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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 69 81
Rank change year-on-year -27 +12 -12
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,343 1,023 867
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.90% 3.69% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 4.05% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 791 653 505
10th Percentile £306 £300 £301
25th Percentile £400 £371 £388
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 £675 £708
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 52 25
10th Percentile £17.53 £15.50 £27.15
25th Percentile £26.25 £23.81 £30.44
Median hourly rate £34.61 £36.05 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% -15.18% -10.53%
75th Percentile £68.50 £54.06 £74.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £63.75 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £38.77 £35.60 £39.75
% change year-on-year +8.89% -10.44% -16.32%

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 39,251 25,237 27,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.91% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,728 16,010 16,947
10th Percentile £325 £297 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £642
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,965 1,563 1,177
10th Percentile £13.82 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.57 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +53.08% -38.77% -3.91%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -30 679 £509 +2.73% 1,810
North of England -2 273 £425 +3.03% 453
Midlands -12 146 £464 +3.02% 226
North West -24 144 £403 -3.53% 255
West Midlands -7 116 £463 -7.34% 140
South East -56 92 £403 -10.56% 370
Yorkshire -5 82 £500 +23.08% 130
South West -5 78 £475 +5.56% 167
North East +2 46 £325 -27.78% 71
East of England -8 44 £410 -21.90% 152
East Midlands -9 30 £500 +24.38% 86
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 71 (5.29%) SharePoint
2 61 (4.54%) CMS
3 40 (2.98%) Confluence
4 26 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.12%) WordPress
6 7 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.52%) Headless CMS
6 7 (0.52%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.37%) Apache
8 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.37%) Drupal
9 4 (0.30%) Kentico
9 4 (0.30%) Mendix
9 4 (0.30%) Traefik
10 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 2 (0.15%) Moodle
10 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.074%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 24 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 19 (1.41%) Photoshop
3 18 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (1.27%) Adobe Illustrator
5 13 (0.97%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.97%) Sketch
6 12 (0.89%) Adobe After Effects
7 10 (0.74%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.67%) Adobe XD
9 8 (0.60%) 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%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.52%) Workday HCM
2 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
4 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.30%) Shopify
5 3 (0.22%) iTrent
5 3 (0.22%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.15%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.074%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.074%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.074%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 193 (14.37%) Azure
2 145 (10.80%) Figma
3 140 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
4 123 (9.16%) AWS
5 107 (7.97%) Power Platform
6 65 (4.84%) Entra ID
7 56 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
8 49 (3.65%) SaaS
9 48 (3.57%) GitHub
10 41 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (2.61%) GCP
12 34 (2.53%) PowerApps
13 30 (2.23%) OneDrive
14 28 (2.08%) Power Automate
15 26 (1.94%) Copilot Studio
16 17 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (1.19%) Azure AI
18 14 (1.04%) Firebase
19 13 (0.97%) Serverless
20 12 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
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 20 (1.49%) VPN
6 19 (1.41%) Wireless
7 16 (1.19%) Firewall
8 15 (1.12%) LAN
9 14 (1.04%) NetScaler
9 14 (1.04%) WAN
10 9 (0.67%) Network Security
11 8 (0.60%) Cisco Wireless
12 7 (0.52%) Internet
12 7 (0.52%) Skype
13 6 (0.45%) Intranet
13 6 (0.45%) SD-WAN
14 5 (0.37%) 5G
14 5 (0.37%) SNMP
15 4 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
15 4 (0.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (4.47%) Power BI
2 24 (1.79%) Metadata
3 17 (1.27%) Power Query
4 14 (1.04%) SQL Server
5 13 (0.97%) Tableau
6 12 (0.89%) NoSQL
7 11 (0.82%) MySQL
7 11 (0.82%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.67%) Looker
10 8 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (0.60%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.60%) Qlik Sense
11 7 (0.52%) Redis
11 7 (0.52%) Star Schema
12 6 (0.45%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.45%) QlikView
13 5 (0.37%) Flink
13 5 (0.37%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.30%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 74 (5.51%) JIRA
2 69 (5.14%) Git
3 28 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.49%) Storybook
5 19 (1.41%) Vite
6 17 (1.27%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.97%) GitLab
8 12 (0.89%) fastlane
9 9 (0.67%) Android Studio
10 8 (0.60%) Claude Code
10 8 (0.60%) Xcode
11 7 (0.52%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.45%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.45%) Browser DevTools
12 6 (0.45%) JMeter
12 6 (0.45%) Postman
13 5 (0.37%) Gradle
13 5 (0.37%) MSI
13 5 (0.37%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 449 (33.43%) Social Skills
2 225 (16.75%) Finance
3 186 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 126 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (6.63%) Banking
6 77 (5.73%) Marketing
7 76 (5.66%) Retail
8 46 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 41 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
10 35 (2.61%) Legal
11 27 (2.01%) Automotive
12 26 (1.94%) Publishing
13 22 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
