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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 29 39
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 +4
Contract jobs citing User Experience 3 10 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.82% 3.27% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 3.73% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile £376 £300 £316
25th Percentile £397 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £454 £388
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% +17.16% -36.86%
75th Percentile £472 £585 £443
90th Percentile £489 £596 £485
East of England median daily rate £457 £452 £440
% change year-on-year +1.11% +2.79% -24.51%

All Process & 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 301 268 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 81.79% 87.58% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 126 151
10th Percentile £211 £325 £225
25th Percentile £335 £413 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year - -0.63% +0.63%
75th Percentile £582 £559 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 50 173
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.40 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.50 £21.46 £20.00
90th Percentile £34.83 £26.08 £36.55
East of England median hourly rate £20.16 £40.00 £31.80
% change year-on-year -49.60% +25.79% +44.55%

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 2 February 2026.

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 2 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
Cambridge -11 2 £375 +25.00% 9
Peterborough +3 1 £500 -12.28% 3
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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Author
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (33.33%) Data Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusive Design
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Model Validation
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Storytelling
1 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) NVIDIA
1 1 (33.33%) VMware