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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 60 78
Rank change year-on-year -18 +18 -15
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,223 896 996
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.08% 3.64% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 4.00% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 836 594 667
10th Percentile £310 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £611
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.56% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 20 47
10th Percentile £16.00 £25.21 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.49 £41.75 £23.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +62.41% -9.40%
75th Percentile £62.94 £83.60 £64.77
90th Percentile £82.30 £95.60 £74.03
UK median hourly rate £47.25 £53.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -11.68% +68.72% -9.40%

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 33,845 22,404 32,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 91.08% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,654 14,697 21,192
10th Percentile £315 £310 £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 £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,105 910 2,231
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.70 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £30.62 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.82% -12.53% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.22
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -22 629 £513 -0.49% 210
North of England +1 197 £450 - 376
Midlands -1 141 £500 +24.69% 111
North West +4 121 £425 -5.56% 307
South East -17 117 £488 +6.38% 112
West Midlands -20 92 £475 +1.33% 62
South West -18 64 £463 +23.33% 50
Yorkshire -21 51 £500 +24.84% 54
East Midlands -2 49 £550 +53.63% 49
East of England -19 31 £425 -10.53% 50
North East -4 23 £410 -9.39% 17
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 47 (3.84%) SharePoint
2 39 (3.19%) Confluence
3 32 (2.62%) CMS
4 18 (1.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 17 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.49%) Sitecore CMS
7 5 (0.41%) Apache
7 5 (0.41%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.33%) Camunda
8 4 (0.33%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.33%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.33%) Mendix
9 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.25%) Drupal
9 3 (0.25%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) Appian
10 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) IIS
Applications
1 32 (2.62%) Sketch
2 23 (1.88%) Adobe XD
2 23 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.55%) Chatbot
4 15 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.74%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.57%) Adobe After Effects
7 7 (0.57%) InVision
8 6 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.33%) Trello
10 4 (0.33%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.25%) UXPin
12 2 (0.16%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.74%) Shopify
4 8 (0.65%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.49%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.16%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.16%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.16%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.16%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.082%) assyst
7 1 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.082%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.082%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 198 (16.19%) Azure
2 170 (13.90%) Figma
3 102 (8.34%) AWS
4 89 (7.28%) Power Platform
5 88 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
6 52 (4.25%) Entra ID
7 46 (3.76%) GCP
8 43 (3.52%) GitHub
9 34 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
9 34 (2.78%) SaaS
10 33 (2.70%) PowerApps
11 29 (2.37%) Power Automate
12 25 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (1.96%) Serverless
14 23 (1.88%) Google Workspace
15 22 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
16 19 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
16 19 (1.55%) Copilot Studio
16 19 (1.55%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.14%) DNS
2 12 (0.98%) LAN
2 12 (0.98%) Wireless
3 11 (0.90%) Internet
3 11 (0.90%) Intranet
4 10 (0.82%) DHCP
4 10 (0.82%) SD-WAN
4 10 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (0.65%) VPN
6 7 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.57%) WAN
7 6 (0.49%) Cisco Wireless
7 6 (0.49%) SSL
7 6 (0.49%) WLAN
8 5 (0.41%) 5G
8 5 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (0.41%) Firewall
8 5 (0.41%) HTTP
8 5 (0.41%) SMS
9 4 (0.33%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.74%) Power BI
2 22 (1.80%) NoSQL
2 22 (1.80%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.72%) Relational Database
4 20 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.55%) MySQL
6 16 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.14%) Tableau
8 12 (0.98%) Metadata
9 11 (0.90%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.74%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.65%) Power Query
12 7 (0.57%) Looker
12 7 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 7 (0.57%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.49%) ZAP BI
14 5 (0.41%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.41%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 92 (7.52%) JIRA
2 63 (5.15%) Git
3 37 (3.03%) GitLab
4 22 (1.80%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.72%) Cypress.io
5 21 (1.72%) JUnit
6 13 (1.06%) Axure RP
6 13 (1.06%) Gradle
7 11 (0.90%) Browser DevTools
7 11 (0.90%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.74%) Android Studio
8 9 (0.74%) Selenium
9 8 (0.65%) Xcode
10 6 (0.49%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.49%) Mocha
10 6 (0.49%) Postman
10 6 (0.49%) Vite
11 5 (0.41%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.41%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.41%) Storybook
General
