User Experience Contracts in Cheshire

UX
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 46 38
Rank change year-on-year -7 -8 +14
Contract jobs citing User Experience 13 10 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.43% 1.82% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 2.14% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 9
10th Percentile £313 £378 £483
25th Percentile £340 £385 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £403 £580
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% -30.54% +15.90%
75th Percentile £382 £469 £586
90th Percentile £535 £528 £615
North West median daily rate £449 £463 £533
% change year-on-year -3.03% -13.15% +6.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 506 467 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 94.40% 84.91% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 313 290
10th Percentile £316 £310 £288
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £588
90th Percentile £644 £638 £651
North West median daily rate £454 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -8.38% -1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 31 29
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.72 £22.53
Median hourly rate £37.00 £36.50 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +1.37% +19.52% +40.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 - £40.00
North West median hourly rate £31.76 £27.25 £30.54
% change year-on-year +16.55% -10.77% +29.71%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in Cheshire

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in Cheshire

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Cheshire

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in Cheshire

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Knutsford -8 11 £345 -11.54% 1
Chester - 1 £600 - 7
User Experience
North West

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (30.77%) Confluence
2 2 (15.38%) CICS
3 1 (7.69%) Apache
3 1 (7.69%) nginx
3 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) InVision
1 2 (15.38%) UserZoom
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) DB2
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Git
1 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 4 (30.77%) Gradle
2 4 (30.77%) JIRA
2 4 (30.77%) Xcode
3 2 (15.38%) Axure RP
3 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 2 (15.38%) Eclipse
3 2 (15.38%) IntelliJ
3 2 (15.38%) Maven
3 2 (15.38%) REST Assured
3 2 (15.38%) Selenium
4 1 (7.69%) Gerrit
4 1 (7.69%) Subversion
General
1 5 (38.46%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) iOS Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Automation Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Business Process Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Process Manager
4 1 (7.69%) React Developer
4 1 (7.69%) UI Designer
4 1 (7.69%) UI Developer
4 1 (7.69%) UI/UX Designer
4 1 (7.69%) User Experience Researcher
4 1 (7.69%) User Researcher
4 1 (7.69%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) CSS
1 9 (69.23%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) React
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) CSS3
3 1 (7.69%) HTML5
3 1 (7.69%) jQuery
3 1 (7.69%) lodash
3 1 (7.69%) NgRx
3 1 (7.69%) React Native
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) RxJS
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Mobile App
2 4 (30.77%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Mainframe
3 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 2 (15.38%) VSAM
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Android
1 6 (46.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
1 8 (61.54%) UX Design
2 5 (38.46%) Roadmaps
3 4 (30.77%) BDD
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Deployment
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (30.77%) Front End Development
3 4 (30.77%) iOS Development
3 4 (30.77%) Mobile Development
3 4 (30.77%) Scrum
3 4 (30.77%) TDD
3 4 (30.77%) Technology Roadmap
3 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Code Quality
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Prototyping
4 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 3 (23.08%) Usability Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) JavaScript
2 7 (53.85%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) C
3 4 (30.77%) C++
3 4 (30.77%) Kotlin
3 4 (30.77%) Objective-C
3 4 (30.77%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) Ruby
3 4 (30.77%) Scala
3 4 (30.77%) Swift
4 2 (15.38%) COBOL
4 2 (15.38%) JCL
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft