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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 54 83
Rank change year-on-year -20 +29 +9
Contract jobs citing User Experience 31 43 43
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.94% 3.31% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 3.58% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 27 29
10th Percentile £276 £250 £333
25th Percentile £449 £386 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.05% -7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £528 £625 £538
90th Percentile £553 £651 £618
South East median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £82.00 £92.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% - -
South East median hourly rate £82.00 £72.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.49% +122.31% -51.85%

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 1,376 1,201 1,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.32% 92.46% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 941 651 1,009
10th Percentile £293 £300 £210
25th Percentile £401 £401 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -1.77%
75th Percentile £595 £625 £608
90th Percentile £650 £663 £676
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £511
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.96% +2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 38 96
10th Percentile £16.44 £28.18 £20.50
25th Percentile £20.79 £49.97 £43.12
Median hourly rate £58.00 £61.50 £61.13
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +0.61% -5.49%
75th Percentile £95.00 £65.62 £70.50
90th Percentile £106.00 £79.86 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% +5.56%

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 8 February 2026.

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 8 February 2026. 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 -14 20 £509 +24.39% 11
Bracknell -2 3 £550 +7.32% 2
Maidenhead - 1 £500 - 1
Windsor - 1 - -
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 3 (9.68%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Chatbot
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) Azure
1 5 (16.13%) Viva Engage
2 3 (9.68%) Azure API Management
2 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (9.68%) Azure Functions
2 3 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (9.68%) Entra ID
2 3 (9.68%) GitHub
2 3 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
2 3 (9.68%) Serverless
3 1 (3.23%) dbt
3 1 (3.23%) Figma
3 1 (3.23%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) DNS
1 2 (6.45%) SSL
1 2 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.23%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.23%) Power BI
1 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
1 3 (9.68%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Artifactory
2 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Marketing
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Billing
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Retail
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Lead
2 7 (22.58%) Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Active Directory Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Business Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Senior
4 3 (9.68%) Service Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) 1st Line Support
5 2 (6.45%) 1st Line Support Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Applications Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Designer
5 2 (6.45%) Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Service Desk Support
5 2 (6.45%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) REST
2 3 (9.68%) .NET
2 3 (9.68%) .NET Core
2 3 (9.68%) ARM Templates
2 3 (9.68%) GraphQL
2 3 (9.68%) OAuth
2 3 (9.68%) OAuth2
2 3 (9.68%) OpenID
2 3 (9.68%) SAML
2 3 (9.68%) Software Packaging
3 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
3 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (6.45%) React
3 2 (6.45%) React Native
4 1 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (3.23%) CSS
4 1 (3.23%) Flutter
4 1 (3.23%) Node.js
4 1 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Mobile App
2 3 (9.68%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.45%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.23%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Windows
2 3 (9.68%) Mac OS
3 2 (6.45%) Android
3 2 (6.45%) Apple iOS
3 2 (6.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) Identity Access Management
1 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (22.58%) Data Governance
3 6 (19.35%) Analytics
3 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
3 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (19.35%) CRM
4 5 (16.13%) DevOps
4 5 (16.13%) Validation
5 4 (12.90%) AI
5 4 (12.90%) B2C
5 4 (12.90%) Decision-Making
5 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (12.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 4 (12.90%) UX Design
5 4 (12.90%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (9.68%) DevSecOps
6 3 (9.68%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (9.68%) Focus Group
6 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
2 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.90%) Python
3 3 (9.68%) Bash
3 3 (9.68%) C#
3 3 (9.68%) Java
3 3 (9.68%) PHP
4 2 (6.45%) SQL
4 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.23%) Objective-C
5 1 (3.23%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) Degree
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) Accessibility
2 4 (12.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.45%) GDPR
4 1 (3.23%) QA
4 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.68%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) SCCM
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (12.90%) Terraform
4 1 (3.23%) Ansible
4 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Citrix
3 3 (9.68%) VMware
4 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.23%) Splunk