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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 62 54
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 +32
Contract jobs citing User Experience 80 71 105
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.46% 3.37% 3.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 3.68% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 32 67
10th Percentile £363 £458 £375
25th Percentile £444 £469 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% - -1.82%
75th Percentile £642 £629 £631
90th Percentile £796 £723 £721
Central London median daily rate £543 £530 £535
% change year-on-year +2.36% -0.93% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.25 £41.25 £71.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 £42.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.24% -41.38% +33.03%
75th Percentile £56.75 £43.75 £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £42.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year -18.87% -35.85% +21.56%

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 1,674 1,928 2,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.31% 91.63% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,175 1,176 1,705
10th Percentile £330 £375 £363
25th Percentile £418 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £576 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +0.22% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £759 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 14
10th Percentile £17.02 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.25 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.50% +52.67% -36.41%
75th Percentile £43.33 £112.00 £52.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -20.71% +27.27% -45.54%

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 21 November 2025.

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
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience within the City of London region over the 6 months to 21 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £800 -
User Experience
Central 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 3 (3.75%) CMS
1 3 (3.75%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.50%) WordPress
3 1 (1.25%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.25%) Drupal
3 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Chatbot
1 5 (6.25%) Sketch
2 1 (1.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.25%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.25%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.00%) AWS
1 12 (15.00%) Figma
2 10 (12.50%) Azure
3 9 (11.25%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (7.50%) Serverless
5 5 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 5 (6.25%) SaaS
6 4 (5.00%) ChatGPT
6 4 (5.00%) GCP
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.75%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (3.75%) Datadog
7 3 (3.75%) Firebase
7 3 (3.75%) Google Gemini
7 3 (3.75%) IBM Watson
7 3 (3.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) DNS
1 2 (2.50%) Softphone
1 2 (2.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.75%) DynamoDB
1 3 (3.75%) Mixpanel
2 2 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.50%) Power BI
3 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (5.00%) JIRA
2 3 (3.75%) Cypress.io
2 3 (3.75%) Visual Website Optimizer
3 2 (2.50%) Git
3 2 (2.50%) Snyk
3 2 (2.50%) Storybook
4 1 (1.25%) Ant
4 1 (1.25%) Babel
4 1 (1.25%) GitLab
4 1 (1.25%) JUnit
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.25%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.25%) Vite
4 1 (1.25%) webpack
General
1 27 (33.75%) Finance
1 27 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.75%) Banking
3 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Retail
5 5 (6.25%) Marketing
5 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.75%) Legal
7 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.50%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.25%) Advertising
8 1 (1.25%) Brand Awareness
8 1 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.25%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (23.75%) Designer
2 16 (20.00%) Developer
3 10 (12.50%) Senior
4 7 (8.75%) UX Designer
5 5 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (5.00%) Consultant
6 4 (5.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (5.00%) IT Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) IT Support
6 4 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Lead
6 4 (5.00%) React Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Senior Designer
6 4 (5.00%) Service Designer
6 4 (5.00%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Analyst
7 3 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Conversion Specialist
7 3 (3.75%) Software Design Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.50%) CSS
1 18 (22.50%) HTML
2 11 (13.75%) React
3 9 (11.25%) HTML5
4 6 (7.50%) GraphQL
5 5 (6.25%) .NET
5 5 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 5 (6.25%) CSS3
5 5 (6.25%) WebSockets
6 4 (5.00%) jQuery
6 4 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (5.00%) Redux
6 4 (5.00%) Zustand
7 3 (3.75%) Jest
7 3 (3.75%) JWT
7 3 (3.75%) Next.js
7 3 (3.75%) OAuth2
7 3 (3.75%) RESTful
7 3 (3.75%) Sass
7 3 (3.75%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 9 (11.25%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.75%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.50%) Acoustics
5 2 (2.50%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.50%) e-Learning
5 2 (2.50%) iPad
5 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.50%) Social Media
5 2 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.25%) Animation
6 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.25%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.25%) Graphic Design
6 1 (1.25%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.25%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.25%) Motion Graphics
6 1 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.50%) Windows
2 4 (5.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.75%) Android
4 2 (2.50%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (42.50%) UX Design
2 30 (37.50%) Agile
3 17 (21.25%) Roadmaps
4 15 (18.75%) Analytics
5 14 (17.50%) CI/CD
6 11 (13.75%) AI
6 11 (13.75%) DevOps
6 11 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (12.50%) Observability
8 9 (11.25%) Front End Development
9 8 (10.00%) LLM
9 8 (10.00%) Microservices
10 7 (8.75%) Actionable Insight
10 7 (8.75%) Fintech
10 7 (8.75%) Mentoring
10 7 (8.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (8.75%) Storytelling
11 6 (7.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (7.50%) Journey Map
11 6 (7.50%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.25%) JavaScript
2 11 (13.75%) SQL
2 11 (13.75%) TypeScript
3 7 (8.75%) Python
4 6 (7.50%) C#
4 6 (7.50%) Java
5 2 (2.50%) Go
5 2 (2.50%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.25%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.25%) BeanShell
6 1 (1.25%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 12 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.25%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) MCP
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.75%) Accessibility
2 7 (8.75%) QA
3 6 (7.50%) GDPR
4 4 (5.00%) WCAG
5 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (7.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.25%) Grafana
3 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.50%) Google
3 4 (5.00%) Adobe
3 4 (5.00%) Genesys
3 4 (5.00%) Hotjar
4 3 (3.75%) Amplitude
4 3 (3.75%) IBM
4 3 (3.75%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.75%) Optimizely
4 3 (3.75%) Oracle
4 3 (3.75%) OutSystems
5 2 (2.50%) Polycom
5 2 (2.50%) SAP
6 1 (1.25%) Apple
6 1 (1.25%) Dell
6 1 (1.25%) Foundry
6 1 (1.25%) HP
6 1 (1.25%) Kony
6 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow