User Experience Contracts in the South West

UX
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 100 97 90
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing User Experience 52 80 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.64% 2.20% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 2.45% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 68 64
10th Percentile £208 £380 £315
25th Percentile £235 £412 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £482 £485
Median % change year-on-year -11.87% -0.57% +7.78%
75th Percentile £523 £556 £578
90th Percentile £638 £666 £625
England median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 2
10th Percentile - - £20.66
25th Percentile - - £21.18
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £23.91
75th Percentile £68.00 - £28.52
90th Percentile £74.44 - £30.16
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
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,623 3,261 3,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.82% 89.56% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,401 2,333
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +7.53%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 341 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £70.54
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 the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the South West

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the South West

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the South West

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the South West

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in the South West

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Bristol -2 18 £450 -5.26% 30
Wiltshire 0 17 £235 -57.27% 1
Somerset +11 9 - - 7
Gloucestershire 0 4 £575 +8.49% 2
Devon -6 2 - - 5
Dorset +4 1 £625 +49.25% 7
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 12 (23.08%) CMS
2 10 (19.23%) Sitecore CMS
3 4 (7.69%) Apache
4 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (3.85%) InVision
3 1 (1.92%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.92%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Magento
2 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.92%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.54%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 2 (3.85%) Power Automate
2 2 (3.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (1.92%) AWS
3 1 (1.92%) Azure
3 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.92%) Figma
3 1 (1.92%) Google Analytics
3 1 (1.92%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (1.92%) npm
3 1 (1.92%) OneDrive
3 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.92%) PowerApps
3 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.92%) Big Data
1 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.92%) MySQL
1 1 (1.92%) Power BI
1 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) GitLab
2 3 (5.77%) Artifactory
3 2 (3.85%) JMeter
3 2 (3.85%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.92%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.92%) Babel
4 1 (1.92%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.92%) ESLint
4 1 (1.92%) Git
4 1 (1.92%) Selenium
4 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.92%) Vite
4 1 (1.92%) webpack
General
1 16 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Finance
4 2 (3.85%) Marketing
5 1 (1.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.92%) Legal
5 1 (1.92%) Local Government
5 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Developer
2 9 (17.31%) IT Support
2 9 (17.31%) IT Support Specialist
2 9 (17.31%) Support Specialist
3 7 (13.46%) Senior
4 6 (11.54%) Designer
4 6 (11.54%) Web Specialist
5 4 (7.69%) Author
5 4 (7.69%) Content Manager
5 4 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Technical Author
5 4 (7.69%) Web Content Manager
5 4 (7.69%) Web Manager
6 3 (5.77%) UI Designer
6 3 (5.77%) UI/UX Designer
6 3 (5.77%) UX Designer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Performance Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (7.69%) CSS
2 4 (7.69%) HTML
2 4 (7.69%) REST
3 3 (5.77%) JSON
3 3 (5.77%) XML
4 2 (3.85%) jQuery
4 2 (3.85%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (3.85%) React
4 2 (3.85%) RESTful
5 1 (1.92%) Android SDK
5 1 (1.92%) Jest
5 1 (1.92%) Material-UI
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.92%) Parceljs
5 1 (1.92%) pytest
5 1 (1.92%) React Native
5 1 (1.92%) SPFx
5 1 (1.92%) Vue
5 1 (1.92%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.92%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (1.92%) Android
2 1 (1.92%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (23.08%) Agile
3 11 (21.15%) Analytics
3 11 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (19.23%) ITIL
4 10 (19.23%) Problem Management
5 9 (17.31%) Data Analysis
5 9 (17.31%) Data Protection
5 9 (17.31%) Incident Management
5 9 (17.31%) Knowledge Management
6 8 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (15.38%) Validation
7 6 (11.54%) UX Design
8 5 (9.62%) CI/CD
8 5 (9.62%) DevOps
9 4 (7.69%) Coaching
9 4 (7.69%) Computer Science
9 4 (7.69%) Mentoring
9 4 (7.69%) Swim Lanes
9 4 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.54%) JavaScript
2 5 (9.62%) PowerShell
2 5 (9.62%) Python
3 2 (3.85%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.92%) PHP
4 1 (1.92%) SOQL
4 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 10 (19.23%) Degree
3 9 (17.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 7 (13.46%) DV Cleared
5 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (7.69%) HNC
6 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) Accessibility
1 6 (11.54%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Ansible
1 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 4 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 10 (19.23%) Sitecore
3 8 (15.38%) Atlassian
4 4 (7.69%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.77%) Adobe
6 2 (3.85%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.92%) Google
7 1 (1.92%) Pardot
7 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow