User Experience Contracts in Edinburgh

UX
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 25 29
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing User Experience 36 50 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.76% 6.13% 7.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.06% 6.94% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 32 87
10th Percentile £381 £325 £400
25th Percentile £410 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £465 £445
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% +4.49% -3.00%
75th Percentile £485 £489 £508
90th Percentile £554 £523 £579
Scotland median daily rate £450 £465 £438
% change year-on-year -3.28% +6.34% -2.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in Edinburgh

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Experience in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for User Experience in Edinburgh

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Edinburgh

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Experience in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in Edinburgh

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (2.78%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.22%) AWS
1 8 (22.22%) Serverless
2 7 (19.44%) Amazon S3
2 7 (19.44%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (19.44%) Figma
3 6 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (16.67%) Azure
3 6 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (16.67%) SaaS
4 4 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (5.56%) GitHub
5 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.78%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (2.78%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.78%) CloudFront
6 1 (2.78%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.78%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) JIRA
2 3 (8.33%) Cypress.io
2 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.33%) Storybook
3 2 (5.56%) GitLab
4 1 (2.78%) Appium
General
1 20 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 6 (16.67%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Marketing
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Developer
2 9 (25.00%) Designer
3 8 (22.22%) Analyst
3 8 (22.22%) Business Analyst
4 6 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 6 (16.67%) React Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Senior
5 5 (13.89%) UX Designer
6 3 (8.33%) Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Content Designer
6 3 (8.33%) Product Owner
6 3 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior React Developer
6 3 (8.33%) UI Designer
6 3 (8.33%) UI/UX Designer
7 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) React
2 7 (19.44%) .NET
2 7 (19.44%) AWS CDK
3 3 (8.33%) Jest
3 3 (8.33%) PostGIS
4 2 (5.56%) CSS
4 2 (5.56%) Playwright
4 2 (5.56%) REST
4 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.78%) Ionic Framework
5 1 (2.78%) Next.js
5 1 (2.78%) Node.js
5 1 (2.78%) React Native
5 1 (2.78%) RESTful
5 1 (2.78%) Spring
5 1 (2.78%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Product Ownership
2 6 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (16.67%) Wiki
3 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Agile
2 11 (30.56%) Code Quality
2 11 (30.56%) DevOps
2 11 (30.56%) UX Design
3 9 (25.00%) User Research
4 8 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 7 (19.44%) Requirements Analysis
6 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 6 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
6 6 (16.67%) Lean UX
6 6 (16.67%) Six Sigma
6 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (16.67%) Systems Thinking
6 6 (16.67%) Value Proposition
6 6 (16.67%) Wireframes
7 5 (13.89%) Code Coverage
7 5 (13.89%) Community of Practice
7 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (13.89%) User Stories
7 5 (13.89%) Wardley Maps
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
2 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.33%) Python
4 2 (5.56%) Java
4 2 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) Accessibility
2 4 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (2.78%) Adobe
1 1 (2.78%) Genesys