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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 57 46
Rank change year-on-year +10 -11 +38
Contract jobs citing User Experience 81 71 98
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.49% 3.41% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 3.71% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 34 61
10th Percentile £342 £463 £375
25th Percentile £440 £477 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £544 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% +2.59% -3.64%
75th Percentile £663 £613 £638
90th Percentile £738 £760 £734
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% -4.55%
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 1,639 1,916 2,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.90% 91.98% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,167 1,626
10th Percentile £339 £363 £363
25th Percentile £424 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £762 £788 £805
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 11
10th Percentile £19.98 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +62.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £43.33 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £55.25 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +37.25% -37.04%

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 17 December 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 17 December 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 (3.70%) CMS
1 3 (3.70%) Confluence
2 2 (2.47%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.47%) WordPress
3 1 (1.23%) Appian
3 1 (1.23%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Sketch
2 1 (1.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.23%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.23%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.23%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.05%) Azure
2 11 (13.58%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (11.11%) AWS
4 8 (9.88%) Figma
4 8 (9.88%) Power Platform
5 6 (7.41%) PowerApps
6 5 (6.17%) SaaS
7 4 (4.94%) GCP
7 4 (4.94%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.70%) Azure AI
8 3 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (3.70%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (3.70%) Firebase
8 3 (3.70%) Google Gemini
8 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (3.70%) Serverless
9 2 (2.47%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.47%) GitHub
9 2 (2.47%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) DNS
1 2 (2.47%) Softphone
1 2 (2.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.70%) Mixpanel
1 3 (3.70%) Power BI
2 2 (2.47%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Cypress.io
1 3 (3.70%) JIRA
1 3 (3.70%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 2 (2.47%) Git
2 2 (2.47%) Snyk
2 2 (2.47%) Storybook
3 1 (1.23%) Ant
3 1 (1.23%) GitLab
3 1 (1.23%) JUnit
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.23%) Vite
General
1 27 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 25 (30.86%) Finance
3 15 (18.52%) Banking
4 9 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.64%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.17%) Marketing
7 3 (3.70%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.47%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.47%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.47%) Legal
8 2 (2.47%) Retail
8 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.23%) Brand Awareness
9 1 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.23%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 16 (19.75%) Developer
2 15 (18.52%) Designer
2 15 (18.52%) Senior
3 6 (7.41%) UX Designer
4 5 (6.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (6.17%) IT Engineer
4 5 (6.17%) IT Support
4 5 (6.17%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (6.17%) Senior Designer
4 5 (6.17%) Service Designer
4 5 (6.17%) Support Engineer
5 4 (4.94%) Consultant
5 4 (4.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (4.94%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 4 (4.94%) Lead
6 3 (3.70%) Analyst
6 3 (3.70%) Architect
6 3 (3.70%) Senior Developer
6 3 (3.70%) Software Engineer
6 3 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.22%) CSS
1 18 (22.22%) HTML
2 12 (14.81%) React
3 9 (11.11%) HTML5
4 5 (6.17%) .NET
4 5 (6.17%) CSS3
5 4 (4.94%) AngularJS
5 4 (4.94%) Zustand
6 3 (3.70%) GraphQL
6 3 (3.70%) jQuery
6 3 (3.70%) JWT
6 3 (3.70%) Next.js
6 3 (3.70%) OAuth
6 3 (3.70%) OAuth2
6 3 (3.70%) Redux
6 3 (3.70%) RESTful
6 3 (3.70%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (2.47%) OSGi
7 2 (2.47%) REST
7 2 (2.47%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) Onboarding
1 10 (12.35%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.94%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.70%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.47%) Acoustics
4 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.47%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.47%) iPad
4 2 (2.47%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.47%) Social Media
4 2 (2.47%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.23%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.23%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.23%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.23%) Motion Graphics
5 1 (1.23%) SCORM
5 1 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.64%) Windows
2 5 (6.17%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.70%) Android
4 2 (2.47%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (35.80%) Agile
2 28 (34.57%) UX Design
3 18 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 16 (19.75%) Analytics
5 12 (14.81%) CI/CD
6 11 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (11.11%) AI
7 9 (11.11%) DevOps
7 9 (11.11%) Observability
8 8 (9.88%) Generative AI
8 8 (9.88%) Microservices
8 8 (9.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (8.64%) Actionable Insight
9 7 (8.64%) Fintech
9 7 (8.64%) Front End Development
9 7 (8.64%) Storytelling
10 6 (7.41%) Journey Map
10 6 (7.41%) LLM
10 6 (7.41%) Service Design
11 5 (6.17%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.99%) JavaScript
2 11 (13.58%) TypeScript
3 10 (12.35%) SQL
4 8 (9.88%) Java
5 6 (7.41%) C#
6 4 (4.94%) Python
7 2 (2.47%) Go
7 2 (2.47%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.23%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.23%) BeanShell
8 1 (1.23%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.23%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.58%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.64%) Degree
4 3 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.23%) MCP
5 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 6 (7.41%) GDPR
2 6 (7.41%) QA
3 4 (4.94%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (8.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.23%) Grafana
2 1 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.35%) Google
3 4 (4.94%) Adobe
3 4 (4.94%) Hotjar
4 3 (3.70%) Amplitude
4 3 (3.70%) Foundry
4 3 (3.70%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.70%) Optimizely
4 3 (3.70%) Oracle
4 3 (3.70%) OutSystems
4 3 (3.70%) SAP
5 2 (2.47%) Polycom
6 1 (1.23%) Apple
6 1 (1.23%) Dell
6 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.23%) HP
6 1 (1.23%) Kony
6 1 (1.23%) Qualtrics
6 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow