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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 64 85
Rank change year-on-year -30 +21 -24
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,343 1,030 854
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.94% 3.78% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 4.17% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 654 529
10th Percentile £292 £300 £306
25th Percentile £380 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £601
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 44 26
10th Percentile £16.73 £21.68 £22.35
25th Percentile £26.13 £33.00 £30.11
Median hourly rate £33.99 £43.50 £45.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.86% -5.10% +66.68%
75th Percentile £67.86 £63.75 £69.79
90th Percentile £77.00 £71.84 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £43.50 £41.68
% change year-on-year -21.86% +4.38% +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 38,742 24,707 27,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,892 15,711 17,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,598 1,453 1,393
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.41
25th Percentile £18.34 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -34 674 £513 +2.50% 1,477
North of England -12 252 £425 - 244
Midlands -5 152 £475 +9.83% 115
North West -23 126 £397 -6.71% 148
West Midlands -1 123 £475 -6.77% 78
South East -52 105 £405 -12.43% 176
South West -5 82 £475 - 135
Yorkshire -17 76 £500 +25.00% 69
North East -2 49 £338 -29.69% 30
East of England +1 42 £438 -12.50% 91
East Midlands -19 29 £500 +39.66% 37
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 66 (4.91%) SharePoint
2 53 (3.95%) CMS
3 35 (2.61%) Confluence
4 27 (2.01%) 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
10 4 (0.30%) Mendix
11 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.15%) IIS
11 2 (0.15%) Moodle
11 2 (0.15%) nginx
11 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.074%) MTS
Applications
1 20 (1.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 20 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.41%) Photoshop
3 18 (1.34%) Chatbot
3 18 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 16 (1.19%) Adobe Illustrator
4 16 (1.19%) Sketch
5 12 (0.89%) Adobe After Effects
6 10 (0.74%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.67%) Adobe XD
7 9 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.15%) InVision
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.074%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.074%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.074%) Blender
9 1 (0.074%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.52%) Workday HCM
2 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.45%) Shopify
3 5 (0.37%) 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
7 1 (0.074%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.074%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.074%) Magento
7 1 (0.074%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.074%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 197 (14.67%) Azure
2 153 (11.39%) Figma
3 143 (10.65%) Microsoft 365
4 112 (8.34%) AWS
5 100 (7.45%) Power Platform
6 60 (4.47%) Entra ID
6 60 (4.47%) Microsoft Copilot
7 45 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (3.35%) GitHub
8 43 (3.20%) SaaS
9 36 (2.68%) GCP
10 35 (2.61%) PowerApps
11 32 (2.38%) OneDrive
12 28 (2.08%) Copilot Studio
12 28 (2.08%) Power Automate
13 19 (1.41%) Azure AI
14 17 (1.27%) Serverless
15 15 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (0.97%) Firebase
17 12 (0.89%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.20%) DNS
2 37 (2.76%) DHCP
3 32 (2.38%) TCP/IP
4 30 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (1.56%) Wireless
6 19 (1.41%) LAN
6 19 (1.41%) VPN
7 16 (1.19%) Firewall
7 16 (1.19%) WAN
8 11 (0.82%) Internet
9 10 (0.74%) NetScaler
9 10 (0.74%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.60%) Cisco Wireless
10 8 (0.60%) Intranet
10 8 (0.60%) Network Security
10 8 (0.60%) Skype
11 6 (0.45%) 5G
11 6 (0.45%) SSL
11 6 (0.45%) WLAN
12 5 (0.37%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (4.17%) Power BI
2 25 (1.86%) Metadata
3 13 (0.97%) Power Query
4 12 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (0.89%) SQL Server
4 12 (0.89%) Tableau
5 11 (0.82%) NoSQL
6 10 (0.74%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.67%) Looker
8 8 (0.60%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.52%) MySQL
9 7 (0.52%) Redis
10 6 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
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 Database
12 4 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 76 (5.66%) JIRA
2 63 (4.69%) Git
3 24 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.49%) Cypress.io
5 18 (1.34%) Vite
6 15 (1.12%) Storybook
7 13 (0.97%) GitLab
8 12 (0.89%) fastlane
9 10 (0.74%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.74%) Browser DevTools
10 9 (0.67%) Xcode
11 7 (0.52%) Postman
12 6 (0.45%) Gradle
13 5 (0.37%) Claude Code
13 5 (0.37%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.37%) Fiddler
13 5 (0.37%) JMeter
13 5 (0.37%) MSI
13 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
13 5 (0.37%) REST Assured
General
1 437 (32.54%) Social Skills
2 234 (17.42%) Finance
3 183 (13.63%) Public Sector
4 137 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 104 (7.74%) Banking
6 79 (5.88%) Retail
7 65 (4.84%) Marketing
8 48 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
10 34 (2.53%) Legal
11 28 (2.08%) Automotive
12 25 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (1.86%) Publishing
13 19 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
14 17 (1.27%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.19%) Military
