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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 65 81
Rank change year-on-year -10 +16 -21
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,294 892 962
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.09% 3.68% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 4.03% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 836 577 649
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% -1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £703
UK median daily rate £490 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +2.08% -4.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 24 44
10th Percentile £16.00 £33.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.01 £42.94 £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 £75.12 £62.94
90th Percentile £82.30 £92.50 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £53.50 £29.14
% change year-on-year -36.47% +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 35,555 22,136 31,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.01% 91.31% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 14,385 20,625
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,223 969 2,319
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.98% -23.38% -0.11%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -20 649 £513 -0.49% 631
North of England -6 203 £450 +0.67% 189
Midlands +9 167 £475 +17.72% 78
North West -2 129 £420 -6.67% 119
South East -9 129 £490 +7.93% 160
West Midlands -3 116 £475 -7.32% 54
South West -6 71 £475 +26.67% 51
Yorkshire -27 54 £525 +33.08% 49
East Midlands +6 51 £550 +54.49% 23
East of England -17 32 £410 -14.14% 75
North East -20 20 £450 -6.25% 23
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 55 (4.25%) SharePoint
2 41 (3.17%) Confluence
3 39 (3.01%) CMS
4 23 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.54%) WordPress
7 5 (0.39%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) Drupal
7 5 (0.39%) Skype for Business
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%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.15%) Appian
10 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
Applications
1 26 (2.01%) Sketch
2 24 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.78%) Photoshop
4 19 (1.47%) Chatbot
5 18 (1.39%) Adobe Illustrator
6 17 (1.31%) Adobe XD
7 15 (1.16%) Adobe After Effects
7 15 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
8 11 (0.85%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 8 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.31%) Adobe Captivate
11 4 (0.31%) InVision
12 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.23%) Trello
12 3 (0.23%) UserZoom
12 3 (0.23%) UXPin
13 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
13 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
14 1 (0.077%) Blender
Business Applications
1 10 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.62%) Shopify
2 8 (0.62%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.46%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle iProcurement
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.077%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.077%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.077%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.077%) Magento
6 1 (0.077%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.077%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.077%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.077%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 195 (15.07%) Azure
2 177 (13.68%) Figma
3 111 (8.58%) AWS
4 106 (8.19%) Microsoft 365
5 89 (6.88%) Power Platform
6 55 (4.25%) Entra ID
7 43 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (3.17%) GCP
9 40 (3.09%) Microsoft Copilot
10 39 (3.01%) SaaS
11 38 (2.94%) GitHub
12 31 (2.40%) PowerApps
13 27 (2.09%) Power Automate
14 26 (2.01%) OneDrive
15 24 (1.85%) Google Workspace
16 23 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
17 22 (1.70%) Serverless
18 20 (1.55%) Copilot Studio
18 20 (1.55%) Google Sheets
19 19 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (1.39%) DNS
3 17 (1.31%) DHCP
4 16 (1.24%) Wireless
5 15 (1.16%) LAN
6 13 (1.00%) Internet
7 12 (0.93%) Intranet
8 11 (0.85%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.77%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.62%) Cisco Wireless
10 8 (0.62%) VPN
10 8 (0.62%) WAN
11 7 (0.54%) 5G
11 7 (0.54%) Skype
11 7 (0.54%) WLAN
12 5 (0.39%) 802.11
12 5 (0.39%) Firewall
12 5 (0.39%) HTTP
12 5 (0.39%) SMS
13 4 (0.31%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (4.33%) Power BI
2 21 (1.62%) Relational Database
3 19 (1.47%) Metadata
3 19 (1.47%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.31%) NoSQL
4 17 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (1.16%) MySQL
6 14 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.00%) Power Query
8 11 (0.85%) Tableau
9 9 (0.70%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.54%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 6 (0.46%) Pinecone
11 6 (0.46%) ZAP BI
12 5 (0.39%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.39%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.39%) Redis
12 5 (0.39%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 85 (6.57%) JIRA
2 62 (4.79%) Git
3 31 (2.40%) GitLab
4 21 (1.62%) Cypress.io
5 18 (1.39%) Jenkins
6 15 (1.16%) Gradle
6 15 (1.16%) JUnit
7 13 (1.00%) Android Studio
8 12 (0.93%) Browser DevTools
9 11 (0.85%) Vite
9 11 (0.85%) Xcode
10 10 (0.77%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.70%) fastlane
12 7 (0.54%) Axure RP
13 6 (0.46%) Eclipse
13 6 (0.46%) Mocha
13 6 (0.46%) Postman
14 5 (0.39%) Crashlytics
14 5 (0.39%) Selenium
14 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 391 (30.22%) Social Skills
2 234 (18.08%) Finance
3 155 (11.98%) Public Sector
4 124 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (7.42%) Banking
6 63 (4.87%) Retail
7 57 (4.40%) Marketing
8 35 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
