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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 66 83
Rank change year-on-year -29 +17 -18
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,354 1,037 885
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.91% 3.71% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 4.08% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 665 520
10th Percentile £300 £300 £310
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £682 £687 £713
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 48 27
10th Percentile £17.14 £15.50 £26.04
25th Percentile £26.50 £25.15 £30.22
Median hourly rate £33.99 £36.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -14.12% -
75th Percentile £67.89 £55.44 £72.20
90th Percentile £77.00 £65.67 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £35.22 £36.50 £39.75
% change year-on-year -3.51% -8.18% -16.32%

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 39,398 25,390 28,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 16,126 17,350
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,849 1,543 1,244
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%
75th Percentile £67.70 £47.50 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -28 697 £514 +3.79% 1,798
North of England -9 259 £425 - 383
Midlands -10 150 £475 +6.26% 210
North West -28 130 £400 -5.88% 226
West Midlands -3 118 £475 -5.00% 141
South East -64 94 £400 -10.51% 305
Yorkshire -10 81 £500 +25.00% 115
South West -5 79 £475 -2.56% 149
North East -1 47 £325 -30.11% 45
East of England -19 42 £410 -18.00% 113
East Midlands -16 32 £500 +31.58% 69
South Coast - 1 £450 -
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 69 (5.10%) SharePoint
2 60 (4.43%) CMS
3 39 (2.88%) Confluence
4 28 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.11%) WordPress
6 9 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.52%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.52%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.44%) Apache
8 6 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.37%) Drupal
9 5 (0.37%) Traefik
10 4 (0.30%) Kentico
10 4 (0.30%) Mendix
11 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.15%) IIS
11 2 (0.15%) Moodle
11 2 (0.15%) nginx
11 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 18 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.33%) Photoshop
4 16 (1.18%) Adobe Illustrator
5 15 (1.11%) Sketch
6 14 (1.03%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.89%) Adobe After Effects
8 10 (0.74%) Adobe XD
8 10 (0.74%) MS Visio
9 8 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.074%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.074%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.074%) Blender
12 1 (0.074%) Final Cut Pro
12 1 (0.074%) InVision
12 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.52%) Workday HCM
2 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.37%) Shopify
4 4 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
4 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.22%) iTrent
5 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.074%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.074%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.074%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.074%) Magento
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.074%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.074%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 195 (14.40%) Azure
2 148 (10.93%) Figma
3 138 (10.19%) Microsoft 365
4 123 (9.08%) AWS
5 102 (7.53%) Power Platform
6 64 (4.73%) Entra ID
7 59 (4.36%) Microsoft Copilot
8 47 (3.47%) GitHub
9 46 (3.40%) SaaS
10 40 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (2.66%) GCP
12 33 (2.44%) PowerApps
13 31 (2.29%) OneDrive
14 28 (2.07%) Copilot Studio
14 28 (2.07%) Power Automate
15 19 (1.40%) Azure AI
16 17 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (1.11%) Serverless
18 13 (0.96%) Firebase
19 12 (0.89%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.40%) DNS
2 39 (2.88%) DHCP
3 37 (2.73%) TCP/IP
4 28 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
5 22 (1.62%) VPN
6 19 (1.40%) Wireless
7 18 (1.33%) Firewall
8 16 (1.18%) LAN
8 16 (1.18%) WAN
9 13 (0.96%) NetScaler
10 11 (0.81%) Network Security
11 8 (0.59%) Cisco Wireless
11 8 (0.59%) Internet
11 8 (0.59%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.52%) Skype
13 6 (0.44%) Intranet
14 5 (0.37%) 5G
14 5 (0.37%) SMS
14 5 (0.37%) SNMP
14 5 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.06%) Power BI
2 25 (1.85%) Metadata
3 15 (1.11%) SQL Server
4 14 (1.03%) Power Query
5 13 (0.96%) Tableau
6 11 (0.81%) MySQL
6 11 (0.81%) NoSQL
6 11 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (0.66%) Looker
9 8 (0.59%) Qlik Sense
10 7 (0.52%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.52%) Redis
10 7 (0.52%) Star Schema
11 6 (0.44%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.44%) QlikView
12 5 (0.37%) Flink
12 5 (0.37%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.30%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 73 (5.39%) JIRA
2 70 (5.17%) Git
3 28 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.48%) Storybook
5 19 (1.40%) Vite
6 17 (1.26%) Cypress.io
7 14 (1.03%) GitLab
8 11 (0.81%) fastlane
9 9 (0.66%) Android Studio
9 9 (0.66%) Browser DevTools
10 8 (0.59%) Xcode
11 7 (0.52%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.44%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.44%) JMeter
12 6 (0.44%) Postman
13 5 (0.37%) Fiddler
13 5 (0.37%) Gradle
13 5 (0.37%) MSI
14 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 441 (32.57%) Social Skills
2 230 (16.99%) Finance
3 182 (13.44%) Public Sector
4 126 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (7.02%) Banking
6 79 (5.83%) Retail
7 74 (5.47%) Marketing
8 46 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
10 40 (2.95%) Legal
11 28 (2.07%) Automotive
12 27 (1.99%) Publishing
13 22 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (1.40%) Manufacturing
