The first table below looks at the demand for User Experience Design skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited User Experience Design over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Experience Design
Rank 464 544 541
Rank change year-on-year
+80 -3
Contract jobs citing User Experience Design 66 34 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.142% 0.058% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.201% 0.086% 0.113%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 29 34
Average daily rate £400 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £267 £225 £316
10% offered a daily rate of more than £557 £590 £434
UK excluding London average daily rate £306 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32885 39492 41512
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.87% 67.77% 67.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 19655 22706 23594
Average daily rate £413 £400 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £579 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 974 1268 1474
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -15.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%

User Experience Design
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing User Experience Design within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

User Experience Design Jobs Demand Trend

User Experience Design
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing User Experience Design within the UK.

User Experience Design Daily Rate Trend

User Experience Design
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Experience Design within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

User Experience Design Daily Rate Histogram

User Experience Design
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing User Experience Design within the UK.

User Experience Design Hourly Rate Trend

User Experience Design
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Experience Design within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

User Experience Design Hourly Rate Histogram

User Experience Design
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience Design within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +79 65 £400 +6.66%
London +38 47 £400 +3.22%
City of London +24 16 £413 +60.19%
South West +31 9 - -
South East - 7 - -
Surrey - 6 - -
Devon - 6 - -
Staines - 6 - -
Exeter - 5 - -
Somerset - 3 - -
East of England +14 2 £288 +150.00%
Hertfordshire - 2 £288 -
Canary Wharf - 2 - -
Scotland - 1 £325 -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Portsmouth - 1 - -
Edinburgh - 1 £325 -

User Experience Design
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing User Experience Design also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited User Experience Design.

1 38 (34.55%) CSS
2 37 (33.64%) HTML
3 35 (31.82%) Finance
4 30 (27.27%) Adobe
5 26 (23.64%) JavaScript
6 25 (22.73%) E-Commerce
7 23 (20.91%) Information Architecture
7 23 (20.91%) Photoshop
8 18 (16.36%) Usability Testing
9 17 (15.45%) C#
9 17 (15.45%) Fireworks
10 16 (14.55%) Adobe Illustrator
10 16 (14.55%) Banking
11 15 (13.64%) .NET
11 15 (13.64%) HTML5
11 15 (13.64%) CSS3
12 14 (12.73%) XML
12 14 (12.73%) Microsoft
13 12 (10.91%) MS Visio
13 12 (10.91%) PHP
13 12 (10.91%) Internet
13 12 (10.91%) Axure RP
13 12 (10.91%) jQuery
13 12 (10.91%) Content Management
14 11 (10.00%) Marketing
14 11 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
14 11 (10.00%) XAML
14 11 (10.00%) SharePoint
15 10 (9.091%) SQL
15 10 (9.091%) Workflow

