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Salary survey report: social & policy research
June 2026 salary benchmarks and hiring trends for social and policy research within UK market research agencies.
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The latest salary benchmarks, and how AI is changing research work.
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The future of research: how AI is reshaping the profession
How automated workflows, synthetic sampling and generative tools are redefining core researcher capabilities.
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Writing a CV for an insight role →
How to write a clear CV for an insight role: what to include, how to show your contribution and what to check before you send it.
Hiring & inclusion
IR35: what clients and contractors should check →
Who decides IR35 status, and what clients and contractors should check under the off-payroll working rules.
Market insight
The evolution of insight →
ENI tracked down 46 researchers it had placed in 2003. Their job titles 16 years later show how far data and technology had changed the insight industry.
Hiring & inclusion
How to grow the pool of talent for data and AI →
Insight needs more people with data and AI skills. Liz Norman argues that many are already in the research industry, if we make it easier for them to move.
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Can I move client-side as a qualitative researcher? →
Moving client-side with a purely qualitative background is still hard, but in-house qual roles do exist. Here is how to make the move.
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Salaries, careers and how people feel about the work, from around 1,000 insight professionals in our 2024/25 Census.
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