UX Design Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

User Experience Design (UXD)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring UX Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 83 116
Rank change year-on-year -32 +33 -11
Contract jobs citing UX Design 3 14 11
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.19% 1.06% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 1.16% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 9
10th Percentile £480 £316 £324
25th Percentile £488 £383 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £386 £500
Median % change year-on-year +36.19% -22.90% +11.11%
75th Percentile £563 £397 £501
90th Percentile £570 £486 £540
South East median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

UX Design 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 1,337 1,212 1,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.15% 91.89% 92.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 915 660 984
10th Percentile £293 £265 £210
25th Percentile £401 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -0.10%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £606
90th Percentile £650 £675 £685
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 37 91
10th Percentile £16.12 £26.15 £24.25
25th Percentile £20.65 £42.88 £44.27
Median hourly rate £58.00 £61.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +0.81% -5.68%
75th Percentile £89.88 £65.62 £69.00
90th Percentile £105.60 £76.18 £85.61
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -47.61% -5.26% +5.56%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in Berkshire

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing UX Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing UX Design

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing UX Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing UX Design

UX Design
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 UX Design within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 January 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 -11 1 £550 +42.86% 4
Maidenhead - 1 £500 -
Bracknell - 1 - -
UX Design
South East

UX Design
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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Android Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Design Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) iOS Android Developer
1 1 (33.33%) iOS Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile Applications Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile Developer
1 1 (33.33%) React Developer
1 1 (33.33%) UI Designer
1 1 (33.33%) UI/UX Designer
1 1 (33.33%) UX Designer
1 1 (33.33%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) React Native
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 1 (33.33%) Emotional Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Development
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Product Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Product Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (33.33%) UX Research
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Objective-C
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript