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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 60 88
Rank change year-on-year -31 +28 -28
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,337 1,057 835
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.92% 3.84% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 4.23% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 671 521
10th Percentile £288 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £676 £694 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 46 28
10th Percentile £16.73 £22.63 £15.43
25th Percentile £26.13 £33.37 £30.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £45.50 £45.84
Median % change year-on-year -25.30% -0.74% +41.04%
75th Percentile £67.86 £63.75 £71.29
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.25 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £47.50 £41.68
% change year-on-year -28.44% +13.98% +11.13%

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 38,831 25,009 28,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 90.78% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,961 15,919 18,268
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,587 1,463 1,501
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.68 £17.87 £18.11
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.47 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -35 675 £513 +2.50% 1,264
North of England -18 245 £425 +3.34% 226
Midlands -8 152 £475 +9.51% 111
West Midlands -8 123 £475 -8.57% 73
North West -29 122 £393 -7.53% 127
South East -54 104 £405 -9.40% 177
South West +1 80 £475 - 128
Yorkshire -19 74 £500 +25.00% 65
North East -7 48 £350 -27.08% 37
East of England +4 45 £410 -18.00% 69
East Midlands -16 29 £500 +39.66% 38
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 63 (4.71%) SharePoint
2 53 (3.96%) CMS
3 34 (2.54%) Confluence
4 29 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.12%) WordPress
6 9 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
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%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.30%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.30%) Kentico
11 3 (0.22%) Mendix
12 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.15%) IIS
12 2 (0.15%) Moodle
12 2 (0.15%) nginx
12 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.075%) MTS
Applications
1 20 (1.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 20 (1.50%) Chatbot
1 20 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.42%) Photoshop
3 18 (1.35%) Sketch
4 15 (1.12%) Adobe Illustrator
5 12 (0.90%) Adobe After Effects
6 9 (0.67%) Adobe XD
7 8 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.60%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.15%) InVision
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.075%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.075%) Blender
9 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.075%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.60%) Workday HCM
2 6 (0.45%) Shopify
3 5 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
4 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.22%) iTrent
5 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.15%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.075%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.075%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.075%) Magento
7 1 (0.075%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 196 (14.66%) Azure
2 157 (11.74%) Figma
3 141 (10.55%) Microsoft 365
4 113 (8.45%) AWS
5 96 (7.18%) Power Platform
6 60 (4.49%) Entra ID
7 55 (4.11%) Microsoft Copilot
8 45 (3.37%) GitHub
9 43 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (3.22%) SaaS
10 36 (2.69%) GCP
11 32 (2.39%) OneDrive
12 30 (2.24%) PowerApps
13 24 (1.80%) Copilot Studio
13 24 (1.80%) Power Automate
14 18 (1.35%) Azure AI
15 16 (1.20%) Serverless
16 14 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (0.97%) Firebase
18 12 (0.90%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.22%) DNS
2 37 (2.77%) DHCP
3 32 (2.39%) TCP/IP
4 30 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
5 22 (1.65%) Wireless
6 21 (1.57%) LAN
7 17 (1.27%) VPN
8 16 (1.20%) Firewall
8 16 (1.20%) WAN
9 13 (0.97%) Internet
10 11 (0.82%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.67%) Cisco Wireless
11 9 (0.67%) NetScaler
11 9 (0.67%) Skype
12 8 (0.60%) Intranet
12 8 (0.60%) Network Security
13 7 (0.52%) 5G
13 7 (0.52%) WLAN
14 6 (0.45%) SSL
15 5 (0.37%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (4.04%) Power BI
2 25 (1.87%) Metadata
3 15 (1.12%) Power Query
4 13 (0.97%) Tableau
5 12 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (0.90%) SQL Server
6 11 (0.82%) NoSQL
6 11 (0.82%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.67%) Looker
8 8 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.60%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.52%) MySQL
9 7 (0.52%) Redis
10 6 (0.45%) Qlik Sense
10 6 (0.45%) Star Schema
11 5 (0.37%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.37%) Flink
11 5 (0.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 77 (5.76%) JIRA
2 60 (4.49%) Git
3 24 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.57%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.27%) Vite
6 13 (0.97%) GitLab
7 12 (0.90%) fastlane
8 11 (0.82%) Storybook
9 10 (0.75%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
10 9 (0.67%) Xcode
11 7 (0.52%) Gradle
12 6 (0.45%) Postman
13 5 (0.37%) Claude Code
13 5 (0.37%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.37%) Fiddler
13 5 (0.37%) MSI
13 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
13 5 (0.37%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.30%) JMeter
General
1 427 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 238 (17.80%) Finance
3 180 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 130 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (7.85%) Banking
6 79 (5.91%) Retail
7 65 (4.86%) Marketing
8 47 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 35 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
10 34 (2.54%) Legal
11 28 (2.09%) Automotive
12 26 (1.94%) Publishing
