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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 64 84
Rank change year-on-year -11 +20 +12
Contract jobs citing User Experience 24 45 33
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.85% 2.82% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 3.18% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 27 22
10th Percentile £401 £323 £353
25th Percentile £475 £386 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £527
90th Percentile £618 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £475 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.84
Median hourly rate - - £17.34
75th Percentile - - £17.84
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -52.10% +61.54% -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 1,163 1,415 1,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.60% 88.60% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 754 756 999
10th Percentile £325 £325 £250
25th Percentile £420 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £691 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 56 69
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.34 £18.95
25th Percentile £16.60 £41.25 £45.21
Median hourly rate £29.31 £58.49 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -49.90% -4.51% +21.29%
75th Percentile £59.44 £63.41 £72.33
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.13 £77.55
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.34 £52.10
% change year-on-year -64.50% +11.97% +40.32%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 -5 7 £456 +11.55% 7
Wokingham -16 4 £575 +1.77% 2
Bracknell -3 3 £550 -15.38% 1
Windsor -7 3 £400 -20.00%
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 (8.33%) Confluence
1 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) CMS
2 1 (4.17%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 4 (16.67%) Serverless
3 3 (12.50%) Azure API Management
3 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 3 (12.50%) GitHub
3 3 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (8.33%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.17%) dbt
5 1 (4.17%) Figma
5 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
1 2 (8.33%) SSL
1 2 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.17%) 3GPP
2 1 (4.17%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Marketing
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Retail
4 2 (8.33%) Billing
4 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Automotive
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Active Directory Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Lead
3 3 (12.50%) React Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Service Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (8.33%) Digital Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Digital Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Service Desk Support
4 2 (8.33%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 4 (16.67%) .NET
3 3 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 3 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 3 (12.50%) Apollo GraphQL
3 3 (12.50%) ARM Templates
3 3 (12.50%) OAuth
3 3 (12.50%) OAuth2
3 3 (12.50%) OpenID
3 3 (12.50%) React
3 3 (12.50%) REST
3 3 (12.50%) RESTful
3 3 (12.50%) SAML
4 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (8.33%) Playwright
5 1 (4.17%) Entity Framework
5 1 (4.17%) Spring
5 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Mobile App
2 3 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
1 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (25.00%) DevOps
4 5 (20.83%) CRM
4 5 (20.83%) Data Governance
4 5 (20.83%) UX Design
5 4 (16.67%) B2C
5 4 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 4 (16.67%) Change Management
5 4 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 4 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
5 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (16.67%) User Stories
6 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.50%) Design Thinking
6 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (12.50%) Log Analytics
6 3 (12.50%) MLOps
6 3 (12.50%) RBAC
6 3 (12.50%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) C#
2 3 (12.50%) Bash
2 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (12.50%) PHP
2 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) WCAG
3 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Citrix
3 1 (4.17%) Ericsson
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk
3 1 (4.17%) Virgin Media