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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 67 88
Rank change year-on-year -23 +21 -28
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,310 1,028 838
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.87% 3.71% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 4.09% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 791 647 535
10th Percentile £305 £300 £300
25th Percentile £390 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £623
90th Percentile £680 £722 £717
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 43 32
10th Percentile £16.58 £25.03 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.50 £33.74 £29.14
Median hourly rate £33.99 £43.50 £41.68
Median % change year-on-year -21.86% +4.38% +57.26%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.75 £71.29
90th Percentile £75.60 £72.40 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £45.50 £41.68
% change year-on-year -25.30% +9.18% +54.35%

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 38,794 25,132 28,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,129 16,058 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,653
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -29 665 £525 +5.00% 1,261
North of England -12 219 £438 -2.67% 239
Midlands -10 142 £475 +8.02% 107
South East -42 117 £438 -2.67% 197
West Midlands -13 111 £475 -8.65% 79
North West -33 101 £420 -6.67% 137
South West -19 73 £475 +26.67% 102
Yorkshire -22 67 £500 +25.00% 67
North East -5 50 £350 -27.08% 36
East of England +12 49 £410 -18.41% 78
East Midlands -1 31 £468 +30.59% 28
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 60 (4.58%) SharePoint
2 52 (3.97%) CMS
3 30 (2.29%) Confluence
4 26 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.15%) WordPress
6 8 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.53%) Apache
7 7 (0.53%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.46%) Drupal
9 5 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.31%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.31%) Kentico
10 4 (0.31%) Mendix
10 4 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
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 (0.076%) Liferay
Applications
1 25 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.60%) Sketch
3 20 (1.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 20 (1.53%) Chatbot
4 19 (1.45%) Photoshop
5 17 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
6 15 (1.15%) Adobe Illustrator
7 12 (0.92%) Adobe After Effects
8 11 (0.84%) Adobe XD
9 8 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 6 (0.46%) MS Visio
11 2 (0.15%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.15%) InVision
11 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.076%) Blender
12 1 (0.076%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.076%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.61%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.46%) Shopify
4 5 (0.38%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.31%) Oracle iProcurement
5 4 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.23%) iTrent
6 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.076%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.076%) Magento
8 1 (0.076%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.076%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 200 (15.27%) Azure
2 158 (12.06%) Figma
3 132 (10.08%) Microsoft 365
4 113 (8.63%) AWS
5 98 (7.48%) Power Platform
6 60 (4.58%) Entra ID
7 51 (3.89%) Microsoft Copilot
8 43 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (3.13%) GitHub
9 41 (3.13%) SaaS
10 40 (3.05%) GCP
11 31 (2.37%) PowerApps
12 29 (2.21%) OneDrive
13 25 (1.91%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.76%) Copilot Studio
15 19 (1.45%) Azure AI
16 17 (1.30%) Serverless
17 13 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
18 11 (0.84%) Firebase
19 10 (0.76%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 41 (3.13%) DNS
2 35 (2.67%) DHCP
3 30 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
4 29 (2.21%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.60%) Wireless
6 20 (1.53%) LAN
7 15 (1.15%) Firewall
7 15 (1.15%) VPN
7 15 (1.15%) WAN
8 12 (0.92%) Internet
