User Experience Contracts in the UK excluding London

UX
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 77 84
Rank change year-on-year -24 +7 -21
Contract jobs citing User Experience 435 699 906
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.12% 2.98% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 3.33% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 527 684
10th Percentile £275 £350 £352
25th Percentile £375 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -4.62% +14.71%
75th Percentile £551 £550 £550
90th Percentile £614 £618 £612
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 14 14
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.43 £20.25
25th Percentile - £16.85 £20.37
Median hourly rate £25.00 £17.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -30.00% +5.40%
75th Percentile £72.27 £32.75 £54.19
90th Percentile £75.97 £45.15 £64.67
UK median hourly rate £31.71 £26.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +19.66% -47.52% +53.73%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North of England -15 108 £475 -8.65% 209
South East -22 97 £500 +5.26% 97
Scotland -14 95 £464 +6.61% 37
North West -18 59 £463 -13.95% 141
Midlands +22 56 £500 +5.26% 86
South West -7 52 £438 -9.28% 59
West Midlands +21 50 £500 - 60
Yorkshire -9 37 £500 +3.90% 50
East of England -20 13 £388 +3.33% 36
North East +13 12 £450 -25.00% 19
Wales +9 8 £412 -28.35% 8
Northern Ireland +11 7 £513 - 4
East Midlands +11 5 £409 -9.11% 26
User Experience
UK

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 24 (5.52%) CMS
2 14 (3.22%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.53%) SAS
4 10 (2.30%) Sitecore CMS
5 8 (1.84%) Apache
6 7 (1.61%) Confluence
7 3 (0.69%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.69%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.23%) Drupal
8 1 (0.23%) Jadu
8 1 (0.23%) Moodle
8 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 23 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (4.83%) Sketch
3 11 (2.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (2.53%) Photoshop
4 9 (2.07%) Adobe Illustrator
5 8 (1.84%) InVision
6 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
7 5 (1.15%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.92%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.69%) MicroStation
10 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.46%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
11 1 (0.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (1.84%) Magento
2 5 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.69%) Maximo
3 3 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (10.80%) Figma
2 44 (10.11%) Azure
3 24 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (4.60%) AWS
4 20 (4.60%) Power Platform
5 14 (3.22%) Serverless
6 13 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (2.99%) SaaS
7 12 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (2.53%) Amazon S3
9 10 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (2.07%) OpenShift
11 7 (1.61%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.38%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 6 (1.38%) Amazon SageMaker
12 6 (1.38%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 5 (1.15%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.15%) Azure App Service
13 5 (1.15%) Google Analytics
14 4 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.53%) VPN
2 7 (1.61%) Firewall
3 5 (1.15%) Intranet
4 3 (0.69%) HTTP
4 3 (0.69%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) LAN
5 1 (0.23%) NFC
5 1 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.23%) PPP
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.91%) MongoDB
2 16 (3.68%) Power BI
3 13 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (2.30%) Crystal Reports
6 7 (1.61%) MySQL
7 6 (1.38%) GIS
7 6 (1.38%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.15%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.92%) Big Data
9 4 (0.92%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.92%) Metadata
9 4 (0.92%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.92%) Tableau
10 3 (0.69%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.69%) QGIS
10 3 (0.69%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 14 (3.22%) JIRA
2 11 (2.53%) Git
3 7 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.38%) GitLab
5 5 (1.15%) Axure RP
5 5 (1.15%) webpack
6 4 (0.92%) Gradle
6 4 (0.92%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.46%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.46%) Appium
8 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.46%) Capybara
8 2 (0.46%) JMeter
8 2 (0.46%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.46%) Maven
8 2 (0.46%) Selenium
8 2 (0.46%) UI Automator
8 2 (0.46%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.23%) TestCafe
General
1 125 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 77 (17.70%) Public Sector
3 54 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (8.51%) Finance
5 29 (6.67%) Marketing
6 15 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (3.22%) Legal
8 13 (2.99%) Retail
9 11 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.30%) Banking
11 7 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.92%) Multimedia
