User Experience Contracts in Berkshire

UX
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 71 78
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 +31
Contract jobs citing User Experience 30 46 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.50% 2.33% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 2.69% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 30
10th Percentile £401 £354 £386
25th Percentile £410 £462 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £629 £538
90th Percentile £675 £688 £596
South East median daily rate £475 £406 £475
% change year-on-year +16.92% -14.47% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £57.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.25 - £16.84
Median hourly rate £72.75 £70.39 £17.34
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +305.94% -
75th Percentile £85.00 - £17.84
90th Percentile £91.30 - -
South East median hourly rate £70.16 £86.63 £17.50
% change year-on-year -19.01% +395.03% -56.18%

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 1,116 1,713 1,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.16% 86.78% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 852 1,049
10th Percentile £325 £270 £336
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £716
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 112 56
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.60 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.52 £41.25 £24.13
Median hourly rate £51.00 £60.53 £59.38
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +1.94% +182.74%
75th Percentile £76.35 £71.89 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.60 £87.46 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% - +122.22%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Experience in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for User Experience in Berkshire

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Berkshire

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Experience in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in Berkshire

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience in Berkshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in Berkshire

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 6 July 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
Wokingham -1 13 £500 -15.25% 1
Reading +15 7 £409 -27.32% 14
Bracknell +9 4 £480 -4.00% 6
Windsor -11 2 £400 -40.74% 2
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 4 (13.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Figma
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
3 2 (6.67%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.33%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) 3GPP
1 1 (3.33%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
1 4 (13.33%) Vite
2 2 (6.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Marketing
3 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.33%) Automotive
4 1 (3.33%) Local Government
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Developer
2 13 (43.33%) React Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (10.00%) Lead
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Leader
5 2 (6.67%) Digital Project Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Project Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Writer
5 2 (6.67%) UI Developer
5 2 (6.67%) UI/UX Developer
5 2 (6.67%) UX Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Business Systems Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Process Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Programme Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Service Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (43.33%) React
2 6 (20.00%) Redux
3 4 (13.33%) CSS
3 4 (13.33%) Framer.js
3 4 (13.33%) GraphQL
3 4 (13.33%) HTML
4 3 (10.00%) Apollo GraphQL
5 2 (6.67%) Playwright
5 2 (6.67%) RESTful
6 1 (3.33%) Express.js
6 1 (3.33%) Node.js
6 1 (3.33%) Spring
6 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.33%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Life Science
2 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) UX Design
2 13 (43.33%) Wireframes
3 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.00%) Design Thinking
5 5 (16.67%) Agile
5 5 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 4 (13.33%) Design Patterns
6 4 (13.33%) DevOps
7 3 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (10.00%) Project Management
7 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (10.00%) Usability Testing
7 3 (10.00%) User Research
7 3 (10.00%) UX Research
8 2 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (6.67%) Change Management
8 2 (6.67%) CRM
8 2 (6.67%) E-Commerce
8 2 (6.67%) Six Sigma
8 2 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (3.33%) ABAP
2 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.67%) QA
1 2 (6.67%) WCAG
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Capita
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.67%) Workday
2 1 (3.33%) Adobe
2 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (3.33%) Ericsson
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle
2 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.33%) SAP