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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 56 48
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 +28
Contract jobs citing User Experience 72 74 114
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.24% 3.52% 4.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 3.84% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 34 73
10th Percentile £406 £463 £375
25th Percentile £463 £484 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +2.33%
75th Percentile £652 £647 £638
90th Percentile £800 £734 £713
Central London median daily rate £550 £556 £550
% change year-on-year -1.12% +1.14% +4.76%
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 £72.50
% change year-on-year -18.87% -41.38% +33.03%

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 1,601 1,928 2,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.29% 91.63% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,184 1,769
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £763 £786 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 18
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.07 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +36.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £51.06
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £70.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -20.71% +27.27% -36.22%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 (4.17%) CMS
1 3 (4.17%) Confluence
2 2 (2.78%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.78%) WordPress
3 1 (1.39%) Drupal
3 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Chatbot
1 5 (6.94%) Sketch
2 1 (1.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.39%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.39%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.39%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.39%) SPSS
2 1 (1.39%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.67%) AWS
2 11 (15.28%) Figma
3 9 (12.50%) Azure
4 7 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (9.72%) Serverless
5 6 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (6.94%) SaaS
7 4 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (5.56%) Amazon Cognito
7 4 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
7 4 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (5.56%) ChatGPT
7 4 (5.56%) Datadog
7 4 (5.56%) GCP
7 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.17%) Firebase
8 3 (4.17%) Google Gemini
8 3 (4.17%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) DNS
1 2 (2.78%) Softphone
1 2 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.56%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.17%) Mixpanel
3 2 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.78%) Power BI
4 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (5.56%) JIRA
2 3 (4.17%) Visual Website Optimizer
3 2 (2.78%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.78%) Snyk
3 2 (2.78%) Storybook
4 1 (1.39%) Ant
4 1 (1.39%) Babel
4 1 (1.39%) Git
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.39%) webpack
4 1 (1.39%) Xcode
General
1 26 (36.11%) Finance
2 21 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 15 (20.83%) Banking
4 7 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.33%) Retail
6 5 (6.94%) Marketing
7 3 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.17%) Legal
7 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.78%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.39%) Advertising
9 1 (1.39%) Brand Awareness
9 1 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.39%) Games
9 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.39%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Designer
2 15 (20.83%) Developer
3 8 (11.11%) Senior
4 7 (9.72%) UX Designer
5 5 (6.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (5.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (5.56%) Lead
6 4 (5.56%) React Developer
6 4 (5.56%) Senior Designer
6 4 (5.56%) Service Designer
6 4 (5.56%) Software Design Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Architect
7 3 (4.17%) Conversion Specialist
7 3 (4.17%) Technical Architect
8 2 (2.78%) Consultant
8 2 (2.78%) Product Manager
8 2 (2.78%) Technical Leader
8 2 (2.78%) UI Designer
8 2 (2.78%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (23.61%) CSS
1 17 (23.61%) HTML
2 10 (13.89%) React
3 9 (12.50%) HTML5
4 7 (9.72%) GraphQL
5 6 (8.33%) AngularJS
5 6 (8.33%) WebSockets
6 5 (6.94%) .NET
6 5 (6.94%) CSS3
7 4 (5.56%) jQuery
7 4 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (5.56%) Redux
7 4 (5.56%) Zustand
8 3 (4.17%) Jest
8 3 (4.17%) JWT
8 3 (4.17%) Next.js
8 3 (4.17%) OAuth
8 3 (4.17%) OAuth2
8 3 (4.17%) RESTful
8 3 (4.17%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.17%) Low-Code
4 3 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.78%) Acoustics
5 2 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.78%) e-Learning
5 2 (2.78%) iPad
5 2 (2.78%) Social Media
5 2 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.39%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.39%) Animation
6 1 (1.39%) Graphic Design
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.39%) SCORM
6 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.39%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.17%) Windows
2 2 (2.78%) Android
2 2 (2.78%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.78%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (45.83%) UX Design
2 28 (38.89%) Agile
3 15 (20.83%) Roadmaps
4 13 (18.06%) Analytics
4 13 (18.06%) CI/CD
5 11 (15.28%) DevOps
6 10 (13.89%) AI
6 10 (13.89%) Observability
7 9 (12.50%) Front End Development
7 9 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (11.11%) Fintech
9 7 (9.72%) Actionable Insight
9 7 (9.72%) LLM
9 7 (9.72%) Mentoring
10 6 (8.33%) Customer Experience
10 6 (8.33%) Journey Map
10 6 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (8.33%) Storytelling
10 6 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (8.33%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 16 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 10 (13.89%) SQL
3 8 (11.11%) Python
3 8 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 6 (8.33%) C#
5 4 (5.56%) Java
6 2 (2.78%) Objective-C
6 2 (2.78%) Swift
7 1 (1.39%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.39%) BeanShell
7 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.39%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.72%) Degree
4 3 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) MCP
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.89%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.94%) GDPR
3 4 (5.56%) QA
3 4 (5.56%) WCAG
4 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.56%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.72%) Google
3 4 (5.56%) Adobe
3 4 (5.56%) Genesys
4 3 (4.17%) Amplitude
4 3 (4.17%) Hotjar
4 3 (4.17%) IBM
4 3 (4.17%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.17%) Optimizely
4 3 (4.17%) OutSystems
5 2 (2.78%) Oracle
5 2 (2.78%) Polycom
6 1 (1.39%) Apple
6 1 (1.39%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.39%) Dell
6 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.39%) HP
6 1 (1.39%) Kony
6 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow