User Experience Contracts in the Midlands

UX
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 95 96
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 -42
Contract jobs citing User Experience 51 72 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.85% 2.09% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 2.36% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 53 92
10th Percentile £338 £273 £378
25th Percentile £402 £373 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £568 £548 £544
90th Percentile £611 £600 £586
England median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile - - £10.63
25th Percentile £70.97 £21.25 £13.13
Median hourly rate £71.93 £22.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +219.69% +4.65% +34.38%
75th Percentile £72.90 £23.75 £26.31
90th Percentile - - £27.50
England median hourly rate £31.71 £33.85 £50.50
% change year-on-year -6.31% -32.98% +53.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,263 3,046 4,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.26% 88.47% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,509 2,126 3,289
10th Percentile £235 £250 £249
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 119 151
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.96 £10.00
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.81 £22.05
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £34.50
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the Midlands

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the Midlands

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the Midlands

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the Midlands

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
West Midlands +20 44 £500 - 64
East Midlands +8 6 £400 -3.03% 29
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.96%) CMS
2 1 (1.96%) Jadu
Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (5.88%) Photoshop
1 3 (5.88%) Sketch
2 2 (3.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (3.92%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.96%) Adobe Captivate
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.65%) Azure
2 8 (15.69%) Power Platform
3 5 (9.80%) Azure AKS
3 5 (9.80%) Azure App Service
3 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (5.88%) dbt
4 3 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.88%) Figma
4 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.96%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.96%) AWS
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.96%) GitHub
5 1 (1.96%) Serverless
5 1 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.96%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) VPN
2 2 (3.92%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) Power BI
2 3 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (5.88%) Data Mining
3 2 (3.92%) Power Query
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.96%) Big Data
4 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Git
2 2 (3.92%) Appium
2 2 (3.92%) Axure RP
2 2 (3.92%) UI Automator
2 2 (3.92%) XCUITest
3 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
General
1 22 (43.14%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.57%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (21.57%) Finance
3 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.88%) Games
4 3 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Law
6 1 (1.96%) Legal
6 1 (1.96%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 8 (15.69%) Designer
2 7 (13.73%) Analyst
2 7 (13.73%) Developer
3 5 (9.80%) Angular Developer
3 5 (9.80%) UX Designer
4 4 (7.84%) Data Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Lead
5 3 (5.88%) Product Owner
5 3 (5.88%) Senior
5 3 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Service Delivery Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Service Manager
6 2 (3.92%) Consultant
6 2 (3.92%) Project Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Project Support Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Support Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) RESTful
2 5 (9.80%) .NET
2 5 (9.80%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.88%) ADO
3 3 (5.88%) Flask
3 3 (5.88%) Pandas
4 2 (3.92%) HTML
5 1 (1.96%) JDBC
5 1 (1.96%) Node.js
5 1 (1.96%) ODBC
5 1 (1.96%) React Native
5 1 (1.96%) Software Packaging
5 1 (1.96%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.80%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.88%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.96%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.96%) Social Media
5 1 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Windows
2 2 (3.92%) Android
2 2 (3.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
1 15 (29.41%) UX Design
2 13 (25.49%) Agile
3 12 (23.53%) Roadmaps
4 10 (19.61%) Decision-Making
4 10 (19.61%) DevOps
5 9 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (15.69%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (13.73%) Actionable Insight
8 6 (11.76%) Analytics
8 6 (11.76%) Visualisation
9 5 (9.80%) Computer Science
9 5 (9.80%) Critical Thinking
9 5 (9.80%) Data Modelling
9 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (9.80%) Microservices
9 5 (9.80%) Service Design
9 5 (9.80%) Wireframes
9 5 (9.80%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.65%) SQL
2 5 (9.80%) Bicep
2 5 (9.80%) C#
2 5 (9.80%) TypeScript
3 4 (7.84%) Python
4 3 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.92%) Kotlin
5 2 (3.92%) Swift
6 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (13.73%) Degree
2 5 (9.80%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.92%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.96%) CBAP
6 1 (1.96%) IIBA
6 1 (1.96%) ISEB
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (25.49%) QA
2 4 (7.84%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.84%) Adobe
3 2 (3.92%) SAP
4 1 (1.96%) Anaplan
4 1 (1.96%) Google
4 1 (1.96%) iManage
4 1 (1.96%) Intapp
4 1 (1.96%) Progress
4 1 (1.96%) Sage
4 1 (1.96%) VMware
4 1 (1.96%) Workday