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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 68 70
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,202 840 1,037
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.24% 3.44% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 3.79% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 549 684
10th Percentile £313 £300 £283
25th Percentile £388 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +0.67% -3.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 23 45
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.26 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £40.88 £23.75
Median hourly rate £38.94 £49.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +56.10% -29.53%
75th Percentile £61.25 £77.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.40 £93.50 £76.28
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £48.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -12.37% +49.23% -14.47%

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 32,109 22,180 32,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.44% 90.75% 86.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,603 14,473 21,697
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 1,967 822 2,143
10th Percentile £15.45 £15.07 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.04
Median hourly rate £32.50 £33.26 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +2.32% -12.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.47 £71.13
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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -19 621 £500 -2.44% 336
North of England +3 206 £450 - 180
North West +12 131 £405 -10.00% 99
South East -17 126 £488 -4.88% 158
Midlands -15 111 £505 +26.25% 97
West Midlands -35 69 £475 +17.28% 66
South West -14 66 £450 +20.00% 59
Yorkshire -24 54 £513 +33.99% 38
East Midlands -8 42 £550 +54.49% 31
East of England -9 31 £413 -13.16% 46
North East -1 20 £388 -19.27% 44
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 54 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.74%) Confluence
3 34 (2.83%) CMS
4 23 (1.91%) 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 33 (2.75%) Sketch
2 26 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (2.00%) Adobe XD
4 21 (1.75%) Chatbot
4 21 (1.75%) MS Visio
5 15 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.83%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.67%) InVision
8 7 (0.58%) Adobe Illustrator
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 5 (0.42%) 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%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.083%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.083%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 197 (16.39%) Azure
2 157 (13.06%) Figma
3 118 (9.82%) AWS
4 90 (7.49%) Power Platform
5 80 (6.66%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (4.16%) GCP
7 50 (4.16%) SaaS
8 49 (4.08%) Entra ID
9 45 (3.74%) GitHub
10 33 (2.75%) PowerApps
11 28 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
11 28 (2.33%) Power Automate
12 27 (2.25%) Serverless
13 24 (2.00%) Google Workspace
14 23 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
15 22 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
16 21 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
17 19 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
17 19 (1.58%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.66%) DNS
2 18 (1.50%) Wireless
3 15 (1.25%) Internet
4 12 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.83%) DHCP
5 10 (0.83%) Intranet
5 10 (0.83%) LAN
5 10 (0.83%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.83%) VPN
6 8 (0.67%) BGP
6 8 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
6 8 (0.67%) Firewall
6 8 (0.67%) WAN
7 7 (0.58%) Cisco Wireless
7 7 (0.58%) HTTP
7 7 (0.58%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.50%) NX-OS
8 6 (0.50%) SSL
8 6 (0.50%) VXLAN
9 4 (0.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.91%) Power BI
2 29 (2.41%) Relational Database
3 28 (2.33%) NoSQL
4 25 (2.08%) MySQL
5 22 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.66%) SQL Server
7 16 (1.33%) Tableau
8 12 (1.00%) Metadata
8 12 (1.00%) MongoDB
9 10 (0.83%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.67%) Looker
11 7 (0.58%) Pinecone
11 7 (0.58%) Power Query
12 6 (0.50%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.50%) Redis
12 6 (0.50%) ZAP BI
13 5 (0.42%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.33%) Mixpanel
14 4 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 102 (8.49%) JIRA
2 73 (6.07%) Git
3 44 (3.66%) GitLab
4 28 (2.33%) Jenkins
5 24 (2.00%) Cypress.io
6 22 (1.83%) JUnit
7 17 (1.41%) Android Studio
7 17 (1.41%) Gradle
8 16 (1.33%) Xcode
9 15 (1.25%) Axure RP
10 12 (1.00%) CircleCI
10 12 (1.00%) Eclipse
11 11 (0.92%) Browser DevTools
12 9 (0.75%) Artifactory
12 9 (0.75%) Postman
12 9 (0.75%) Selenium
13 8 (0.67%) Mocha
14 6 (0.50%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.50%) Vite
15 5 (0.42%) Storybook
General
1 401 (33.36%) Social Skills
2 233 (19.38%) Finance
3 153 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 146 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (7.74%) Banking
6 57 (4.74%) Marketing
7 39 (3.24%) Retail
8 30 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 26 (2.16%) Legal
