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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 58 83
Rank change year-on-year -35 +25 +11
Contract jobs citing User Experience 21 40 42
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.41% 2.77% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 3.04% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 24 26
10th Percentile £404 £250 £375
25th Percentile £458 £384 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £436 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.61% -12.85% +2.40%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £525
90th Percentile £573 £650 £619
South East median daily rate £413 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -10.81% -7.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £47.66 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.23% +61.54% -50.94%

All Process & 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 1,300 1,315 1,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.31% 91.07% 91.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 879 735 946
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £411 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -0.65%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £518
% change year-on-year -2.12% -1.38% +1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 37 67
10th Percentile £14.75 £27.15 £28.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £42.50 £49.07
Median hourly rate £40.44 £61.50 £61.65
Median % change year-on-year -34.25% -0.24% +12.08%
75th Percentile £81.00 £64.73 £67.75
90th Percentile £97.50 £70.15 £77.57
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -52.38% -14.10% +29.67%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Experience relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

User Experience job vacancy trend 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 29 December 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 29 December 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 -17 9 £456 +11.55% 23
Bracknell -5 3 £550 +7.32% 1
Windsor - 1 - -
Maidenhead - 1 £500 -
User Experience
South East

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) CMS
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Azure Functions
2 4 (19.05%) Serverless
3 3 (14.29%) Azure API Management
3 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.76%) dbt
5 1 (4.76%) Figma
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) DNS
1 2 (9.52%) SSL
1 2 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.76%) 3GPP
2 1 (4.76%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Marketing
3 2 (9.52%) Billing
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Analyst
1 5 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Active Directory Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Designer
2 3 (14.29%) Senior
2 3 (14.29%) Service Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) 1st Line Support
3 2 (9.52%) 1st Line Support Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Lead
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Service Desk Support
3 2 (9.52%) Service Desk Support Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) .NET
1 4 (19.05%) REST
2 3 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 3 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 3 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 3 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 3 (14.29%) OAuth
2 3 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 3 (14.29%) OpenID
2 3 (14.29%) SAML
3 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (4.76%) CSS
4 1 (4.76%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.76%) Flutter
4 1 (4.76%) HTML
4 1 (4.76%) React Native
4 1 (4.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Mobile App
2 3 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (9.52%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.76%) Android
3 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Agile
1 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
2 5 (23.81%) Data Governance
2 5 (23.81%) DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) AI
3 4 (19.05%) B2C
3 4 (19.05%) CRM
4 3 (14.29%) Analytics
4 3 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 3 (14.29%) Change Management
4 3 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (14.29%) Identity Management
4 3 (14.29%) Log Analytics
4 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 3 (14.29%) RBAC
4 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 3 (14.29%) User Stories
4 3 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) C#
1 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
1 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
1 4 (19.05%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) Bash
2 3 (14.29%) PHP
3 2 (9.52%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) Kotlin
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) QA
3 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.52%) SCCM
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) Citrix
3 1 (4.76%) Ericsson
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk
3 1 (4.76%) Virgin Media