User Experience Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing User Experience Design also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited User Experience Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 38 (34.55%) CSS
2 37 (33.64%) HTML
3 15 (13.64%) .NET
3 15 (13.64%) HTML5
3 15 (13.64%) CSS3
4 14 (12.73%) XML
5 12 (10.91%) jQuery
6 8 (7.273%) ASP.NET
7 7 (6.364%) Ajax
8 6 (5.455%) WPF
9 5 (4.545%) RESTful
9 5 (4.545%) JSON
9 5 (4.545%) OpenGL
9 5 (4.545%) DirectX
9 5 (4.545%) WebGL
9 5 (4.545%) XSLT
10 4 (3.636%) XHTML
10 4 (3.636%) Web Services
11 3 (2.727%) WCF
11 3 (2.727%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 11 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 11 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 8 (7.273%) CMS
3 5 (4.545%) SharePoint 2013
4 3 (2.727%) Drupal
5 2 (1.818%) Apache
6 1 (0.909%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.909%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.909%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (20.91%) Photoshop
2 17 (15.45%) Fireworks
3 16 (14.55%) Adobe Illustrator
4 12 (10.91%) MS Visio
5 5 (4.545%) OmniGraffle
5 5 (4.545%) MS Excel
6 3 (2.727%) MS Office
6 3 (2.727%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (1.818%) MS Project
7 2 (1.818%) InDesign
8 1 (0.909%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.727%) Summit
2 1 (0.909%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.91%) Internet
2 6 (5.455%) Intranet
3 5 (4.545%) HTTP
4 2 (1.818%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.455%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.727%) MySQL
3 1 (0.909%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.909%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 12 (10.91%) Axure RP
2 6 (5.455%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.545%) Subversion
4 3 (2.727%) Maven
4 3 (2.727%) Dreamweaver
4 3 (2.727%) FitNesse
4 3 (2.727%) Ant
4 3 (2.727%) Balsamiq Mockups
4 3 (2.727%) MSBuild
5 2 (1.818%) Trac
5 2 (1.818%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.818%) JIRA
6 1 (0.909%) Selenium
6 1 (0.909%) Expression Blend
6 1 (0.909%) Git (software)
6 1 (0.909%) Behat
General
1 35 (31.82%) Finance
2 16 (14.55%) Banking
3 11 (10.00%) Marketing
4 8 (7.273%) Retail
5 7 (6.364%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.545%) Publishing
7 4 (3.636%) Retail Banking
7 4 (3.636%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.727%) Interactive Media
9 2 (1.818%) Legal
10 1 (0.909%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.909%) Automotive
10 1 (0.909%) Front Office
10 1 (0.909%) Back Office
10 1 (0.909%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.909%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (40.91%) Designer
2 26 (23.64%) Developer
3 24 (21.82%) User Experience Designer
4 12 (10.91%) Consultant
5 11 (10.00%) SharePoint Developer
6 10 (9.091%) Analyst
7 9 (8.182%) Architect
8 8 (7.273%) Web Designer
9 7 (6.364%) Business Analyst
9 7 (6.364%) Visual Designer
10 6 (5.455%) Senior Developer
10 6 (5.455%) Digital Designer
10 6 (5.455%) User Experience Architect
11 5 (4.545%) User Experience Consultant
11 5 (4.545%) Senior Designer
12 4 (3.636%) Web Developer
13 3 (2.727%) Solutions Architect
13 3 (2.727%) Test Analyst
13 3 (2.727%) Agile Test Analyst
13 3 (2.727%) Senior SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.273%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 8 (7.273%) W3C
1 8 (7.273%) Visualisation
2 7 (6.364%) RIA
2 7 (6.364%) Mobile App
3 6 (5.455%) iPad
3 6 (5.455%) Fixed Income
4 5 (4.545%) Smartphone
4 5 (4.545%) Graphic Design
4 5 (4.545%) Animation
4 5 (4.545%) 3D Graphics
4 5 (4.545%) Psychology
4 5 (4.545%) SWIFT
4 5 (4.545%) Digital Media
5 3 (2.727%) GPGPU
6 2 (1.818%) iPhone
6 2 (1.818%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.909%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.909%) Photography
7 1 (0.909%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.455%) Windows
2 5 (4.545%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.636%) Android
4 2 (1.818%) UNIX
5 1 (0.909%) CentOS
5 1 (0.909%) Solaris
5 1 (0.909%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.73%) E-Commerce
2 23 (20.91%) Information Architecture
3 18 (16.36%) Usability Testing
4 12 (10.91%) Content Management
5 10 (9.091%) Web Development
5 10 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (9.091%) Workflow
6 9 (8.182%) Project Management
6 9 (8.182%) Business Analysis
7 8 (7.273%) Use Case
7 8 (7.273%) Agile Software Development
7 8 (7.273%) Regression Testing
8 7 (6.364%) Scrum
8 7 (6.364%) Web Design
8 7 (6.364%) Analytics
9 6 (5.455%) Migration
10 5 (4.545%) OO
10 5 (4.545%) Risk Management
10 5 (4.545%) Cash Management
10 5 (4.545%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.64%) JavaScript
2 17 (15.45%) C#
3 12 (10.91%) PHP
4 11 (10.00%) XAML
5 10 (9.091%) SQL
6 6 (5.455%) C
7 5 (4.545%) C++
8 3 (2.727%) VBA
8 3 (2.727%) PHP5
8 3 (2.727%) Ruby
9 2 (1.818%) XPath
9 2 (1.818%) XQuery
9 2 (1.818%) Java
9 2 (1.818%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 8 (7.273%) Degree
2 5 (4.545%) MCTS
3 4 (3.636%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.727%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.727%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.727%) MCP
4 3 (2.727%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.182%) QA
2 3 (2.727%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.727%) ISO 14001
3 1 (0.909%) WCAG
3 1 (0.909%) WAI
Systems Management
1 3 (2.727%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 30 (27.27%) Adobe
2 14 (12.73%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.727%) HP
3 3 (2.727%) Oracle
3 3 (2.727%) SAP
3 3 (2.727%) Zend
3 3 (2.727%) Ektron
4 2 (1.818%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.818%) TIBCO
5 1 (0.909%) Omniture
5 1 (0.909%) Tealeaf
5 1 (0.909%) Siebel
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