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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 63 77
Rank change year-on-year -8 +14 -15
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,274 881 977
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.14% 3.65% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 4.00% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 579 660
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £611
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +2.08% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 21 44
10th Percentile £16.00 £33.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.91 £46.25 £22.82
Median hourly rate £33.99 £53.50 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year -36.47% +105.53% -1.77%
75th Percentile £61.25 £82.96 £62.45
90th Percentile £82.20 £95.50 £73.98
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £53.50 £29.14
% change year-on-year -36.45% +83.63% -1.55%

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 34,393 22,003 31,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.23% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,924 14,379 20,694
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 £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,131 924 2,243
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.42 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.36 £18.47 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
% change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +1.39%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -19 651 £513 -0.49% 338
North of England +6 201 £450 +0.33% 142
Midlands +3 157 £488 +21.88% 86
North West +6 125 £420 -6.67% 85
South East -21 120 £480 +3.34% 146
West Midlands -10 106 £475 +1.33% 59
South West -16 67 £475 +26.67% 59
Yorkshire -20 53 £513 +28.04% 29
East Midlands +6 51 £550 +54.06% 25
East of England -23 30 £410 -13.68% 66
North East -8 21 £445 -1.66% 28
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 49 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 43 (3.38%) Confluence
3 36 (2.83%) CMS
4 20 (1.57%) 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
9 3 (0.24%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.24%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.16%) Appian
10 2 (0.16%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 25 (1.96%) Sketch
2 24 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.49%) Chatbot
3 19 (1.49%) Photoshop
4 18 (1.41%) Adobe XD
5 15 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (1.10%) Adobe Illustrator
7 13 (1.02%) MS Visio
8 12 (0.94%) Adobe After Effects
9 7 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 4 (0.31%) InVision
11 3 (0.24%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.24%) Trello
11 3 (0.24%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.24%) UXPin
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.078%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 11 (0.86%) 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 (0.078%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.078%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.078%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.078%) iTrent
7 1 (0.078%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.078%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 196 (15.38%) Azure
2 174 (13.66%) Figma
3 103 (8.08%) AWS
4 96 (7.54%) Microsoft 365
5 93 (7.30%) Power Platform
6 51 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 42 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (3.30%) GCP
8 37 (2.90%) SaaS
9 36 (2.83%) GitHub
10 35 (2.75%) Microsoft Copilot
11 32 (2.51%) PowerApps
12 30 (2.35%) Power Automate
13 24 (1.88%) Google Workspace
14 22 (1.73%) OneDrive
14 22 (1.73%) Serverless
15 21 (1.65%) Copilot Studio
16 20 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (1.57%) Google Sheets
17 19 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.18%) DNS
1 15 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
2 13 (1.02%) DHCP
3 12 (0.94%) Internet
3 12 (0.94%) LAN
4 11 (0.86%) Intranet
4 11 (0.86%) Wireless
5 10 (0.78%) SD-WAN
5 10 (0.78%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.71%) VPN
7 7 (0.55%) WAN
8 6 (0.47%) 5G
8 6 (0.47%) Cisco Wireless
8 6 (0.47%) WLAN
9 5 (0.39%) Firewall
9 5 (0.39%) HTTP
9 5 (0.39%) Skype
9 5 (0.39%) SMS
9 5 (0.39%) SSL
10 4 (0.31%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (4.87%) Power BI
2 20 (1.57%) Relational Database
3 19 (1.49%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.41%) NoSQL
5 17 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.26%) Metadata
7 15 (1.18%) MySQL
8 12 (0.94%) Power Query
9 11 (0.86%) Tableau
10 9 (0.71%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.63%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 7 (0.55%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.47%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.47%) ZAP BI
14 5 (0.39%) Looker
14 5 (0.39%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.39%) Redis
14 5 (0.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 91 (7.14%) JIRA
2 58 (4.55%) Git
3 31 (2.43%) 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 (0.86%) Android Studio
8 11 (0.86%) Vite
9 10 (0.78%) Axure RP
9 10 (0.78%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.78%) 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
1 383 (30.06%) Social Skills
2 242 (19.00%) Finance
3 157 (12.32%) Public Sector
4 129 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (7.77%) Banking
6 53 (4.16%) Marketing
7 52 (4.08%) Retail
