User Experience Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

UX
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring User Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 34 44
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing User Experience 4 9 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.08% 2.22% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 2.70% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £351 - £373
25th Percentile £353 £300 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £565 £425
Median % change year-on-year -36.28% +32.94% -34.62%
75th Percentile £533 £585 £441
90th Percentile £633 - £443
East of England median daily rate £500 £431 £500
% change year-on-year +15.94% -13.75% -14.60%
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 - - -
East of England median hourly rate £16.00 - £17.72
% change year-on-year - - -69.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 332 333 463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 89.97% 82.22% 90.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 115 176
10th Percentile £260 £248 £219
25th Percentile £400 £340 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.44% -4.42% -
75th Percentile £625 £558 £554
90th Percentile £700 £620 £613
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 108 196
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.95 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.44 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%
75th Percentile £21.50 £18.06 £20.33
90th Percentile £43.75 £49.88 £25.38
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £29.17 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.01% +45.85% -4.76%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

User Experience job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Cambridgeshire

User Experience
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Cambridge -7 4 £360 +20.00% 9
User Experience
East of England

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (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