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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 50 56
Rank change year-on-year +12 +6 -27
Contract jobs citing User Experience 33 16 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.18% 2.00% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.89% 2.41% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 9 13
10th Percentile £326 £295 £313
25th Percentile £340 £402 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £418 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.35% -16.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £447 £500 £538
90th Percentile £489 £525 £621
England median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
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 £36.50 £50.25 £47.50
% change year-on-year -27.36% +5.79% -23.39%

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 675 665 743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.55% 83.13% 86.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 412 535
10th Percentile £218 £263 £213
25th Percentile £340 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -9.09% +6.45%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £626 £627 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 34 48
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

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
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 19 September 2025.

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 19 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
Northamptonshire +6 23 £358 -28.40% 8
Derbyshire +5 3 - - 7
Nottinghamshire -5 3 £485 +33.79% 12
Lincolnshire +5 2 - - 2
Leicestershire -3 2 £425 -7.41% 2
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 (6.06%) CICS
1 2 (6.06%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) AWS
1 7 (21.21%) Azure
2 6 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (18.18%) SaaS
3 5 (15.15%) Entra ID
3 5 (15.15%) GCP
4 2 (6.06%) Figma
5 1 (3.03%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) DB2
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
1 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
1 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Git
2 3 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.06%) Eclipse
3 2 (6.06%) Grunt
3 2 (6.06%) gulp
3 2 (6.06%) IntelliJ
3 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.06%) JIRA
3 2 (6.06%) Maven
3 2 (6.06%) REST Assured
3 2 (6.06%) Selenium
3 2 (6.06%) webpack
General
1 14 (42.42%) Finance
2 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Aerospace
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Marketing
5 1 (3.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Product Owner
2 4 (12.12%) Analyst
2 4 (12.12%) Business Analyst
2 4 (12.12%) Developer
2 4 (12.12%) Digital Product Owner
3 3 (9.09%) Angular Developer
3 3 (9.09%) Designer
3 3 (9.09%) Programme Manager
3 3 (9.09%) Tester
4 2 (6.06%) Administrator
4 2 (6.06%) Automation Tester
4 2 (6.06%) Digital Design Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Salesforce Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Salesforce Business Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Service Transition Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Technical Administrator
4 2 (6.06%) Technical Support
4 2 (6.06%) Transition Manager
4 2 (6.06%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) CSS
1 5 (15.15%) HTML
2 4 (12.12%) AngularJS
2 4 (12.12%) RESTful
3 2 (6.06%) Bootstrap
3 2 (6.06%) CSS3
3 2 (6.06%) Hibernate
3 2 (6.06%) HTML5
3 2 (6.06%) NgRx
3 2 (6.06%) REST
3 2 (6.06%) RxJS
3 2 (6.06%) Spring
3 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.03%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 4 (12.12%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.06%) Mainframe
3 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.06%) VSAM
4 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.21%) Windows
2 6 (18.18%) Mac OS
3 2 (6.06%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.03%) Android
4 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (42.42%) Agile
3 13 (39.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (27.27%) Acceptance Criteria
4 9 (27.27%) Analytics
4 9 (27.27%) Roadmaps
4 9 (27.27%) User Stories
4 9 (27.27%) UX Design
5 7 (21.21%) Scrum
6 6 (18.18%) Decision-Making
6 6 (18.18%) DevOps
6 6 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (18.18%) Thought Leadership
7 5 (15.15%) Backlog Management
7 5 (15.15%) Business Analysis
7 5 (15.15%) Business Strategy
7 5 (15.15%) Data Protection
7 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (15.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 5 (15.15%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) Bash
1 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.12%) Java
3 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.06%) C
4 2 (6.06%) C#
4 2 (6.06%) C++
4 2 (6.06%) COBOL
4 2 (6.06%) JCL
4 2 (6.06%) Python
4 2 (6.06%) SQL
4 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) GDPR
2 6 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.03%) GRC
4 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 6 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) SCCM
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (42.42%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) Citrix
2 6 (18.18%) VMware
3 2 (6.06%) DocuSign
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle
3 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.06%) Siemens
4 1 (3.03%) Adobe
4 1 (3.03%) Google