Focus Group Contracts

Focus Groups
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Focus Group skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Focus Group over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 625 697
Rank change year-on-year +79 +72 -39
Contract jobs citing Focus Group 29 57 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 43 107
10th Percentile £264 £305 £366
25th Percentile £292 £369 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - +6.95%
75th Percentile £420 £600 £581
90th Percentile £513 £625 £621
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £440 £495
% change year-on-year -20.45% -11.11% +3.13%
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 - - £48.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.00 - £53.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Focus Group is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 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 1 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 +61 24 £350 -28.21% 46
UK excluding London +27 18 £350 -20.45% 33
Work from Home +102 10 £390 -2.50% 32
London +80 10 £390 -25.71% 14
North of England +17 7 £350 -41.67% 15
North West +24 6 £350 -36.36% 7
Scotland +40 5 £281 -47.68%
South West +10 5 £270 - 4
Yorkshire +10 1 £525 -12.50% 7
South East +8 1 - - 5

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 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) Photoshop
2 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 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
3 4 (13.79%) Manufacturing
4 3 (10.34%) Advertising
4 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Finance
5 2 (6.90%) Law
5 2 (6.90%) Legal
5 2 (6.90%) Marketing
6 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
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%) IT Manager
3 3 (10.34%) User Experience Researcher
4 2 (6.90%) Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Designer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 2 (6.90%) Service Designer
5 1 (3.45%) Agile Business Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Lead
5 1 (3.45%) Lead Designer
5 1 (3.45%) Lead Service Designer
5 1 (3.45%) Network Service Designer
5 1 (3.45%) Procurement Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) CSS
1 1 (3.45%) HTML
1 1 (3.45%) jQuery
1 1 (3.45%) JSON
1 1 (3.45%) Web Services
1 1 (3.45%) XML
1 1 (3.45%) XSL
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 12 (41.38%) Qualitative Research
1 12 (41.38%) User Experience
2 11 (37.93%) Actionable Insight
2 11 (37.93%) Data Science
2 11 (37.93%) Quantitative Research
2 11 (37.93%) Requirements Gathering
3 9 (31.03%) Agile
3 9 (31.03%) Usability Testing
3 9 (31.03%) User Research
4 8 (27.59%) Service Design
4 8 (27.59%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 8 (27.59%) UX Design
5 7 (24.14%) Ethnography
5 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
6 6 (20.69%) Decision-Making
6 6 (20.69%) Front End Development
6 6 (20.69%) Guerrilla Testing
6 6 (20.69%) Market Research
6 6 (20.69%) Psychology
6 6 (20.69%) Sociology
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
1 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) 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 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Adobe