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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 54 74
Rank change year-on-year +10 +20 +4
Contract jobs citing User Experience 93 64 54
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.34% 3.70% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 4.01% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 36 34
10th Percentile £182 £419 £369
25th Percentile £419 £461 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £527 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +2.73% -6.82%
75th Percentile £663 £600 £634
90th Percentile £738 £738 £714
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £44.49
25th Percentile £50.72 £46.25 £48.95
Median hourly rate £51.44 £47.50 £57.09
Median % change year-on-year +8.29% -16.79% +8.74%
75th Percentile £52.16 £48.75 £65.77
90th Percentile - - £70.56
Central London median hourly rate £37.22 £47.50 £50.84
% change year-on-year -21.64% -6.57% -3.17%

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 1,876 1,596 2,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.46% 92.15% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,294 1,030 1,465
10th Percentile £363 £365 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £669 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £766 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.46 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £45.08 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £58.53 £51.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +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 31 March 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
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 3 (3.23%) CMS
2 2 (2.15%) Confluence
2 2 (2.15%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.08%) Appian
3 1 (1.08%) Camunda
3 1 (1.08%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.08%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.08%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.15%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.08%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.08%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.08%) Sketch
2 1 (1.08%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.08%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.90%) Power Platform
2 11 (11.83%) Azure
2 11 (11.83%) Figma
3 6 (6.45%) AWS
3 6 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.38%) PowerApps
5 4 (4.30%) Azure AI
5 4 (4.30%) Power Automate
6 3 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (3.23%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (3.23%) Google Analytics
6 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (3.23%) SaaS
6 3 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (2.15%) Contentful
7 2 (2.15%) Contentstack
7 2 (2.15%) GCP
7 2 (2.15%) Miro
7 2 (2.15%) prismic.io
8 1 (1.08%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.53%) Power BI
2 2 (2.15%) Text Mining
3 1 (1.08%) CockroachDB
3 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.08%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.08%) Looker
3 1 (1.08%) Metadata
3 1 (1.08%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.08%) MySQL
3 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.08%) Pinecone
3 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Git
2 1 (1.08%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.08%) GitLab
2 1 (1.08%) JIRA
2 1 (1.08%) JUnit
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.08%) Vite
General
1 27 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 25 (26.88%) Finance
3 10 (10.75%) Banking
4 9 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.30%) Publishing
6 3 (3.23%) Retail
7 2 (2.15%) Automotive
7 2 (2.15%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.15%) Marketing
7 2 (2.15%) Military
7 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (20.43%) Analyst
1 19 (20.43%) Senior
2 16 (17.20%) Designer
3 15 (16.13%) Developer
4 12 (12.90%) IT Support
5 8 (8.60%) Support Analyst
5 8 (8.60%) UX Designer
6 7 (7.53%) IT Analyst
6 7 (7.53%) IT Support Analyst
6 7 (7.53%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Backend Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Senior Backend Developer
8 5 (5.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Consultant
8 5 (5.38%) IT Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Product Manager
9 4 (4.30%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.98%) CSS
1 13 (13.98%) HTML
1 13 (13.98%) React
2 8 (8.60%) AngularJS
3 6 (6.45%) OSGi
4 3 (3.23%) Vue
5 2 (2.15%) .NET
5 2 (2.15%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (2.15%) Node.js
5 2 (2.15%) WSE
6 1 (1.08%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.08%) Django
6 1 (1.08%) HTML5
6 1 (1.08%) NumPy
6 1 (1.08%) OAuth
6 1 (1.08%) REST
6 1 (1.08%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.08%) Sass
6 1 (1.08%) WebSockets
6 1 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.83%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.53%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.30%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.30%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.15%) Acoustics
5 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.08%) Animation
6 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.08%) Motion Graphics
6 1 (1.08%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.38%) Android
1 5 (5.38%) Windows
1 5 (5.38%) Windows 10
2 4 (4.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.08%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.88%) UX Design
2 21 (22.58%) Agile
3 18 (19.35%) Analytics
4 16 (17.20%) AI
5 13 (13.98%) Customer Service
6 11 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (10.75%) Roadmaps
8 9 (9.68%) Prototyping
8 9 (9.68%) UX Research
8 9 (9.68%) Validation
8 9 (9.68%) Wireframes
9 8 (8.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (8.60%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (8.60%) User Research
10 7 (7.53%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (7.53%) CI/CD
10 7 (7.53%) Generative AI
11 6 (6.45%) Usability Testing
11 6 (6.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.90%) JavaScript
2 10 (10.75%) Java
3 8 (8.60%) TypeScript
4 7 (7.53%) Python
4 7 (7.53%) SQL
5 2 (2.15%) C#
5 2 (2.15%) Go
6 1 (1.08%) BeanShell
6 1 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.08%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.08%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.60%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.23%) Degree
4 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.75%) Accessibility
1 10 (10.75%) QA
2 4 (4.30%) GDPR
2 4 (4.30%) WCAG
3 2 (2.15%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.08%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (5.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.08%) Grafana
1 1 (1.08%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (1.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.45%) Google
3 5 (5.38%) SAP
4 4 (4.30%) Workday
5 3 (3.23%) Adobe
5 3 (3.23%) Foundry
5 3 (3.23%) Oracle
5 3 (3.23%) Qualtrics
6 2 (2.15%) Amplitude
6 2 (2.15%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.08%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.08%) Apple
7 1 (1.08%) Databricks
7 1 (1.08%) Dell
7 1 (1.08%) Hotjar
7 1 (1.08%) HP
7 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.08%) Sitecore