User Experience Contracts in the UK excluding London

UX
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring User Experience skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Experience over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 79 82
Rank change year-on-year -22 +3 -19
Contract jobs citing User Experience 437 690 933
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.05% 3.04% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 3.41% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 509 697
10th Percentile £263 £313 £363
25th Percentile £363 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £562 £550 £550
90th Percentile £618 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 14 23
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.43 £20.30
25th Percentile £25.00 £16.85 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.50 £17.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -75.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile £73.72 £32.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £55.13 £80.30
UK median hourly rate £33.07 £29.60 £56.38
% change year-on-year +11.74% -47.50% +71.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

User Experience falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -15 109 £475 -9.74% 165
Scotland -5 95 £463 +4.52% 35
South East -36 90 £463 -2.63% 96
Midlands +8 62 £500 +11.11% 90
North West -11 62 £463 -13.95% 109
South West -25 56 £406 -16.67% 49
West Midlands +15 53 £525 +5.00% 51
Yorkshire -9 35 £513 +1.49% 42
East of England -22 13 £381 +1.67% 35
North East +10 12 £450 -29.41% 14
Wales +11 8 £412 -24.92% 8
East Midlands -3 8 £418 -4.46% 37
Northern Ireland +3 7 £513 - 12
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 22 (5.03%) CMS
2 12 (2.75%) Confluence
2 12 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.52%) Apache
3 11 (2.52%) SAS
4 10 (2.29%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.69%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.69%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.23%) Drupal
7 1 (0.23%) Jadu
7 1 (0.23%) Moodle
7 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 30 (6.86%) Sketch
2 20 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.20%) InVision
4 10 (2.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 10 (2.29%) Photoshop
5 9 (2.06%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (1.60%) Adobe XD
7 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
8 4 (0.92%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.69%) MicroStation
10 2 (0.46%) OmniGraffle
10 2 (0.46%) UXPin
11 1 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 1 (0.23%) SPSS
11 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (1.60%) Magento
2 5 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.69%) Maximo
3 3 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) Relativity
4 1 (0.23%) Shopify
4 1 (0.23%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 51 (11.67%) Figma
2 41 (9.38%) Azure
3 20 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (4.58%) Power Platform
4 19 (4.35%) AWS
5 15 (3.43%) Serverless
6 14 (3.20%) Amazon S3
6 14 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (2.97%) SaaS
8 12 (2.75%) OpenShift
9 7 (1.60%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.37%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 6 (1.37%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 5 (1.14%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.14%) Azure App Service
11 5 (1.14%) GCP
11 5 (1.14%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.14%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.52%) VPN
2 8 (1.83%) Firewall
3 4 (0.92%) Intranet
4 3 (0.69%) HTTP
4 3 (0.69%) Internet
4 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.69%) Wireless
5 2 (0.46%) DNS
6 1 (0.23%) 5G
6 1 (0.23%) DHCP
6 1 (0.23%) LAN
6 1 (0.23%) LTE
6 1 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.12%) MongoDB
2 17 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (3.66%) Power BI
4 14 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (2.29%) Crystal Reports
6 7 (1.60%) MySQL
7 6 (1.37%) GIS
8 5 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.14%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.92%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.92%) Metadata
10 3 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.69%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.69%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.69%) QGIS
10 3 (0.69%) Spatial Data
10 3 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (4.58%) JIRA
2 10 (2.29%) Git
3 8 (1.83%) GitLab
3 8 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.60%) Axure RP
5 4 (0.92%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.92%) Gradle
5 4 (0.92%) JMeter
5 4 (0.92%) LoadRunner
5 4 (0.92%) webpack
6 2 (0.46%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.46%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.46%) Capybara
6 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.46%) Maven
6 2 (0.46%) Selenium
6 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.23%) Appium
7 1 (0.23%) Babel
7 1 (0.23%) UI Automator
General
1 119 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 75 (17.16%) Public Sector
