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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 67 83
Rank change year-on-year -16 +16 -25
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,292 934 948
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.97% 3.67% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 4.02% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 600 637
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £623
90th Percentile £680 £726 £715
UK median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 33 45
10th Percentile £16.00 £32.91 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.75 £35.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £49.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.33% +65.00% +13.21%
75th Percentile £67.84 £70.16 £68.00
90th Percentile £86.94 £85.50 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £51.00 £31.71
% change year-on-year -33.35% +60.83% +19.66%

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 37,130 23,233 31,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.23% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,419 14,972 20,715
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.23% -4.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,147 2,335
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.55
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +2.63%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -23 652 £522 +3.37% 300
North of England -20 195 £450 - 119
Midlands +4 152 £475 +18.16% 56
South East -14 135 £500 +5.26% 149
North West -22 112 £435 -3.33% 66
West Midlands +2 110 £475 -9.52% 34
South West -7 75 £475 +26.67% 41
Yorkshire -32 51 £500 +24.84% 28
East Midlands +4 42 £550 +54.49% 22
East of England -5 37 £410 -13.68% 45
North East -18 32 £440 -8.33% 26
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 64 (4.95%) SharePoint
2 44 (3.41%) CMS
3 37 (2.86%) Confluence
4 26 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.77%) WordPress
6 7 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.39%) Drupal
7 5 (0.39%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.31%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.31%) Kentico
8 4 (0.31%) Mendix
9 3 (0.23%) Camunda
9 3 (0.23%) nginx
9 3 (0.23%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.15%) Apache
10 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
11 1 (0.077%) Traefik
Applications
1 25 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.55%) Photoshop
2 20 (1.55%) Sketch
3 18 (1.39%) Chatbot
4 16 (1.24%) Adobe Illustrator
5 14 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (1.01%) Adobe After Effects
7 12 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (0.85%) Adobe XD
9 10 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 9 (0.70%) MS Visio
11 4 (0.31%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.23%) UserZoom
12 3 (0.23%) UXPin
13 2 (0.15%) InVision
13 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
14 1 (0.077%) Blender
14 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
14 1 (0.077%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.77%) Workday HCM
3 8 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.62%) Shopify
4 6 (0.46%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.31%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.077%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.077%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.077%) iTrent
7 1 (0.077%) Magento
7 1 (0.077%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.077%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 206 (15.94%) Azure
2 175 (13.54%) Figma
3 113 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
4 105 (8.13%) AWS
5 92 (7.12%) Power Platform
6 57 (4.41%) Entra ID
7 48 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (3.64%) Microsoft Copilot
9 43 (3.33%) SaaS
10 37 (2.86%) GCP
11 36 (2.79%) PowerApps
12 35 (2.71%) GitHub
13 34 (2.63%) OneDrive
14 31 (2.40%) Power Automate
15 24 (1.86%) Copilot Studio
16 21 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (1.55%) Serverless
18 17 (1.32%) Google Workspace
19 14 (1.08%) Google Sheets
20 13 (1.01%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.32%) DNS
2 28 (2.17%) DHCP
3 24 (1.86%) TCP/IP
4 22 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (1.55%) Wireless
6 18 (1.39%) LAN
7 13 (1.01%) Internet
8 11 (0.85%) Intranet
8 11 (0.85%) WAN
9 10 (0.77%) Firewall
10 9 (0.70%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.70%) VPN
11 8 (0.62%) Cisco Wireless
12 7 (0.54%) 5G
12 7 (0.54%) Skype
12 7 (0.54%) WLAN
13 5 (0.39%) 802.11
13 5 (0.39%) HTTP
13 5 (0.39%) SMS
13 5 (0.39%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.26%) Power BI
2 21 (1.63%) Metadata
3 20 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.47%) Relational Database
4 19 (1.47%) SQL Server
5 18 (1.39%) Power Query
6 17 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 12 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.85%) MongoDB
8 11 (0.85%) MySQL
9 9 (0.70%) Tableau
10 6 (0.46%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.46%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.46%) Redis
10 6 (0.46%) ZAP BI
11 5 (0.39%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.31%) EDRMS
12 4 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.31%) Pinecone
13 3 (0.23%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 78 (6.04%) JIRA
2 54 (4.18%) Git
3 21 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.39%) Cypress.io
4 18 (1.39%) GitLab
5 16 (1.24%) Vite
6 12 (0.93%) JUnit
7 10 (0.77%) fastlane
8 9 (0.70%) Android Studio
8 9 (0.70%) Browser DevTools
8 9 (0.70%) Xcode
9 8 (0.62%) Gradle
9 8 (0.62%) Postman
10 6 (0.46%) Selenium
10 6 (0.46%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.39%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.39%) Fiddler
11 5 (0.39%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.39%) Storybook
General
1 394 (30.50%) Social Skills
2 237 (18.34%) Finance
3 154 (11.92%) Public Sector
4 123 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 109 (8.44%) Banking
