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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 48 57
Rank change year-on-year -27 +9 -12
Contract jobs citing User Experience 65 79 78
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.02% 4.62% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 4.90% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 55 37
10th Percentile £308 £409 £410
25th Percentile £406 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £664 £700
90th Percentile £723 £800 £743
Central London median daily rate £481 £550 £569
% change year-on-year -12.50% -3.30% +3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £22.57 - -
25th Percentile £22.67 £52.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £22.83 £54.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.11% +28.24% -
75th Percentile £23.00 £56.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £23.09 - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.83 £34.48 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.79% -18.87% -

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 1,951 1,613 1,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.74% 94.33% 92.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,356 1,097 1,209
10th Percentile £368 £325 £367
25th Percentile £456 £421 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £684 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £768 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 18
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.90 £17.15
25th Percentile £17.60 £20.63 £24.09
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.04 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% -33.25% +29.60%
75th Percentile £27.35 £35.88 £107.13
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.04 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.53% -22.76% +27.27%

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 13 October 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 8 (12.31%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.15%) CMS
2 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.62%) WordPress
4 2 (3.08%) Confluence
4 2 (3.08%) Drupal
5 1 (1.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.54%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.54%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.54%) Exchequer
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.77%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (9.23%) Power Platform
3 5 (7.69%) Azure
3 5 (7.69%) Figma
3 5 (7.69%) OneDrive
3 5 (7.69%) SaaS
4 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.15%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.62%) Anthropic Claude
5 3 (4.62%) AWS
5 3 (4.62%) Google Analytics
6 2 (3.08%) GitHub
6 2 (3.08%) Miro
6 2 (3.08%) Serverless
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.54%) Google Docs
7 1 (1.54%) Google Drive
7 1 (1.54%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) DNS
2 3 (4.62%) DHCP
2 3 (4.62%) Firewall
2 3 (4.62%) LAN
2 3 (4.62%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.62%) Unified Communications
2 3 (4.62%) WAN
3 2 (3.08%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.54%) FTP
4 1 (1.54%) VPN
4 1 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) Power BI
1 3 (4.62%) Tableau
2 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.54%) Big Data
3 1 (1.54%) Looker
3 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.54%) MySQL
3 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.54%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (1.54%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (1.54%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) JIRA
2 3 (4.62%) Claude Code
3 2 (3.08%) Fiddler
3 2 (3.08%) MSI
3 2 (3.08%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.08%) Vite
4 1 (1.54%) Git
4 1 (1.54%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.54%) JUnit
4 1 (1.54%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (1.54%) rollup.js
4 1 (1.54%) Storybook
4 1 (1.54%) webpack
General
1 24 (36.92%) Finance
2 23 (35.38%) Social Skills
3 12 (18.46%) Banking
4 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.77%) Marketing
5 5 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.69%) Retail
6 4 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.62%) Back Office
7 3 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.62%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.54%) Electronics
8 1 (1.54%) Front Office
8 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.54%) Legal
8 1 (1.54%) Military
8 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (16.92%) Designer
2 10 (15.38%) Analyst
2 10 (15.38%) Developer
3 6 (9.23%) Business Analyst
4 5 (7.69%) Lead
4 5 (7.69%) Senior
4 5 (7.69%) UX Designer
5 4 (6.15%) Service Designer
6 3 (4.62%) Architect
6 3 (4.62%) Digital Analyst
6 3 (4.62%) Product Manager
7 2 (3.08%) Consultant
7 2 (3.08%) Coordinator
7 2 (3.08%) Digital Business Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.08%) Junior
7 2 (3.08%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Product Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) Senior Designer
7 2 (3.08%) Web Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.77%) React
2 6 (9.23%) CSS
3 5 (7.69%) HTML
3 5 (7.69%) REST
4 3 (4.62%) .NET
4 3 (4.62%) RESTful
5 2 (3.08%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.08%) CSS3
5 2 (3.08%) GraphQL
5 2 (3.08%) HTML5
5 2 (3.08%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (3.08%) Next.js
6 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.54%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.54%) Material-UI
6 1 (1.54%) NgRx
6 1 (1.54%) Redux
6 1 (1.54%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (1.54%) Vitest
6 1 (1.54%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.62%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.08%) Educational Technology
3 2 (3.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.54%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.54%) Clustering
4 1 (1.54%) Derivative
4 1 (1.54%) EPoS
4 1 (1.54%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) macOS
2 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.15%) UX Design
2 15 (23.08%) AI
3 14 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (20.00%) Analytics
5 12 (18.46%) Agile
5 12 (18.46%) Decision-Making
6 11 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
8 9 (13.85%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (13.85%) Validation
9 8 (12.31%) Requirements Gathering
9 8 (12.31%) Visualisation
10 7 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (10.77%) Front End Development
10 7 (10.77%) Prototyping
10 7 (10.77%) Roadmaps
10 7 (10.77%) User Research
11 6 (9.23%) DevOps
11 6 (9.23%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.23%) JavaScript
1 6 (9.23%) SQL
2 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.15%) TypeScript
3 2 (3.08%) C++
3 2 (3.08%) Java
3 2 (3.08%) Python
4 1 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.54%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (10.77%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.23%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) Degree
4 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.54%) IIBA
5 1 (1.54%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) QA
2 4 (6.15%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.62%) GDPR
3 3 (4.62%) WCAG
4 1 (1.54%) GRC
4 1 (1.54%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) vSphere
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.54%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) UAG
2 1 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (18.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.69%) Google
3 3 (4.62%) F5
3 3 (4.62%) Oracle
4 2 (3.08%) Adobe
4 2 (3.08%) Apple
4 2 (3.08%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.08%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.08%) SAP
4 2 (3.08%) VMware
5 1 (1.54%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.54%) Databricks
5 1 (1.54%) Foundry
5 1 (1.54%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.54%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.54%) TikTok
5 1 (1.54%) Workday