3 60 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (8.47%) Finance
5 30 (6.86%) Marketing
6 20 (4.58%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (3.43%) Banking
7 15 (3.43%) Legal
7 15 (3.43%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.52%) Retail
9 10 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.37%) Electronics
12 5 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.92%) Korean Language
13 4 (0.92%) Multimedia
14 3 (0.69%) Games
14 3 (0.69%) Publishing
15 2 (0.46%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 101 (23.11%) Developer
2 86 (19.68%) Designer
3 56 (12.81%) UX Designer
4 49 (11.21%) Senior
5 43 (9.84%) Analyst
6 28 (6.41%) Business Analyst
7 24 (5.49%) Architect
8 22 (5.03%) UI Designer
9 21 (4.81%) Lead
10 19 (4.35%) UI/UX Designer
11 18 (4.12%) User Researcher
12 16 (3.66%) Consultant
12 16 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (3.43%) React Developer
14 13 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
15 12 (2.75%) .NET Developer
15 12 (2.75%) Project Manager
16 11 (2.52%) Full Stack Developer
16 11 (2.52%) IT Support
16 11 (2.52%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (11.67%) React
2 48 (10.98%) HTML
3 41 (9.38%) CSS
4 23 (5.26%) Node.js
5 22 (5.03%) AngularJS
6 20 (4.58%) .NET
6 20 (4.58%) RESTful
7 14 (3.20%) AWS CDK
7 14 (3.20%) REST
8 9 (2.06%) HTML5
9 7 (1.60%) CSS3
10 6 (1.37%) Apache NiFi
10 6 (1.37%) Redux
10 6 (1.37%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.37%) Vue
11 5 (1.14%) Web Services
12 4 (0.92%) jQuery
12 4 (0.92%) OAuth2
12 4 (0.92%) PySpark
12 4 (0.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 26 (5.95%) Mobile App
3 9 (2.06%) Legacy Applications
3 9 (2.06%) Wiki
4 8 (1.83%) Virtual Team
5 7 (1.60%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.14%) Robotics
8 4 (0.92%) Biopharmaceutical
8 4 (0.92%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.92%) Digital Media
8 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.69%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.69%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.69%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.86%) Android
2 25 (5.72%) Apple iOS
3 22 (5.03%) Windows
4 7 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.92%) Linux
6 2 (0.46%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (32.27%) UX Design
2 135 (30.89%) Agile
3 66 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (15.10%) Roadmaps
4 63 (14.42%) DevOps
5 62 (14.19%) Analytics
6 58 (13.27%) User Research
7 51 (11.67%) Wireframes
8 48 (10.98%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 45 (10.30%) Service Design
10 40 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (7.78%) Software Engineering
11 34 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (7.32%) User Stories
13 30 (6.86%) Prototyping
14 29 (6.64%) CI/CD
14 29 (6.64%) Code Quality
14 29 (6.64%) Mentoring
14 29 (6.64%) Project Management
14 29 (6.64%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 56 (12.81%) Python
2 45 (10.30%) JavaScript
3 31 (7.09%) SQL
4 26 (5.95%) TypeScript
5 23 (5.26%) Java
6 18 (4.12%) C#
7 8 (1.83%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.60%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.37%) Bicep
10 4 (0.92%) Bash
10 4 (0.92%) C++
10 4 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.92%) PHP
11 3 (0.69%) Ruby
11 3 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.69%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.46%) GLSL
12 2 (0.46%) HLSL
13 1 (0.23%) R
13 1 (0.23%) Swift
Qualifications
1 61 (13.96%) Degree
2 49 (11.21%) Security Cleared
3 21 (4.81%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.92%) HNC
7 4 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.46%) IIBA
9 2 (0.46%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.46%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.23%) CBAP
10 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.23%) ISEB
10 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (11.44%) Accessibility
2 27 (6.18%) QA
3 9 (2.06%) Disclosure Scotland
3 9 (2.06%) WCAG
4 8 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
4 8 (1.83%) PMO
4 8 (1.83%) SLA
5 2 (0.46%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.46%) GxP
5 2 (0.46%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.23%) GDPR
6 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 15 (3.43%) Docker
2 5 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 18 (4.12%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.97%) Grafana
3 8 (1.83%) Terraform
4 6 (1.37%) Ansible
5 3 (0.69%) Kibana
5 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.23%) AppManager
7 1 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.49%) Adobe
3 14 (3.20%) Google
4 10 (2.29%) IFS
4 10 (2.29%) Sitecore
5 9 (2.06%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.83%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.60%) Cadence
7 7 (1.60%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.60%) RedPrairie
8 6 (1.37%) Apple
8 6 (1.37%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.37%) SAP
9 5 (1.14%) Oracle
10 4 (0.92%) Cognizant
11 3 (0.69%) Anaplan
11 3 (0.69%) ESRI
12 2 (0.46%) OutSystems
12 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media
12 2 (0.46%) VMware