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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 70 71
Rank change year-on-year +19 +1 -8
Contract jobs citing User Experience 79 67 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.14% 2.80% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 3.08% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 45 77
10th Percentile £356 £359 £396
25th Percentile £459 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £720 £650 £644
90th Percentile £800 £725 £718
London median daily rate £515 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +0.49% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £28.06 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £30.30 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £34.12 -
Median % change year-on-year +39.22% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.02 -
90th Percentile - £40.31 -
London median hourly rate £51.00 £32.39 £37.50
% change year-on-year +57.46% -13.63% -29.41%

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 1,782 2,175 3,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.45% 90.93% 91.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,157 1,539 2,277
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
75th Percentile £679 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 26
10th Percentile £19.04 £20.22 £14.75
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.00 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.38 £53.50
90th Percentile £50.75 £40.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year +14.29% -29.34% +11.62%

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 31 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 31 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 73 £550 +4.76% 52
Southwark - 3 £155 - 1
City of Westminster +2 2 - - 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 9 (11.39%) CMS
2 4 (5.06%) Drupal
3 3 (3.80%) Headless CMS
4 2 (2.53%) Confluence
4 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.27%) Apache
5 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Sketch
2 4 (5.06%) Chatbot
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.53%) Adobe XD
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.53%) SPSS
3 2 (2.53%) Stata
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.66%) AWS
1 10 (12.66%) Azure
1 10 (12.66%) Figma
2 9 (11.39%) Power Platform
3 7 (8.86%) SaaS
4 5 (6.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.06%) Amazon Cognito
5 4 (5.06%) Amazon EventBridge
5 4 (5.06%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.06%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (5.06%) Datadog
5 4 (5.06%) Serverless
6 3 (3.80%) Contentful
6 3 (3.80%) Contentstack
6 3 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) DNS
1 1 (1.27%) Firewall
1 1 (1.27%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.13%) Power BI
1 8 (10.13%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (7.59%) Tableau
3 5 (6.33%) BusinessObjects
3 5 (6.33%) Crystal Reports
3 5 (6.33%) DynamoDB
3 5 (6.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.53%) Mixpanel
5 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.27%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.27%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.27%) Looker
6 1 (1.27%) Metadata
6 1 (1.27%) MySQL
6 1 (1.27%) QGIS
6 1 (1.27%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.27%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 7 (8.86%) JIRA
2 4 (5.06%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.06%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.53%) Ant
3 2 (2.53%) Babel
3 2 (2.53%) Git
3 2 (2.53%) webpack
4 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.27%) Xcode
General
1 29 (36.71%) Social Skills
2 24 (30.38%) Finance
3 15 (18.99%) Banking
4 11 (13.92%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (12.66%) Retail
6 9 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (11.39%) Marketing
7 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
7 6 (7.59%) Retail Banking
8 5 (6.33%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.80%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.80%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.53%) Automotive
10 2 (2.53%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.53%) Games
10 2 (2.53%) International Banking
11 1 (1.27%) Front Office
11 1 (1.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (29.11%) Developer
2 19 (24.05%) Designer
3 6 (7.59%) Product Owner
4 5 (6.33%) Content Designer
4 5 (6.33%) Lead
4 5 (6.33%) Power BI Developer
4 5 (6.33%) Product Designer
4 5 (6.33%) Product Manager
4 5 (6.33%) React Developer
4 5 (6.33%) Senior
5 4 (5.06%) Analyst
5 4 (5.06%) UX Designer
6 3 (3.80%) CMS Developer
6 3 (3.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (3.80%) Junior
6 3 (3.80%) Junior Content Designer
6 3 (3.80%) Junior Designer
6 3 (3.80%) Software Design Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) SQL Developer
6 3 (3.80%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.13%) HTML
1 8 (10.13%) React
2 7 (8.86%) CSS
3 5 (6.33%) AngularJS
3 5 (6.33%) Redux
3 5 (6.33%) WebSockets
4 4 (5.06%) GraphQL
4 4 (5.06%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (5.06%) RESTful
5 3 (3.80%) .NET
5 3 (3.80%) jQuery
6 2 (2.53%) CSS3
6 2 (2.53%) HTML5
6 2 (2.53%) Material-UI
6 2 (2.53%) Playwright
6 2 (2.53%) pytest
6 2 (2.53%) REST
6 2 (2.53%) Semantic UI
6 2 (2.53%) SOAP
6 2 (2.53%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.66%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.33%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.80%) Acoustics
3 3 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.53%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.53%) Graphic Design
4 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.27%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.27%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.27%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.06%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.80%) Android
3 2 (2.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (39.24%) UX Design
2 24 (30.38%) Agile
3 18 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (17.72%) User Research
5 13 (16.46%) Product Strategy
6 11 (13.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (13.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 9 (11.39%) Project Management
7 9 (11.39%) Roadmaps
8 8 (10.13%) Analytics
8 8 (10.13%) Artificial Intelligence
8 8 (10.13%) CI/CD
8 8 (10.13%) Content Management
8 8 (10.13%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (10.13%) Requirements Gathering
8 8 (10.13%) UX Research
8 8 (10.13%) Visualisation
8 8 (10.13%) Wireframes
9 7 (8.86%) Mentoring
9 7 (8.86%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.46%) SQL
2 9 (11.39%) Python
3 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.33%) C#
5 3 (3.80%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.53%) R
7 1 (1.27%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (5.06%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.80%) Degree
3 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.27%) PMP
4 1 (1.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.72%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.80%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (3.80%) QA
2 3 (3.80%) WCAG
3 1 (1.27%) PMO
3 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.06%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.33%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.06%) Genesys
4 3 (3.80%) Cisco
4 3 (3.80%) IBM
4 3 (3.80%) Logitech
5 2 (2.53%) Adobe
5 2 (2.53%) Optimizely
5 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (2.53%) SAP
6 1 (1.27%) Databricks
6 1 (1.27%) Google
6 1 (1.27%) OutSystems