User Experience Contracts in the East Midlands

UX
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring User Experience skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Experience over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 60 64
Rank change year-on-year +18 +4 -11
Contract jobs citing User Experience 24 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.33% 1.15% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 1.46% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 18
10th Percentile £303 £348 £298
25th Percentile £336 £389 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £418 £469
Median % change year-on-year -14.83% -10.83% -1.32%
75th Percentile £402 £467 £519
90th Percentile £457 £500 £543
England median daily rate £480 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.25 - -
Median hourly rate £20.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £49.25 £30.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year +64.17% +13.21% -50.70%

All Process and 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 627 685 874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.96% 78.74% 86.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 451 670
10th Percentile £225 £213 £213
25th Percentile £332 £322 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £600
90th Percentile £589 £623 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 61 49
10th Percentile £13.81 £11.75 £12.94
25th Percentile £15.15 £12.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -35.80% +23.16%
75th Percentile £25.11 £26.15 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +45.12%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the East Midlands

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the East Midlands

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 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the East Midlands

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the East Midlands

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 4 July 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
Northamptonshire +11 17 £356 -11.00% 33
Nottinghamshire -1 3 £520 +43.45% 58
Lincolnshire - 2 - - 38
Leicestershire -2 1 - - 41
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (8.33%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) SaaS
2 2 (8.33%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) Figma
3 1 (4.17%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.17%) Google Analytics
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) DB2
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
1 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
2 3 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 2 (8.33%) Eclipse
3 2 (8.33%) Grunt
3 2 (8.33%) gulp
3 2 (8.33%) IntelliJ
3 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.33%) Maven
3 2 (8.33%) REST Assured
3 2 (8.33%) Selenium
3 2 (8.33%) webpack
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Product Owner
2 6 (25.00%) Digital Product Owner
3 5 (20.83%) Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Angular Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Designer
4 3 (12.50%) Tester
5 2 (8.33%) Administrator
5 2 (8.33%) Automation Tester
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Service Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Service Transition Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Administrator
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Support
5 2 (8.33%) Transition Manager
5 2 (8.33%) UI Designer
5 2 (8.33%) UI/UX Designer
5 2 (8.33%) UX Designer
6 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) CSS
1 6 (25.00%) HTML
2 4 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 4 (16.67%) RESTful
3 2 (8.33%) Bootstrap
3 2 (8.33%) CSS3
3 2 (8.33%) Hibernate
3 2 (8.33%) HTML5
3 2 (8.33%) NgRx
3 2 (8.33%) RxJS
3 2 (8.33%) Spring
3 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.17%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (4.17%) EDI
4 1 (4.17%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.33%) Mainframe
3 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.33%) VSAM
4 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Android
1 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 8 (33.33%) Analytics
2 8 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (33.33%) UX Design
3 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (29.17%) Scrum
3 7 (29.17%) User Stories
4 6 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 5 (20.83%) Business Analysis
5 5 (20.83%) Business Strategy
5 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
5 5 (20.83%) DevOps
5 5 (20.83%) Product Management
6 4 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 4 (16.67%) Business Process Modelling
6 4 (16.67%) Code Quality
6 4 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Java
1 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.33%) COBOL
2 2 (8.33%) JCL
2 2 (8.33%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) GRC
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Adobe
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Citrix
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) VMware