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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 32 34
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing User Experience 41 43 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.61% 5.21% 6.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.91% 6.01% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 27 78
10th Percentile £387 £283 £400
25th Percentile £413 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £482 £494 £507
90th Percentile £553 £515 £575
Scotland median daily rate £450 £465 £448
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.91% -3.40%

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 593 716 1,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.65% 86.79% 94.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 422 820
10th Percentile £240 £219 £253
25th Percentile £404 £398 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% - -
75th Percentile £538 £573 £544
90th Percentile £616 £662 £623
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 31 8
10th Percentile - £13.25 £12.36
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.17 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -10.69% -34.95%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.94
90th Percentile £47.22 - £58.40
Scotland median hourly rate £19.83 £19.50 £15.99
% change year-on-year +1.69% +21.95% -57.28%

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 19 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 (2.44%) GeoServer
1 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (24.39%) AWS
1 10 (24.39%) Serverless
2 9 (21.95%) Amazon S3
2 9 (21.95%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (19.51%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (14.63%) AWS CodePipeline
4 6 (14.63%) Azure
4 6 (14.63%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (12.20%) Figma
5 5 (12.20%) SaaS
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon Cognito
6 4 (9.76%) GitHub
6 4 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.32%) Firebase
8 2 (4.88%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (4.88%) CloudFront
8 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.44%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (9.76%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.44%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Cypress.io
1 5 (12.20%) Jenkins
1 5 (12.20%) Storybook
2 3 (7.32%) JIRA
3 2 (4.88%) GitLab
4 1 (2.44%) Appium
General
1 23 (56.10%) Public Sector
2 6 (14.63%) Finance
2 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Marketing
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Developer
2 11 (26.83%) Senior
3 9 (21.95%) Designer
4 8 (19.51%) Analyst
4 8 (19.51%) Business Analyst
4 8 (19.51%) React Developer
5 6 (14.63%) .NET Developer
6 5 (12.20%) UX Designer
7 4 (9.76%) Architect
8 3 (7.32%) Content Designer
8 3 (7.32%) Product Owner
8 3 (7.32%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (7.32%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (7.32%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (7.32%) Senior Developer
8 3 (7.32%) Senior React Developer
8 3 (7.32%) User Researcher
9 2 (4.88%) Data Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Senior User Researcher
9 2 (4.88%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) React
2 9 (21.95%) AWS CDK
3 7 (17.07%) .NET
4 5 (12.20%) Jest
5 4 (9.76%) CSS
5 4 (9.76%) Tailwind CSS
6 3 (7.32%) AWS Amplify
6 3 (7.32%) GraphQL
6 3 (7.32%) Playwright
6 3 (7.32%) PostGIS
6 3 (7.32%) RESTful
7 2 (4.88%) REST
7 2 (4.88%) Spring Boot
8 1 (2.44%) Ionic Framework
8 1 (2.44%) Next.js
8 1 (2.44%) Node.js
8 1 (2.44%) React Native
8 1 (2.44%) Spring
8 1 (2.44%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.83%) Product Ownership
2 6 (14.63%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (14.63%) Wiki
3 4 (9.76%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.32%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.44%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) Agile
2 14 (34.15%) UX Design
3 13 (31.71%) User Research
4 12 (29.27%) DevOps
5 11 (26.83%) Code Quality
6 8 (19.51%) CI/CD
6 8 (19.51%) Roadmaps
7 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (17.07%) Requirements Analysis
7 7 (17.07%) Service Design
8 6 (14.63%) Knowledge Transfer
8 6 (14.63%) Lean UX
8 6 (14.63%) Six Sigma
8 6 (14.63%) Systems Thinking
8 6 (14.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 6 (14.63%) Value Proposition
8 6 (14.63%) Workflow
9 5 (12.20%) Community of Practice
9 5 (12.20%) Inclusive Design
9 5 (12.20%) Wardley Maps
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.07%) TypeScript
2 5 (12.20%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.32%) Python
4 2 (4.88%) Java
4 2 (4.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) IIBA
2 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) Accessibility
2 6 (14.63%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (4.88%) WCAG
4 1 (2.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (2.44%) Adobe
1 1 (2.44%) Genesys
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft