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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 47 60
Rank change year-on-year -24 +13 -11
Contract jobs citing User Experience 66 78 66
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.84% 4.25% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 4.51% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 47 32
10th Percentile £238 £406 £425
25th Percentile £402 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £614
Median % change year-on-year -7.98% -7.13% +14.72%
75th Percentile £663 £697 £725
90th Percentile £765 £800 £749
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.64% -4.35% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £22.63 - -
25th Percentile £22.83 £52.25 -
Median hourly rate £23.16 £54.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.50% - -
75th Percentile £37.83 £56.75 -
90th Percentile £46.62 - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £34.48 £26.56
% change year-on-year -32.83% +29.82% -

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 2,036 1,729 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.68% 94.22% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 1,136 1,253
10th Percentile £379 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 16
10th Percentile - £17.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £24.21 £19.79
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.15 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.06% +5.73% -3.18%
75th Percentile £35.14 £50.25 £82.19
90th Percentile £61.25 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.65 £28.79 £26.78
% change year-on-year -14.38% +7.49% -23.49%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 (12.12%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.06%) CMS
2 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.55%) WordPress
4 2 (3.03%) Confluence
4 2 (3.03%) Drupal
5 1 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.52%) Apache
5 1 (1.52%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (10.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.52%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.52%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.52%) Magento
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.12%) Power Platform
2 7 (10.61%) Azure
3 5 (7.58%) AWS
3 5 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.58%) SaaS
4 4 (6.06%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.06%) OneDrive
5 3 (4.55%) Figma
5 3 (4.55%) Google Analytics
6 2 (3.03%) Azure AI
6 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.03%) GitHub
6 2 (3.03%) Miro
6 2 (3.03%) Serverless
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.52%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.52%) OCI
7 1 (1.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) DNS
2 3 (4.55%) DHCP
2 3 (4.55%) Firewall
2 3 (4.55%) LAN
2 3 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.55%) Unified Communications
2 3 (4.55%) WAN
3 2 (3.03%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.52%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.55%) Power BI
2 2 (3.03%) MySQL
2 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.03%) Tableau
3 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.52%) Looker
3 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.52%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (1.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) JIRA
2 2 (3.03%) Fiddler
2 2 (3.03%) Git
2 2 (3.03%) MSI
2 2 (3.03%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.03%) Vite
3 1 (1.52%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.52%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.52%) JUnit
3 1 (1.52%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (1.52%) PHPUnit
General
1 20 (30.30%) Finance
2 18 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 13 (19.70%) Banking
4 7 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.61%) Marketing
5 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.58%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (7.58%) Retail
7 3 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.03%) Back Office
8 2 (3.03%) Legal
8 2 (3.03%) Publishing
8 2 (3.03%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.52%) Electronics
9 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.52%) Front Office
9 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.52%) Military
9 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (15.15%) Designer
1 10 (15.15%) Developer
2 9 (13.64%) Analyst
3 8 (12.12%) Senior
4 6 (9.09%) Architect
5 4 (6.06%) Business Analyst
5 4 (6.06%) Lead
5 4 (6.06%) UX Designer
6 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (4.55%) Service Designer
6 3 (4.55%) UI Designer
7 2 (3.03%) Consultant
7 2 (3.03%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.03%) Junior
7 2 (3.03%) Product Manager
7 2 (3.03%) Report Analyst
7 2 (3.03%) Senior Designer
7 2 (3.03%) SharePoint Developer
7 2 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.03%) Web Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.61%) REST
2 6 (9.09%) React
3 5 (7.58%) .NET
3 5 (7.58%) CSS
4 4 (6.06%) HTML
5 3 (4.55%) .NET Framework
5 3 (4.55%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.03%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.03%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.03%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (3.03%) HTML5
6 2 (3.03%) RESTful
6 2 (3.03%) SOAP
6 2 (3.03%) Terraform
7 1 (1.52%) D3.js
7 1 (1.52%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.52%) KnockoutJS
7 1 (1.52%) Middleware
7 1 (1.52%) NumPy
7 1 (1.52%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.55%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.03%) Educational Technology
3 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.52%) Clustering
4 1 (1.52%) Derivative
4 1 (1.52%) EPoS
4 1 (1.52%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (1.52%) Android
2 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.52%) Linux
2 1 (1.52%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (24.24%) AI
1 16 (24.24%) UX Design
2 14 (21.21%) Analytics
3 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (18.18%) Agile
5 10 (15.15%) Validation
6 9 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (13.64%) Decision-Making
6 9 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (12.12%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (10.61%) Visualisation
8 7 (10.61%) Workshop Facilitation
9 6 (9.09%) Customer Service
9 6 (9.09%) E-Commerce
9 6 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (9.09%) Roadmaps
9 6 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
10 5 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (7.58%) Data Modelling
10 5 (7.58%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.64%) SQL
2 5 (7.58%) TypeScript
3 4 (6.06%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.06%) Python
4 3 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.03%) C#
5 2 (3.03%) C++
5 2 (3.03%) Java
6 1 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.52%) Go
6 1 (1.52%) PHP
6 1 (1.52%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
1 10 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.06%) Degree
3 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.52%) IIBA
3 1 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) QA
2 4 (6.06%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.55%) GDPR
3 3 (4.55%) WCAG
4 1 (1.52%) GRC
4 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.52%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.03%) Docker
1 2 (3.03%) vSphere
2 1 (1.52%) UAG
2 1 (1.52%) Varnish
2 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.58%) Google
3 3 (4.55%) Adobe
3 3 (4.55%) F5
4 2 (3.03%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.03%) Oracle
4 2 (3.03%) SAP
4 2 (3.03%) VMware
4 2 (3.03%) Workday
5 1 (1.52%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.52%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.52%) Apple
5 1 (1.52%) Databricks
5 1 (1.52%) Foundry
5 1 (1.52%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.52%) Qualtrics
5 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.52%) TikTok