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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 52 56
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 +26
Contract jobs citing User Experience 90 69 78
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.80% 3.67% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.39% 3.99% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 29 49
10th Percentile £183 £423 £375
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% +0.57% -5.62%
75th Percentile £626 £575 £625
90th Percentile £738 £675 £727
Central London median daily rate £528 £523 £515
% change year-on-year +0.96% +1.46% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.72 £41.25 £71.25
Median hourly rate £51.44 £42.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.04% -41.38% +33.03%
75th Percentile £52.16 £43.75 £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £42.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year +21.04% -35.85% +21.56%

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 1,671 1,728 2,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.12% 91.87% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,049 1,555
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £429 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +1.05% -4.37%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £543 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -5.65% +2.22% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 13
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +18.18% -21.43%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £49.83 £112.00 £69.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 30 January 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 (3.33%) CMS
2 2 (2.22%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.11%) Appian
3 1 (1.11%) Camunda
3 1 (1.11%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.11%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.22%) Chatbot
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.22%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.11%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (1.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.11%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.11%) Sketch
2 1 (1.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.11%) Figma
1 10 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 9 (10.00%) Azure
3 7 (7.78%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.67%) AWS
4 6 (6.67%) SaaS
5 5 (5.56%) PowerApps
6 4 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.44%) Power Automate
6 4 (4.44%) Serverless
7 3 (3.33%) Azure AI
7 3 (3.33%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (3.33%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (3.33%) Google Gemini
7 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.22%) Cloud Run
8 2 (2.22%) Fastly
8 2 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.22%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) DNS
2 1 (1.11%) Softphone
2 1 (1.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.78%) Power BI
2 3 (3.33%) Mixpanel
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.22%) Text Mining
4 1 (1.11%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.11%) Metadata
4 1 (1.11%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.11%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 2 (2.22%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.22%) Git
2 2 (2.22%) Snyk
3 1 (1.11%) Ant
3 1 (1.11%) GitLab
3 1 (1.11%) JIRA
3 1 (1.11%) JUnit
3 1 (1.11%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.11%) Storybook
3 1 (1.11%) Vite
General
1 27 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.56%) Finance
3 11 (12.22%) Banking
4 8 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.56%) Marketing
7 2 (2.22%) Automotive
7 2 (2.22%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Retail
8 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Legal
8 1 (1.11%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (22.22%) Senior
2 18 (20.00%) Developer
3 15 (16.67%) Designer
4 13 (14.44%) Analyst
5 12 (13.33%) IT Support
6 7 (7.78%) IT Analyst
6 7 (7.78%) IT Support Analyst
6 7 (7.78%) Senior Developer
6 7 (7.78%) Support Analyst
7 6 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Backend Developer
7 6 (6.67%) Senior Backend Developer
7 6 (6.67%) Senior Designer
7 6 (6.67%) UX Designer
8 5 (5.56%) IT Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Consultant
9 4 (4.44%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) UX Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.22%) CSS
1 20 (22.22%) HTML
2 13 (14.44%) React
3 8 (8.89%) AngularJS
4 6 (6.67%) OSGi
5 5 (5.56%) HTML5
6 4 (4.44%) Zustand
7 3 (3.33%) .NET
7 3 (3.33%) CSS3
7 3 (3.33%) Next.js
7 3 (3.33%) OAuth
7 3 (3.33%) Redux
7 3 (3.33%) Tailwind CSS
7 3 (3.33%) WebSockets
8 2 (2.22%) Flask
8 2 (2.22%) jQuery
8 2 (2.22%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.22%) REST
8 2 (2.22%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (2.22%) WSE
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 8 (8.89%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.44%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.22%) Acoustics
4 2 (2.22%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.22%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.22%) Motion Graphics
5 1 (1.11%) Animation
5 1 (1.11%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.11%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.11%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.11%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.11%) SCORM
5 1 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.67%) Windows
2 5 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.22%) Android
4 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.11%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.78%) UX Design
2 23 (25.56%) Agile
3 20 (22.22%) Analytics
4 13 (14.44%) Roadmaps
5 11 (12.22%) CI/CD
6 10 (11.11%) AI
7 9 (10.00%) Customer Service
7 9 (10.00%) Observability
7 9 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (8.89%) A/B Testing
8 8 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (8.89%) Prototyping
9 7 (7.78%) Customer-Centricity
9 7 (7.78%) Generative AI
9 7 (7.78%) Journey Map
9 7 (7.78%) Workshop Facilitation
10 6 (6.67%) LLM
10 6 (6.67%) User Research
10 6 (6.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 6 (6.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.11%) JavaScript
2 9 (10.00%) Java
2 9 (10.00%) TypeScript
3 8 (8.89%) SQL
4 3 (3.33%) C#
4 3 (3.33%) Python
5 2 (2.22%) Go
6 1 (1.11%) BeanShell
6 1 (1.11%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.89%) GDPR
2 7 (7.78%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.67%) QA
4 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.11%) Grafana
2 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.00%) Google
3 4 (4.44%) Amplitude
3 4 (4.44%) Hotjar
3 4 (4.44%) Oracle
3 4 (4.44%) SAP
4 3 (3.33%) Adobe
4 3 (3.33%) Foundry
4 3 (3.33%) Optimizely
4 3 (3.33%) Qualtrics
5 2 (2.22%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.22%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.11%) Apple
6 1 (1.11%) Dell
6 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.11%) HP
6 1 (1.11%) Polycom
6 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.11%) Sitecore