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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 66 79
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 -17
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,288 866 959
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 3.61% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 3.96% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 847 571 649
10th Percentile £313 £306 £299
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £499 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% -0.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £613
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £491 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +2.29% -4.00% -1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 22 44
10th Percentile £16.00 £33.23 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.75 £46.25 £22.82
Median hourly rate £33.99 £58.00 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year -41.40% +122.82% -1.77%
75th Percentile £61.25 £80.35 £65.40
90th Percentile £78.40 £94.50 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £53.50 £29.14
% change year-on-year -36.47% +83.63% -10.87%

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 35,064 21,889 31,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.71% 91.30% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,297 14,308 20,582
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,170 926 2,283
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.35 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.39 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.69% -22.79% -2.46%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £80.28 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £27.59 £36.05
% change year-on-year +52.71% -23.47% -0.22%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -20 655 £513 -0.49% 521
North of England 0 200 £450 +3.21% 144
Midlands +10 162 £475 +18.16% 59
South East -10 124 £490 +12.00% 136
North West +1 122 £420 -6.04% 95
West Midlands -7 111 £475 -7.32% 39
South West -13 70 £475 +26.67% 47
Yorkshire -28 54 £513 +28.13% 28
East Midlands +11 51 £550 +53.63% 19
East of England -17 32 £410 -13.68% 64
North East -14 24 £450 -0.55% 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 50 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 43 (3.34%) Confluence
3 37 (2.87%) CMS
4 20 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.54%) 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 (0.23%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.23%) Mendix
9 3 (0.23%) nginx
9 3 (0.23%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.16%) Appian
10 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) IIS
10 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 24 (1.86%) Sketch
2 23 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (1.71%) Photoshop
4 19 (1.48%) Chatbot
5 17 (1.32%) Adobe Illustrator
6 16 (1.24%) Adobe XD
7 15 (1.16%) Adobe After Effects
8 13 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
9 11 (0.85%) MS Visio
10 7 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 5 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.31%) InVision
13 3 (0.23%) Adobe Captivate
13 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
13 3 (0.23%) Trello
13 3 (0.23%) UXPin
14 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
14 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
14 2 (0.16%) UserZoom
15 1 (0.078%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 10 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.62%) Shopify
2 8 (0.62%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.47%) Sage X3
4 5 (0.39%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle iProcurement
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.16%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.078%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.078%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.078%) iTrent
6 1 (0.078%) Magento
6 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.078%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.078%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 195 (15.14%) Azure
2 176 (13.66%) Figma
3 103 (8.00%) AWS
4 99 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 90 (6.99%) Power Platform
6 52 (4.04%) Entra ID
7 43 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (3.26%) GCP
9 38 (2.95%) SaaS
10 37 (2.87%) GitHub
10 37 (2.87%) Microsoft Copilot
11 30 (2.33%) PowerApps
12 28 (2.17%) Power Automate
13 24 (1.86%) Google Workspace
13 24 (1.86%) OneDrive
14 22 (1.71%) Copilot Studio
14 22 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (1.63%) Serverless
16 20 (1.55%) Google Sheets
17 19 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.24%) DNS
1 16 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
2 15 (1.16%) DHCP
3 13 (1.01%) Wireless
4 12 (0.93%) Internet
4 12 (0.93%) LAN
5 11 (0.85%) Intranet
6 10 (0.78%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.70%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.54%) Cisco Wireless
8 7 (0.54%) VPN
9 6 (0.47%) 5G
9 6 (0.47%) WAN
9 6 (0.47%) WLAN
10 5 (0.39%) HTTP
10 5 (0.39%) Skype
10 5 (0.39%) SMS
11 4 (0.31%) 802.11
11 4 (0.31%) SNMP
11 4 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.50%) Power BI
2 20 (1.55%) Relational Database
3 18 (1.40%) NoSQL
3 18 (1.40%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.32%) Metadata
4 17 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (1.16%) MySQL
7 13 (1.01%) Power Query
8 11 (0.85%) Tableau
9 9 (0.70%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.47%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.47%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 6 (0.47%) Pinecone
10 6 (0.47%) ZAP BI
11 5 (0.39%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.39%) Redis
11 5 (0.39%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 86 (6.68%) JIRA
2 62 (4.81%) Git
3 30 (2.33%) GitLab
4 23 (1.79%) Cypress.io
5 18 (1.40%) Jenkins
6 15 (1.16%) Gradle
6 15 (1.16%) JUnit
7 12 (0.93%) Android Studio
7 12 (0.93%) Browser DevTools
8 11 (0.85%) Vite
8 11 (0.85%) Xcode
9 10 (0.78%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.62%) Axure RP
10 8 (0.62%) fastlane
11 6 (0.47%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.47%) Mocha
11 6 (0.47%) Postman
11 6 (0.47%) Selenium
12 5 (0.39%) TestRail
