User Experience Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

UX
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring User Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 48 54
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +5
Contract jobs citing User Experience 30 24 12
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.52% 3.12% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.35% 3.63% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 9
10th Percentile £399 £298 £295
25th Percentile £427 £333 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £355 £418
Median % change year-on-year +31.69% -15.07% -15.34%
75th Percentile £588 £402 £500
90th Percentile £596 £420 -
England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.33 £20.25 -
Median hourly rate £22.81 £20.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.27% - -
75th Percentile £24.29 £20.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £33.99 £45.50 £41.68
% change year-on-year -25.30% +9.18% +57.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 896 662 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 75.36% 85.97% 79.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 452 413
10th Percentile £220 £219 £263
25th Percentile £400 £331 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% -8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £625 £623
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 60 37
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.96 £12.73
25th Percentile £15.06 £17.87 £14.27
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.87 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% -5.65% -53.50%
75th Percentile £27.73 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £38.43 £25.29 £50.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +1.00%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

User Experience job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing User Experience.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing User Experience

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 9 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the East Midlands

User Experience
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing User Experience.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing User Experience

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 August 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
Northamptonshire +9 11 £393 +11.65% 1
Nottinghamshire -10 9 £575 - 11
Lincolnshire -10 4 £435 - 1
Derbyshire -4 3 £538 - 2
Leicestershire -6 3 £360 - 3
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (6.67%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 5 (16.67%) Power Automate
3 3 (10.00%) Copilot Studio
3 3 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (10.00%) SuccessFactors
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) AWS
5 1 (3.33%) Figma
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub
5 1 (3.33%) Lucidchart
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (3.33%) Balsamiq
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Head of Digital
2 5 (16.67%) Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Architect
2 5 (16.67%) Salesforce Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Administrator
3 3 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Consultant
3 3 (10.00%) Telephony Consultant
3 3 (10.00%) User Experience Researcher
3 3 (10.00%) User Researcher
4 2 (6.67%) Data Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Functional Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Product Lead
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Technical Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Service Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.33%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) Blazor
2 1 (3.33%) CSS
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
2 1 (3.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) IVR
1 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (33.33%) Agile
3 8 (26.67%) Workshop Facilitation
4 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (20.00%) UX Design
5 5 (16.67%) Analytics
5 5 (16.67%) B2C
5 5 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
5 5 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
5 5 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 5 (16.67%) Data Management
5 5 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (16.67%) Product Vision
5 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (13.33%) Backlog Management
6 4 (13.33%) Customer Experience
6 4 (13.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.33%) C#
1 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) DBS Check
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (10.00%) GDPR
3 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.67%) QA
4 1 (3.33%) COBIT
4 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle
1 5 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) SAP
3 3 (10.00%) Workday