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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 62 71
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 -8
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,225 884 1,022
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.13% 3.63% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 3.99% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 589 680
10th Percentile £310 £304 £294
25th Percentile £390 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £601
90th Percentile £680 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 20 46
10th Percentile £16.51 £25.21 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.49 £41.75 £24.06
Median hourly rate £47.97 £51.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +60.83% -29.53%
75th Percentile £66.75 £83.60 £63.84
90th Percentile £82.30 £95.60 £73.32
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £32.11
% change year-on-year -4.76% +63.53% -18.20%

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 33,539 22,147 32,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.75% 90.94% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,506 14,596 21,405
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 £614 £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 2,075 867 2,189
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.91 £19.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%
75th Percentile £65.74 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £77.80 £76.25 £70.78
UK median hourly rate £36.70 £31.64 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.99% -4.31% -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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -19 627 £500 -2.91% 296
North of England +1 211 £450 - 176
North West +9 132 £420 -6.67% 94
Midlands -15 126 £500 +24.38% 93
South East -16 120 £490 -2.00% 122
West Midlands -25 84 £475 +2.70% 62
South West -10 69 £475 +26.67% 59
Yorkshire -20 54 £500 +24.84% 45
East Midlands -3 42 £550 +45.12% 31
East of England -25 29 £425 -10.99% 33
North East -3 24 £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 (4.16%) SharePoint
2 41 (3.35%) Confluence
3 35 (2.86%) CMS
4 19 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.57%) Apache
7 6 (0.49%) Headless CMS
7 6 (0.49%) Sitecore 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 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.24%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.24%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.24%) nginx
11 2 (0.16%) Appian
11 2 (0.16%) Mendix
11 2 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (2.69%) Sketch
2 26 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (1.96%) Adobe XD
4 21 (1.71%) Chatbot
5 19 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 16 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
7 10 (0.82%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.65%) InVision
9 7 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 6 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
10 6 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.24%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.24%) Trello
12 3 (0.24%) UserZoom
12 3 (0.24%) UXPin
13 2 (0.16%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.16%) Camtasia
14 1 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 16 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.57%) Shopify
3 7 (0.57%) 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%) assyst
6 1 (0.082%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.082%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.082%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.082%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.082%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 205 (16.73%) Azure
2 168 (13.71%) Figma
3 114 (9.31%) AWS
4 88 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
5 87 (7.10%) Power Platform
6 55 (4.49%) Entra ID
7 52 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (4.00%) GCP
9 46 (3.76%) GitHub
10 37 (3.02%) SaaS
11 32 (2.61%) PowerApps
12 29 (2.37%) Power Automate
13 28 (2.29%) Microsoft Copilot
14 27 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (2.20%) Serverless
15 23 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
15 23 (1.88%) Google Workspace
16 22 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (1.55%) Google Sheets
18 17 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.22%) DNS
1 15 (1.22%) Wireless
2 14 (1.14%) LAN
3 12 (0.98%) VPN
4 11 (0.90%) Internet
4 11 (0.90%) SD-WAN
4 11 (0.90%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.82%) DHCP
5 10 (0.82%) Firewall
5 10 (0.82%) Intranet
5 10 (0.82%) WAN
5 10 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (0.65%) SSL
7 7 (0.57%) 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 58 (4.73%) Power BI
2 27 (2.20%) NoSQL
3 26 (2.12%) Relational Database
4 22 (1.80%) MySQL
4 22 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.80%) SQL Server
5 21 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.39%) Tableau
7 15 (1.22%) Metadata
8 12 (0.98%) MongoDB
9 10 (0.82%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.65%) Looker
11 7 (0.57%) Pinecone
11 7 (0.57%) Power Query
11 7 (0.57%) Redis
12 6 (0.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 6 (0.49%) ZAP BI
13 5 (0.41%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 96 (7.84%) JIRA
2 69 (5.63%) Git
3 41 (3.35%) GitLab
4 24 (1.96%) Jenkins
5 22 (1.80%) Cypress.io
5 22 (1.80%) JUnit
6 14 (1.14%) Axure RP
6 14 (1.14%) Gradle
7 12 (0.98%) Android Studio
7 12 (0.98%) CircleCI
8 11 (0.90%) Browser DevTools
9 10 (0.82%) Xcode
10 9 (0.73%) Postman
10 9 (0.73%) Selenium
11 8 (0.65%) Eclipse
11 8 (0.65%) Mocha
12 7 (0.57%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.57%) Vite
13 5 (0.41%) Storybook
13 5 (0.41%) TestRail
General
1 404 (32.98%) Social Skills
2 248 (20.24%) Finance
3 153 (12.49%) Public Sector