12 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 383 (29.74%) Social Skills
2 236 (18.32%) Finance
3 156 (12.11%) Public Sector
4 124 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (7.53%) Banking
6 59 (4.58%) Retail
7 58 (4.50%) Marketing
8 32 (2.48%) Legal
9 31 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (1.94%) Automotive
12 22 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.48%) Publishing
14 17 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.85%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.85%) Local Government
17 9 (0.70%) Front Office
18 8 (0.62%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 275 (21.35%) Designer
2 199 (15.45%) Senior
3 166 (12.89%) Developer
4 129 (10.02%) UX Designer
5 111 (8.62%) Analyst
6 79 (6.13%) Lead
7 66 (5.12%) UI Designer
8 63 (4.89%) Consultant
9 58 (4.50%) Senior Designer
10 56 (4.35%) Product Designer
11 53 (4.11%) Architect
12 50 (3.88%) Business Analyst
13 46 (3.57%) Content Designer
14 43 (3.34%) User Experience Researcher
15 42 (3.26%) UI/UX Designer
16 40 (3.11%) IT Support
16 40 (3.11%) Product Manager
17 36 (2.80%) User Researcher
18 35 (2.72%) Service Designer
19 32 (2.48%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (10.71%) React
2 117 (9.08%) CSS
3 103 (8.00%) HTML
4 85 (6.60%) REST
5 64 (4.97%) AngularJS
6 58 (4.50%) RESTful
7 48 (3.73%) Spring
8 47 (3.65%) Spring Boot
9 39 (3.03%) .NET
10 38 (2.95%) GraphQL
11 31 (2.41%) Node.js
12 27 (2.10%) HTML5
13 26 (2.02%) CSS3
14 24 (1.86%) JSON
14 24 (1.86%) Redux
15 22 (1.71%) Next.js
16 21 (1.63%) SOAP
17 20 (1.55%) Jest
17 20 (1.55%) OAuth
18 17 (1.32%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 118 (9.16%) Product Ownership
2 59 (4.58%) Mobile App
3 53 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 29 (2.25%) AI Agents
5 26 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (1.79%) Cloud Native
7 20 (1.55%) Data Structures
8 19 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 15 (1.16%) Virtual Reality
11 14 (1.09%) Social Media
12 13 (1.01%) Augmented Reality
12 13 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.93%) Algorithms
13 12 (0.93%) Data Centre
13 12 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (0.93%) Taxonomies
13 12 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 100 (7.76%) Windows
2 41 (3.18%) Android
3 37 (2.87%) Apple iOS
4 34 (2.64%) Windows 10
5 25 (1.94%) Mac OS
6 14 (1.09%) Linux
7 7 (0.54%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.47%) Unix
9 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (32.22%) UX Design
2 382 (29.66%) Agile
3 197 (15.30%) AI
4 194 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
5 180 (13.98%) Analytics
6 161 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 161 (12.50%) User Research
7 160 (12.42%) Stakeholder Management
8 142 (11.02%) Roadmaps
9 139 (10.79%) CI/CD
10 135 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 120 (9.32%) UX Research
12 117 (9.08%) DevOps
13 114 (8.85%) Prototyping
14 111 (8.62%) Decision-Making
15 102 (7.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 100 (7.76%) Wireframes
17 95 (7.38%) Service Design
18 89 (6.91%) Workshop Facilitation
19 84 (6.52%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 143 (11.10%) JavaScript
2 106 (8.23%) Java
3 96 (7.45%) SQL
4 94 (7.30%) Python
5 89 (6.91%) TypeScript
6 46 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 36 (2.80%) C#
8 30 (2.33%) Kotlin
9 19 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (1.24%) Bash
11 13 (1.01%) Swift
12 8 (0.62%) Korn
13 6 (0.47%) Perl
13 6 (0.47%) VBA
14 5 (0.39%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.39%) R
15 4 (0.31%) PHP
15 4 (0.31%) VBScript
16 3 (0.23%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 160 (12.42%) Security Cleared
2 122 (9.47%) Degree
3 119 (9.24%) SC Cleared
4 28 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (1.79%) DV Cleared
6 20 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.01%) Azure Certification
8 9 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (0.54%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.47%) CCIE
10 6 (0.47%) CCNP
11 5 (0.39%) CCA
11 5 (0.39%) Citrix Certification
11 5 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.31%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.31%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.23%) CCIE Wireless
13 3 (0.23%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (15.68%) Accessibility
2 99 (7.69%) QA
3 65 (5.05%) WCAG
4 45 (3.49%) Data Quality
5 31 (2.41%) GDPR
6 18 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 13 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.47%) SLA
10 5 (0.39%) PMO
11 3 (0.23%) GMP
11 3 (0.23%) GRC
11 3 (0.23%) GxP
11 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.23%) NCSC
11 3 (0.23%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.16%) COBIT
12 2 (0.16%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 63 (4.89%) Active Directory
2 41 (3.18%) Docker
3 20 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.47%) Firmware
6 4 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.23%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.16%) XenApp
8 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.078%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.078%) Varnish
9 1 (0.078%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (3.88%) Kubernetes
2 40 (3.11%) Terraform
3 38 (2.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (2.48%) SCCM
5 19 (1.48%) Grafana
6 16 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.09%) Ansible
8 8 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (0.62%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.31%) Podman
10 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.16%) Clonezilla
11 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.16%) Packer
11 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.16%) WSUS
12 1 (0.078%) Argo
12 1 (0.078%) Rancher
12 1 (0.078%) WMI
Vendors
1 200 (15.53%) Microsoft
2 74 (5.75%) Adobe
3 60 (4.66%) ServiceNow
4 56 (4.35%) Google
5 39 (3.03%) Oracle
5 39 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 35 (2.72%) SAP
7 21 (1.63%) Citrix
8 17 (1.32%) Workday
9 16 (1.24%) Apple
9 16 (1.24%) Splunk
9 16 (1.24%) VMware
10 15 (1.16%) Cisco
11 14 (1.09%) Dynatrace
12 11 (0.85%) Aruba
13 9 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.62%) Foundry
15 7 (0.54%) Databricks
15 7 (0.54%) HP
16 6 (0.47%) Zscaler