8 32 (2.51%) Legal
9 30 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
10 29 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (1.65%) Automotive
13 20 (1.57%) Publishing
14 19 (1.49%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.86%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.86%) Local Government
18 9 (0.71%) Front Office
19 8 (0.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 268 (21.04%) Designer
2 196 (15.38%) Senior
3 159 (12.48%) Developer
4 126 (9.89%) UX Designer
5 116 (9.11%) Analyst
6 74 (5.81%) Lead
7 66 (5.18%) Consultant
8 59 (4.63%) UI Designer
9 56 (4.40%) Product Designer
10 55 (4.32%) Architect
11 54 (4.24%) Senior Designer
12 53 (4.16%) Business Analyst
13 46 (3.61%) Content Designer
14 43 (3.38%) User Experience Researcher
15 39 (3.06%) UI/UX Designer
16 38 (2.98%) IT Support
17 36 (2.83%) User Researcher
18 35 (2.75%) Service Designer
19 34 (2.67%) Product Manager
20 33 (2.59%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (10.75%) React
2 117 (9.18%) CSS
3 103 (8.08%) HTML
4 82 (6.44%) REST
5 63 (4.95%) AngularJS
6 55 (4.32%) RESTful
7 49 (3.85%) Spring
8 48 (3.77%) Spring Boot
9 38 (2.98%) .NET
10 36 (2.83%) GraphQL
11 32 (2.51%) Node.js
12 27 (2.12%) HTML5
13 26 (2.04%) CSS3
13 26 (2.04%) Next.js
13 26 (2.04%) Redux
14 24 (1.88%) JSON
15 20 (1.57%) Jest
16 19 (1.49%) OAuth
17 18 (1.41%) SOAP
18 17 (1.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 119 (9.34%) Product Ownership
2 59 (4.63%) Mobile App
3 52 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 30 (2.35%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (1.81%) Cloud Native
7 22 (1.73%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 17 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.18%) Virtual Reality
11 13 (1.02%) Augmented Reality
11 13 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.94%) Algorithms
12 12 (0.94%) Taxonomies
12 12 (0.94%) Virtual Team
13 11 (0.86%) Data Centre
13 11 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (0.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 99 (7.77%) Windows
2 42 (3.30%) Android
3 36 (2.83%) Apple iOS
4 35 (2.75%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.81%) Mac OS
6 14 (1.10%) Linux
7 8 (0.63%) 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
1 401 (31.48%) UX Design
2 384 (30.14%) Agile
3 194 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
4 191 (14.99%) AI
5 187 (14.68%) Analytics
6 168 (13.19%) User Research
7 158 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 158 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
8 141 (11.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 140 (10.99%) CI/CD
9 140 (10.99%) Roadmaps
10 122 (9.58%) DevOps
11 121 (9.50%) UX Research
12 116 (9.11%) Prototyping
13 112 (8.79%) Decision-Making
14 104 (8.16%) Wireframes
15 103 (8.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 97 (7.61%) Service Design
17 92 (7.22%) Workshop Facilitation
18 88 (6.91%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 141 (11.07%) JavaScript
2 107 (8.40%) Java
3 101 (7.93%) SQL
4 94 (7.38%) Python
5 91 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 46 (3.61%) PowerShell
7 36 (2.83%) C#
8 29 (2.28%) Kotlin
9 18 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 17 (1.33%) Bash
11 11 (0.86%) Swift
12 7 (0.55%) Korn
13 6 (0.47%) Perl
13 6 (0.47%) VBA
14 5 (0.39%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.39%) Go
14 5 (0.39%) R
15 4 (0.31%) PHP
15 4 (0.31%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 159 (12.48%) Security Cleared
2 119 (9.34%) SC Cleared
3 118 (9.26%) 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 (0.78%) 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
1 207 (16.25%) Accessibility
2 110 (8.63%) QA
3 63 (4.95%) WCAG
4 45 (3.53%) Data Quality
5 35 (2.75%) GDPR
6 18 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 13 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.55%) SLA
9 6 (0.47%) 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%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.16%) NIST
11 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 65 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 41 (3.22%) Docker
3 20 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.47%) Firmware
6 4 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.24%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.24%) XenApp
7 3 (0.24%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.078%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.078%) Varnish
9 1 (0.078%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 40 (3.14%) Terraform
3 34 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (2.51%) SCCM
5 20 (1.57%) Grafana
6 17 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.18%) Ansible
8 9 (0.71%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.31%) Podman
11 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.16%) Argo
12 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.16%) Nagios
12 2 (0.16%) Packer
12 2 (0.16%) Rancher
12 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
12 2 (0.16%) WSUS
13 1 (0.078%) Clonezilla
Vendors
1 199 (15.62%) Microsoft
2 72 (5.65%) Adobe
3 58 (4.55%) Google
4 54 (4.24%) ServiceNow
5 45 (3.53%) Oracle
6 39 (3.06%) Salesforce
6 39 (3.06%) SAP
7 23 (1.81%) Citrix
8 18 (1.41%) VMware
9 17 (1.33%) Workday
10 16 (1.26%) Splunk
11 15 (1.18%) Cisco
12 14 (1.10%) Apple
13 13 (1.02%) Dynatrace
14 11 (0.86%) Aruba
15 9 (0.71%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.63%) Foundry
17 7 (0.55%) HP
17 7 (0.55%) Zscaler
18 6 (0.47%) Databricks