User Experience Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

UX
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring User Experience skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 71 79
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +28
Contract jobs citing User Experience 25 38 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.12% 2.22% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.54% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 26
10th Percentile £400 £333 £363
25th Percentile £408 £368 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% -10.50% -
75th Percentile £574 £528 £527
90th Percentile £595 £573 £575
South East median daily rate £449 £375 £475
% change year-on-year +19.60% -21.05% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.84
Median hourly rate - £70.39 £17.34
Median % change year-on-year - +305.94% -
75th Percentile - - £17.84
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £70.39 £32.50
% change year-on-year -64.27% +116.58% -50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,075 1,494 1,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.26% 87.16% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 770 1,002
10th Percentile £325 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £693 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 74 61
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.79 £18.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £46.84 £47.50
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +2.67% +45.65%
75th Percentile £58.00 £71.41 £72.33
90th Percentile £87.25 £87.04 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £21.00 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.38% +9.24% +64.53%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in Berkshire

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing User Experience.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing User Experience

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Berkshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Berkshire

User Experience
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing User Experience.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing User Experience

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
Reading +16 9 £409 +6.23% 8
Wokingham -2 9 £500 -11.50%
Bracknell 0 2 £480 -26.15% 1
Windsor -10 2 £400 -20.00% 3
User Experience
South East

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (8.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) CMS
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) Figma
3 2 (8.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (4.00%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Vite
2 2 (8.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.00%) Marketing
3 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Automotive
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Local Government
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Developer
2 10 (40.00%) React Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Digital Project Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (12.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Writer
4 2 (8.00%) UI Developer
4 2 (8.00%) UI/UX Developer
4 2 (8.00%) UX Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Business Improvement Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Business Process Improvement Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Designer
5 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) E-Commerce Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Umbraco Developer
5 1 (4.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) React
2 4 (16.00%) GraphQL
2 4 (16.00%) Redux
3 3 (12.00%) Apollo GraphQL
3 3 (12.00%) CSS
3 3 (12.00%) Framer.js
3 3 (12.00%) HTML
3 3 (12.00%) RESTful
4 2 (8.00%) Playwright
5 1 (4.00%) .NET
5 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
5 1 (4.00%) Spring
5 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.00%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) UX Design
2 8 (32.00%) Wireframes
3 7 (28.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.00%) Design Thinking
6 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (12.00%) DevOps
6 3 (12.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (12.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (12.00%) Project Management
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (8.00%) Change Management
7 2 (8.00%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (8.00%) Psychology
7 2 (8.00%) Responsive Web Design
7 2 (8.00%) Unit Testing
7 2 (8.00%) Usability Testing
7 2 (8.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (8.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (4.00%) C#
2 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.00%) WCAG
3 1 (4.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.00%) Adobe
2 1 (4.00%) Capita
2 1 (4.00%) Citrix
2 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.00%) Ericsson
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.00%) Splunk
2 1 (4.00%) Virgin Media