User Experience Contract Job Trends in England

UX
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring User Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 70 71
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,196 873 1,052
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.38% 3.40% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 3.77% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 818 548 706
10th Percentile £313 £312 £303
25th Percentile £386 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £604 £600
90th Percentile £657 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £486 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.75% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 21 42
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.26 £19.33
25th Percentile £17.69 £31.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £35.72 £42.50 £37.09
Median % change year-on-year -15.95% +14.59% -29.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £72.80
90th Percentile £73.83 £74.44 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £37.22 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -12.42% +6.25% -18.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,906 23,179 32,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.22% 90.17% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,822 14,560 21,758
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,906 762 2,042
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.94
90th Percentile £72.52 £75.23 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -15.38% -1.71% -5.53%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

User Experience job vacancy trend in England

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing User Experience.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing User Experience

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in England over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in England

User Experience
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing User Experience.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing User Experience

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience in England over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in England

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 27 February 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
London -16 623 £500 -4.76% 185
North of England +13 207 £450 - 104
North West +20 135 £420 -6.67% 57
South East -9 120 £475 -5.24% 97
Midlands -9 108 £510 +27.50% 64
South West -2 67 £450 +12.50% 39
West Midlands -32 59 £456 -2.67% 40
Yorkshire -31 51 £519 +29.53% 28
East Midlands +10 49 £550 +54.49% 24
East of England -24 29 £426 -10.32% 26
North East -3 20 £388 -8.82% 21
User Experience
UK

