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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 52 68
Rank change year-on-year -7 +16 -2
Contract jobs citing User Experience 84 73 58
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.49% 4.25% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.06% 4.54% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 38 41
10th Percentile £178 £425 £363
25th Percentile £372 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -
75th Percentile £638 £733 £675
90th Percentile £765 £800 £725
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
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 2,068 1,609 1,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.81% 93.76% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,024 1,373
10th Percentile £361 £355 £361
25th Percentile £450 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -2.04% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 16 13
10th Percentile £17.53 £19.25 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £23.16 £29.75 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.15% +13.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.78 £76.25 £48.57
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 15 June 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 15 June 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 4 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.38%) CMS
2 2 (2.38%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.19%) Apache
3 1 (1.19%) Camunda
3 1 (1.19%) Drupal
3 1 (1.19%) nginx
3 1 (1.19%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.19%) Sitefinity
3 1 (1.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.38%) Adobe XD
2 2 (2.38%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.19%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.19%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.19%) Sketch
3 1 (1.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.19%) Magento
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.90%) Figma
2 9 (10.71%) Power Platform
3 8 (9.52%) AWS
3 8 (9.52%) Azure
4 6 (7.14%) SaaS
5 3 (3.57%) Google Analytics
5 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.38%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (2.38%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (2.38%) Azure AI
6 2 (2.38%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.38%) GCP
6 2 (2.38%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.38%) Serverless
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.19%) Google Docs
7 1 (1.19%) Miro
7 1 (1.19%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.19%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) DHCP
1 1 (1.19%) DNS
1 1 (1.19%) Firewall
1 1 (1.19%) FTP
1 1 (1.19%) LAN
1 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.19%) Unified Communications
1 1 (1.19%) WAN
1 1 (1.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.14%) Power BI
2 2 (2.38%) MySQL
2 2 (2.38%) Text Mining
3 1 (1.19%) CockroachDB
3 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.19%) Looker
3 1 (1.19%) Metadata
3 1 (1.19%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.19%) Pinecone
3 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.19%) Redis
3 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Git
2 1 (1.19%) Claude Code
2 1 (1.19%) Fiddler
2 1 (1.19%) JIRA
2 1 (1.19%) MSI
2 1 (1.19%) PHPUnit
2 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.19%) Vite
General
1 21 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (23.81%) Finance
3 10 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Banking
4 7 (8.33%) Retail
5 6 (7.14%) Marketing
6 5 (5.95%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.76%) Publishing
8 2 (2.38%) Automotive
8 2 (2.38%) Legal
8 2 (2.38%) Military
8 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Electronics
9 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (21.43%) Analyst
2 13 (15.48%) Designer
2 13 (15.48%) Developer
3 12 (14.29%) Senior
4 8 (9.52%) Support Analyst
4 8 (9.52%) UX Designer
5 7 (8.33%) Architect
5 7 (8.33%) IT Analyst
5 7 (8.33%) IT Support
5 7 (8.33%) IT Support Analyst
6 5 (5.95%) Product Manager
6 5 (5.95%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.76%) Backend Developer
7 4 (4.76%) Junior
7 4 (4.76%) Lead
7 4 (4.76%) Product Owner
7 4 (4.76%) Report Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) Senior Backend Developer
7 4 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.76%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.29%) CSS
1 12 (14.29%) React
2 11 (13.10%) HTML
3 6 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 5 (5.95%) REST
5 4 (4.76%) .NET
5 4 (4.76%) OSGi
6 3 (3.57%) Vue
7 2 (2.38%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.38%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.38%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (2.38%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.38%) LangGraph
7 2 (2.38%) Middleware
7 2 (2.38%) SOAP
8 1 (1.19%) Model Context Protocol
8 1 (1.19%) Next.js
8 1 (1.19%) Spring
8 1 (1.19%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (1.19%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.95%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.19%) Clustering
5 1 (1.19%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.19%) EPoS
5 1 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.19%) Motion Graphics
5 1 (1.19%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Android
1 3 (3.57%) Apple iOS
1 3 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (1.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.38%) UX Design
2 20 (23.81%) AI
3 19 (22.62%) Analytics
4 18 (21.43%) Agile
5 13 (15.48%) Customer Service
5 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (14.29%) Validation
7 11 (13.10%) Wireframes
8 10 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (11.90%) User Research
9 9 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (10.71%) Interaction Design
9 9 (10.71%) Prototyping
9 9 (10.71%) Usability Testing
10 8 (9.52%) Decision-Making
10 8 (9.52%) Roadmaps
10 8 (9.52%) UX Research
11 7 (8.33%) Integration Patterns
12 6 (7.14%) CI/CD
12 6 (7.14%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.71%) JavaScript
2 8 (9.52%) Python
3 7 (8.33%) SQL
3 7 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 5 (5.95%) Java
5 2 (2.38%) C#
5 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.19%) C++
6 1 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.19%) PHP
6 1 (1.19%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.38%) Degree
4 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 7 (8.33%) QA
3 4 (4.76%) GDPR
3 4 (4.76%) WCAG
4 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.19%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (2.38%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.19%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.95%) Google
3 4 (4.76%) Adobe
3 4 (4.76%) Workday
4 3 (3.57%) Oracle
4 3 (3.57%) Qualtrics
4 3 (3.57%) SAP
5 2 (2.38%) Amplitude
5 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.19%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.19%) Databricks
6 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.19%) F5
6 1 (1.19%) Foundry
6 1 (1.19%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.19%) Sitecore