User Experience Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

UX
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring User Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing User Experience 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 1.61% - 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% - 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £550 £356 £350
% change year-on-year +54.49% +1.71% -17.65%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 146 90 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 78.49% 79.65% 73.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 39 86
10th Percentile £168 £168 £160
25th Percentile £355 £200 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £425 £268
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% +58.58% -40.44%
75th Percentile £569 £488 £450
90th Percentile £680 £650 £656
East Midlands median daily rate £436 £425 £440
% change year-on-year +2.47% -3.41% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 17
10th Percentile £16.20 - £12.13
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £21.59 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.87% +23.37% +3.98%
75th Percentile £18.69 £24.18 £20.00
90th Percentile £24.46 £24.61 £38.85
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £17.71
% change year-on-year -14.40% +24.46% +5.24%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Experience relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire.

User Experience job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing User Experience.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing User Experience

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 15 February 2026. 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
Derby - 3 £650 - 2
User Experience
East Midlands

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Design Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Design Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Service Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Service Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) PLM
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) SIAM
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) COBIT
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Siemens