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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 54 49
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 +22
Contract jobs citing User Experience 78 73 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.40% 3.50% 4.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 3.80% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 36 83
10th Percentile £406 £425 £375
25th Percentile £460 £496 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £673 £706 £638
90th Percentile £800 £744 £713
Central London median daily rate £525 £556 £528
% change year-on-year -5.62% +5.45% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.25 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £56.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £26.56 -
% change year-on-year +29.82% - -

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 1,669 1,921 2,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.24% 92.13% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,229 1,929
10th Percentile £325 £387 £363
25th Percentile £420 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £788 £814
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 14
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £14.84
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -13.60% -27.33%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £49.96
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £64.03
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -10.71% +27.27% -35.29%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.69%) CMS
2 4 (5.13%) Confluence
3 3 (3.85%) Headless CMS
3 3 (3.85%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.56%) WordPress
5 1 (1.28%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Sketch
2 5 (6.41%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.56%) Adobe XD
3 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.28%) SPSS
4 1 (1.28%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.95%) Figma
2 13 (16.67%) AWS
3 9 (11.54%) Azure
4 8 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (10.26%) Serverless
5 7 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (6.41%) Amazon Cognito
6 5 (6.41%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (6.41%) Amazon S3
6 5 (6.41%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (6.41%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (6.41%) Datadog
6 5 (6.41%) Power Platform
6 5 (6.41%) SaaS
7 4 (5.13%) GCP
8 3 (3.85%) Contentful
8 3 (3.85%) Contentstack
8 3 (3.85%) Firebase
8 3 (3.85%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) DNS
2 2 (2.56%) Softphone
2 2 (2.56%) Wireless
3 1 (1.28%) Firewall
3 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.41%) DynamoDB
1 5 (6.41%) Mixpanel
2 3 (3.85%) Power BI
2 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.85%) Tableau
3 2 (2.56%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.56%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.28%) Data Hub
4 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (6.41%) JIRA
2 3 (3.85%) Visual Website Optimizer
3 2 (2.56%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.56%) Git
3 2 (2.56%) Snyk
3 2 (2.56%) Storybook
4 1 (1.28%) Ant
4 1 (1.28%) Babel
4 1 (1.28%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.28%) webpack
4 1 (1.28%) Xcode
General
1 24 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 22 (28.21%) Finance
3 15 (19.23%) Banking
4 9 (11.54%) Marketing
5 8 (10.26%) Retail
6 6 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.85%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.85%) Legal
8 3 (3.85%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.56%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.56%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.56%) Games
9 2 (2.56%) International Banking
9 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.28%) Brand Awareness
10 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (23.08%) Designer
1 18 (23.08%) Developer
2 6 (7.69%) Senior
2 6 (7.69%) UX Designer
3 5 (6.41%) Architect
3 5 (6.41%) Lead
4 4 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 4 (5.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 4 (5.13%) Product Designer
4 4 (5.13%) React Developer
4 4 (5.13%) Software Design Engineer
4 4 (5.13%) Software Engineer
5 3 (3.85%) CMS Developer
5 3 (3.85%) Conversion Specialist
5 3 (3.85%) Power BI Developer
5 3 (3.85%) Senior Designer
5 3 (3.85%) Technical Architect
5 3 (3.85%) Technical Leader
6 2 (2.56%) Engagement Manager
6 2 (2.56%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (21.79%) CSS
1 17 (21.79%) HTML
2 10 (12.82%) React
3 8 (10.26%) GraphQL
3 8 (10.26%) HTML5
4 7 (8.97%) AngularJS
4 7 (8.97%) WebSockets
5 5 (6.41%) CSS3
5 5 (6.41%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (6.41%) Redux
6 4 (5.13%) jQuery
6 4 (5.13%) RESTful
7 3 (3.85%) .NET
7 3 (3.85%) Jest
7 3 (3.85%) JWT
7 3 (3.85%) Next.js
7 3 (3.85%) OAuth
7 3 (3.85%) OAuth2
7 3 (3.85%) REST
7 3 (3.85%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.10%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.41%) Mobile App
2 5 (6.41%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.85%) Acoustics
4 3 (3.85%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.56%) e-Learning
5 2 (2.56%) iPad
5 2 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.28%) Blog
6 1 (1.28%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.28%) Graphic Design
6 1 (1.28%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.28%) Motion Graphics
6 1 (1.28%) SCORM
6 1 (1.28%) Social Media
6 1 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.41%) Apple iOS
2 4 (5.13%) Android
2 4 (5.13%) Windows
3 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (38.46%) UX Design
2 29 (37.18%) Agile
3 14 (17.95%) Roadmaps
4 13 (16.67%) Analytics
4 13 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 13 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (14.10%) DevOps
5 11 (14.10%) Observability
6 10 (12.82%) Fintech
6 10 (12.82%) Mentoring
6 10 (12.82%) User Research
7 9 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
8 8 (10.26%) Front End Development
9 7 (8.97%) Actionable Insight
9 7 (8.97%) Customer Experience
9 7 (8.97%) Customer-Centricity
9 7 (8.97%) LLM
9 7 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (7.69%) Clean Code
10 6 (7.69%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 15 (19.23%) JavaScript
2 12 (15.38%) SQL
3 9 (11.54%) Python
4 7 (8.97%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.13%) C#
6 3 (3.85%) Java
7 2 (2.56%) Objective-C
7 2 (2.56%) Swift
8 1 (1.28%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.28%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.28%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.69%) Degree
2 6 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.10%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.41%) GDPR
2 5 (6.41%) QA
3 4 (5.13%) WCAG
4 2 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (3.85%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.41%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.97%) Google
3 5 (6.41%) Adobe
3 5 (6.41%) Optimizely
4 4 (5.13%) Genesys
5 3 (3.85%) Amplitude
5 3 (3.85%) Hotjar
5 3 (3.85%) IBM
5 3 (3.85%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.85%) OutSystems
6 2 (2.56%) Polycom
6 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.28%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.28%) Kony
7 1 (1.28%) Oracle
7 1 (1.28%) Qualtrics
7 1 (1.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.28%) SAP