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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 53 69
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 -1
Contract jobs citing User Experience 95 69 59
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.15% 3.97% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 4.25% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 35 40
10th Percentile £189 £425 £363
25th Percentile £404 £469 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +7.32% -6.82%
75th Percentile £663 £697 £656
90th Percentile £740 £800 £725
Central London median daily rate £600 £531 £500
% change year-on-year +12.94% +6.25% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £28.67 - -
25th Percentile £36.94 £46.25 £41.51
Median hourly rate £51.44 £47.50 £41.68
Median % change year-on-year +8.29% +13.98% -
75th Percentile £52.33 £48.75 £41.84
90th Percentile £52.42 - -
Central London median hourly rate £37.30 £47.50 £34.12
% change year-on-year -21.47% +39.22% -

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 1,940 1,624 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.72% 93.44% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,314 1,023 1,381
10th Percentile £360 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -0.44% -5.42%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £28.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% +12.60% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -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 14 May 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 14 May 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 2 (2.11%) CMS
1 2 (2.11%) Confluence
1 2 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.05%) Apache
2 1 (1.05%) Appian
2 1 (1.05%) Camunda
2 1 (1.05%) Drupal
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.05%) nginx
2 1 (1.05%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (1.05%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.05%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.11%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.05%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.05%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.05%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.05%) Sketch
3 1 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.05%) Magento
2 1 (1.05%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.05%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.05%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.58%) Power Platform
2 10 (10.53%) Azure
2 10 (10.53%) Figma
3 5 (5.26%) AWS
3 5 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (5.26%) SaaS
4 4 (4.21%) Google Analytics
5 3 (3.16%) Azure AI
5 3 (3.16%) Power Automate
5 3 (3.16%) PowerApps
5 3 (3.16%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (2.11%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (2.11%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (2.11%) GCP
6 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.11%) Miro
6 2 (2.11%) Serverless
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.05%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) FTP
1 1 (1.05%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.37%) Power BI
2 2 (2.11%) MySQL
2 2 (2.11%) Text Mining
3 1 (1.05%) CockroachDB
3 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.05%) Looker
3 1 (1.05%) Metadata
3 1 (1.05%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.05%) Pinecone
3 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.05%) Redis
3 1 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Git
2 1 (1.05%) Fiddler
2 1 (1.05%) JIRA
2 1 (1.05%) JUnit
2 1 (1.05%) MSI
2 1 (1.05%) PHPUnit
2 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.05%) Vite
General
1 26 (27.37%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.16%) Finance
3 12 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.47%) Banking
5 7 (7.37%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.32%) Retail
7 5 (5.26%) Marketing
8 4 (4.21%) Publishing
9 2 (2.11%) Automotive
9 2 (2.11%) Legal
9 2 (2.11%) Military
9 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Electronics
10 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (20.00%) Analyst
2 18 (18.95%) Senior
3 14 (14.74%) Developer
4 13 (13.68%) Designer
5 9 (9.47%) IT Support
6 8 (8.42%) Support Analyst
6 8 (8.42%) UX Designer
7 7 (7.37%) IT Analyst
7 7 (7.37%) IT Support Analyst
7 7 (7.37%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.32%) Architect
8 6 (6.32%) Backend Developer
8 6 (6.32%) Senior Backend Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Product Manager
9 5 (5.26%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Business Analyst
10 4 (4.21%) Report Analyst
10 4 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.21%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.74%) CSS
1 14 (14.74%) React
2 13 (13.68%) HTML
3 8 (8.42%) AngularJS
4 6 (6.32%) OSGi
5 3 (3.16%) .NET
5 3 (3.16%) REST
5 3 (3.16%) Vue
6 2 (2.11%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.11%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.11%) Middleware
6 2 (2.11%) SOAP
7 1 (1.05%) Django
7 1 (1.05%) HTML5
7 1 (1.05%) jQuery
7 1 (1.05%) NumPy
7 1 (1.05%) OAuth
7 1 (1.05%) Spring
7 1 (1.05%) WebSockets
7 1 (1.05%) WSE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 5 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.11%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.05%) Clustering
5 1 (1.05%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.05%) Motion Graphics
5 1 (1.05%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.21%) Android
1 4 (4.21%) Apple iOS
1 4 (4.21%) Windows
2 2 (2.11%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (24.21%) UX Design
2 21 (22.11%) Analytics
3 20 (21.05%) Agile
3 20 (21.05%) AI
4 13 (13.68%) Customer Service
4 13 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (12.63%) Roadmaps
5 12 (12.63%) Validation
6 11 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (11.58%) Wireframes
7 10 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (9.47%) Usability Testing
8 9 (9.47%) User Research
8 9 (9.47%) UX Research
9 8 (8.42%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (8.42%) CI/CD
9 8 (8.42%) Decision-Making
9 8 (8.42%) Interaction Design
9 8 (8.42%) Prototyping
10 7 (7.37%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.58%) JavaScript
2 8 (8.42%) Java
2 8 (8.42%) Python
2 8 (8.42%) TypeScript
3 7 (7.37%) SQL
4 2 (2.11%) C#
5 1 (1.05%) C++
5 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.05%) Go
5 1 (1.05%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.05%) PHP
5 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.05%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (8.42%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.37%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.16%) Degree
4 1 (1.05%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.05%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.05%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.53%) QA
2 9 (9.47%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.26%) GDPR
4 4 (4.21%) WCAG
5 3 (3.16%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (1.05%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (3.16%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.11%) Docker
3 1 (1.05%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.32%) Google
2 6 (6.32%) SAP
3 4 (4.21%) Adobe
3 4 (4.21%) Workday
4 3 (3.16%) Oracle
4 3 (3.16%) Qualtrics
5 2 (2.11%) Amplitude
5 2 (2.11%) Foundry
5 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.11%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.05%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.05%) Databricks
6 1 (1.05%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.05%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.05%) Sitecore