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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 63 74
Rank change year-on-year -18 +11 -12
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,215 877 1,017
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 3.60% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 3.96% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 832 586 678
10th Percentile £307 £305 £291
25th Percentile £390 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £601
90th Percentile £680 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +0.31% -2.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 20 47
10th Percentile £16.51 £25.21 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.49 £41.75 £24.38
Median hourly rate £47.97 £51.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +60.83% -21.70%
75th Percentile £66.75 £83.60 £63.14
90th Percentile £82.30 £95.60 £73.24
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.76% +61.54% -13.91%

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 33,512 22,139 32,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.65% 90.95% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,469 14,586 21,356
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,076 869 2,188
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.87 £15.85
Median hourly rate £40.52 £32.05 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year +26.43% -5.11% -9.93%
75th Percentile £66.00 £64.52 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.50 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £31.04 £33.07
% change year-on-year +18.27% -6.12% -8.15%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -20 622 £500 -2.91% 296
North of England +6 206 £450 - 176
North West +10 130 £420 -6.67% 94
Midlands -17 127 £488 +21.27% 93
South East -15 120 £490 -2.00% 122
West Midlands -28 85 £475 +1.33% 62
South West -16 68 £463 +23.33% 59
Yorkshire -18 52 £500 +24.84% 45
East Midlands -10 42 £550 +45.12% 31
East of England -20 29 £425 -10.99% 33
North East -4 23 £405 -15.63% 39
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 51 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 41 (3.37%) Confluence
3 33 (2.72%) CMS
4 19 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.58%) Apache
7 6 (0.49%) Sitecore CMS
8 5 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.41%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.33%) Camunda
9 4 (0.33%) Drupal
9 4 (0.33%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.33%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.25%) nginx
11 2 (0.16%) Appian
11 2 (0.16%) Mendix
11 2 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (2.72%) Sketch
2 26 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (1.98%) Adobe XD
4 21 (1.73%) Chatbot
5 18 (1.48%) MS Visio
6 14 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
7 10 (0.82%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.66%) InVision
9 7 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 6 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
10 6 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.25%) Trello
12 3 (0.25%) UserZoom
12 3 (0.25%) UXPin
13 2 (0.16%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.16%) Camtasia
14 1 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 16 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.58%) Shopify
3 7 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.49%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.16%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.16%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.16%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.16%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.082%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.082%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.082%) iTrent
6 1 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.082%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.082%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.082%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 199 (16.38%) Azure
2 165 (13.58%) Figma
3 110 (9.05%) AWS
4 87 (7.16%) Microsoft 365
5 86 (7.08%) Power Platform
6 55 (4.53%) Entra ID
7 51 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (3.87%) GCP
9 45 (3.70%) GitHub
10 36 (2.96%) SaaS
11 32 (2.63%) PowerApps
12 29 (2.39%) Power Automate
13 28 (2.30%) Microsoft Copilot
14 27 (2.22%) Serverless
15 26 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
16 23 (1.89%) Google Workspace
17 22 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
18 19 (1.56%) Google Sheets
19 17 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.23%) Wireless
2 14 (1.15%) DNS
2 14 (1.15%) LAN
3 11 (0.91%) Internet
3 11 (0.91%) VPN
4 10 (0.82%) Firewall
4 10 (0.82%) Intranet
4 10 (0.82%) SD-WAN
4 10 (0.82%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (0.74%) DHCP
5 9 (0.74%) WAN
6 8 (0.66%) SSL
7 7 (0.58%) Cisco Wireless
8 6 (0.49%) BGP
8 6 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
8 6 (0.49%) HTTP
8 6 (0.49%) Network Security
8 6 (0.49%) WLAN
9 5 (0.41%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.69%) Power BI
2 26 (2.14%) NoSQL
3 25 (2.06%) Relational Database
4 22 (1.81%) MySQL
4 22 (1.81%) SQL Server
5 21 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (1.40%) Tableau
7 15 (1.23%) Metadata
8 12 (0.99%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.74%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.58%) Looker
10 7 (0.58%) Pinecone
10 7 (0.58%) Power Query
11 6 (0.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 6 (0.49%) Redis
11 6 (0.49%) ZAP BI
12 5 (0.41%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 96 (7.90%) JIRA
2 68 (5.60%) Git
3 40 (3.29%) GitLab
4 24 (1.98%) Jenkins
5 22 (1.81%) Cypress.io
5 22 (1.81%) JUnit
6 14 (1.15%) Axure RP
6 14 (1.15%) Gradle
7 12 (0.99%) Android Studio
7 12 (0.99%) CircleCI
8 11 (0.91%) Browser DevTools
9 10 (0.82%) Xcode
10 9 (0.74%) Postman
10 9 (0.74%) Selenium
11 8 (0.66%) Eclipse
12 7 (0.58%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.58%) Mocha
12 7 (0.58%) Vite
13 5 (0.41%) Storybook
13 5 (0.41%) TestRail
General
1 401 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 244 (20.08%) Finance
3 151 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