15 18 (1.34%) Manufacturing
16 17 (1.27%) Military
17 16 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
18 13 (0.97%) Investment Banking
19 11 (0.82%) Front Office
20 8 (0.60%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 262 (19.51%) Designer
2 206 (15.34%) Developer
3 167 (12.43%) Senior
4 126 (9.38%) Lead
5 117 (8.71%) UX Designer
6 87 (6.48%) Analyst
7 62 (4.62%) UI Designer
8 55 (4.10%) User Researcher
9 54 (4.02%) IT Support
10 53 (3.95%) Architect
11 52 (3.87%) Consultant
11 52 (3.87%) Support Engineer
12 50 (3.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 48 (3.57%) Product Manager
13 48 (3.57%) Senior Designer
14 45 (3.35%) Business Analyst
15 39 (2.90%) User Experience Researcher
16 37 (2.76%) Content Designer
17 35 (2.61%) IT Engineer
17 35 (2.61%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (9.98%) React
2 100 (7.45%) CSS
3 88 (6.55%) HTML
4 79 (5.88%) REST
5 43 (3.20%) RESTful
6 40 (2.98%) AngularJS
7 37 (2.76%) GraphQL
7 37 (2.76%) HTML5
8 36 (2.68%) Terraform
9 34 (2.53%) .NET
10 33 (2.46%) CSS3
11 28 (2.08%) Next.js
12 27 (2.01%) OAuth
13 21 (1.56%) Node.js
13 21 (1.56%) OAuth2
13 21 (1.56%) Playwright
14 20 (1.49%) Spring
14 20 (1.49%) Spring Boot
15 19 (1.41%) OpenID
16 18 (1.34%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 133 (9.90%) Product Ownership
2 78 (5.81%) Mobile App
3 75 (5.58%) Onboarding
4 44 (3.28%) Cloud Native
5 40 (2.98%) AI Agents
6 34 (2.53%) Management Information System
7 26 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (1.64%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.49%) Social Media
12 18 (1.34%) Educational Technology
12 18 (1.34%) NHS
13 16 (1.19%) Graphic Design
14 15 (1.12%) Taxonomies
15 14 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.97%) Data Structures
17 12 (0.89%) Low-Code
17 12 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 149 (11.09%) Windows
2 62 (4.62%) Apple iOS
3 57 (4.24%) Android
3 57 (4.24%) Windows 10
4 36 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 28 (2.08%) Mac OS
6 17 (1.27%) Linux
7 14 (1.04%) Unix
8 9 (0.67%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (31.50%) UX Design
2 383 (28.52%) Agile
3 264 (19.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 247 (18.39%) AI
5 224 (16.68%) Problem-Solving
6 208 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 184 (13.70%) Analytics
8 172 (12.81%) User Research
9 158 (11.76%) CI/CD
10 155 (11.54%) Decision-Making
11 151 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 147 (10.95%) Roadmaps
13 111 (8.27%) Service Design
14 109 (8.12%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 104 (7.74%) Workshop Facilitation
16 103 (7.67%) DevOps
16 103 (7.67%) Scrum
17 100 (7.45%) Prototyping
18 98 (7.30%) UX Research
19 97 (7.22%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (9.61%) JavaScript
2 108 (8.04%) TypeScript
3 84 (6.25%) SQL
4 81 (6.03%) Java
5 75 (5.58%) Python
6 50 (3.72%) PowerShell
7 30 (2.23%) C#
8 26 (1.94%) Kotlin
9 22 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 17 (1.27%) Swift
11 16 (1.19%) Bash
12 9 (0.67%) Go
13 7 (0.52%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.52%) VB
13 7 (0.52%) VBScript
14 6 (0.45%) PHP
14 6 (0.45%) Scala
15 5 (0.37%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.37%) C++
15 5 (0.37%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 214 (15.93%) Security Cleared
2 162 (12.06%) SC Cleared
3 101 (7.52%) Degree
4 38 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.12%) PMP
8 14 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (0.67%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.60%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (0.45%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.37%) CISSP
13 5 (0.37%) MCSE
13 5 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.30%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (15.71%) Accessibility
2 90 (6.70%) QA
3 75 (5.58%) WCAG
4 47 (3.50%) Data Quality
5 17 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
6 16 (1.19%) GDPR
7 11 (0.82%) PMO
8 10 (0.74%) SLA
9 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 2 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.15%) GRC
12 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.15%) PSD2
12 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.074%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.074%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.074%) WAI
System Software
1 107 (7.97%) Active Directory
2 44 (3.28%) Docker
3 27 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
4 24 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.19%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.82%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 10 (0.74%) XenApp
8 9 (0.67%) XenDesktop
9 7 (0.52%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.45%) vSphere
11 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.22%) UAG
13 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
14 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.074%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 51 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (3.35%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.94%) SCCM
4 21 (1.56%) Grafana
5 17 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
7 13 (0.97%) Ansible
8 11 (0.82%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.45%) SysTrack
9 6 (0.45%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.37%) Istio
11 4 (0.30%) Clonezilla
12 3 (0.22%) Podman
12 3 (0.22%) WSUS
13 2 (0.15%) Argo
13 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.15%) Packer
13 2 (0.15%) SCOM
13 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.15%) vMotion
Vendors
1 245 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 84 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 59 (4.39%) Adobe
4 43 (3.20%) Google
5 42 (3.13%) Oracle
6 30 (2.23%) SAP
7 28 (2.08%) Salesforce
8 27 (2.01%) VMware
9 25 (1.86%) Citrix
9 25 (1.86%) Splunk
10 24 (1.79%) Dynatrace
11 20 (1.49%) Apple
12 15 (1.12%) Cisco
13 14 (1.04%) Workday
13 14 (1.04%) Zscaler
14 13 (0.97%) Foundry
15 12 (0.89%) OpenAI
16 9 (0.67%) Aruba
16 9 (0.67%) Okta
17 7 (0.52%) IBM