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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 70 85
Rank change year-on-year -14 +15 -26
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,363 985 896
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.04% 3.60% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 3.97% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 631 594
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £623
90th Percentile £677 £725 £719
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 34 34
10th Percentile £16.00 £24.04 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.00 £34.67 £25.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £49.25 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -30.98% +48.93% +22.48%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.75 £64.75
90th Percentile £79.30 £79.82 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £49.50 £36.54
% change year-on-year -31.33% +35.49% +21.40%

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 38,297 24,783 30,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.34% 90.63% 85.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 15,884 19,726
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,330 1,950
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.29 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.99 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.75 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.23 £71.46 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -36.33% -7.06%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -26 686 £525 +5.00% 514
North of England -20 217 £440 -1.90% 144
Midlands +1 152 £475 +13.10% 56
South East -33 133 £490 +3.16% 132
West Midlands -10 116 £475 -3.06% 41
North West -26 114 £425 -5.56% 74
South West -7 81 £475 +26.67% 59
Yorkshire -36 56 £500 +25.00% 47
North East -8 47 £381 -20.57% 23
East of England +5 46 £410 -13.68% 52
East Midlands +1 36 £550 +54.49% 15
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 61 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 50 (3.67%) CMS
3 34 (2.49%) Confluence
4 25 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.03%) WordPress
6 8 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.44%) Drupal
7 6 (0.44%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.29%) Apache
8 4 (0.29%) Kentico
8 4 (0.29%) Mendix
9 3 (0.22%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 2 (0.15%) Moodle
10 2 (0.15%) nginx
10 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.073%) Liferay
11 1 (0.073%) LiveCycle
Applications
1 28 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.76%) Sketch
3 20 (1.47%) Chatbot
3 20 (1.47%) Photoshop
4 19 (1.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 17 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
6 15 (1.10%) Adobe Illustrator
7 13 (0.95%) Adobe After Effects
7 13 (0.95%) Adobe XD
8 10 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 8 (0.59%) MS Visio
10 4 (0.29%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.22%) UserZoom
12 2 (0.15%) InVision
12 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.073%) Blender
13 1 (0.073%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.073%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
1 11 (0.81%) Workday HCM
2 7 (0.51%) Shopify
3 6 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.44%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.29%) Oracle iProcurement
5 3 (0.22%) iTrent
5 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.073%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.073%) Magento
7 1 (0.073%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.073%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.073%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 211 (15.48%) Azure
2 186 (13.65%) Figma
3 121 (8.88%) Microsoft 365
4 111 (8.14%) AWS
5 97 (7.12%) Power Platform
6 57 (4.18%) Entra ID
7 49 (3.60%) Microsoft Copilot
8 48 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
9 46 (3.37%) SaaS
10 45 (3.30%) GitHub
11 43 (3.15%) GCP
12 38 (2.79%) PowerApps
13 30 (2.20%) OneDrive
14 29 (2.13%) Power Automate
15 27 (1.98%) Copilot Studio
16 19 (1.39%) Azure AI
16 19 (1.39%) Serverless
17 18 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
18 11 (0.81%) Firebase
18 11 (0.81%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.79%) DNS
2 32 (2.35%) DHCP
3 28 (2.05%) TCP/IP
4 23 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (1.47%) Wireless
6 19 (1.39%) LAN
7 13 (0.95%) Internet
8 12 (0.88%) Firewall
8 12 (0.88%) VPN
8 12 (0.88%) WAN
9 10 (0.73%) Intranet
10 9 (0.66%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.59%) Cisco Wireless
11 8 (0.59%) Skype
12 6 (0.44%) 5G
12 6 (0.44%) Network Security
12 6 (0.44%) WLAN
13 5 (0.37%) 802.11
13 5 (0.37%) SMS
13 5 (0.37%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.04%) Power BI
2 22 (1.61%) Metadata
3 18 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (1.32%) Relational Database
4 17 (1.25%) Power Query
5 15 (1.10%) NoSQL
6 12 (0.88%) SQL Server
7 11 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (0.73%) MySQL
8 10 (0.73%) Tableau
9 7 (0.51%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.44%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.44%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.44%) Redis
10 6 (0.44%) ZAP BI
11 5 (0.37%) Looker
12 4 (0.29%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.29%) Db2
12 4 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.29%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 75 (5.50%) JIRA
2 54 (3.96%) Git
3 23 (1.69%) Cypress.io
4 22 (1.61%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.32%) Vite
6 16 (1.17%) GitLab
7 11 (0.81%) Storybook
8 10 (0.73%) Android Studio
8 10 (0.73%) Browser DevTools
8 10 (0.73%) fastlane
9 9 (0.66%) Xcode
10 8 (0.59%) Gradle
10 8 (0.59%) JUnit
11 6 (0.44%) Postman
11 6 (0.44%) Selenium
12 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.37%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.37%) Crashlytics
12 5 (0.37%) Fiddler
12 5 (0.37%) REST Assured
General
1 440 (32.28%) Social Skills
2 259 (19.00%) Finance
3 178 (13.06%) Public Sector
4 135 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