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 52 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 48 (4.01%) Confluence
3 34 (2.84%) CMS
4 23 (1.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 15 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.92%) Headless CMS
7 8 (0.67%) Apache
7 8 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
8 7 (0.59%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.42%) SugarCRM
10 4 (0.33%) Camunda
10 4 (0.33%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.33%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.25%) Drupal
11 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.17%) Appian
12 2 (0.17%) Mendix
12 2 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (2.93%) Sketch
2 27 (2.26%) Adobe XD
3 20 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.67%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.51%) Chatbot
5 17 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.84%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.67%) InVision
9 6 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 6 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.33%) Trello
10 4 (0.33%) UXPin
11 3 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.25%) UserZoom
12 2 (0.17%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.17%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.17%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 19 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.33%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.33%) Shopify
5 3 (0.25%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.25%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.17%) iTrent
6 2 (0.17%) Magento
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.084%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.084%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.084%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.084%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.084%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.084%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.084%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 203 (16.97%) Azure
2 155 (12.96%) Figma
3 131 (10.95%) AWS
4 91 (7.61%) Power Platform
5 75 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
6 69 (5.77%) SaaS
7 64 (5.35%) GCP
8 55 (4.60%) Entra ID
9 46 (3.85%) GitHub
10 44 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (2.42%) PowerApps
12 28 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (2.26%) Power Automate
14 24 (2.01%) Serverless
15 23 (1.92%) Google Workspace
16 22 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
17 20 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
17 20 (1.67%) Google Analytics
17 20 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
18 18 (1.51%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.01%) DNS
2 19 (1.59%) Wireless
3 14 (1.17%) Internet
4 11 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.84%) DHCP
5 10 (0.84%) VPN
6 9 (0.75%) HTTP
6 9 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.67%) BGP
7 8 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
7 8 (0.67%) Intranet
8 7 (0.59%) Cisco Wireless
8 7 (0.59%) Firewall
8 7 (0.59%) NX-OS
8 7 (0.59%) VXLAN
9 6 (0.50%) Unified Communications
9 6 (0.50%) WAN
10 5 (0.42%) SSL
11 4 (0.33%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.33%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.93%) Power BI
2 33 (2.76%) MySQL
3 30 (2.51%) Relational Database
4 25 (2.09%) NoSQL
5 24 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (1.67%) SQL Server
7 17 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (1.25%) Tableau
9 12 (1.00%) BigQuery
10 11 (0.92%) Looker
10 11 (0.92%) Metadata
10 11 (0.92%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.59%) Mixpanel
11 7 (0.59%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.50%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.50%) Redis
13 5 (0.42%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.42%) Power Query
14 4 (0.33%) SAP HANA
14 4 (0.33%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 101 (8.44%) JIRA
2 73 (6.10%) Git
3 44 (3.68%) GitLab
4 27 (2.26%) Jenkins
5 23 (1.92%) Cypress.io
6 21 (1.76%) JUnit
7 20 (1.67%) Android Studio
8 19 (1.59%) Xcode
9 16 (1.34%) Axure RP
9 16 (1.34%) Eclipse
10 15 (1.25%) Gradle
11 14 (1.17%) Browser DevTools
12 12 (1.00%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.75%) Artifactory
13 9 (0.75%) Postman
14 8 (0.67%) Mocha
15 7 (0.59%) Selenium
16 6 (0.50%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.50%) IntelliJ
16 6 (0.50%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 413 (34.53%) Social Skills
2 226 (18.90%) Finance
3 151 (12.63%) Public Sector
4 144 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (7.02%) Banking
6 69 (5.77%) Marketing
7 37 (3.09%) Retail
8 31 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
9 27 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (2.17%) Legal
11 21 (1.76%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (1.34%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.17%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (0.92%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.84%) Front Office
18 9 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
19 8 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 206 (17.22%) Designer
2 186 (15.55%) Developer
3 183 (15.30%) Senior
4 117 (9.78%) UX Designer
5 114 (9.53%) Analyst
6 71 (5.94%) Lead
7 58 (4.85%) Product Designer
8 53 (4.43%) Senior Designer
9 49 (4.10%) Consultant
10 48 (4.01%) Business Analyst
11 42 (3.51%) Architect
12 35 (2.93%) Full-Stack Developer
12 35 (2.93%) Software Engineer
12 35 (2.93%) Support Engineer
12 35 (2.93%) UI Designer
13 34 (2.84%) User Researcher
14 33 (2.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 32 (2.68%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 32 (2.68%) Senior Developer
15 32 (2.68%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (13.21%) React
2 144 (12.04%) CSS
3 125 (10.45%) HTML
4 93 (7.78%) REST
5 82 (6.86%) AngularJS
6 74 (6.19%) RESTful
7 52 (4.35%) Node.js
7 52 (4.35%) Spring
7 52 (4.35%) Spring Boot
8 39 (3.26%) .NET
8 39 (3.26%) GraphQL
9 35 (2.93%) HTML5
10 30 (2.51%) CSS3
11 26 (2.17%) Jest
12 25 (2.09%) Redux
13 24 (2.01%) Next.js
14 22 (1.84%) JSON
15 21 (1.76%) OAuth
15 21 (1.76%) Vue
16 20 (1.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 115 (9.62%) Product Ownership
2 85 (7.11%) Mobile App
3 54 (4.52%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.01%) AI Agents
6 20 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 15 (1.25%) Data Centre
7 15 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.25%) Virtual Team
8 14 (1.17%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.00%) CMDB
10 12 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (1.00%) Low-Code
11 11 (0.92%) NHS
12 10 (0.84%) e-Learning
13 9 (0.75%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 128 (10.70%) Windows
2 52 (4.35%) Android
3 39 (3.26%) Windows 10
4 37 (3.09%) Apple iOS
5 29 (2.42%) Linux
6 22 (1.84%) Mac OS
7 17 (1.42%) Unix
8 5 (0.42%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.17%) VMS
11 1 (0.084%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.084%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (32.86%) Agile
2 374 (31.27%) UX Design
3 208 (17.39%) Analytics
4 194 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
5 171 (14.30%) User Research
6 155 (12.96%) CI/CD
7 150 (12.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 144 (12.04%) AI
9 141 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 141 (11.79%) DevOps
10 132 (11.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 127 (10.62%) Roadmaps
12 111 (9.28%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 106 (8.86%) UX Research
14 105 (8.78%) Prototyping
15 103 (8.61%) Decision-Making
16 99 (8.28%) Wireframes
17 98 (8.19%) Usability Testing
18 91 (7.61%) Service Design
19 81 (6.77%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 184 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 123 (10.28%) SQL
3 109 (9.11%) Java
4 107 (8.95%) Python
5 105 (8.78%) TypeScript
6 64 (5.35%) PowerShell
7 45 (3.76%) C#
8 32 (2.68%) Kotlin
9 21 (1.76%) Bash
10 17 (1.42%) Perl
11 15 (1.25%) Swift
12 14 (1.17%) PHP
13 10 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.75%) Go
15 7 (0.59%) Lisp
15 7 (0.59%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.50%) C++
17 4 (0.33%) Korn
17 4 (0.33%) Objective-C
17 4 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 157 (13.13%) Security Cleared
2 115 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 112 (9.36%) Degree
4 24 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.34%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.00%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.92%) MOS
9 9 (0.75%) CCNP
9 9 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.59%) OCA
10 7 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (0.59%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.42%) CCA
11 5 (0.42%) Citrix Certification
12 4 (0.33%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.25%) CESG Certified Professional
13 3 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (15.89%) Accessibility
2 121 (10.12%) QA
3 60 (5.02%) WCAG
4 44 (3.68%) GDPR
5 42 (3.51%) Data Quality
6 25 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.76%) Actionable Recommendations
8 19 (1.59%) SLA
9 6 (0.50%) NCSC
9 6 (0.50%) PMO
10 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.33%) GxP
11 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
11 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.25%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.17%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.17%) GMP
12 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 75 (6.27%) Active Directory
2 56 (4.68%) Docker
3 22 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.33%) Firmware
6 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.17%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.084%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.084%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.084%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.084%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.084%) XenApp
8 1 (0.084%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (4.52%) Kubernetes
2 49 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (3.18%) SCCM
4 33 (2.76%) Terraform
5 21 (1.76%) Grafana
6 13 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.00%) Ansible
8 7 (0.59%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.59%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.33%) Argo
9 4 (0.33%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.25%) Nagios
10 3 (0.25%) Rancher
11 2 (0.17%) PingFederate
11 2 (0.17%) SysTrack
12 1 (0.084%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.084%) Consul
12 1 (0.084%) Istio
12 1 (0.084%) Podman
Vendors
1 217 (18.14%) Microsoft
2 81 (6.77%) Google
3 76 (6.35%) Adobe
4 73 (6.10%) ServiceNow
5 45 (3.76%) SAP
6 38 (3.18%) Oracle
7 33 (2.76%) Salesforce
8 25 (2.09%) Splunk
9 23 (1.92%) VMware
10 22 (1.84%) Citrix
11 14 (1.17%) Cisco
12 13 (1.09%) Apple
13 12 (1.00%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.92%) Amplitude
14 11 (0.92%) Hotjar
15 9 (0.75%) Workday
15 9 (0.75%) Zscaler
16 8 (0.67%) Ekahau
16 8 (0.67%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.67%) Optimizely