13 25 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
14 24 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
15 19 (1.42%) Manufacturing
16 13 (0.97%) Investment Banking
16 13 (0.97%) Military
17 9 (0.67%) Law
17 9 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 286 (21.39%) Designer
2 180 (13.46%) Developer
3 173 (12.94%) Senior
4 120 (8.98%) UX Designer
5 115 (8.60%) Lead
6 94 (7.03%) Analyst
7 68 (5.09%) UI Designer
8 67 (5.01%) Consultant
9 53 (3.96%) IT Support
9 53 (3.96%) Support Engineer
9 53 (3.96%) User Researcher
10 52 (3.89%) Architect
11 51 (3.81%) Senior Designer
12 50 (3.74%) Product Manager
13 46 (3.44%) Content Designer
14 45 (3.37%) Business Analyst
15 41 (3.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 40 (2.99%) User Experience Researcher
17 37 (2.77%) IT Support Engineer
17 37 (2.77%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (9.35%) React
2 102 (7.63%) CSS
3 89 (6.66%) HTML
4 78 (5.83%) REST
5 45 (3.37%) RESTful
6 43 (3.22%) AngularJS
7 38 (2.84%) Terraform
8 37 (2.77%) CSS3
8 37 (2.77%) GraphQL
8 37 (2.77%) HTML5
9 36 (2.69%) .NET
10 30 (2.24%) Next.js
11 22 (1.65%) Jest
11 22 (1.65%) Spring
12 21 (1.57%) Spring Boot
13 20 (1.50%) OAuth
14 18 (1.35%) ASP.NET
14 18 (1.35%) Node.js
14 18 (1.35%) Playwright
15 17 (1.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.98%) Product Ownership
2 80 (5.98%) Onboarding
3 79 (5.91%) Mobile App
4 43 (3.22%) Cloud Native
5 36 (2.69%) AI Agents
6 29 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 28 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 27 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.72%) Management Information System
11 20 (1.50%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.50%) Social Media
12 19 (1.42%) NHS
13 18 (1.35%) Educational Technology
14 17 (1.27%) Graphic Design
15 15 (1.12%) Data Structures
15 15 (1.12%) Virtual Reality
16 14 (1.05%) Taxonomies
17 13 (0.97%) Algorithms
17 13 (0.97%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 145 (10.85%) Windows
2 57 (4.26%) Android
3 56 (4.19%) Apple iOS
3 56 (4.19%) Windows 10
4 31 (2.32%) Mac OS
5 30 (2.24%) Windows Server
6 18 (1.35%) Linux
7 11 (0.82%) 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
1 433 (32.39%) UX Design
2 383 (28.65%) Agile
3 249 (18.62%) AI
4 230 (17.20%) Stakeholder Management
5 226 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
6 187 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
7 183 (13.69%) Analytics
8 162 (12.12%) User Research
9 154 (11.52%) CI/CD
10 146 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 135 (10.10%) Roadmaps
12 132 (9.87%) Decision-Making
13 107 (8.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 106 (7.93%) Prototyping
15 104 (7.78%) DevOps
16 102 (7.63%) Scrum
16 102 (7.63%) Service Design
17 101 (7.55%) Workshop Facilitation
18 95 (7.11%) ITIL
19 94 (7.03%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 125 (9.35%) JavaScript
2 92 (6.88%) TypeScript
3 85 (6.36%) Python
4 82 (6.13%) Java
5 78 (5.83%) SQL
6 49 (3.66%) PowerShell
7 28 (2.09%) C#
8 26 (1.94%) Kotlin
9 20 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (1.20%) Bash
11 15 (1.12%) Swift
12 8 (0.60%) VBScript
13 7 (0.52%) Go
13 7 (0.52%) PHP
13 7 (0.52%) VB
14 6 (0.45%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.45%) Scala
14 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.37%) Korn
16 4 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 209 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 156 (11.67%) SC Cleared
3 108 (8.08%) Degree
4 30 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.57%) Azure Certification
8 19 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.90%) PMP
10 10 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (0.60%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.45%) CCIE
14 6 (0.45%) CCNP
14 6 (0.45%) MCSE
15 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.37%) CISSP
15 5 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (15.56%) Accessibility
2 86 (6.43%) QA
3 72 (5.39%) WCAG
4 41 (3.07%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.42%) GDPR
6 14 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.60%) SLA
8 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.45%) PMO
10 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.30%) GRC
12 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.15%) PSD2
13 1 (0.075%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.075%) GMP
13 1 (0.075%) GxP
13 1 (0.075%) NIST
13 1 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.075%) WAI
System Software
1 97 (7.26%) Active Directory
2 41 (3.07%) Docker
3 27 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 21 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.97%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.52%) BitLocker
6 7 (0.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 6 (0.45%) vSphere
7 6 (0.45%) XenApp
7 6 (0.45%) XenDesktop
8 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.22%) UAG
11 2 (0.15%) Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.075%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 45 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (3.29%) Kubernetes
3 33 (2.47%) SCCM
4 21 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (1.42%) Grafana
6 15 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
7 13 (0.97%) Ansible
8 11 (0.82%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.37%) SysTrack
9 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.30%) Clonezilla
10 4 (0.30%) Podman
11 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.22%) WSUS
12 2 (0.15%) Argo
12 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.15%) Packer
12 2 (0.15%) SCOM
12 2 (0.15%) vMotion
13 1 (0.075%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 232 (17.35%) Microsoft
2 79 (5.91%) ServiceNow
3 69 (5.16%) Adobe
4 44 (3.29%) Oracle
5 43 (3.22%) Google
6 31 (2.32%) SAP
7 29 (2.17%) Salesforce
8 26 (1.94%) Citrix
9 24 (1.80%) VMware
10 23 (1.72%) Dynatrace
11 21 (1.57%) Splunk
12 19 (1.42%) Apple
12 19 (1.42%) Cisco
13 18 (1.35%) Workday
14 14 (1.05%) Foundry
14 14 (1.05%) Zscaler
15 12 (0.90%) Aruba
15 12 (0.90%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.75%) Okta
17 8 (0.60%) Databricks