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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 64 81
Rank change year-on-year -29 +17 -19
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,343 1,057 885
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.91% 3.80% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 4.18% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 673 535
10th Percentile £295 £300 £308
25th Percentile £390 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £680 £693 £708
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 48 24
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.50 £27.59
25th Percentile £26.50 £28.79 £30.33
Median hourly rate £33.99 £36.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -27.36% +5.79%
75th Percentile £67.89 £55.44 £74.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £65.67 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £35.22 £36.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -3.51% -27.36% +5.79%

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 39,123 25,281 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.74% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,918 16,062 17,635
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,776 1,509 1,303
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -31 681 £515 +3.00% 1,609
North of England -11 258 £435 +2.35% 330
Midlands -10 153 £475 +6.26% 176
North West -33 127 £410 -3.53% 206
West Midlands -4 121 £475 -5.00% 125
South East -51 99 £400 -10.81% 261
Yorkshire -3 80 £500 +25.00% 81
South West 0 77 £475 -2.56% 119
North East -7 50 £338 -25.00% 45
East of England -12 42 £410 -21.90% 106
East Midlands -17 32 £500 +39.66% 51
South Coast - 1 £450 -
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 67 (4.99%) SharePoint
2 59 (4.39%) CMS
3 35 (2.61%) Confluence
4 28 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.12%) WordPress
6 9 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (0.52%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.45%) Apache
9 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.37%) Drupal
9 5 (0.37%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.30%) Kentico
10 4 (0.30%) Mendix
11 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.15%) IIS
11 2 (0.15%) Moodle
11 2 (0.15%) nginx
11 2 (0.15%) Traefik
11 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 20 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.41%) Photoshop
4 17 (1.27%) Chatbot
5 16 (1.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 15 (1.12%) Sketch
7 12 (0.89%) Adobe After Effects
8 10 (0.74%) Adobe XD
8 10 (0.74%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.074%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.074%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.074%) Blender
12 1 (0.074%) Final Cut Pro
12 1 (0.074%) InVision
12 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
1 6 (0.45%) Shopify
1 6 (0.45%) Workday HCM
2 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
3 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 3 (0.22%) iTrent
4 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.074%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.074%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.074%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.074%) Magento
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.074%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 195 (14.52%) Azure
2 148 (11.02%) Figma
3 140 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
4 116 (8.64%) AWS
5 97 (7.22%) Power Platform
6 63 (4.69%) Entra ID
7 58 (4.32%) Microsoft Copilot
8 47 (3.50%) GitHub
9 45 (3.35%) SaaS
10 42 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (2.68%) GCP
12 31 (2.31%) OneDrive
12 31 (2.31%) PowerApps
13 27 (2.01%) Copilot Studio
13 27 (2.01%) Power Automate
14 20 (1.49%) Azure AI
15 16 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (1.04%) Serverless
17 13 (0.97%) Firebase
18 12 (0.89%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.35%) DNS
2 38 (2.83%) DHCP
3 35 (2.61%) TCP/IP
4 28 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (1.56%) VPN
6 19 (1.41%) Wireless
7 17 (1.27%) Firewall
8 16 (1.19%) LAN
9 15 (1.12%) WAN
10 12 (0.89%) NetScaler
11 10 (0.74%) Network Security
12 9 (0.67%) Internet
13 8 (0.60%) Cisco Wireless
13 8 (0.60%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.60%) Skype
14 6 (0.45%) Intranet
15 5 (0.37%) 5G
15 5 (0.37%) SMS
15 5 (0.37%) SNMP
15 5 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.80%) Power BI
2 24 (1.79%) Metadata
3 13 (0.97%) Power Query
3 13 (0.97%) Tableau
4 12 (0.89%) SQL Server
5 11 (0.82%) NoSQL
5 11 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (0.74%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.67%) Looker
8 8 (0.60%) Qlik Sense
9 7 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.52%) MySQL
9 7 (0.52%) Redis
9 7 (0.52%) Star Schema
10 6 (0.45%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.45%) QlikView
11 5 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.37%) Flink
11 5 (0.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 70 (5.21%) Git
1 70 (5.21%) JIRA
2 29 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.49%) Vite
4 19 (1.41%) Cypress.io
4 19 (1.41%) Storybook
5 14 (1.04%) GitLab
6 12 (0.89%) fastlane
7 10 (0.74%) Android Studio
8 9 (0.67%) Browser DevTools
8 9 (0.67%) Xcode
9 7 (0.52%) JMeter
9 7 (0.52%) Postman
9 7 (0.52%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.45%) Gradle
11 5 (0.37%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.37%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.37%) Fiddler
11 5 (0.37%) MSI
11 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
General
1 435 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 229 (17.05%) Finance
3 180 (13.40%) Public Sector
4 132 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (7.15%) Banking
6 78 (5.81%) Retail
7 72 (5.36%) Marketing
8 48 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
10 38 (2.83%) Legal
11 28 (2.08%) Automotive
12 26 (1.94%) Publishing
13 22 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
14 19 (1.41%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.19%) Military
