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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 28 41
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +4
Contract jobs citing User Experience 5 11 6
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.26% 3.15% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 3.67% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 2
10th Percentile £357 £300 £413
25th Percentile £359 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £454 £427
Median % change year-on-year -17.40% +6.26% -28.94%
75th Percentile £444 £584 £443
90th Percentile £478 £585 £444
East of England median daily rate £468 £454 £548
% change year-on-year +2.97% -17.08% -5.60%
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 - - -72.74%

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 344 300 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.65% 85.96% 91.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 114 136
10th Percentile £275 £289 £216
25th Percentile £364 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £454 £480
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% -5.32% +0.95%
75th Percentile £616 £550 £570
90th Percentile £675 £634 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £454 £500
% change year-on-year +10.13% -9.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 79 186
10th Percentile £13.33 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
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 £19.78
90th Percentile £43.71 £32.89 £31.85
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £27.59 £21.39
% change year-on-year -23.87% +28.99% +1.83%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 -10 4 £368 +22.50% 4
Peterborough +1 1 £500 -12.28% 4
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 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Games
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Author
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Resource Coordinator
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Web Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Author
2 1 (20.00%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) Framer.js
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (20.00%) Atomic Design
2 1 (20.00%) Content Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
2 1 (20.00%) Journey Map
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (20.00%) UX Design
2 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (20.00%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (20.00%) VMware