9 2 (0.66%) Digital Signage
9 2 (0.66%) Photography
9 2 (0.66%) W3C
10 1 (0.33%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.33%) PMI
10 1 (0.33%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.99%) Linux
2 4 (1.33%) Android
3 3 (1.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.00%) Windows
4 2 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (62.46%) Agile
2 123 (40.86%) Mentoring
3 108 (35.88%) User Experience
4 91 (30.23%) Coaching
5 90 (29.90%) Decision-Making
6 86 (28.57%) Visualisation
7 85 (28.24%) Analytics
8 72 (23.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 70 (23.26%) Dashboard Development
9 70 (23.26%) Data Collection
10 66 (21.93%) Roadmaps
10 66 (21.93%) UX Design
11 63 (20.93%) Wireframes
12 53 (17.61%) Customer Experience
13 50 (16.61%) Usability Testing
14 45 (14.95%) Journey Map
15 43 (14.29%) Design Thinking
15 43 (14.29%) Product Vision
16 35 (11.63%) UX Research
17 33 (10.96%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 70 (23.26%) SQL
2 20 (6.64%) JavaScript
3 4 (1.33%) Shell Script
4 3 (1.00%) Go
4 3 (1.00%) Java
5 2 (0.66%) Python
6 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 66 (21.93%) Degree
2 44 (14.62%) SC Cleared
2 44 (14.62%) Security Cleared
3 13 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.66%) CSPO
5 8 (2.66%) IIBA
5 8 (2.66%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.33%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.66%) CBAP
7 2 (0.66%) MBA
8 1 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (18.94%) Accessibility
2 24 (7.97%) QA
3 17 (5.65%) WCAG
4 9 (2.99%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.66%) GDPR
6 1 (0.33%) GLP
System Software
1 8 (2.66%) Docker
2 4 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.99%) Ansible
2 6 (1.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (11.63%) Adobe
2 26 (8.64%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.32%) Google
4 8 (2.66%) Hotjar
4 8 (2.66%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.99%) Qualtrics
5 6 (1.99%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.66%) Mercator
7 4 (1.33%) McAfee
8 3 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.66%) Remedy
10 1 (0.33%) Apple
10 1 (0.33%) Charles River