User Experience Contracts in the City of London

UX
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for User Experience skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Experience over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 77 61
Rank change year-on-year +7 -16 -15
Contract jobs citing User Experience 57 112 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.59% 3.07% 4.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 3.35% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 71 132
10th Percentile £363 £363 £415
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.30% +20.63%
75th Percentile £647 £641 £625
90th Percentile £725 £725 £711
Central London median daily rate £500 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% +20.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £44.49 - £39.35
25th Percentile £48.95 - £41.75
Median hourly rate £57.09 - £50.50
75th Percentile £65.77 - £53.50
90th Percentile £70.56 - £59.65
Central London median hourly rate £50.84 - £50.50
% change year-on-year - - +20.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

User Experience 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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 3,347 3,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.82% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 2,259 2,945
10th Percentile £359 £355 £385
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the City of London

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the City of London

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 4 (7.02%) CMS
2 2 (3.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.75%) Tornado
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Adobe XD
1 2 (3.51%) Sketch
2 1 (1.75%) InVision
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.79%) Azure
1 9 (15.79%) Figma
2 3 (5.26%) AWS
2 3 (5.26%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.51%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
3 2 (3.51%) GCP
3 2 (3.51%) GitHub
3 2 (3.51%) Mimecast
3 2 (3.51%) Power Automate
3 2 (3.51%) Serverless
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.75%) npm
4 1 (1.75%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.75%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) NoSQL
1 4 (7.02%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.75%) Looker
3 1 (1.75%) MySQL
3 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Git
1 2 (3.51%) Gradle
1 2 (3.51%) JIRA
1 2 (3.51%) TeamCity
1 2 (3.51%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (1.75%) Ant
2 1 (1.75%) Axure RP
2 1 (1.75%) Babel
2 1 (1.75%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.75%) JUnit
2 1 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.75%) webpack
General
1 14 (24.56%) Finance
2 10 (17.54%) Banking
3 8 (14.04%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.77%) Marketing
5 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Games
7 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Law
7 1 (1.75%) Legal
7 1 (1.75%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (33.33%) Developer
2 15 (26.32%) Designer
3 10 (17.54%) UX Designer
4 7 (12.28%) Lead
4 7 (12.28%) UI Designer
4 7 (12.28%) UI/UX Designer
5 6 (10.53%) Lead Designer
6 5 (8.77%) Product Owner
7 4 (7.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (7.02%) Senior
8 3 (5.26%) C# Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.26%) React Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Salesforce Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Angular Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Digital Product Owner
9 2 (3.51%) Lead UX Designer
9 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
9 2 (3.51%) MongoDB Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.54%) HTML
2 9 (15.79%) CSS
3 5 (8.77%) .NET
3 5 (8.77%) REST
4 4 (7.02%) Node.js
4 4 (7.02%) React
5 3 (5.26%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.26%) CSS3
5 3 (5.26%) HTML5
5 3 (5.26%) SAML
6 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.51%) JSON
6 2 (3.51%) Kafka
6 2 (3.51%) Laravel
6 2 (3.51%) OAuth
6 2 (3.51%) RAML
6 2 (3.51%) Spring
6 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.51%) Web Services
6 2 (3.51%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.51%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.75%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.75%) CMDB
4 1 (1.75%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.75%) Video Editing
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.75%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Android
1 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (54.39%) UX Design
2 16 (28.07%) Agile
3 8 (14.04%) DevOps
3 8 (14.04%) Front End Development
3 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (12.28%) CI/CD
4 7 (12.28%) User Research
5 6 (10.53%) Prototyping
6 5 (8.77%) Microservices
6 5 (8.77%) Migration
6 5 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (7.02%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (7.02%) Iconography
7 4 (7.02%) Marketing Strategy
7 4 (7.02%) Scrum
7 4 (7.02%) Typography
7 4 (7.02%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 4 (7.02%) Visualisation
7 4 (7.02%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.79%) JavaScript
2 6 (10.53%) C#
2 6 (10.53%) Java
2 6 (10.53%) SQL
3 4 (7.02%) Python
3 4 (7.02%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.51%) Apex Code
4 2 (3.51%) Kotlin
4 2 (3.51%) R
4 2 (3.51%) SOQL
5 1 (1.75%) C
5 1 (1.75%) PHP
5 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (7.02%) Degree
1 4 (7.02%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.02%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.75%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) QA
2 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) GDPR
3 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (7.02%) Adobe
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
1 4 (7.02%) Salesforce
2 3 (5.26%) Google
3 2 (3.51%) Proofpoint
3 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.75%) Black Duck
4 1 (1.75%) Confluent
4 1 (1.75%) Databricks
4 1 (1.75%) IFS
4 1 (1.75%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (1.75%) Pardot