10 23 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (1.66%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.25%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.00%) Financial Institution
15 12 (1.00%) Front Office
16 11 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.92%) Publishing
16 11 (0.92%) Telecoms
17 10 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 215 (17.89%) Designer
2 188 (15.64%) Developer
3 183 (15.22%) Senior
4 124 (10.32%) Analyst
5 113 (9.40%) UX Designer
6 60 (4.99%) Lead
7 57 (4.74%) Product Designer
8 53 (4.41%) Business Analyst
8 53 (4.41%) Consultant
9 50 (4.16%) Senior Designer
10 45 (3.74%) Architect
11 38 (3.16%) Support Engineer
11 38 (3.16%) UI Designer
12 37 (3.08%) Senior Developer
13 36 (3.00%) Full-Stack Developer
13 36 (3.00%) User Researcher
14 35 (2.91%) Software Engineer
15 34 (2.83%) IT Support
16 32 (2.66%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 32 (2.66%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (13.23%) React
2 140 (11.65%) CSS
3 124 (10.32%) HTML
4 97 (8.07%) REST
5 82 (6.82%) AngularJS
6 78 (6.49%) RESTful
7 56 (4.66%) Spring
7 56 (4.66%) Spring Boot
8 52 (4.33%) Node.js
9 41 (3.41%) .NET
10 35 (2.91%) GraphQL
11 34 (2.83%) HTML5
12 32 (2.66%) CSS3
13 27 (2.25%) Redux
14 26 (2.16%) Jest
15 25 (2.08%) Next.js
16 24 (2.00%) JSON
17 23 (1.91%) Playwright
18 21 (1.75%) Vue
19 19 (1.58%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 113 (9.40%) Product Ownership
2 84 (6.99%) Mobile App
3 49 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (2.08%) AI Agents
6 24 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 23 (1.91%) Data Structures
8 16 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.25%) Cloud Native
9 15 (1.25%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.16%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.16%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.00%) CMDB
13 10 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (0.83%) NHS
14 9 (0.75%) Low-Code
14 9 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 119 (9.90%) Windows
2 46 (3.83%) Android
3 41 (3.41%) Windows 10
4 33 (2.75%) Apple iOS
5 26 (2.16%) Linux
6 17 (1.41%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.08%) 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
1 389 (32.36%) Agile
2 374 (31.11%) UX Design
3 202 (16.81%) Analytics
3 202 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
4 166 (13.81%) User Research
5 164 (13.64%) AI
6 158 (13.14%) CI/CD
7 149 (12.40%) DevOps
7 149 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
8 141 (11.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 139 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 116 (9.65%) Roadmaps
11 109 (9.07%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 106 (8.82%) Decision-Making
13 105 (8.74%) Prototyping
14 104 (8.65%) UX Research
15 100 (8.32%) Wireframes
16 92 (7.65%) Service Design
17 91 (7.57%) Usability Testing
18 85 (7.07%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 177 (14.73%) JavaScript
2 124 (10.32%) SQL
3 114 (9.48%) Java
4 106 (8.82%) Python
5 98 (8.15%) TypeScript
6 62 (5.16%) PowerShell
7 45 (3.74%) C#
8 29 (2.41%) Kotlin
9 16 (1.33%) Bash
10 14 (1.16%) Perl
11 12 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (1.00%) Swift
12 8 (0.67%) PHP
13 6 (0.50%) Go
13 6 (0.50%) Korn
13 6 (0.50%) Lisp
13 6 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.50%) VBA
14 4 (0.33%) C++
15 3 (0.25%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 149 (12.40%) Security Cleared
2 108 (8.99%) Degree
3 104 (8.65%) SC Cleared
4 26 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (0.83%) CCNP
8 10 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (0.75%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.67%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.67%) MOS
11 7 (0.58%) PMI 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
1 187 (15.56%) Accessibility
2 120 (9.98%) QA
3 63 (5.24%) WCAG
4 41 (3.41%) Data Quality
5 37 (3.08%) GDPR
6 18 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 15 (1.25%) SLA
8 14 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 70 (5.82%) Active Directory
2 55 (4.58%) Docker
3 18 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.42%) Firmware
6 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.17%) ProxySG
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 (4.83%) Kubernetes
2 40 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 35 (2.91%) Terraform
4 29 (2.41%) SCCM
5 21 (1.75%) Grafana
6 12 (1.00%) Ansible
7 10 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.50%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.50%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.33%) Argo
11 3 (0.25%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.25%) Nagios
11 3 (0.25%) Rancher
12 2 (0.17%) SysTrack
13 1 (0.083%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.083%) Consul
13 1 (0.083%) Podman
13 1 (0.083%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.083%) WMI
Vendors
1 210 (17.47%) Microsoft
2 72 (5.99%) Adobe
2 72 (5.99%) Google
3 70 (5.82%) ServiceNow
4 42 (3.49%) Oracle
5 37 (3.08%) SAP
6 31 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.75%) Citrix
8 19 (1.58%) Splunk
8 19 (1.58%) VMware
9 16 (1.33%) Cisco
10 15 (1.25%) Apple
11 13 (1.08%) Workday
12 12 (1.00%) Red Hat
13 10 (0.83%) Zscaler
14 9 (0.75%) Ekahau
14 9 (0.75%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.75%) Sitecore
15 7 (0.58%) Hotjar
16 6 (0.50%) Optimizely