User Experience Contract Job Trends in Bournemouth

UX
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bournemouth requiring User Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 13 21
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing User Experience 6 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bournemouth 7.23% 8.00% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.17% 8.89% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £360 - -
25th Percentile £374 - £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 - £320
75th Percentile £500 - £330
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median daily rate £442 - £320
% change year-on-year - - -37.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bournemouth

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 Bournemouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59 45 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth 71.08% 90.00% 87.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 27 62
10th Percentile £311 £375 £172
25th Percentile £375 £409 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £475 £298
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +59.66% -39.90%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £806
90th Percentile £678 £675 £825
Dorset median daily rate £425 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -10.53% -7.32% +3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 18
10th Percentile - - £11.07
25th Percentile - £14.41 £14.29
Median hourly rate £22.00 £14.81 £15.31
Median % change year-on-year +48.55% -3.27% -25.32%
75th Percentile £33.41 £20.11 £17.49
90th Percentile £40.25 £23.04 £18.92
Dorset median hourly rate £34.98 £14.81 £56.49
% change year-on-year +136.19% -73.78% +0.36%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

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

User Experience job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend in Bournemouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing User Experience.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing User Experience

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Bournemouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Bournemouth over the 6 months to 7 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Bournemouth

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
1 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce