User Experience Contracts in Central London

UX
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 69 70
Rank change year-on-year +16 +1 -10
Contract jobs citing User Experience 77 67 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.86% 2.74% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 3.02% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 44 73
10th Percentile £342 £358 £364
25th Percentile £454 £422 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £644
90th Percentile £756 £725 £724
London median daily rate £515 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £29.55 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £34.04 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £41.68 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.98% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £53.42 -
90th Percentile - £60.37 -
London median hourly rate £49.50 £41.68 £37.50
% change year-on-year +18.78% +11.13% -28.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in Central London

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Experience in Central London.

Daily rate trend for User Experience in Central London

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Central London

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Experience in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in Central London

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +18 69 £531 +6.25% 50
City of Westminster +1 3 £475 -5.00% 2
Southwark - 3 £155 -
West End of London -4 1 £475 +31.03% 4
User Experience
London

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 10 (12.99%) CMS
2 4 (5.19%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.90%) Drupal
3 3 (3.90%) Headless CMS
4 2 (2.60%) Confluence
5 1 (1.30%) Apache
5 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.90%) Sketch
4 2 (2.60%) Adobe XD
4 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.30%) SPSS
5 1 (1.30%) Stata
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.30%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.88%) Power Platform
2 10 (12.99%) Azure
3 8 (10.39%) SaaS
4 7 (9.09%) AWS
5 6 (7.79%) Figma
6 5 (6.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (5.19%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.90%) Contentful
8 3 (3.90%) Contentstack
8 3 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.90%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.90%) prismic.io
9 2 (2.60%) AppsFlyer
9 2 (2.60%) GCP
9 2 (2.60%) npm
9 2 (2.60%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.60%) Yarn
10 1 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) Intranet
2 1 (1.30%) DNS
2 1 (1.30%) Firewall
2 1 (1.30%) Internet
2 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.30%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.58%) Power BI
2 8 (10.39%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.39%) Tableau
3 6 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (6.49%) BusinessObjects
4 5 (6.49%) Crystal Reports
4 5 (6.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.90%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.60%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.60%) Metadata
6 2 (2.60%) Mixpanel
6 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.30%) Data Hub
7 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.30%) Looker
7 1 (1.30%) MySQL
7 1 (1.30%) QGIS
7 1 (1.30%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.30%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 6 (7.79%) JIRA
2 4 (5.19%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.19%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.60%) Ant
3 2 (2.60%) Babel
3 2 (2.60%) Git
3 2 (2.60%) webpack
4 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (41.56%) Social Skills
2 21 (27.27%) Finance
3 14 (18.18%) Banking
4 10 (12.99%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (11.69%) Marketing
6 7 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 7 (9.09%) Retail
6 7 (9.09%) Retail Banking
7 5 (6.49%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (5.19%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (5.19%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.60%) Automotive
9 2 (2.60%) International Banking
10 1 (1.30%) Back Office
10 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.30%) Front Office
10 1 (1.30%) Games
10 1 (1.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 26 (33.77%) Developer
2 15 (19.48%) Designer
3 8 (10.39%) Power BI Developer
4 6 (7.79%) Lead
4 6 (7.79%) Product Owner
4 6 (7.79%) React Developer
5 5 (6.49%) Analyst
5 5 (6.49%) Content Designer
5 5 (6.49%) Product Designer
5 5 (6.49%) Product Manager
5 5 (6.49%) Senior
6 3 (3.90%) CMS Developer
6 3 (3.90%) Data Analyst
6 3 (3.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (3.90%) Junior
6 3 (3.90%) Junior Content Designer
6 3 (3.90%) Junior Designer
6 3 (3.90%) Power Platform Developer
6 3 (3.90%) SQL Developer
6 3 (3.90%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.69%) React
2 6 (7.79%) CSS
2 6 (7.79%) HTML
3 5 (6.49%) Redux
3 5 (6.49%) RESTful
4 4 (5.19%) .NET
5 2 (2.60%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.60%) CSS3
5 2 (2.60%) HTML5
5 2 (2.60%) jQuery
5 2 (2.60%) Material-UI
5 2 (2.60%) Playwright
5 2 (2.60%) pytest
5 2 (2.60%) REST
5 2 (2.60%) Semantic UI
5 2 (2.60%) SOAP
5 2 (2.60%) Web Services
5 2 (2.60%) WebSockets
5 2 (2.60%) WPF
6 1 (1.30%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.49%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.90%) Acoustics
4 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.60%) Graphic Design
4 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.30%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.30%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.30%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Android
1 3 (3.90%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.60%) Windows
3 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (35.06%) UX Design
2 22 (28.57%) Agile
3 19 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (18.18%) User Research
5 13 (16.88%) Product Strategy
6 10 (12.99%) Analytics
6 10 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (12.99%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 10 (12.99%) Visualisation
7 9 (11.69%) Project Management
7 9 (11.69%) Requirements Gathering
7 9 (11.69%) Wireframes
8 8 (10.39%) Content Management
8 8 (10.39%) Roadmaps
9 7 (9.09%) B2C
9 7 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (9.09%) Product Roadmap
9 7 (9.09%) Usability Testing
10 6 (7.79%) Product Vision
10 6 (7.79%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.58%) SQL
2 7 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 6 (7.79%) C#
3 6 (7.79%) Python
4 3 (3.90%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.30%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.30%) Objective-C
5 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.30%) R
5 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (5.19%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.60%) Degree
3 2 (2.60%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.60%) PMP
4 1 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.30%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.60%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (2.60%) QA
2 2 (2.60%) WCAG
3 1 (1.30%) PMO
3 1 (1.30%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.60%) Terraform
2 1 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.49%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.19%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.90%) Cisco
4 3 (3.90%) Logitech
4 3 (3.90%) SAP
5 2 (2.60%) Adobe
5 2 (2.60%) Optimizely
5 2 (2.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.30%) Databricks
6 1 (1.30%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.30%) Google
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle
6 1 (1.30%) OutSystems