User Experience Contracts in the City of London

UX
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 67 61
Rank change year-on-year +17 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing User Experience 70 60 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.90% 2.81% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 3.09% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 39 77
10th Percentile £434 £363 £394
25th Percentile £475 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £733 £688 £644
90th Percentile £800 £728 £718
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £46.85 - -
25th Percentile £47.75 £41.51 -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £41.68 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.38% - -
75th Percentile £54.75 £41.84 -
90th Percentile £55.95 - -
Central London median hourly rate £40.99 £34.12 -
% change year-on-year +20.14% - -

All Process and 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 1,687 1,944 3,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.88% 91.05% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,349 2,115
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the City of London

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the City of London

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the City of London

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the City of London

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 6 (8.57%) CMS
2 3 (4.29%) Headless CMS
2 3 (4.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.43%) Apache
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.43%) Confluence
3 1 (1.43%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Sketch
2 4 (5.71%) Chatbot
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.43%) Adobe XD
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.43%) SPSS
5 1 (1.43%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.71%) AWS
1 11 (15.71%) Azure
1 11 (15.71%) Figma
2 9 (12.86%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
4 5 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
4 5 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 5 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (7.14%) Datadog
4 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
4 5 (7.14%) Serverless
5 3 (4.29%) ChatGPT
5 3 (4.29%) Contentful
5 3 (4.29%) Contentstack
5 3 (4.29%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) DNS
1 1 (1.43%) Firewall
1 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.43%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) Power BI
1 7 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (8.57%) DynamoDB
2 6 (8.57%) Tableau
3 5 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
3 5 (7.14%) Crystal Reports
3 5 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (4.29%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.86%) Mixpanel
5 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.43%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.43%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.43%) Looker
6 1 (1.43%) Metadata
6 1 (1.43%) MySQL
6 1 (1.43%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.43%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) JIRA
2 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.71%) TeamCity
3 3 (4.29%) Babel
3 3 (4.29%) webpack
4 2 (2.86%) Ant
4 2 (2.86%) Git
5 1 (1.43%) Xcode
General
1 25 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 20 (28.57%) Finance
3 11 (15.71%) Banking
4 10 (14.29%) Marketing
5 8 (11.43%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (11.43%) Retail
6 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (5.71%) Retail Banking
9 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.86%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.86%) Games
10 2 (2.86%) International Banking
11 1 (1.43%) Advertising
11 1 (1.43%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (32.86%) Developer
2 15 (21.43%) Designer
3 5 (7.14%) Power BI Developer
3 5 (7.14%) React Developer
4 4 (5.71%) Analyst
4 4 (5.71%) Product Designer
4 4 (5.71%) Senior
4 4 (5.71%) Software Design Engineer
4 4 (5.71%) Software Engineer
4 4 (5.71%) UX Designer
5 3 (4.29%) CMS Developer
5 3 (4.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (4.29%) Lead
5 3 (4.29%) Product Manager
5 3 (4.29%) Product Owner
5 3 (4.29%) SQL Developer
5 3 (4.29%) User Experience Researcher
6 2 (2.86%) Content Designer
6 2 (2.86%) Email Developer
6 2 (2.86%) Senior User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.43%) CSS
1 8 (11.43%) HTML
1 8 (11.43%) React
2 6 (8.57%) AngularJS
3 5 (7.14%) GraphQL
3 5 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (7.14%) Redux
3 5 (7.14%) WebSockets
4 4 (5.71%) RESTful
5 3 (4.29%) .NET
5 3 (4.29%) jQuery
6 2 (2.86%) CSS3
6 2 (2.86%) HTML5
6 2 (2.86%) Playwright
6 2 (2.86%) pytest
6 2 (2.86%) REST
6 2 (2.86%) Semantic UI
6 2 (2.86%) SOAP
6 2 (2.86%) Web Services
6 2 (2.86%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.71%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.29%) Acoustics
3 3 (4.29%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.86%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.43%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.43%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.71%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.29%) Android
3 2 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (37.14%) UX Design
2 22 (31.43%) Agile
3 16 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (18.57%) Product Strategy
5 11 (15.71%) User Research
6 10 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 9 (12.86%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (11.43%) Analytics
8 8 (11.43%) Artificial Intelligence
8 8 (11.43%) DevOps
8 8 (11.43%) Mentoring
8 8 (11.43%) Software Engineering
8 8 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (11.43%) UX Research
8 8 (11.43%) Visualisation
9 7 (10.00%) B2C
9 7 (10.00%) Fintech
9 7 (10.00%) Project Management
9 7 (10.00%) Wireframes
10 6 (8.57%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.57%) SQL
2 10 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 10 (14.29%) Python
3 6 (8.57%) C#
4 2 (2.86%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.43%) Objective-C
5 1 (1.43%) R
5 1 (1.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (5.71%) Degree
2 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.43%) PMP
3 1 (1.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.14%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.71%) WCAG
3 3 (4.29%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (4.29%) QA
4 1 (1.43%) PMO
4 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.14%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.71%) Genesys
4 3 (4.29%) IBM
5 2 (2.86%) Adobe
5 2 (2.86%) Cisco
5 2 (2.86%) Logitech
5 2 (2.86%) Optimizely
5 2 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (2.86%) SAP
6 1 (1.43%) Databricks
6 1 (1.43%) Google
6 1 (1.43%) OutSystems