User Experience Contracts in London

UX
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 57 52
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 0
Contract jobs citing User Experience 605 1,142 1,903
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.42% 4.22% 4.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 4.63% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 792 1,385
10th Percentile £313 £363 £383
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
England median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 28
10th Percentile £16.99 £25.75 £24.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £29.22 £39.50
Median hourly rate £41.68 £37.50 £51.56
Median % change year-on-year +11.13% -27.26% +56.94%
75th Percentile £54.19 £60.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £64.95 £75.00 £68.25
England median hourly rate £31.71 £33.85 £50.50
% change year-on-year -6.31% -32.98% +58.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in London

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in London

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in London

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in London

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in London

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Central London +3 68 £500 -9.09% 28
South London +5 10 £425 -29.17% 4
West London -32 6 £463 -15.91% 6
East London -2 4 £539 -10.21% 14
North London - 3 £344 - 1
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 35 (5.79%) CMS
2 20 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.48%) Confluence
4 8 (1.32%) Apache
5 7 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.99%) Drupal
7 5 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.83%) WordPress
8 4 (0.66%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.66%) Tornado
9 2 (0.33%) nginx
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 2 (0.33%) SAS
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.17%) Kentico
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 37 (6.12%) Sketch
2 23 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (3.14%) Adobe XD
4 14 (2.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 13 (2.15%) InVision
5 13 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (1.98%) Photoshop
7 9 (1.49%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.66%) InDesign
9 4 (0.66%) SPSS
10 3 (0.50%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.50%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.50%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.17%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.17%) Blender
12 1 (0.17%) Final Cut Pro
12 1 (0.17%) Houdini
12 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 7 (1.16%) Shopify
2 6 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.66%) WebTrends
4 2 (0.33%) Magento
4 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.17%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 89 (14.71%) Figma
2 63 (10.41%) Azure
3 60 (9.92%) AWS
4 30 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (4.46%) Power Platform
6 15 (2.48%) Power Automate
6 15 (2.48%) PowerApps
7 14 (2.31%) GitHub
8 13 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (2.15%) GCP
8 13 (2.15%) Miro
9 11 (1.82%) SaaS
9 11 (1.82%) Serverless
10 8 (1.32%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.16%) Google Analytics
12 6 (0.99%) BigCommerce
12 6 (0.99%) Entra ID
13 5 (0.83%) WhatsApp
14 4 (0.66%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.32%) VPN
2 7 (1.16%) Internet
3 6 (0.99%) DHCP
3 6 (0.99%) DNS
3 6 (0.99%) Intranet
4 4 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.50%) HTTP
6 2 (0.33%) LAN
6 2 (0.33%) NetScaler
6 2 (0.33%) SSH
6 2 (0.33%) WAN
7 1 (0.17%) 4G
7 1 (0.17%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.30%) Power BI
2 23 (3.80%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.64%) Apache Cassandra
4 14 (2.31%) NoSQL
5 13 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (1.98%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.16%) Big Data
8 7 (1.16%) MySQL
8 7 (1.16%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.83%) Apache Ignite
9 5 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (0.83%) Tableau
10 3 (0.50%) BusinessObjects XI
10 3 (0.50%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.50%) Power Query
10 3 (0.50%) PowerPivot
11 2 (0.33%) Looker
11 2 (0.33%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 32 (5.29%) JIRA
2 30 (4.96%) Git
3 11 (1.82%) Axure RP
4 10 (1.65%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.49%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.32%) Gradle
7 7 (1.16%) git-flow
7 7 (1.16%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.16%) webpack
8 6 (0.99%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.83%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 4 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.50%) Babel
11 3 (0.50%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.50%) Maven
12 2 (0.33%) Ant
12 2 (0.33%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.33%) NUnit
12 2 (0.33%) Selenium
13 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 190 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 107 (17.69%) Finance
3 64 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (10.08%) Marketing
5 38 (6.28%) Public Sector