1 398 (32.54%) Social Skills
2 248 (20.28%) Finance
3 147 (12.02%) Public Sector
4 139 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (8.09%) Banking
6 54 (4.42%) Marketing
7 50 (4.09%) Retail
8 34 (2.78%) Legal
9 30 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
11 19 (1.55%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.23%) Publishing
13 14 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (0.98%) Automotive
15 12 (0.98%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.90%) Front Office
16 11 (0.90%) Telecoms
17 10 (0.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 251 (20.52%) Designer
2 189 (15.45%) Senior
3 159 (13.00%) Developer
4 122 (9.98%) UX Designer
5 116 (9.48%) Analyst
6 62 (5.07%) Lead
7 61 (4.99%) Consultant
8 58 (4.74%) Architect
9 57 (4.66%) Product Designer
10 55 (4.50%) Business Analyst
11 51 (4.17%) Senior Designer
12 47 (3.84%) UI Designer
13 40 (3.27%) User Researcher
14 38 (3.11%) User Experience Researcher
15 37 (3.03%) Content Designer
16 36 (2.94%) UI/UX Designer
17 35 (2.86%) IT Support
17 35 (2.86%) Support Engineer
18 33 (2.70%) Service Designer
19 30 (2.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (11.28%) React
2 125 (10.22%) CSS
3 112 (9.16%) HTML
4 86 (7.03%) REST
5 69 (5.64%) AngularJS
6 61 (4.99%) RESTful
7 56 (4.58%) Spring
8 55 (4.50%) Spring Boot
9 45 (3.68%) .NET
10 35 (2.86%) Node.js
11 32 (2.62%) GraphQL
12 29 (2.37%) HTML5
13 28 (2.29%) Redux
14 27 (2.21%) CSS3
15 24 (1.96%) Next.js
16 22 (1.80%) JSON
17 20 (1.64%) Jest
18 19 (1.55%) Kafka
18 19 (1.55%) Vue
19 18 (1.47%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 108 (8.83%) Product Ownership
2 65 (5.31%) Mobile App
3 49 (4.01%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (2.29%) AI Agents
6 23 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 21 (1.72%) Cloud Native
7 21 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.14%) Virtual Reality
11 13 (1.06%) Augmented Reality
11 13 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (0.90%) Algorithms
13 10 (0.82%) Management Information System
13 10 (0.82%) NHS
13 10 (0.82%) Social Media
13 10 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 94 (7.69%) Windows
2 39 (3.19%) Windows 10
3 33 (2.70%) Android
4 26 (2.13%) Apple iOS
5 19 (1.55%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.90%) Linux
7 7 (0.57%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.49%) Unix
9 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.082%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (31.56%) Agile
2 379 (30.99%) UX Design
3 195 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
4 192 (15.70%) Analytics
5 190 (15.54%) AI
6 169 (13.82%) User Research
7 155 (12.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 149 (12.18%) CI/CD
9 145 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 143 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 140 (11.45%) DevOps
12 134 (10.96%) Roadmaps
13 116 (9.48%) UX Research
14 115 (9.40%) Prototyping
15 106 (8.67%) Wireframes
16 102 (8.34%) Decision-Making
17 100 (8.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 96 (7.85%) Service Design
19 89 (7.28%) Usability Testing
20 88 (7.20%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 155 (12.67%) JavaScript
2 113 (9.24%) Java
2 113 (9.24%) SQL
3 92 (7.52%) Python
4 91 (7.44%) TypeScript
5 48 (3.92%) C#
6 43 (3.52%) PowerShell
7 25 (2.04%) Kotlin
8 18 (1.47%) Bash
9 13 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.65%) Swift
11 7 (0.57%) Korn
11 7 (0.57%) PHP
12 6 (0.49%) Go
12 6 (0.49%) Perl
12 6 (0.49%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.49%) VBA
13 5 (0.41%) R
14 3 (0.25%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 145 (11.86%) Security Cleared
2 109 (8.91%) SC Cleared
3 104 (8.50%) Degree
4 28 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 11 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.74%) CCNP
11 7 (0.57%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.57%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.49%) CCA
12 6 (0.49%) CCIE
12 6 (0.49%) Citrix Certification
12 6 (0.49%) OCA
12 6 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.33%) PMP
14 3 (0.25%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (15.62%) Accessibility
2 113 (9.24%) QA
3 58 (4.74%) WCAG
4 43 (3.52%) Data Quality
5 39 (3.19%) GDPR
6 21 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.74%) SLA
9 7 (0.57%) PMO
10 5 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.25%) GMP
12 3 (0.25%) GRC
12 3 (0.25%) GxP
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.25%) NCSC
13 2 (0.16%) COBIT
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 71 (5.81%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.52%) Docker
3 19 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.49%) Firmware
6 4 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.25%) XenApp
7 3 (0.25%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.082%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.082%) Varnish
9 1 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 53 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 40 (3.27%) Terraform
3 33 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (2.29%) SCCM
5 22 (1.80%) Grafana
6 15 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.06%) Ansible
8 10 (0.82%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.25%) Argo
9 3 (0.25%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.25%) Nagios
9 3 (0.25%) Podman
9 3 (0.25%) Rancher
9 3 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.16%) WSUS
11 1 (0.082%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 197 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 73 (5.97%) Adobe
3 61 (4.99%) Google
4 48 (3.92%) Oracle
4 48 (3.92%) ServiceNow
5 44 (3.60%) SAP
6 39 (3.19%) Salesforce
7 24 (1.96%) Citrix
8 18 (1.47%) VMware
9 17 (1.39%) Splunk
9 17 (1.39%) Workday
10 13 (1.06%) Apple
10 13 (1.06%) Cisco
11 10 (0.82%) Sitecore
12 9 (0.74%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.65%) Aruba
13 8 (0.65%) Foundry
14 7 (0.57%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.57%) Ekahau
14 7 (0.57%) Zscaler