14 3 (0.69%) Electronics
14 3 (0.69%) Games
14 3 (0.69%) German Language
14 3 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.69%) Police
14 3 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 103 (23.68%) Developer
2 84 (19.31%) Designer
3 55 (12.64%) UX Designer
4 52 (11.95%) Senior
5 47 (10.80%) Analyst
6 27 (6.21%) Business Analyst
7 23 (5.29%) Architect
7 23 (5.29%) Lead
8 21 (4.83%) UI Designer
9 19 (4.37%) UI/UX Designer
9 19 (4.37%) User Researcher
10 17 (3.91%) React Developer
11 15 (3.45%) Consultant
12 14 (3.22%) .NET Developer
13 13 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
13 13 (2.99%) Senior Developer
14 12 (2.76%) IT Support
14 12 (2.76%) Senior Designer
15 9 (2.07%) DevOps Engineer
15 9 (2.07%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (11.26%) React
2 42 (9.66%) HTML
3 39 (8.97%) CSS
4 24 (5.52%) .NET
5 22 (5.06%) Node.js
6 20 (4.60%) RESTful
7 18 (4.14%) AngularJS
8 12 (2.76%) REST
9 11 (2.53%) AWS CDK
10 8 (1.84%) XML
11 6 (1.38%) CSS3
11 6 (1.38%) HTML5
11 6 (1.38%) JSON
11 6 (1.38%) Vue
11 6 (1.38%) Web Services
12 5 (1.15%) Apache NiFi
12 5 (1.15%) jQuery
12 5 (1.15%) Redux
12 5 (1.15%) Spring Boot
13 4 (0.92%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 62 (14.25%) Product Ownership
2 25 (5.75%) Mobile App
3 11 (2.53%) Legacy Applications
3 11 (2.53%) Wiki
4 8 (1.84%) Management Information System
4 8 (1.84%) Public Cloud
5 6 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.15%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.15%) Robotics
7 4 (0.92%) Digital Media
7 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.69%) CMDB
8 3 (0.69%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.69%) Lidar
8 3 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.69%) Social Media
8 3 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.13%) Android
2 26 (5.98%) Apple iOS
3 20 (4.60%) Windows
4 7 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.38%) Linux
6 2 (0.46%) Unix
6 2 (0.46%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (31.72%) UX Design
2 136 (31.26%) Agile
3 62 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (13.79%) DevOps
5 56 (12.87%) User Research
6 55 (12.64%) Roadmaps
7 53 (12.18%) Analytics
8 48 (11.03%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 45 (10.34%) Service Design
10 42 (9.66%) Wireframes
11 39 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (8.28%) User Stories
13 33 (7.59%) UX Research
14 31 (7.13%) Mentoring
14 31 (7.13%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (6.90%) Prototyping
15 30 (6.90%) Scrum
16 28 (6.44%) CI/CD
16 28 (6.44%) Code Quality
17 27 (6.21%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 51 (11.72%) Python
2 44 (10.11%) JavaScript
3 33 (7.59%) SQL
4 26 (5.98%) TypeScript
5 22 (5.06%) Java
6 20 (4.60%) C#
7 8 (1.84%) Kotlin
8 6 (1.38%) Bicep
8 6 (1.38%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.15%) PHP
10 4 (0.92%) Bash
10 4 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.69%) C++
11 3 (0.69%) Go
11 3 (0.69%) Ruby
11 3 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.69%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.46%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.46%) GLSL
12 2 (0.46%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 54 (12.41%) Degree
2 43 (9.89%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.60%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 7 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.38%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.92%) HNC
9 4 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.46%) APMP
11 2 (0.46%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.46%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.46%) IIBA
11 2 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.46%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.26%) Accessibility
2 27 (6.21%) QA
3 10 (2.30%) SLA
3 10 (2.30%) WCAG
4 9 (2.07%) Actionable Recommendations
4 9 (2.07%) Disclosure Scotland
5 6 (1.38%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.69%) GDPR
6 3 (0.69%) PMO
7 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) GxP
8 1 (0.23%) HL7
8 1 (0.23%) NCSC
8 1 (0.23%) NIST
8 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (2.30%) Docker
2 5 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Firmware
3 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.30%) Grafana
3 5 (1.15%) Terraform
4 4 (0.92%) Ansible
5 3 (0.69%) Kibana
5 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.23%) AppManager
6 1 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (8.05%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.29%) Adobe
3 15 (3.45%) Google
4 12 (2.76%) IFS
5 10 (2.30%) Sitecore
6 9 (2.07%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.84%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.38%) Apple
8 6 (1.38%) Cadence
8 6 (1.38%) RedPrairie
8 6 (1.38%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.38%) SAP
9 5 (1.15%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.92%) Oracle
11 3 (0.69%) Databricks
11 3 (0.69%) ESRI
12 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media
12 2 (0.46%) VMware
12 2 (0.46%) Xamarin
13 1 (0.23%) Blackboard