6 36 (5.95%) Banking
7 27 (4.46%) Retail
8 20 (3.31%) Local Government
9 17 (2.81%) Front Office
9 17 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.31%) Publishing
11 13 (2.15%) Games
11 13 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.82%) Law
13 10 (1.65%) Legal
14 9 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.32%) Health Technology
15 8 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 143 (23.64%) Designer
2 134 (22.15%) Developer
3 127 (20.99%) Senior
4 96 (15.87%) UX Designer
5 39 (6.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 39 (6.45%) React Developer
6 35 (5.79%) Lead
6 35 (5.79%) Senior Designer
6 35 (5.79%) Software Engineer
7 33 (5.45%) UI Designer
8 32 (5.29%) Senior UX Designer
9 31 (5.12%) Analyst
10 30 (4.96%) UI/UX Designer
11 28 (4.63%) Senior Developer
12 26 (4.30%) UI Developer
13 25 (4.13%) Architect
14 24 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
15 23 (3.80%) UI Engineer
16 20 (3.31%) Full Stack Developer
16 20 (3.31%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (15.54%) React
2 85 (14.05%) CSS
3 77 (12.73%) HTML
4 30 (4.96%) Node.js
5 28 (4.63%) Redux
6 27 (4.46%) AngularJS
7 23 (3.80%) Kafka
8 22 (3.64%) .NET
9 18 (2.98%) REST
10 16 (2.64%) HTML5
10 16 (2.64%) RESTful
10 16 (2.64%) Sass
10 16 (2.64%) WebSockets
11 14 (2.31%) CSS3
11 14 (2.31%) Jest
12 13 (2.15%) Tailwind CSS
13 11 (1.82%) Material-UI
14 10 (1.65%) jQuery
15 9 (1.49%) JSON
15 9 (1.49%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.10%) Mobile App
2 47 (7.77%) Product Ownership
3 28 (4.63%) Fixed Income
4 21 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (2.98%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 12 (1.98%) Graphic Design
7 12 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.65%) Cloud Native
8 10 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
9 9 (1.49%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.32%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.32%) FMCG
11 7 (1.16%) Over-the-Top Content
12 6 (0.99%) Animation
12 6 (0.99%) Digital Media
12 6 (0.99%) Virtual Reality
13 5 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.83%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.31%) Windows
2 19 (3.14%) Android
3 16 (2.64%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.32%) Windows 7
5 6 (0.99%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.66%) Linux
6 4 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (43.80%) UX Design
2 178 (29.42%) Agile
3 100 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (13.22%) User Research
5 75 (12.40%) Front End Development
6 70 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 65 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 64 (10.58%) Software Engineering
9 56 (9.26%) UX Research
10 48 (7.93%) Customer Experience
10 48 (7.93%) Wireframes
11 43 (7.11%) Roadmaps
12 40 (6.61%) DevOps
13 39 (6.45%) Scrum
13 39 (6.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 38 (6.28%) Computer Science
15 37 (6.12%) SDLC
16 36 (5.95%) Decision-Making
17 35 (5.79%) E-Commerce
18 32 (5.29%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 100 (16.53%) JavaScript
2 54 (8.93%) TypeScript
3 50 (8.26%) SQL
4 47 (7.77%) Java
5 44 (7.27%) Python
6 28 (4.63%) C#
7 17 (2.81%) Go
8 14 (2.31%) Kotlin
9 11 (1.82%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.82%) Swift
10 10 (1.65%) Objective-C
11 7 (1.16%) PHP
12 5 (0.83%) C
13 3 (0.50%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.50%) Dart
14 2 (0.33%) C++
14 2 (0.33%) R
14 2 (0.33%) SOQL
14 2 (0.33%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.17%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 79 (13.06%) Degree
2 49 (8.10%) Security Cleared
3 42 (6.94%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.65%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.50%) CCA
8 3 (0.50%) Citrix Certification
8 3 (0.50%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.50%) PMP
9 2 (0.33%) CCNA
9 2 (0.33%) CCNP
9 2 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.33%) ISEB
9 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.33%) MBA
9 2 (0.33%) MCSA
9 2 (0.33%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (9.92%) Accessibility
2 24 (3.97%) QA
3 16 (2.64%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.31%) SLA
5 8 (1.32%) WCAG
6 5 (0.83%) GDPR
7 4 (0.66%) GRC
8 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.50%) MiFID
8 3 (0.50%) PMO
9 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (3.80%) Docker
2 10 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.33%) vSphere
5 1 (0.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (4.13%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.66%) Terraform
4 3 (0.50%) SCCM
5 1 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.17%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.17%) Nessus
5 1 (0.17%) Oozie
Vendors
1 57 (9.42%) Adobe
2 50 (8.26%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.14%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.98%) Google
5 14 (2.31%) ServiceNow
6 12 (1.98%) Apple
7 11 (1.82%) SAP
8 9 (1.49%) Citrix
9 7 (1.16%) Optimizely
10 6 (0.99%) Sitecore
11 5 (0.83%) Databricks
11 5 (0.83%) MicroStrategy
11 5 (0.83%) Oracle
12 4 (0.66%) Black Duck
12 4 (0.66%) Blue Prism
12 4 (0.66%) Cognos
12 4 (0.66%) Confluent
12 4 (0.66%) Hotjar
12 4 (0.66%) Screaming Frog
12 4 (0.66%) UiPath