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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 67 75
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 -11
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,198 840 1,035
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.24% 3.43% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 3.78% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 550 685
10th Percentile £313 £305 £284
25th Percentile £387 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -0.26% -2.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 24 45
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.26 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £38.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £39.72 £48.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +52.95% -29.53%
75th Percentile £62.94 £75.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.30 £92.50 £76.28
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £47.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.32% +46.15% -17.20%

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 31,926 22,217 32,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.44% 90.67% 86.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,427 14,455 21,796
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £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 1,975 819 2,151
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.14 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £31.00 £33.11 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +1.88% -11.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -15 627 £500 -3.85% 344
North of England +12 205 £450 - 176
North West +14 132 £404 -10.25% 93
South East -13 122 £495 -1.98% 157
Midlands -11 110 £500 +25.00% 97
West Midlands -32 68 £475 +17.28% 67
South West -17 62 £450 +20.00% 59
Yorkshire -25 52 £513 +33.99% 38
East Midlands -10 42 £550 +54.49% 30
East of England -10 32 £425 -10.53% 48
North East +2 20 £388 -19.27% 46
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 55 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.76%) Confluence
3 34 (2.84%) CMS
4 23 (1.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 18 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.92%) Headless CMS
7 8 (0.67%) Apache
7 8 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
8 7 (0.58%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.33%) Camunda
9 4 (0.33%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.33%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.25%) Drupal
10 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.17%) Appian
11 2 (0.17%) Mendix
12 1 (0.083%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.083%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 34 (2.84%) Sketch
2 25 (2.09%) Adobe XD
3 24 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (1.75%) Chatbot
5 20 (1.67%) MS Visio
6 13 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
7 11 (0.92%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.67%) 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 15 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.50%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.33%) Shopify
6 3 (0.25%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.25%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.17%) iTrent
7 2 (0.17%) Magento
7 2 (0.17%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.17%) ResourceLink
7 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.083%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.083%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.083%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.083%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.083%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.083%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 191 (15.94%) Azure
2 156 (13.02%) Figma
3 118 (9.85%) AWS
4 93 (7.76%) Power Platform
5 80 (6.68%) Microsoft 365
6 51 (4.26%) SaaS
7 50 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (4.17%) Entra ID
7 50 (4.17%) GCP
8 44 (3.67%) GitHub
9 33 (2.75%) PowerApps
10 28 (2.34%) Power Automate
11 27 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (2.25%) Serverless
12 24 (2.00%) Google Workspace
13 23 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
14 22 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
15 21 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
16 19 (1.59%) Google Analytics
16 19 (1.59%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.75%) DNS
2 19 (1.59%) Wireless
3 15 (1.25%) Internet
4 12 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (0.92%) DHCP
6 10 (0.83%) Intranet
6 10 (0.83%) LAN
6 10 (0.83%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.83%) VPN
7 9 (0.75%) BGP
7 9 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
8 8 (0.67%) Cisco Wireless
8 8 (0.67%) Firewall
8 8 (0.67%) WAN
9 7 (0.58%) HTTP
9 7 (0.58%) NX-OS
9 7 (0.58%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.58%) VXLAN
10 6 (0.50%) SSL
11 4 (0.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (5.18%) Power BI
2 28 (2.34%) Relational Database
3 27 (2.25%) NoSQL
4 25 (2.09%) MySQL
5 22 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.67%) SQL Server
7 16 (1.34%) Tableau
8 12 (1.00%) Metadata
9 11 (0.92%) MongoDB
10 10 (0.83%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.67%) Looker
12 7 (0.58%) Pinecone
12 7 (0.58%) Power Query
13 6 (0.50%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.50%) Redis
13 6 (0.50%) ZAP BI
14 5 (0.42%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.33%) Mixpanel
15 4 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 100 (8.35%) JIRA
2 72 (6.01%) Git
3 44 (3.67%) GitLab
4 26 (2.17%) Jenkins
5 23 (1.92%) Cypress.io
6 22 (1.84%) JUnit
7 16 (1.34%) Android Studio
7 16 (1.34%) Gradle
8 15 (1.25%) Axure RP
8 15 (1.25%) Xcode
9 12 (1.00%) CircleCI
9 12 (1.00%) Eclipse
10 11 (0.92%) Browser DevTools
11 9 (0.75%) Artifactory
11 9 (0.75%) Selenium
12 8 (0.67%) Mocha
12 8 (0.67%) Postman
13 6 (0.50%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.42%) Maven
14 5 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 401 (33.47%) Social Skills
2 230 (19.20%) Finance
3 151 (12.60%) Public Sector
4 142 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (7.60%) Banking
6 61 (5.09%) Marketing
7 38 (3.17%) Retail
8 30 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 25 (2.09%) Legal
10 24 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
13 16 (1.34%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.00%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.00%) Front Office
15 11 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (0.92%) Publishing
15 11 (0.92%) Telecoms
16 9 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 213 (17.78%) Designer
2 186 (15.53%) Developer
3 180 (15.03%) Senior
4 122 (10.18%) Analyst
5 114 (9.52%) UX Designer
6 63 (5.26%) Lead
7 57 (4.76%) Product Designer
8 52 (4.34%) Consultant
9 51 (4.26%) Business Analyst
10 50 (4.17%) Senior Designer
11 45 (3.76%) Architect
12 39 (3.26%) Support Engineer
13 36 (3.01%) UI Designer
13 36 (3.01%) User Researcher
14 35 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
14 35 (2.92%) Senior Developer
15 34 (2.84%) Software Engineer
16 33 (2.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 33 (2.75%) IT Support
17 30 (2.50%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (13.02%) React
2 140 (11.69%) CSS
3 124 (10.35%) HTML
4 95 (7.93%) REST
5 82 (6.84%) AngularJS
6 76 (6.34%) RESTful
7 55 (4.59%) Spring
7 55 (4.59%) Spring Boot
8 52 (4.34%) Node.js
9 41 (3.42%) .NET
10 34 (2.84%) GraphQL
10 34 (2.84%) HTML5
11 31 (2.59%) CSS3
12 26 (2.17%) Jest
12 26 (2.17%) Redux
13 25 (2.09%) Next.js
14 23 (1.92%) JSON
15 22 (1.84%) Playwright
16 21 (1.75%) Vue
17 18 (1.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 114 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 82 (6.84%) Mobile App
3 49 (4.09%) Onboarding
4 25 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 23 (1.92%) AI Agents
7 22 (1.84%) Data Structures
8 16 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.25%) Cloud Native
9 15 (1.25%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.25%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.09%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.00%) CMDB
13 10 (0.83%) e-Learning
13 10 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (0.83%) NHS
14 9 (0.75%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 123 (10.27%) Windows
2 46 (3.84%) Android
3 44 (3.67%) Windows 10
4 33 (2.75%) Apple iOS
5 26 (2.17%) Linux
6 18 (1.50%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.09%) Unix
8 5 (0.42%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.083%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (31.89%) Agile
2 368 (30.72%) UX Design
3 197 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
4 194 (16.19%) Analytics
5 167 (13.94%) User Research
6 158 (13.19%) AI
7 153 (12.77%) CI/CD
8 145 (12.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 144 (12.02%) DevOps
9 144 (12.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 140 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 118 (9.85%) Roadmaps
12 109 (9.10%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 106 (8.85%) Decision-Making
13 106 (8.85%) Prototyping
14 105 (8.76%) UX Research
15 101 (8.43%) Wireframes
16 92 (7.68%) Usability Testing
17 91 (7.60%) Service Design
18 85 (7.10%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 175 (14.61%) JavaScript
2 124 (10.35%) SQL
3 112 (9.35%) Java
4 105 (8.76%) Python
5 97 (8.10%) TypeScript
6 63 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 45 (3.76%) C#
8 28 (2.34%) Kotlin
9 16 (1.34%) Bash
10 14 (1.17%) Perl
11 12 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (0.92%) Swift
13 8 (0.67%) PHP
14 7 (0.58%) Lisp
15 6 (0.50%) Go
15 6 (0.50%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.50%) VBA
16 5 (0.42%) Korn
17 4 (0.33%) C++
18 3 (0.25%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 151 (12.60%) Security Cleared
2 108 (9.02%) Degree
3 106 (8.85%) SC Cleared
4 25 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (1.42%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.92%) CCNP
8 11 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (0.75%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.67%) MOS
11 7 (0.58%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.50%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.50%) Citrix Certification
12 6 (0.50%) OCA
12 6 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (0.42%) CCA
14 4 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.25%) CCIE
15 3 (0.25%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (15.53%) Accessibility
2 119 (9.93%) QA
3 61 (5.09%) WCAG
4 43 (3.59%) Data Quality
5 37 (3.09%) GDPR
6 19 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 16 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.25%) SLA
9 7 (0.58%) PMO
10 6 (0.50%) NCSC
11 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.25%) GMP
12 3 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.25%) GxP
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.17%) COBIT
13 2 (0.17%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 71 (5.93%) Active Directory
2 55 (4.59%) Docker
3 18 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.42%) Firmware
6 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.17%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.083%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.083%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.083%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.083%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.083%) XenApp
8 1 (0.083%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 58 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 42 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 34 (2.84%) Terraform
4 31 (2.59%) SCCM
5 21 (1.75%) Grafana
6 12 (1.00%) Ansible
7 10 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.58%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.50%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.33%) Argo
12 3 (0.25%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.25%) Nagios
12 3 (0.25%) Rancher
13 2 (0.17%) SysTrack
14 1 (0.083%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.083%) Consul
14 1 (0.083%) Podman
14 1 (0.083%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 1 (0.083%) WMI
Vendors
1 209 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 73 (6.09%) Adobe
3 72 (6.01%) Google
3 72 (6.01%) ServiceNow
4 38 (3.17%) Oracle
5 35 (2.92%) SAP
6 30 (2.50%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.75%) Citrix
8 19 (1.59%) Splunk
8 19 (1.59%) VMware
9 17 (1.42%) Cisco
10 15 (1.25%) Apple
11 12 (1.00%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.00%) Workday
12 10 (0.83%) Ekahau
12 10 (0.83%) Zscaler
13 9 (0.75%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.67%) Sitecore
15 7 (0.58%) Hotjar
15 7 (0.58%) Remedy