16 18 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (1.33%) Military
17 13 (0.96%) Front Office
17 13 (0.96%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.66%) Law
Job Titles
1 268 (19.79%) Designer
2 200 (14.77%) Developer
3 175 (12.92%) Senior
4 126 (9.31%) Lead
5 119 (8.79%) UX Designer
6 83 (6.13%) Analyst
7 66 (4.87%) UI Designer
8 62 (4.58%) Architect
9 55 (4.06%) Consultant
10 54 (3.99%) User Researcher
11 53 (3.91%) IT Support
12 52 (3.84%) Support Engineer
13 49 (3.62%) Senior Designer
14 47 (3.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 47 (3.47%) Product Manager
15 43 (3.18%) User Experience Researcher
16 40 (2.95%) Business Analyst
16 40 (2.95%) Content Designer
17 37 (2.73%) UI/UX Designer
18 35 (2.58%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (9.90%) React
2 98 (7.24%) CSS
3 86 (6.35%) HTML
4 82 (6.06%) REST
5 38 (2.81%) AngularJS
5 38 (2.81%) GraphQL
5 38 (2.81%) RESTful
6 37 (2.73%) HTML5
7 36 (2.66%) Terraform
8 33 (2.44%) .NET
8 33 (2.44%) CSS3
9 28 (2.07%) Next.js
10 27 (1.99%) OAuth
11 21 (1.55%) Node.js
11 21 (1.55%) OAuth2
11 21 (1.55%) Playwright
11 21 (1.55%) SOAP
11 21 (1.55%) Spring
11 21 (1.55%) Spring Boot
12 19 (1.40%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 134 (9.90%) Product Ownership
2 77 (5.69%) Mobile App
3 76 (5.61%) Onboarding
4 44 (3.25%) Cloud Native
5 41 (3.03%) AI Agents
6 31 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 27 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (1.62%) Data Centre
10 20 (1.48%) Social Media
11 18 (1.33%) Educational Technology
11 18 (1.33%) NHS
12 16 (1.18%) Graphic Design
13 15 (1.11%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.11%) Taxonomies
14 13 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.81%) Low-Code
15 11 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 148 (10.93%) Windows
2 58 (4.28%) Apple iOS
3 57 (4.21%) Android
4 54 (3.99%) Windows 10
5 35 (2.58%) Windows Server
6 32 (2.36%) Mac OS
7 16 (1.18%) Linux
8 13 (0.96%) Unix
9 9 (0.66%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (31.39%) UX Design
2 388 (28.66%) Agile
3 252 (18.61%) AI
3 252 (18.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 226 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
5 195 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
6 181 (13.37%) Analytics
7 167 (12.33%) User Research
8 163 (12.04%) CI/CD
9 151 (11.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 146 (10.78%) Roadmaps
11 145 (10.71%) Decision-Making
12 109 (8.05%) DevOps
13 105 (7.75%) Service Design
13 105 (7.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 104 (7.68%) Scrum
15 102 (7.53%) UX Research
16 101 (7.46%) Prototyping
16 101 (7.46%) Workshop Facilitation
17 99 (7.31%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (9.53%) JavaScript
2 109 (8.05%) TypeScript
3 85 (6.28%) SQL
4 83 (6.13%) Java
5 79 (5.83%) Python
6 47 (3.47%) PowerShell
7 29 (2.14%) C#
8 27 (1.99%) Kotlin
9 20 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (1.18%) Swift
11 15 (1.11%) Bash
12 9 (0.66%) Go
13 7 (0.52%) PHP
13 7 (0.52%) VB
13 7 (0.52%) VBScript
14 6 (0.44%) Scala
14 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.37%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.37%) C++
16 4 (0.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 223 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 169 (12.48%) SC Cleared
3 101 (7.46%) Degree
4 35 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 17 (1.26%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.18%) PMP
9 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.59%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.37%) CISSP
12 5 (0.37%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.37%) MCSE
13 4 (0.30%) CCA
13 4 (0.30%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (15.21%) Accessibility
2 95 (7.02%) QA
3 73 (5.39%) WCAG
4 46 (3.40%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.40%) GDPR
6 16 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (0.74%) SLA
8 9 (0.66%) PMO
9 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.22%) GRC
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.15%) PSD2
12 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.074%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.074%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.074%) SEPA
13 1 (0.074%) WAI
System Software
1 105 (7.75%) Active Directory
2 45 (3.32%) Docker
3 23 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 23 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.74%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 10 (0.74%) XenApp
6 9 (0.66%) XenDesktop
7 7 (0.52%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.44%) vSphere
9 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.22%) UAG
11 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.074%) Firmware
13 1 (0.074%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 49 (3.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (3.32%) Kubernetes
3 29 (2.14%) SCCM
4 21 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (1.40%) Grafana
6 15 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
7 13 (0.96%) Ansible
8 11 (0.81%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.44%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.37%) Istio
10 5 (0.37%) SysTrack
11 4 (0.30%) Clonezilla
12 3 (0.22%) Podman
12 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.22%) WSUS
13 2 (0.15%) Argo
13 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.15%) Packer
13 2 (0.15%) SCOM
13 2 (0.15%) vMotion
Vendors
1 244 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 85 (6.28%) ServiceNow
3 64 (4.73%) Adobe
4 44 (3.25%) Oracle
5 42 (3.10%) Google
6 31 (2.29%) Salesforce
6 31 (2.29%) SAP
7 26 (1.92%) Citrix
7 26 (1.92%) VMware
8 24 (1.77%) Splunk
9 23 (1.70%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.18%) Apple
10 16 (1.18%) Foundry
10 16 (1.18%) Zscaler
11 15 (1.11%) Cisco
12 14 (1.03%) Workday
13 12 (0.89%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.66%) Aruba
14 9 (0.66%) Okta
15 7 (0.52%) IBM