User Experience Contracts in Cambridge

UX
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge requiring User Experience skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Experience over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 23 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing User Experience 4 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 2.34% 1.86% 4.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 2.05% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £351 £325 £251
25th Percentile £353 £362 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £433 £394
Median % change year-on-year -16.76% +9.84% -12.50%
75th Percentile £533 £512 £462
90th Percentile £633 £554 £499
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £360 £433 £394
% change year-on-year -16.76% +9.84% -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £17.72
75th Percentile £16.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 - £17.72

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 157 146 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 91.81% 90.68% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 64 127
10th Percentile £354 £240 £220
25th Percentile £438 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% -6.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £642 £553 £544
90th Percentile £700 £638 £580
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £525 £442 £450
% change year-on-year +18.78% -1.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 20 18
10th Percentile £17.34 £22.05 £16.70
25th Percentile £19.00 £32.81 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +196.28% -68.91%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £61.63
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in Cambridge

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Cambridge over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Cambridge

User Experience
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing User Experience.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing User Experience

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (25.00%) npm
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Games
1 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Angular Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Web Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Umbraco Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Express.js
2 1 (25.00%) Framer.js
2 1 (25.00%) NgRx
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (25.00%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) UX Design
2 2 (50.00%) Content Management
2 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Atomic Design
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Journey Map
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Product Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
3 1 (25.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) MBA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft