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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 63 77
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 -15
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,271 887 990
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.13% 3.65% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 4.00% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 852 583 668
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £393 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £604
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 45 21 45
10th Percentile £16.00 £33.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.89 £46.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £33.99 £53.50 £26.56
Median % change year-on-year -36.47% +101.43% +0.23%
75th Percentile £63.50 £82.96 £61.75
90th Percentile £82.60 £95.50 £73.82
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £53.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -29.91% +68.72% +7.15%

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 34,368 22,176 31,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.22% 86.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,897 14,509 20,833
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -2.69% -1.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 935 2,251
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.45 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.40 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +47.48% -21.23% +0.29%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -18 651 £513 -0.49% 341
North of England 0 200 £450 +0.33% 138
Midlands +5 156 £475 +18.75% 86
North West +8 124 £413 -8.33% 87
South East -20 117 £475 +4.63% 149
West Midlands -12 103 £475 +2.70% 58
South West -17 67 £475 +26.67% 62
East Midlands +4 53 £550 +54.06% 26
Yorkshire -20 53 £513 +28.04% 29
East of England -16 30 £410 -13.68% 69
North East -9 21 £445 -1.66% 22
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 45 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 43 (3.38%) Confluence
3 34 (2.68%) CMS
4 18 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.55%) WordPress
7 5 (0.39%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) Drupal
8 4 (0.31%) Camunda
8 4 (0.31%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.31%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.31%) Kentico
9 3 (0.24%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.24%) Mendix
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) IIS
10 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (1.97%) Sketch
2 23 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.49%) Chatbot
4 18 (1.42%) Adobe XD
4 18 (1.42%) Photoshop
5 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (1.02%) Adobe Illustrator
6 13 (1.02%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.87%) Adobe After Effects
8 6 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.31%) InVision
10 3 (0.24%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.24%) Trello
10 3 (0.24%) UserZoom
10 3 (0.24%) UXPin
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.079%) Blender
Business Applications
1 11 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.63%) Shopify
3 8 (0.63%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.47%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle iProcurement
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 ERP
7 1 (0.079%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.079%) iTrent
7 1 (0.079%) Magento
7 1 (0.079%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.079%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.079%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 193 (15.18%) Azure
2 174 (13.69%) Figma
3 99 (7.79%) AWS
4 92 (7.24%) Microsoft 365
4 92 (7.24%) Power Platform
5 50 (3.93%) Entra ID
6 42 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (3.30%) GCP
7 36 (2.83%) GitHub
7 36 (2.83%) SaaS
8 35 (2.75%) Microsoft Copilot
9 32 (2.52%) PowerApps
10 30 (2.36%) Power Automate
11 24 (1.89%) Google Workspace
12 21 (1.65%) Copilot Studio
12 21 (1.65%) Serverless
13 20 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (1.57%) Google Sheets
14 19 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
15 18 (1.42%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
2 12 (0.94%) DNS
2 12 (0.94%) Internet
2 12 (0.94%) LAN
3 11 (0.87%) Intranet
3 11 (0.87%) Wireless
4 10 (0.79%) DHCP
4 10 (0.79%) SD-WAN
5 9 (0.71%) VPN
6 7 (0.55%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.55%) WAN
7 6 (0.47%) 5G
7 6 (0.47%) Cisco Wireless
7 6 (0.47%) WLAN
8 5 (0.39%) Firewall
8 5 (0.39%) HTTP
8 5 (0.39%) SMS
8 5 (0.39%) SSL
9 4 (0.31%) 802.11
9 4 (0.31%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.80%) Power BI
2 20 (1.57%) Relational Database
3 18 (1.42%) NoSQL
3 18 (1.42%) SQL Server
4 16 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (1.26%) Metadata
4 16 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (1.18%) MySQL
6 11 (0.87%) Power Query
6 11 (0.87%) Tableau
7 9 (0.71%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.63%) BigQuery
9 7 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 7 (0.55%) Pinecone
10 6 (0.47%) Looker
10 6 (0.47%) ZAP BI
11 5 (0.39%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.39%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.39%) Redis
12 4 (0.31%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 91 (7.16%) JIRA
2 58 (4.56%) Git
3 31 (2.44%) GitLab
4 22 (1.73%) Cypress.io
5 16 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.26%) JUnit
6 14 (1.10%) Gradle
7 12 (0.94%) Browser DevTools
8 11 (0.87%) Android Studio
8 11 (0.87%) CircleCI
8 11 (0.87%) Vite
9 10 (0.79%) Axure RP
9 10 (0.79%) Xcode
10 6 (0.47%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.47%) fastlane
10 6 (0.47%) Mocha
10 6 (0.47%) Postman
10 6 (0.47%) Selenium
11 5 (0.39%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.39%) TestRail
General
1 381 (29.98%) Social Skills
2 243 (19.12%) Finance
3 157 (12.35%) Public Sector
4 130 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (7.87%) Banking
6 53 (4.17%) Marketing
7 52 (4.09%) Retail
8 32 (2.52%) Legal
9 29 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.57%) Automotive
13 19 (1.49%) Publishing
14 18 (1.42%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.87%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.87%) Local Government
18 9 (0.71%) Front Office
19 8 (0.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 267 (21.01%) Designer
2 198 (15.58%) Senior
3 159 (12.51%) Developer
4 126 (9.91%) UX Designer
5 118 (9.28%) Analyst
6 73 (5.74%) Lead
7 67 (5.27%) Consultant
8 58 (4.56%) UI Designer
9 57 (4.48%) Product Designer
10 55 (4.33%) Architect
11 54 (4.25%) Business Analyst
11 54 (4.25%) Senior Designer
12 46 (3.62%) Content Designer
13 43 (3.38%) User Experience Researcher
14 39 (3.07%) UI/UX Designer
15 36 (2.83%) User Researcher
16 35 (2.75%) IT Support
17 34 (2.68%) Product Manager
17 34 (2.68%) Service Designer
18 32 (2.52%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (10.70%) React
2 116 (9.13%) CSS
3 102 (8.03%) HTML
4 82 (6.45%) REST
5 62 (4.88%) AngularJS
6 54 (4.25%) RESTful
7 49 (3.86%) Spring
8 48 (3.78%) Spring Boot
9 37 (2.91%) GraphQL
10 36 (2.83%) .NET
11 32 (2.52%) Node.js
12 27 (2.12%) HTML5
12 27 (2.12%) Redux
13 26 (2.05%) CSS3
13 26 (2.05%) Next.js
14 23 (1.81%) JSON
15 20 (1.57%) Jest
16 19 (1.49%) OAuth
17 18 (1.42%) SOAP
18 17 (1.34%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 118 (9.28%) Product Ownership
2 60 (4.72%) Mobile App
3 52 (4.09%) Onboarding
4 30 (2.36%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (1.81%) Cloud Native
7 22 (1.73%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 17 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.18%) Virtual Reality
11 13 (1.02%) Augmented Reality
11 13 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.94%) Taxonomies
12 12 (0.94%) Virtual Team
13 11 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (0.87%) Management Information System
13 11 (0.87%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 94 (7.40%) Windows
2 42 (3.30%) Android
3 35 (2.75%) Apple iOS
4 34 (2.68%) Windows 10
5 20 (1.57%) Mac OS
6 14 (1.10%) Linux
7 8 (0.63%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.47%) Unix
9 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.24%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (31.47%) UX Design
2 383 (30.13%) Agile
3 194 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
4 188 (14.79%) AI
4 188 (14.79%) Analytics
5 167 (13.14%) User Research
6 159 (12.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 157 (12.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 141 (11.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 139 (10.94%) Roadmaps
10 138 (10.86%) CI/CD
11 121 (9.52%) DevOps
11 121 (9.52%) UX Research
12 115 (9.05%) Prototyping
13 110 (8.65%) Decision-Making
14 104 (8.18%) Wireframes
15 103 (8.10%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 96 (7.55%) Service Design
17 92 (7.24%) Workshop Facilitation
18 88 (6.92%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 141 (11.09%) JavaScript
2 106 (8.34%) Java
3 101 (7.95%) SQL
4 93 (7.32%) Python
5 91 (7.16%) TypeScript
6 44 (3.46%) PowerShell
7 35 (2.75%) C#
8 28 (2.20%) Kotlin
9 17 (1.34%) Bash
9 17 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (0.94%) Swift
11 7 (0.55%) Korn
12 6 (0.47%) Perl
12 6 (0.47%) VBA
13 5 (0.39%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.39%) Go
13 5 (0.39%) R
14 4 (0.31%) PHP
14 4 (0.31%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 158 (12.43%) Security Cleared
2 118 (9.28%) SC Cleared
3 114 (8.97%) Degree
4 29 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (1.73%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 10 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (0.63%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.55%) CCNP
12 6 (0.47%) CCA
12 6 (0.47%) CCIE
12 6 (0.47%) Citrix Certification
12 6 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.39%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.31%) OCA
14 4 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (16.21%) Accessibility
2 109 (8.58%) QA
3 62 (4.88%) WCAG
4 44 (3.46%) Data Quality
5 35 (2.75%) GDPR
6 18 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 13 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.55%) SLA
9 5 (0.39%) PMO
10 3 (0.24%) GMP
10 3 (0.24%) GRC
10 3 (0.24%) GxP
10 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 3 (0.24%) NCSC
11 2 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.16%) COBIT
11 2 (0.16%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 65 (5.11%) Active Directory
2 41 (3.23%) Docker
3 21 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 19 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.47%) Firmware
6 4 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.24%) XenApp
7 3 (0.24%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.16%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.079%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.079%) Varnish
9 1 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 40 (3.15%) Terraform
3 31 (2.44%) SCCM
4 30 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.57%) Grafana
6 17 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.18%) Ansible
8 9 (0.71%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.31%) Podman
10 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.16%) Argo
11 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.16%) Nagios
11 2 (0.16%) Packer
11 2 (0.16%) Rancher
11 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.16%) WSUS
12 1 (0.079%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 195 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 71 (5.59%) Adobe
3 59 (4.64%) Google
4 50 (3.93%) ServiceNow
5 45 (3.54%) Oracle
6 40 (3.15%) Salesforce
7 39 (3.07%) SAP
8 23 (1.81%) Citrix
9 19 (1.49%) VMware
10 17 (1.34%) Workday
11 16 (1.26%) Splunk
12 15 (1.18%) Cisco
13 14 (1.10%) Apple
14 13 (1.02%) Dynatrace
15 11 (0.87%) Aruba
16 9 (0.71%) MuleSoft
17 8 (0.63%) Foundry
17 8 (0.63%) Zscaler
18 7 (0.55%) HP
19 6 (0.47%) Sage