16 13 (0.97%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.89%) Front Office
18 9 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 271 (20.18%) Designer
2 190 (14.15%) Developer
3 179 (13.33%) Senior
4 121 (9.01%) Lead
5 116 (8.64%) UX Designer
6 85 (6.33%) Analyst
7 67 (4.99%) UI Designer
8 60 (4.47%) Architect
9 55 (4.10%) Consultant
10 54 (4.02%) IT Support
11 53 (3.95%) Support Engineer
12 52 (3.87%) User Researcher
13 50 (3.72%) Product Manager
14 49 (3.65%) Senior Designer
15 45 (3.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 42 (3.13%) Business Analyst
16 42 (3.13%) Content Designer
17 41 (3.05%) User Experience Researcher
18 37 (2.76%) UI/UX Designer
19 36 (2.68%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (9.83%) React
2 99 (7.37%) CSS
3 88 (6.55%) HTML
4 79 (5.88%) REST
5 40 (2.98%) AngularJS
5 40 (2.98%) RESTful
6 39 (2.90%) GraphQL
6 39 (2.90%) HTML5
7 38 (2.83%) Terraform
8 35 (2.61%) CSS3
9 34 (2.53%) .NET
10 29 (2.16%) Next.js
11 26 (1.94%) OAuth
12 23 (1.71%) Spring
13 22 (1.64%) Playwright
13 22 (1.64%) Spring Boot
14 21 (1.56%) Node.js
15 20 (1.49%) Jest
15 20 (1.49%) OAuth2
16 18 (1.34%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 132 (9.83%) Product Ownership
2 76 (5.66%) Mobile App
2 76 (5.66%) Onboarding
3 44 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 41 (3.05%) AI Agents
5 29 (2.16%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (1.56%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.49%) NHS
11 20 (1.49%) Social Media
12 18 (1.34%) Educational Technology
13 16 (1.19%) Data Structures
13 16 (1.19%) Graphic Design
14 13 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (0.97%) Taxonomies
15 11 (0.82%) Animation
15 11 (0.82%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 149 (11.09%) Windows
2 58 (4.32%) Apple iOS
3 57 (4.24%) Android
4 56 (4.17%) Windows 10
5 34 (2.53%) Windows Server
6 32 (2.38%) Mac OS
7 17 (1.27%) Linux
8 12 (0.89%) Unix
9 9 (0.67%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (32.17%) UX Design
2 382 (28.44%) Agile
3 253 (18.84%) AI
4 248 (18.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 232 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
6 191 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 185 (13.78%) Analytics
8 162 (12.06%) CI/CD
9 159 (11.84%) User Research
10 143 (10.65%) Roadmaps
10 143 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 139 (10.35%) Decision-Making
12 108 (8.04%) DevOps
13 104 (7.74%) Scrum
13 104 (7.74%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 100 (7.45%) Prototyping
15 99 (7.37%) UX Research
16 98 (7.30%) ITIL
16 98 (7.30%) Service Design
17 96 (7.15%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 127 (9.46%) JavaScript
2 106 (7.89%) TypeScript
3 84 (6.25%) Python
4 81 (6.03%) Java
5 80 (5.96%) SQL
6 48 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 29 (2.16%) C#
8 26 (1.94%) Kotlin
9 19 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (1.19%) Bash
10 16 (1.19%) Swift
11 9 (0.67%) Go
12 7 (0.52%) PHP
12 7 (0.52%) VB
12 7 (0.52%) VBScript
13 6 (0.45%) Scala
13 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.37%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.37%) C++
15 4 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 211 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 158 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 102 (7.59%) Degree
4 33 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 18 (1.34%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.12%) PMP
10 8 (0.60%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.45%) MCSE
13 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.37%) CISSP
13 5 (0.37%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.30%) CCA
14 4 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (15.34%) Accessibility
2 89 (6.63%) QA
3 75 (5.58%) WCAG
4 46 (3.43%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.34%) GDPR
6 13 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.67%) SLA
8 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 7 (0.52%) PMO
9 6 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.22%) GRC
11 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.15%) PSD2
11 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.074%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.074%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.074%) NIST
12 1 (0.074%) WAI
System Software
1 103 (7.67%) Active Directory
2 42 (3.13%) Docker
3 24 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 23 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.12%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 9 (0.67%) XenApp
7 8 (0.60%) XenDesktop
8 7 (0.52%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.45%) vSphere
10 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.22%) UAG
12 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
13 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.074%) Firmware
14 1 (0.074%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 48 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 30 (2.23%) SCCM
4 21 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (1.41%) Grafana
6 15 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
7 14 (1.04%) Ansible
8 11 (0.82%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.45%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.37%) SysTrack
11 4 (0.30%) Clonezilla
11 4 (0.30%) Podman
12 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.22%) WSUS
13 2 (0.15%) Argo
13 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.15%) Istio
13 2 (0.15%) Packer
13 2 (0.15%) SCOM
13 2 (0.15%) vMotion
Vendors
1 245 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 83 (6.18%) ServiceNow
3 67 (4.99%) Adobe
4 43 (3.20%) Google
5 42 (3.13%) Oracle
6 32 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 31 (2.31%) SAP
8 26 (1.94%) VMware
9 25 (1.86%) Citrix
9 25 (1.86%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.71%) Splunk
11 18 (1.34%) Apple
12 16 (1.19%) Cisco
12 16 (1.19%) Foundry
13 15 (1.12%) Zscaler
14 14 (1.04%) Workday
15 13 (0.97%) OpenAI
16 9 (0.67%) Aruba
16 9 (0.67%) Databricks
16 9 (0.67%) Okta