3 151 (12.43%) Public Sector
4 100 (8.23%) Banking
5 52 (4.28%) Marketing
6 47 (3.87%) Retail
7 31 (2.55%) Legal
8 29 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
9 28 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (1.65%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.15%) Publishing
13 13 (1.07%) Front Office
13 13 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (1.07%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (0.91%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.74%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 233 (19.18%) Designer
2 184 (15.14%) Senior
3 174 (14.32%) Developer
4 119 (9.79%) UX Designer
5 117 (9.63%) Analyst
6 64 (5.27%) Lead
7 58 (4.77%) Consultant
8 55 (4.53%) Product Designer
9 54 (4.44%) Business Analyst
10 53 (4.36%) Architect
11 48 (3.95%) Senior Designer
12 42 (3.46%) UI Designer
13 36 (2.96%) Support Engineer
13 36 (2.96%) User Researcher
14 35 (2.88%) IT Support
15 34 (2.80%) Senior Developer
15 34 (2.80%) UI/UX Designer
16 33 (2.72%) Software Engineer
17 32 (2.63%) Service Designer
18 31 (2.55%) Content Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (12.10%) React
2 128 (10.53%) CSS
3 115 (9.47%) HTML
4 96 (7.90%) REST
5 74 (6.09%) AngularJS
6 69 (5.68%) RESTful
7 57 (4.69%) Spring
8 56 (4.61%) Spring Boot
9 43 (3.54%) .NET
10 39 (3.21%) Node.js
11 35 (2.88%) GraphQL
12 33 (2.72%) HTML5
13 31 (2.55%) CSS3
14 29 (2.39%) Redux
15 24 (1.98%) Next.js
15 24 (1.98%) Vue
16 23 (1.89%) Jest
17 20 (1.65%) JSON
17 20 (1.65%) Kafka
18 17 (1.40%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 112 (9.22%) Product Ownership
2 71 (5.84%) Mobile App
3 46 (3.79%) Onboarding
4 29 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (2.22%) AI Agents
6 24 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 22 (1.81%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.40%) Cloud Native
9 17 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (0.99%) Algorithms
11 12 (0.99%) Data Centre
11 12 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (0.99%) Virtual Team
12 11 (0.91%) NHS
13 10 (0.82%) Augmented Reality
13 10 (0.82%) Virtual Reality
14 9 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 109 (8.97%) Windows
2 41 (3.37%) Windows 10
3 40 (3.29%) Android
4 29 (2.39%) Apple iOS
5 20 (1.65%) Linux
5 20 (1.65%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.66%) Unix
7 7 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.082%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.082%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.082%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (32.10%) Agile
2 372 (30.62%) UX Design
3 203 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
4 193 (15.88%) Analytics
5 177 (14.57%) AI
6 165 (13.58%) User Research
7 154 (12.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 148 (12.18%) CI/CD
9 145 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 144 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 139 (11.44%) DevOps
12 124 (10.21%) Roadmaps
13 109 (8.97%) Prototyping
14 108 (8.89%) UX Research
15 107 (8.81%) Wireframes
16 105 (8.64%) Decision-Making
16 105 (8.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 95 (7.82%) Service Design
18 88 (7.24%) Usability Testing
19 80 (6.58%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 159 (13.09%) JavaScript
2 122 (10.04%) SQL
3 113 (9.30%) Java
4 100 (8.23%) Python
5 94 (7.74%) TypeScript
6 53 (4.36%) PowerShell
7 46 (3.79%) C#
8 28 (2.30%) Kotlin
9 18 (1.48%) Bash
10 12 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (0.91%) Perl
12 9 (0.74%) Swift
13 8 (0.66%) PHP
14 6 (0.49%) Go
14 6 (0.49%) Korn
14 6 (0.49%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.49%) VBA
15 4 (0.33%) Lisp
15 4 (0.33%) R
16 3 (0.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 156 (12.84%) Security Cleared
2 115 (9.47%) SC Cleared
3 102 (8.40%) Degree
4 27 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (1.48%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.07%) Azure Certification
8 12 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (0.82%) CCNP
10 9 (0.74%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.58%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.49%) Citrix Certification
12 6 (0.49%) OCA
12 6 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (0.41%) CCA
13 5 (0.41%) CCIE
13 5 (0.41%) MOS
14 4 (0.33%) PMP
15 3 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (15.72%) Accessibility
2 115 (9.47%) QA
3 59 (4.86%) WCAG
4 42 (3.46%) Data Quality
5 38 (3.13%) GDPR
6 19 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.91%) SLA
9 7 (0.58%) PMO
10 5 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.33%) NCSC
12 3 (0.25%) GMP
12 3 (0.25%) GRC
12 3 (0.25%) GxP
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.16%) COBIT
13 2 (0.16%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 71 (5.84%) Active Directory
2 52 (4.28%) Docker
3 20 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.41%) Firmware
6 4 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.16%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.082%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.082%) Varnish
8 1 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.082%) XenApp
8 1 (0.082%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (2.96%) Terraform
3 25 (2.06%) SCCM
4 18 (1.48%) Grafana
5 14 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.91%) Ansible
7 6 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.33%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.25%) Argo
10 3 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.25%) Nagios
10 3 (0.25%) Podman
10 3 (0.25%) Rancher
11 2 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
12 1 (0.082%) Kibana
12 1 (0.082%) SCOM
12 1 (0.082%) WMI
Vendors
1 198 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 71 (5.84%) Adobe
3 63 (5.19%) Google
4 58 (4.77%) ServiceNow
5 41 (3.37%) Oracle
6 39 (3.21%) SAP
7 33 (2.72%) Salesforce
8 23 (1.89%) Citrix
9 20 (1.65%) VMware
10 18 (1.48%) Cisco
11 16 (1.32%) Splunk
12 15 (1.23%) Workday
13 13 (1.07%) Apple
14 10 (0.82%) Zscaler
15 9 (0.74%) Ekahau
15 9 (0.74%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.74%) Red Hat
15 9 (0.74%) Sitecore
16 8 (0.66%) Foundry
17 7 (0.58%) Aruba