User Experience Contract Job Trends in the City of London

UX
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring User Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 53 67
Rank change year-on-year -8 +14 -6
Contract jobs citing User Experience 82 74 61
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.39% 3.94% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 4.19% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 43 39
10th Percentile £329 £428 £363
25th Percentile £406 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £719 £663
90th Percentile £747 £800 £728
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.73% +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £22.70 £46.85 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £47.75 £41.51
Median hourly rate £37.30 £51.00 £41.68
Median % change year-on-year -26.86% +22.38% -
75th Percentile £52.24 £54.75 £41.84
90th Percentile £52.39 £55.95 -
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £40.99 £34.12
% change year-on-year -43.50% +20.14% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,095 1,766 1,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.61% 93.99% 91.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 1,142 1,332
10th Percentile £368 £338 £363
25th Percentile £455 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.63
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £55.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £101.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -28.74% +16.86% -20.54%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Experience relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

User Experience job vacancy trend in the City of London

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing User Experience.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing User Experience

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the City of London

User Experience
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing User Experience.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing User Experience

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in the City of London

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 8 (9.76%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.88%) CMS
2 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.66%) WordPress
4 2 (2.44%) Confluence
4 2 (2.44%) Drupal
5 1 (1.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.22%) Apache
5 1 (1.22%) Camunda
5 1 (1.22%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (8.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.22%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.22%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.22%) Magento
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.98%) Azure
2 8 (9.76%) SaaS
3 7 (8.54%) AWS
3 7 (8.54%) Figma
3 7 (8.54%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.88%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.88%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.66%) Google Analytics
7 2 (2.44%) Azure AI
7 2 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.44%) GCP
7 2 (2.44%) GitHub
7 2 (2.44%) Miro
7 2 (2.44%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.44%) Serverless
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.22%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.22%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) DNS
2 3 (3.66%) DHCP
2 3 (3.66%) Firewall
2 3 (3.66%) LAN
2 3 (3.66%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.66%) Unified Communications
2 3 (3.66%) WAN
3 2 (2.44%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.22%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.66%) MySQL
2 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.44%) Power BI
3 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.22%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.22%) Looker
3 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.22%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (1.22%) Redis
3 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.66%) JIRA
2 2 (2.44%) Fiddler
2 2 (2.44%) Git
2 2 (2.44%) MSI
2 2 (2.44%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.44%) Vite
3 1 (1.22%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.22%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.22%) JUnit
3 1 (1.22%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (1.22%) PHPUnit
General
1 25 (30.49%) Social Skills
2 23 (28.05%) Finance
3 13 (15.85%) Banking
4 11 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.54%) Marketing
5 7 (8.54%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.32%) Retail
7 5 (6.10%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.88%) Publishing
9 2 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.44%) Legal
9 2 (2.44%) Military
9 2 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Back Office
10 1 (1.22%) Electronics
10 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.22%) Front Office
10 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (15.85%) Designer
2 11 (13.41%) Analyst
2 11 (13.41%) Developer
3 9 (10.98%) Senior
4 8 (9.76%) Architect
4 8 (9.76%) UX Designer
5 6 (7.32%) Product Manager
6 5 (6.10%) Lead
7 4 (4.88%) Product Designer
7 4 (4.88%) Product Owner
7 4 (4.88%) Report Analyst
7 4 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.88%) Workday Analyst
8 3 (3.66%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.66%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.66%) UI Designer
9 2 (2.44%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 2 (2.44%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.98%) React
2 7 (8.54%) REST
3 5 (6.10%) .NET
3 5 (6.10%) CSS
4 4 (4.88%) HTML
5 3 (3.66%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.66%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.44%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.44%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.44%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (2.44%) HTML5
6 2 (2.44%) Middleware
6 2 (2.44%) RESTful
6 2 (2.44%) SOAP
6 2 (2.44%) Spring
6 2 (2.44%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.44%) Vue
7 1 (1.22%) CSS3
7 1 (1.22%) D3.js
7 1 (1.22%) KnockoutJS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.98%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.10%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.44%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.22%) Clustering
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.22%) EPoS
6 1 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.32%) Windows
2 3 (3.66%) Android
2 3 (3.66%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.22%) Linux
3 1 (1.22%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (30.49%) UX Design
2 21 (25.61%) AI
3 19 (23.17%) Agile
4 17 (20.73%) Analytics
5 14 (17.07%) Validation
6 13 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (14.63%) Decision-Making
8 11 (13.41%) Roadmaps
8 11 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (13.41%) User Research
9 9 (10.98%) Wireframes
10 8 (9.76%) Customer Service
10 8 (9.76%) Interaction Design
11 7 (8.54%) CI/CD
11 7 (8.54%) E-Commerce
11 7 (8.54%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (8.54%) Integration Patterns
11 7 (8.54%) Prototyping
11 7 (8.54%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.76%) SQL
1 8 (9.76%) TypeScript
2 7 (8.54%) Python
3 4 (4.88%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.66%) Java
4 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.44%) C#
5 2 (2.44%) C++
6 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.22%) Go
6 1 (1.22%) PHP
6 1 (1.22%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.32%) Degree
4 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.22%) IIBA
5 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.98%) QA
2 8 (9.76%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.88%) GDPR
4 3 (3.66%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.66%) WCAG
5 1 (1.22%) GRC
5 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.22%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (3.66%) Docker
2 2 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.44%) vSphere
3 1 (1.22%) UAG
3 1 (1.22%) Varnish
3 1 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.44%) Terraform
3 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.10%) Google
3 4 (4.88%) Adobe
3 4 (4.88%) Workday
4 3 (3.66%) F5
4 3 (3.66%) Oracle
4 3 (3.66%) SAP
5 2 (2.44%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.44%) VMware
6 1 (1.22%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.22%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.22%) Apple
6 1 (1.22%) Databricks
6 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.22%) Foundry
6 1 (1.22%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.22%) Qualtrics
6 1 (1.22%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.22%) TikTok