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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 57 70
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 -6
Contract jobs citing User Experience 89 68 58
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.84% 3.94% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 4.22% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 34 41
10th Percentile £221 £425 £363
25th Percentile £406 £466 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +3.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £689 £675
90th Percentile £744 £800 £725
Central London median daily rate £600 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -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 1,961 1,613 1,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.67% 93.56% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,340 1,012 1,391
10th Percentile £363 £351 £350
25th Percentile £450 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £574 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% +2.46% -6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.24 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.65
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 21 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 21 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 (2.25%) CMS
1 2 (2.25%) Confluence
1 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.12%) Apache
2 1 (1.12%) Appian
2 1 (1.12%) Camunda
2 1 (1.12%) Drupal
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.12%) nginx
2 1 (1.12%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (1.12%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.25%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.12%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.12%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.12%) Sketch
3 1 (1.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.12%) Magento
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.12%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.36%) Power Platform
2 10 (11.24%) Azure
2 10 (11.24%) Figma
3 5 (5.62%) AWS
3 5 (5.62%) SaaS
4 4 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.37%) Azure AI
5 3 (3.37%) Google Analytics
5 3 (3.37%) Power Automate
5 3 (3.37%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.25%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (2.25%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (2.25%) GCP
6 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.25%) Serverless
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.12%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.12%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) FTP
1 1 (1.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.87%) Power BI
2 2 (2.25%) MySQL
2 2 (2.25%) Text Mining
3 1 (1.12%) CockroachDB
3 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.12%) Looker
3 1 (1.12%) Metadata
3 1 (1.12%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.12%) Pinecone
3 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.12%) Redis
3 1 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Git
2 1 (1.12%) Fiddler
2 1 (1.12%) JIRA
2 1 (1.12%) MSI
2 1 (1.12%) PHPUnit
2 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.12%) Vite
General
1 22 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.47%) Finance
3 10 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.11%) Banking
5 6 (6.74%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.74%) Retail
6 5 (5.62%) Marketing
7 4 (4.49%) Publishing
8 2 (2.25%) Automotive
8 2 (2.25%) Legal
8 2 (2.25%) Military
8 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Electronics
9 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (19.10%) Analyst
1 17 (19.10%) Senior
2 13 (14.61%) Designer
2 13 (14.61%) Developer
3 8 (8.99%) IT Support
3 8 (8.99%) Support Analyst
3 8 (8.99%) UX Designer
4 7 (7.87%) IT Analyst
4 7 (7.87%) IT Support Analyst
4 7 (7.87%) Senior Developer
5 6 (6.74%) Architect
5 6 (6.74%) Backend Developer
5 6 (6.74%) Senior Backend Developer
6 5 (5.62%) Product Manager
6 5 (5.62%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Product Owner
7 4 (4.49%) Report Analyst
7 4 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.49%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.73%) CSS
1 14 (15.73%) React
2 13 (14.61%) HTML
3 8 (8.99%) AngularJS
4 6 (6.74%) OSGi
5 3 (3.37%) .NET
5 3 (3.37%) REST
5 3 (3.37%) Vue
6 2 (2.25%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.25%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.25%) Middleware
6 2 (2.25%) SOAP
7 1 (1.12%) D3.js
7 1 (1.12%) Django
7 1 (1.12%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.12%) HTML5
7 1 (1.12%) jQuery
7 1 (1.12%) Node.js
7 1 (1.12%) OAuth
7 1 (1.12%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.99%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.62%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.49%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.25%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.12%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.12%) Clustering
6 1 (1.12%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.12%) Motion Graphics
6 1 (1.12%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.37%) Android
1 3 (3.37%) Apple iOS
1 3 (3.37%) Windows
2 1 (1.12%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (25.84%) UX Design
2 20 (22.47%) AI
3 19 (21.35%) Analytics
4 18 (20.22%) Agile
5 13 (14.61%) Customer Service
6 11 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (12.36%) Wireframes
7 10 (11.24%) Validation
8 9 (10.11%) Roadmaps
8 9 (10.11%) User Research
9 8 (8.99%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (8.99%) Decision-Making
9 8 (8.99%) Interaction Design
9 8 (8.99%) Prototyping
9 8 (8.99%) Usability Testing
9 8 (8.99%) UX Research
10 7 (7.87%) CI/CD
10 7 (7.87%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.36%) JavaScript
2 8 (8.99%) Python
3 7 (7.87%) Java
3 7 (7.87%) TypeScript
4 6 (6.74%) SQL
5 2 (2.25%) C#
6 1 (1.12%) C++
6 1 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.12%) PHP
6 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.12%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (8.99%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.87%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.25%) Degree
4 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.99%) Accessibility
2 7 (7.87%) QA
3 4 (4.49%) GDPR
3 4 (4.49%) WCAG
4 3 (3.37%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.12%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (10.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.49%) Adobe
2 4 (4.49%) Google
2 4 (4.49%) SAP
2 4 (4.49%) Workday
3 3 (3.37%) Oracle
3 3 (3.37%) Qualtrics
4 2 (2.25%) Amplitude
4 2 (2.25%) Foundry
4 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.12%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.12%) Databricks
5 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.12%) Sitecore