4 151 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
5 102 (8.33%) Banking
6 53 (4.33%) Marketing
7 48 (3.92%) Retail
8 31 (2.53%) Legal
9 29 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.14%) Publishing
14 13 (1.06%) Front Office
14 13 (1.06%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (0.90%) Telecoms
17 10 (0.82%) Financial Institution
18 9 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 237 (19.35%) Designer
2 183 (14.94%) Senior
3 176 (14.37%) Developer
4 120 (9.80%) Analyst
5 119 (9.71%) UX Designer
6 64 (5.22%) Lead
7 58 (4.73%) Consultant
8 57 (4.65%) Product Designer
9 55 (4.49%) Architect
9 55 (4.49%) Business Analyst
10 49 (4.00%) Senior Designer
11 43 (3.51%) UI Designer
12 36 (2.94%) Support Engineer
12 36 (2.94%) User Researcher
13 35 (2.86%) IT Support
13 35 (2.86%) Senior Developer
14 34 (2.78%) UI/UX Designer
15 33 (2.69%) Full-Stack Developer
15 33 (2.69%) Software Engineer
16 32 (2.61%) Content Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (12.24%) React
2 130 (10.61%) CSS
3 117 (9.55%) HTML
4 97 (7.92%) REST
5 74 (6.04%) AngularJS
6 69 (5.63%) RESTful
7 58 (4.73%) Spring
8 57 (4.65%) Spring Boot
9 43 (3.51%) .NET
9 43 (3.51%) Node.js
10 35 (2.86%) GraphQL
11 33 (2.69%) HTML5
12 31 (2.53%) CSS3
13 29 (2.37%) Redux
14 25 (2.04%) Jest
14 25 (2.04%) Next.js
15 24 (1.96%) Vue
16 20 (1.63%) JSON
16 20 (1.63%) Kafka
17 18 (1.47%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 116 (9.47%) Product Ownership
2 71 (5.80%) Mobile App
3 46 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 28 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (2.20%) AI Agents
6 24 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 22 (1.80%) Data Structures
8 19 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.47%) Cloud Native
10 17 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (0.98%) Algorithms
12 12 (0.98%) Data Centre
12 12 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.98%) Virtual Team
13 11 (0.90%) NHS
14 10 (0.82%) Augmented Reality
15 9 (0.73%) Graphic Design
15 9 (0.73%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 111 (9.06%) Windows
2 42 (3.43%) Windows 10
3 41 (3.35%) Android
4 29 (2.37%) Apple iOS
5 21 (1.71%) Linux
5 21 (1.71%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.65%) Unix
7 7 (0.57%) 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
1 398 (32.49%) Agile
2 375 (30.61%) UX Design
3 205 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
4 194 (15.84%) Analytics
5 180 (14.69%) AI
6 167 (13.63%) User Research
7 155 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 150 (12.24%) CI/CD
9 145 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 145 (11.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 142 (11.59%) DevOps
11 124 (10.12%) Roadmaps
12 111 (9.06%) Prototyping
13 108 (8.82%) UX Research
14 107 (8.73%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 107 (8.73%) Wireframes
15 106 (8.65%) Decision-Making
16 95 (7.76%) Service Design
17 88 (7.18%) Usability Testing
18 80 (6.53%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 162 (13.22%) JavaScript
2 123 (10.04%) SQL
3 113 (9.22%) Java
4 101 (8.24%) Python
5 95 (7.76%) TypeScript
6 54 (4.41%) PowerShell
7 46 (3.76%) C#
8 28 (2.29%) Kotlin
9 18 (1.47%) Bash
10 12 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (0.90%) Perl
12 9 (0.73%) Swift
13 8 (0.65%) 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 (0.24%) C++
Qualifications
1 161 (13.14%) Security Cleared
2 119 (9.71%) SC Cleared
3 102 (8.33%) Degree
4 27 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (1.47%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.06%) Azure Certification
8 12 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (0.82%) CCNP
10 9 (0.73%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.57%) 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 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (15.92%) Accessibility
2 118 (9.63%) QA
3 61 (4.98%) WCAG
4 43 (3.51%) Data Quality
5 38 (3.10%) GDPR
6 19 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 13 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.90%) SLA
9 7 (0.57%) PMO
10 6 (0.49%) NCSC
11 5 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.24%) GMP
13 3 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.24%) GRC
13 3 (0.24%) GxP
13 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.24%) NIST
14 2 (0.16%) COBIT
System Software
1 72 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 55 (4.49%) Docker
3 20 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.41%) Firmware
5 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.16%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.082%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.082%) Varnish
7 1 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.082%) XenApp
7 1 (0.082%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 57 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 37 (3.02%) Terraform
3 36 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (2.04%) SCCM
5 19 (1.55%) Grafana
6 15 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.98%) Ansible
8 6 (0.49%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.33%) Argo
10 4 (0.33%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.24%) Nagios
11 3 (0.24%) Podman
11 3 (0.24%) Rancher
12 2 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
13 1 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.082%) AirWatch
13 1 (0.082%) Consul
Vendors
1 200 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 71 (5.80%) Adobe
3 64 (5.22%) Google
4 60 (4.90%) ServiceNow
5 42 (3.43%) Oracle
6 39 (3.18%) SAP
7 32 (2.61%) Salesforce
8 23 (1.88%) Citrix
9 21 (1.71%) VMware
10 18 (1.47%) Cisco
11 16 (1.31%) Splunk
12 15 (1.22%) Workday
13 14 (1.14%) Apple
14 10 (0.82%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.82%) Zscaler
15 9 (0.73%) Ekahau
15 9 (0.73%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.73%) Sitecore
16 8 (0.65%) Foundry
17 7 (0.57%) Aruba