The first table below looks at the demand for the User Experience Developer role 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 Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Experience (UX) Developer
Rank 198 217 243
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +26
Contract jobs requiring a User Experience Developer 5 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.078% 0.013% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.014% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
Average daily rate £400 £400 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -15.78%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £363 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.44% +11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
User Experience Developer
London

User Experience Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing User Experience Developer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London User Experience Developer Jobs Demand Trend

User Experience Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London User Experience Developer Daily Rate Trend

User Experience Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Experience Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London User Experience Developer Daily Rate Histogram

User Experience Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited User Experience Developer in their job title 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 with User Experience Developer in their job title.

1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) User Experience Design
2 3 (37.50%) OmniGraffle
2 3 (37.50%) Axure RP
3 2 (25.00%) BDD
3 2 (25.00%) CSS3
3 2 (25.00%) HTML5
3 2 (25.00%) Balsamiq Mockups
3 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Adobe
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) jQuery
3 2 (25.00%) Fireworks
4 1 (12.50%) Kanban
4 1 (12.50%) Subversion
4 1 (12.50%) Content Management
4 1 (12.50%) W3C
4 1 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) Photoshop
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
4 1 (12.50%) XML
4 1 (12.50%) XSL
4 1 (12.50%) XHTML
4 1 (12.50%) B2B

User Experience Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited User Experience Developer in their job title 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 with User Experience Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) CSS3
2 2 (25.00%) HTML5
2 2 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) XSL
3 1 (12.50%) XHTML
3 1 (12.50%) Ajax
3 1 (12.50%) Sass
3 1 (12.50%) LESS
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) OmniGraffle
2 2 (25.00%) Fireworks
3 1 (12.50%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Axure RP
2 2 (25.00%) Balsamiq Mockups
3 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) W3C
1 1 (12.50%) Psychology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) User Experience Design
2 2 (25.00%) BDD
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
2 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (12.50%) Kanban
3 1 (12.50%) Content Management
3 1 (12.50%) B2B
3 1 (12.50%) B2C
3 1 (12.50%) Web Development
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Insight
3 1 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Adobe
City, London
Good knowledge and experience in Web applications using different technologies: JavaScript, HTML, XHTML 5, CSS 3, XML, XSL. *Knowledge of W3C standards... *Good knowledge of Agile Development, Scrum...
CPS Group UK
Rate: £250 - £400 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013