The first table below looks at the demand for User Experience Design skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited User Experience Design over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Experience Design
Rank 191 208 246
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +38
Contract jobs citing User Experience Design 19 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.280% 0.052% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.378% 0.071% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 5
Average daily rate £440 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £269 £284 £343
10% offered a daily rate of more than £571 £482 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £350 £275
% change year-on-year
-3.57% +27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5027 5597 7112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 74.14% 72.30% 71.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3796 4123 5235
Average daily rate £450 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £301 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 82 123
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £16.65 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £125.00 £47.85 £54.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
User Experience Design
London

User Experience Design
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing User Experience Design across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London User Experience Design Jobs Demand Trend

User Experience Design
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing User Experience Design across the City of London region.

City of London User Experience Design Daily Rate Trend

User Experience Design
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Experience Design across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London User Experience Design Daily Rate Histogram

User Experience Design
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing User Experience Design also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited User Experience Design.

1 14 (45.16%) Finance
2 9 (29.03%) Banking
2 9 (29.03%) HTML
3 8 (25.81%) E-Commerce
3 8 (25.81%) Adobe
4 6 (19.35%) XAML
4 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
4 6 (19.35%) Investment Banking
5 5 (16.13%) Axure RP
5 5 (16.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
5 5 (16.13%) Photoshop
5 5 (16.13%) CSS
6 4 (12.90%) XHTML
6 4 (12.90%) Fireworks
6 4 (12.90%) Project Management
6 4 (12.90%) Workflow
6 4 (12.90%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (12.90%) Usability Testing
6 4 (12.90%) Degree
6 4 (12.90%) QA
7 3 (9.677%) FitNesse
7 3 (9.677%) jQuery
7 3 (9.677%) Web Testing
7 3 (9.677%) Test Automation
7 3 (9.677%) Maven
7 3 (9.677%) ISTQB
7 3 (9.677%) MSBuild
7 3 (9.677%) Analytics
7 3 (9.677%) HP Quality Center

User Experience Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing User Experience Design also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited User Experience Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (29.03%) HTML
2 5 (16.13%) CSS
3 4 (12.90%) XHTML
4 3 (9.677%) jQuery
4 3 (9.677%) XML
5 2 (6.452%) XSL
5 2 (6.452%) HTML5
5 2 (6.452%) CSS3
5 2 (6.452%) JSON
5 2 (6.452%) OOCSS
6 1 (3.226%) WPF
6 1 (3.226%) RESTful
6 1 (3.226%) WebGL
6 1 (3.226%) OpenGL
6 1 (3.226%) DirectX
6 1 (3.226%) ASP
6 1 (3.226%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.452%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.226%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (3.226%) SharePoint 2013
2 1 (3.226%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Photoshop
2 4 (12.90%) Fireworks
3 3 (9.677%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (9.677%) MS Visio
4 2 (6.452%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (3.226%) InDesign
5 1 (3.226%) MS Excel
5 1 (3.226%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.452%) HTTP
2 1 (3.226%) Unified Communications
2 1 (3.226%) Intranet
2 1 (3.226%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.452%) MySQL
2 1 (3.226%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Axure RP
2 3 (9.677%) FitNesse
2 3 (9.677%) Maven
2 3 (9.677%) MSBuild
2 3 (9.677%) Balsamiq Mockups
2 3 (9.677%) Ant
General
1 14 (45.16%) Finance
2 9 (29.03%) Banking
3 6 (19.35%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.226%) Retail
4 1 (3.226%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Designer
2 10 (32.26%) User Experience Designer
3 7 (22.58%) Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) User Experience Developer
5 3 (9.677%) Agile Test Analyst
5 3 (9.677%) Architect
5 3 (9.677%) Test Analyst
6 2 (6.452%) Consultant
6 2 (6.452%) PHP Developer
6 2 (6.452%) Senior Designer
6 2 (6.452%) UI Programmer
6 2 (6.452%) Visual Designer
6 2 (6.452%) UI Developer
6 2 (6.452%) Senior User Experience Designer
7 1 (3.226%) E-Commerce Manager
7 1 (3.226%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (3.226%) SharePoint Developer
7 1 (3.226%) User Experience Architect
7 1 (3.226%) User Experience Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (9.677%) Fixed Income
3 2 (6.452%) W3C
3 2 (6.452%) iPad
3 2 (6.452%) Social Media
3 2 (6.452%) SWIFT
3 2 (6.452%) Smartphone
3 2 (6.452%) Psychology
4 1 (3.226%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.226%) iPhone
4 1 (3.226%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (3.226%) Mobile Payment
4 1 (3.226%) Visualisation
4 1 (3.226%) GPGPU
4 1 (3.226%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (3.226%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.452%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) E-Commerce
2 4 (12.90%) Project Management
2 4 (12.90%) Workflow
2 4 (12.90%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (12.90%) Usability Testing
3 3 (9.677%) Web Testing
3 3 (9.677%) Test Automation
3 3 (9.677%) Analytics
3 3 (9.677%) Scrum
3 3 (9.677%) Regression Testing
4 2 (6.452%) OOP
4 2 (6.452%) OO
4 2 (6.452%) SEO
4 2 (6.452%) Migration
4 2 (6.452%) Cash Management
4 2 (6.452%) BDD
4 2 (6.452%) Web Development
4 2 (6.452%) Content Management
4 2 (6.452%) Business Analysis
4 2 (6.452%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) XAML
2 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.677%) SQL
4 2 (6.452%) PHP
4 2 (6.452%) C
4 2 (6.452%) C#
4 2 (6.452%) PHP5
5 1 (3.226%) C++
5 1 (3.226%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Degree
2 3 (9.677%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.226%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (9.677%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Adobe
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.677%) HP
3 3 (9.677%) Oracle
4 1 (3.226%) TIBCO
4 1 (3.226%) Citrix
4 1 (3.226%) SAP