10 30 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (2.16%) Legal
12 27 (2.09%) Automotive
13 23 (1.78%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.62%) Publishing
15 17 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.93%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.93%) Local Government
17 9 (0.70%) Front Office
18 8 (0.62%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 277 (21.41%) Designer
2 197 (15.22%) Senior
3 170 (13.14%) Developer
4 124 (9.58%) UX Designer
5 108 (8.35%) Analyst
6 86 (6.65%) Lead
7 69 (5.33%) UI Designer
8 61 (4.71%) Consultant
9 56 (4.33%) Senior Designer
10 54 (4.17%) Product Designer
11 50 (3.86%) Architect
12 48 (3.71%) Business Analyst
12 48 (3.71%) Content Designer
13 46 (3.55%) User Experience Researcher
14 44 (3.40%) IT Support
15 43 (3.32%) UI/UX Designer
16 40 (3.09%) Product Manager
17 35 (2.70%) User Researcher
18 33 (2.55%) Service Designer
18 33 (2.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (10.97%) React
2 121 (9.35%) CSS
3 107 (8.27%) HTML
4 87 (6.72%) REST
5 69 (5.33%) AngularJS
6 58 (4.48%) RESTful
7 49 (3.79%) Spring
8 48 (3.71%) Spring Boot
9 42 (3.25%) .NET
10 36 (2.78%) GraphQL
11 30 (2.32%) Node.js
12 28 (2.16%) HTML5
13 27 (2.09%) CSS3
14 25 (1.93%) JSON
15 24 (1.85%) Redux
16 22 (1.70%) Next.js
17 21 (1.62%) SOAP
18 20 (1.55%) Jest
19 19 (1.47%) OAuth
20 18 (1.39%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 124 (9.58%) Product Ownership
2 62 (4.79%) Mobile App
3 54 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 26 (2.01%) AI Agents
4 26 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (1.93%) Cloud Native
6 22 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.16%) Data Centre
10 15 (1.16%) Virtual Reality
11 14 (1.08%) Graphic Design
11 14 (1.08%) Social Media
12 13 (1.00%) Augmented Reality
12 13 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.00%) Taxonomies
13 12 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 103 (7.96%) Windows
2 42 (3.25%) Android
3 40 (3.09%) Apple iOS
4 36 (2.78%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.78%) Mac OS
6 14 (1.08%) Linux
7 7 (0.54%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.46%) Unix
8 6 (0.46%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (32.84%) UX Design
2 388 (29.98%) Agile
3 198 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
4 197 (15.22%) AI
5 182 (14.06%) Analytics
6 164 (12.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 162 (12.52%) User Research
8 161 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 145 (11.21%) CI/CD
10 142 (10.97%) Roadmaps
11 139 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 120 (9.27%) DevOps
13 116 (8.96%) Prototyping
13 116 (8.96%) UX Research
14 115 (8.89%) Decision-Making
15 105 (8.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 103 (7.96%) Wireframes
17 96 (7.42%) Service Design
18 89 (6.88%) Usability Testing
19 86 (6.65%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 147 (11.36%) JavaScript
2 107 (8.27%) Java
3 95 (7.34%) SQL
4 94 (7.26%) TypeScript
5 89 (6.88%) Python
6 48 (3.71%) PowerShell
7 40 (3.09%) C#
8 31 (2.40%) Kotlin
9 19 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (1.24%) Bash
11 13 (1.00%) Swift
12 8 (0.62%) Korn
13 6 (0.46%) Perl
13 6 (0.46%) VBA
13 6 (0.46%) VBScript
14 5 (0.39%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.39%) R
14 5 (0.39%) VB
15 3 (0.23%) PHP
15 3 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 157 (12.13%) Security Cleared
2 125 (9.66%) Degree
3 115 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 27 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (1.78%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (0.62%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.54%) CCIE
10 7 (0.54%) CCNP
11 6 (0.46%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.39%) CCA
12 5 (0.39%) Citrix Certification
12 5 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.31%) CWNA
13 4 (0.31%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (16.07%) Accessibility
2 97 (7.50%) QA
3 72 (5.56%) WCAG
4 42 (3.25%) Data Quality
5 29 (2.24%) GDPR
6 17 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.46%) 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%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 2 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.15%) NCSC
12 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.077%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.077%) NIST
System Software
1 63 (4.87%) Active Directory
2 41 (3.17%) Docker
3 20 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.46%) Firmware
6 5 (0.39%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.15%) XenApp
9 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.077%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.077%) Varnish
10 1 (0.077%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (3.86%) Kubernetes
2 41 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (3.17%) Terraform
3 33 (2.55%) SCCM
4 19 (1.47%) Grafana
5 16 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (1.08%) Ansible
7 9 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (0.62%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.31%) Podman
10 3 (0.23%) Clonezilla
10 3 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.15%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.15%) Packer
11 2 (0.15%) WSUS
12 1 (0.077%) Argo
12 1 (0.077%) Nagios
12 1 (0.077%) Rancher
12 1 (0.077%) WMI
Vendors
1 208 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 78 (6.03%) Adobe
3 59 (4.56%) ServiceNow
4 58 (4.48%) Google
5 39 (3.01%) Oracle
6 38 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 35 (2.70%) SAP
8 21 (1.62%) Citrix
9 17 (1.31%) Workday
10 16 (1.24%) Apple
10 16 (1.24%) Cisco
10 16 (1.24%) Splunk
10 16 (1.24%) VMware
11 15 (1.16%) Dynatrace
12 12 (0.93%) Aruba
13 9 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 7 (0.54%) Databricks
14 7 (0.54%) Foundry
14 7 (0.54%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.46%) Ekahau