16 13 (0.97%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.67%) Front Office
17 9 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 279 (20.77%) Designer
2 181 (13.48%) Developer
3 171 (12.73%) Senior
4 119 (8.86%) Lead
5 117 (8.71%) UX Designer
6 92 (6.85%) Analyst
7 68 (5.06%) UI Designer
8 64 (4.77%) Consultant
9 55 (4.10%) Architect
10 53 (3.95%) IT Support
11 51 (3.80%) Product Manager
11 51 (3.80%) Support Engineer
12 50 (3.72%) Senior Designer
12 50 (3.72%) User Researcher
13 44 (3.28%) Business Analyst
14 43 (3.20%) Content Designer
14 43 (3.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 39 (2.90%) User Experience Researcher
16 37 (2.76%) UI/UX Designer
17 36 (2.68%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (9.53%) React
2 101 (7.52%) CSS
3 88 (6.55%) HTML
4 79 (5.88%) REST
5 44 (3.28%) RESTful
6 42 (3.13%) AngularJS
7 39 (2.90%) Terraform
8 37 (2.76%) GraphQL
9 36 (2.68%) .NET
9 36 (2.68%) CSS3
9 36 (2.68%) HTML5
10 30 (2.23%) Next.js
11 24 (1.79%) OAuth
12 22 (1.64%) Playwright
12 22 (1.64%) Spring
13 21 (1.56%) Jest
13 21 (1.56%) Node.js
13 21 (1.56%) Spring Boot
14 18 (1.34%) ASP.NET
15 17 (1.27%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 123 (9.16%) Product Ownership
2 81 (6.03%) Onboarding
3 75 (5.58%) Mobile App
4 43 (3.20%) Cloud Native
5 40 (2.98%) AI Agents
6 30 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 28 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 28 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 27 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (1.49%) Data Centre
10 20 (1.49%) Social Media
11 19 (1.41%) NHS
12 18 (1.34%) Educational Technology
13 17 (1.27%) Graphic Design
14 15 (1.12%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.12%) Virtual Reality
15 14 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
15 14 (1.04%) Taxonomies
16 13 (0.97%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 146 (10.87%) Windows
2 58 (4.32%) Android
3 57 (4.24%) Apple iOS
4 53 (3.95%) Windows 10
5 32 (2.38%) Mac OS
6 31 (2.31%) Windows Server
7 18 (1.34%) Linux
8 11 (0.82%) Unix
9 9 (0.67%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (31.87%) UX Design
2 382 (28.44%) Agile
3 252 (18.76%) AI
4 239 (17.80%) Stakeholder Management
5 233 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
6 190 (14.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 181 (13.48%) Analytics
8 159 (11.84%) CI/CD
9 157 (11.69%) User Research
10 144 (10.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 142 (10.57%) Roadmaps
12 137 (10.20%) Decision-Making
13 108 (8.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 106 (7.89%) DevOps
15 104 (7.74%) Prototyping
15 104 (7.74%) Scrum
16 100 (7.45%) Workshop Facilitation
17 99 (7.37%) Service Design
18 96 (7.15%) ITIL
19 94 (7.00%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 130 (9.68%) JavaScript
2 97 (7.22%) TypeScript
3 86 (6.40%) Python
4 82 (6.11%) Java
5 78 (5.81%) SQL
6 48 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 30 (2.23%) C#
8 26 (1.94%) Kotlin
9 18 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (1.19%) 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%) Scala
14 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.37%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.37%) Korn
16 4 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 209 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 160 (11.91%) SC Cleared
3 107 (7.97%) Degree
4 32 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 22 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.04%) PMP
9 9 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.60%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.45%) MCSE
13 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.37%) CCIE
13 5 (0.37%) CCNP
13 5 (0.37%) CISSP
13 5 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (15.71%) Accessibility
2 86 (6.40%) QA
3 74 (5.51%) WCAG
4 40 (2.98%) Data Quality
5 20 (1.49%) GDPR
6 13 (0.97%) 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 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.074%) GMP
13 1 (0.074%) GxP
13 1 (0.074%) NIST
13 1 (0.074%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.074%) WAI
System Software
1 98 (7.30%) Active Directory
2 41 (3.05%) Docker
3 27 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
4 21 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (1.04%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 7 (0.52%) BitLocker
7 7 (0.52%) XenApp
7 7 (0.52%) XenDesktop
8 6 (0.45%) vSphere
9 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.22%) UAG
12 2 (0.15%) Firmware
12 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.074%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 44 (3.28%) Kubernetes
1 44 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (2.31%) SCCM
3 22 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (1.41%) Grafana
5 16 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
6 13 (0.97%) Ansible
7 11 (0.82%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.37%) SysTrack
8 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.30%) Clonezilla
9 4 (0.30%) Podman
10 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.22%) WSUS
11 2 (0.15%) Argo
11 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.15%) Packer
11 2 (0.15%) SCOM
11 2 (0.15%) vMotion
12 1 (0.074%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 238 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 82 (6.11%) ServiceNow
3 68 (5.06%) Adobe
4 45 (3.35%) Google
5 44 (3.28%) Oracle
6 32 (2.38%) SAP
7 28 (2.08%) Salesforce
8 26 (1.94%) Citrix
9 24 (1.79%) Dynatrace
9 24 (1.79%) VMware
10 21 (1.56%) Splunk
11 20 (1.49%) Apple
12 18 (1.34%) Cisco
13 17 (1.27%) Workday
14 15 (1.12%) Foundry
15 14 (1.04%) Zscaler
16 12 (0.89%) OpenAI
17 11 (0.82%) Aruba
18 10 (0.74%) Okta
19 8 (0.60%) Databricks