6 74 (5.73%) Retail
7 54 (4.18%) Marketing
8 38 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (2.40%) Legal
10 28 (2.17%) Automotive
11 27 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (1.93%) Publishing
14 20 (1.55%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (1.01%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.85%) Front Office
18 8 (0.62%) Local Government
19 7 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 276 (21.36%) Designer
2 185 (14.32%) Senior
3 171 (13.24%) Developer
4 120 (9.29%) UX Designer
5 100 (7.74%) Analyst
6 98 (7.59%) Lead
7 71 (5.50%) UI Designer
8 69 (5.34%) Consultant
9 56 (4.33%) Senior Designer
10 52 (4.02%) Architect
10 52 (4.02%) Product Designer
11 50 (3.87%) Content Designer
12 46 (3.56%) Business Analyst
13 45 (3.48%) User Experience Researcher
14 43 (3.33%) IT Support
15 42 (3.25%) UI/UX Designer
16 39 (3.02%) Product Manager
16 39 (3.02%) User Researcher
17 32 (2.48%) Support Engineer
18 30 (2.32%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (9.52%) React
2 99 (7.66%) CSS
3 84 (6.50%) HTML
4 76 (5.88%) REST
5 51 (3.95%) RESTful
6 50 (3.87%) AngularJS
7 47 (3.64%) .NET
8 41 (3.17%) Spring
9 40 (3.10%) Spring Boot
10 34 (2.63%) GraphQL
11 24 (1.86%) Next.js
12 23 (1.78%) JSON
13 22 (1.70%) HTML5
13 22 (1.70%) Node.js
13 22 (1.70%) Redux
14 21 (1.63%) ASP.NET
14 21 (1.63%) CSS3
15 19 (1.47%) OAuth
16 18 (1.39%) SOAP
17 17 (1.32%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 135 (10.45%) Product Ownership
2 62 (4.80%) Mobile App
3 60 (4.64%) Onboarding
4 34 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 30 (2.32%) AI Agents
6 28 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 19 (1.47%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
12 17 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 16 (1.24%) Graphic Design
13 16 (1.24%) Taxonomies
14 14 (1.08%) Algorithms
14 14 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (1.08%) Social Media
15 13 (1.01%) Virtual Reality
16 12 (0.93%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 108 (8.36%) Windows
2 45 (3.48%) Apple iOS
3 41 (3.17%) Android
4 33 (2.55%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.70%) Mac OS
6 13 (1.01%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.93%) Linux
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
1 416 (32.20%) UX Design
2 384 (29.72%) Agile
3 220 (17.03%) AI
4 201 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
5 179 (13.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 169 (13.08%) Analytics
7 154 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 154 (11.92%) User Research
8 146 (11.30%) CI/CD
9 140 (10.84%) Roadmaps
10 138 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 120 (9.29%) DevOps
12 117 (9.06%) Decision-Making
12 117 (9.06%) Prototyping
13 111 (8.59%) UX Research
14 100 (7.74%) Wireframes
15 96 (7.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 94 (7.28%) Service Design
17 91 (7.04%) Scrum
18 84 (6.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 124 (9.60%) JavaScript
2 97 (7.51%) Java
3 95 (7.35%) SQL
4 94 (7.28%) TypeScript
5 83 (6.42%) Python
6 49 (3.79%) PowerShell
7 45 (3.48%) C#
8 25 (1.93%) Kotlin
9 23 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (1.01%) Swift
11 11 (0.85%) Bash
12 8 (0.62%) Korn
13 7 (0.54%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.46%) R
14 6 (0.46%) VBA
14 6 (0.46%) VBScript
15 5 (0.39%) Go
15 5 (0.39%) VB
16 4 (0.31%) PHP
17 3 (0.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 171 (13.24%) Security Cleared
2 132 (10.22%) SC Cleared
3 126 (9.75%) Degree
4 26 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 19 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 19 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (0.54%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.54%) CCIE
10 7 (0.54%) CCNP
10 7 (0.54%) Citrix Certification
10 7 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 6 (0.46%) CCA
11 6 (0.46%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.46%) PMP
12 5 (0.39%) CISSP
12 5 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (15.40%) Accessibility
2 89 (6.89%) QA
3 64 (4.95%) WCAG
4 41 (3.17%) Data Quality
5 26 (2.01%) GDPR
6 17 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 7 (0.54%) PMO
8 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.39%) SLA
10 3 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.15%) PSD2
12 1 (0.077%) COBIT
12 1 (0.077%) GMP
12 1 (0.077%) GxP
12 1 (0.077%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.077%) WAI
System Software
1 68 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.94%) Docker
3 23 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (1.01%) 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
8 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.15%) vSphere
9 2 (0.15%) XenApp
9 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.077%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 43 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (3.17%) Kubernetes
3 39 (3.02%) Terraform
4 34 (2.63%) SCCM
5 16 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.16%) Grafana
7 13 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (0.85%) Ansible
9 7 (0.54%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.31%) Clonezilla
11 3 (0.23%) Podman
11 3 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.23%) WSUS
12 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.15%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.15%) Packer
12 2 (0.15%) SCOM
12 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.15%) vMotion
13 1 (0.077%) Argo
Vendors
1 219 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 69 (5.34%) Adobe
3 66 (5.11%) ServiceNow
4 43 (3.33%) Google
5 42 (3.25%) SAP
6 37 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 36 (2.79%) Oracle
8 19 (1.47%) Citrix
8 19 (1.47%) Dynatrace
8 19 (1.47%) Workday
9 16 (1.24%) Apple
9 16 (1.24%) Cisco
10 15 (1.16%) Splunk
11 13 (1.01%) VMware
12 12 (0.93%) Aruba
12 12 (0.93%) Foundry
13 9 (0.70%) Zscaler
14 8 (0.62%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.54%) Databricks
15 7 (0.54%) Okta