5 112 (8.22%) Banking
6 83 (6.09%) Retail
7 66 (4.84%) Marketing
8 44 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 35 (2.57%) Legal
10 31 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (2.13%) Publishing
12 27 (1.98%) Automotive
13 22 (1.61%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
15 18 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.03%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.81%) Front Office
17 11 (0.81%) Military
18 9 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 299 (21.94%) Designer
2 187 (13.72%) Senior
3 171 (12.55%) Developer
4 128 (9.39%) UX Designer
5 109 (8.00%) Lead
6 104 (7.63%) Analyst
7 76 (5.58%) UI Designer
8 70 (5.14%) Consultant
9 54 (3.96%) Senior Designer
10 53 (3.89%) Architect
11 51 (3.74%) Content Designer
12 50 (3.67%) Business Analyst
12 50 (3.67%) User Researcher
13 46 (3.37%) Product Designer
14 45 (3.30%) User Experience Researcher
15 44 (3.23%) IT Support
15 44 (3.23%) Product Manager
16 43 (3.15%) UI/UX Designer
17 40 (2.93%) Support Engineer
18 33 (2.42%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (8.88%) React
2 100 (7.34%) CSS
3 87 (6.38%) REST
4 85 (6.24%) HTML
5 52 (3.82%) RESTful
6 45 (3.30%) AngularJS
7 39 (2.86%) .NET
8 37 (2.71%) GraphQL
9 32 (2.35%) Spring
10 31 (2.27%) HTML5
10 31 (2.27%) Spring Boot
11 30 (2.20%) CSS3
12 23 (1.69%) Node.js
13 22 (1.61%) Next.js
14 21 (1.54%) Jest
14 21 (1.54%) JSON
15 20 (1.47%) Redux
16 19 (1.39%) OAuth
16 19 (1.39%) Playwright
17 18 (1.32%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 135 (9.90%) Product Ownership
2 79 (5.80%) Mobile App
3 71 (5.21%) Onboarding
4 38 (2.79%) Cloud Native
5 36 (2.64%) AI Agents
6 30 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
8 27 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (1.54%) Data Centre
10 21 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (1.39%) Social Media
13 17 (1.25%) Graphic Design
14 16 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 15 (1.10%) Educational Technology
16 14 (1.03%) Algorithms
16 14 (1.03%) Management Information System
16 14 (1.03%) Taxonomies
17 13 (0.95%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 126 (9.24%) Windows
2 51 (3.74%) Android
3 50 (3.67%) Apple iOS
4 41 (3.01%) Windows 10
5 26 (1.91%) Mac OS
6 18 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 17 (1.25%) Linux
8 9 (0.66%) Unix
9 8 (0.59%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (32.06%) UX Design
2 400 (29.35%) Agile
3 254 (18.64%) AI
4 228 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
5 205 (15.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 187 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 180 (13.21%) Analytics
8 177 (12.99%) User Research
9 157 (11.52%) CI/CD
10 156 (11.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 145 (10.64%) Roadmaps
12 133 (9.76%) Decision-Making
13 121 (8.88%) Prototyping
14 120 (8.80%) DevOps
15 114 (8.36%) UX Research
16 111 (8.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 110 (8.07%) Wireframes
18 107 (7.85%) Service Design
19 99 (7.26%) Workshop Facilitation
20 94 (6.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 119 (8.73%) JavaScript
2 97 (7.12%) Java
3 96 (7.04%) TypeScript
4 92 (6.75%) SQL
5 90 (6.60%) Python
6 49 (3.60%) PowerShell
7 35 (2.57%) C#
8 30 (2.20%) Kotlin
9 24 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (1.03%) Swift
11 13 (0.95%) Bash
12 8 (0.59%) Korn
13 7 (0.51%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.51%) Go
13 7 (0.51%) R
13 7 (0.51%) VBScript
14 6 (0.44%) PHP
14 6 (0.44%) VB
14 6 (0.44%) VBA
15 4 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 203 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 154 (11.30%) SC Cleared
3 129 (9.46%) Degree
4 29 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 21 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (0.73%) PMP
9 9 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.59%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (0.51%) Citrix Certification
12 6 (0.44%) CCA
12 6 (0.44%) CCIE
12 6 (0.44%) CCNP
12 6 (0.44%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.44%) MCSE
13 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (16.51%) Accessibility
2 90 (6.60%) QA
3 70 (5.14%) WCAG
4 44 (3.23%) Data Quality
5 22 (1.61%) GDPR
6 16 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.59%) PMO
8 7 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (0.44%) SLA
10 4 (0.29%) GRC
11 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.15%) PSD2
12 1 (0.073%) GMP
12 1 (0.073%) GxP
12 1 (0.073%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.073%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.073%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.073%) WAI
System Software
1 75 (5.50%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.79%) Docker
3 27 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.44%) BitLocker
5 6 (0.44%) Firmware
5 6 (0.44%) vSphere
6 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.22%) UAG
8 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.15%) XenApp
9 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.073%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 44 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (3.15%) Kubernetes
3 41 (3.01%) Terraform
4 36 (2.64%) SCCM
5 20 (1.47%) Grafana
6 16 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.95%) Ansible
7 13 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (0.81%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.29%) Clonezilla
10 4 (0.29%) Podman
11 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.22%) WSUS
12 2 (0.15%) Argo
12 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.15%) Packer
12 2 (0.15%) SCOM
12 2 (0.15%) vMotion
13 1 (0.073%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 240 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 75 (5.50%) Adobe
3 70 (5.14%) ServiceNow
4 51 (3.74%) Google
5 43 (3.15%) SAP
6 39 (2.86%) Oracle
7 32 (2.35%) Salesforce
8 23 (1.69%) Citrix
9 21 (1.54%) Workday
10 19 (1.39%) Dynatrace
10 19 (1.39%) VMware
11 18 (1.32%) Splunk
12 17 (1.25%) Cisco
13 16 (1.17%) Apple
14 15 (1.10%) Foundry
15 13 (0.95%) Zscaler
16 12 (0.88%) OpenAI
17 11 (0.81%) Aruba
18 9 (0.66%) Databricks
19 8 (0.59%) Solace