User Experience Contracts in the West Midlands

UX
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 88 99
Rank change year-on-year +23 +11 -45
Contract jobs citing User Experience 44 52 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.29% 2.18% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 2.46% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 35 57
10th Percentile £381 £255 £413
25th Percentile £434 £417 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +27.27%
75th Percentile £569 £559 £569
90th Percentile £611 £600 £587
England median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £10.53
25th Percentile £70.97 £21.25 £10.56
Median hourly rate £71.93 £22.50 £11.25
Median % change year-on-year +219.69% +100.00% -
75th Percentile £72.90 £23.75 £12.06
90th Percentile - - £12.18
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
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,114 3,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.67% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,452 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the West Midlands

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the West Midlands

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the West Midlands

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the West Midlands

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Birmingham -4 16 £438 -12.50% 27
Warwickshire +4 13 £607 -13.29% 13
Coventry +17 6 £475 -12.84% 1
Worcestershire - 5 £525 - 3
Staffordshire +5 2 £488 +5.41% 7
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (6.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.27%) CMS
2 1 (2.27%) Jadu
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) Adobe Captivate
2 1 (2.27%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.27%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.45%) Azure
2 8 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 5 (11.36%) Azure AKS
3 5 (11.36%) Azure App Service
3 5 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (6.82%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (6.82%) dbt
4 3 (6.82%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.27%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (2.27%) AWS
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.27%) Figma
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub
5 1 (2.27%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.27%) SaaS
5 1 (2.27%) Serverless
5 1 (2.27%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) VPN
2 2 (4.55%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) Power BI
2 3 (6.82%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (6.82%) Data Mining
3 2 (4.55%) Power Query
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.27%) Big Data
4 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) Appium
2 2 (4.55%) UI Automator
2 2 (4.55%) XCUITest
3 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
General
1 19 (43.18%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Finance
3 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.27%) Banking
4 1 (2.27%) Games
4 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Law
4 1 (2.27%) Legal
4 1 (2.27%) Multimedia
4 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (15.91%) Developer
2 6 (13.64%) Analyst
3 5 (11.36%) Angular Developer
3 5 (11.36%) Designer
4 4 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (6.82%) Product Owner
5 3 (6.82%) Service Delivery Manager
5 3 (6.82%) Service Manager
6 2 (4.55%) Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) Mobile Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Project Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Project Support Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Support Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.64%) RESTful
2 5 (11.36%) .NET
2 5 (11.36%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.82%) ADO
3 3 (6.82%) Flask
3 3 (6.82%) Pandas
4 1 (2.27%) JDBC
4 1 (2.27%) Node.js
4 1 (2.27%) ODBC
4 1 (2.27%) React Native
4 1 (2.27%) Software Packaging
4 1 (2.27%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.36%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.82%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.27%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.27%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Windows
2 2 (4.55%) Android
2 2 (4.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.09%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (27.27%) Agile
2 12 (27.27%) Roadmaps
2 12 (27.27%) UX Design
3 10 (22.73%) Decision-Making
3 10 (22.73%) DevOps
4 8 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (15.91%) Actionable Insight
6 6 (13.64%) Visualisation
7 5 (11.36%) Analytics
7 5 (11.36%) Computer Science
7 5 (11.36%) Critical Thinking
7 5 (11.36%) Data Modelling
7 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (11.36%) Microservices
7 5 (11.36%) Service Design
7 5 (11.36%) Workflow
8 4 (9.09%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.45%) SQL
2 5 (11.36%) Bicep
2 5 (11.36%) C#
2 5 (11.36%) TypeScript
3 4 (9.09%) Python
4 3 (6.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.55%) Kotlin
5 2 (4.55%) Swift
6 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Degree
2 4 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (25.00%) QA
2 3 (6.82%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) Adobe
3 1 (2.27%) Anaplan
3 1 (2.27%) Google
3 1 (2.27%) iManage
3 1 (2.27%) Intapp
3 1 (2.27%) Progress
3 1 (2.27%) Sage
3 1 (2.27%) SAP
3 1 (2.27%) VMware