9 11 (0.84%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.76%) Intranet
11 9 (0.69%) Skype
12 8 (0.61%) Cisco Wireless
13 7 (0.53%) 5G
13 7 (0.53%) Network Security
14 6 (0.46%) WLAN
15 5 (0.38%) 802.11
15 5 (0.38%) SNMP
15 5 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.35%) Power BI
2 25 (1.91%) Metadata
3 16 (1.22%) Power Query
4 13 (0.99%) Tableau
5 12 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (0.84%) NoSQL
7 10 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.69%) Looker
8 9 (0.69%) SQL Server
9 7 (0.53%) MySQL
9 7 (0.53%) Star Schema
10 6 (0.46%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.46%) Qlik Sense
11 5 (0.38%) Flink
11 5 (0.38%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.38%) Redis
11 5 (0.38%) ZAP BI
12 4 (0.31%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 71 (5.42%) JIRA
2 52 (3.97%) Git
3 23 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.60%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.30%) GitLab
5 17 (1.30%) Vite
6 10 (0.76%) Android Studio
6 10 (0.76%) Browser DevTools
6 10 (0.76%) fastlane
6 10 (0.76%) Storybook
7 9 (0.69%) Xcode
8 7 (0.53%) Gradle
9 6 (0.46%) Postman
10 5 (0.38%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.38%) Crashlytics
10 5 (0.38%) Fiddler
10 5 (0.38%) Selenium
11 4 (0.31%) JMeter
11 4 (0.31%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 408 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 238 (18.17%) Finance
3 171 (13.05%) Public Sector
4 130 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (8.09%) Banking
6 77 (5.88%) Retail
7 66 (5.04%) Marketing
8 47 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (2.29%) Legal
11 27 (2.06%) Automotive
11 27 (2.06%) Publishing
12 26 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (1.68%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (0.99%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.84%) Military
18 9 (0.69%) Aerospace
18 9 (0.69%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 286 (21.83%) Designer
2 180 (13.74%) Senior
3 166 (12.67%) Developer
4 121 (9.24%) UX Designer
5 108 (8.24%) Lead
6 87 (6.64%) Analyst
7 72 (5.50%) Consultant
8 71 (5.42%) UI Designer
9 55 (4.20%) User Researcher
10 51 (3.89%) Architect
11 50 (3.82%) Content Designer
12 49 (3.74%) IT Support
12 49 (3.74%) Senior Designer
12 49 (3.74%) Support Engineer
13 44 (3.36%) Business Analyst
13 44 (3.36%) Product Manager
14 41 (3.13%) UI/UX Designer
14 41 (3.13%) User Experience Researcher
15 33 (2.52%) IT Engineer
15 33 (2.52%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (8.17%) React
2 92 (7.02%) CSS
3 79 (6.03%) HTML
3 79 (6.03%) REST
4 44 (3.36%) RESTful
5 42 (3.21%) AngularJS
6 37 (2.82%) GraphQL
7 35 (2.67%) .NET
8 33 (2.52%) HTML5
9 32 (2.44%) CSS3
10 22 (1.68%) Next.js
11 21 (1.60%) Jest
12 19 (1.45%) Node.js
12 19 (1.45%) OAuth
12 19 (1.45%) SOAP
12 19 (1.45%) Spring
13 18 (1.37%) ASP.NET
13 18 (1.37%) Playwright
13 18 (1.37%) Spring Boot
14 17 (1.30%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 117 (8.93%) Product Ownership
2 80 (6.11%) Onboarding
3 76 (5.80%) Mobile App
4 39 (2.98%) Cloud Native
5 34 (2.60%) AI Agents
6 29 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (1.68%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.53%) Social Media
12 19 (1.45%) Management Information System
13 18 (1.37%) Educational Technology
14 17 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.30%) Graphic Design
15 16 (1.22%) NHS
16 15 (1.15%) Virtual Reality
17 14 (1.07%) Algorithms
17 14 (1.07%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 134 (10.23%) Windows
2 51 (3.89%) Android
3 48 (3.66%) Windows 10
4 47 (3.59%) Apple iOS
5 27 (2.06%) Mac OS
6 21 (1.60%) Windows Server
7 17 (1.30%) Linux
8 10 (0.76%) Unix
8 10 (0.76%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (31.60%) UX Design
2 367 (28.02%) Agile
3 251 (19.16%) AI
4 225 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
5 203 (15.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 175 (13.36%) Analytics
7 173 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 168 (12.82%) User Research
9 150 (11.45%) CI/CD
10 144 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 131 (10.00%) Roadmaps
12 128 (9.77%) Decision-Making
13 106 (8.09%) DevOps
14 105 (8.02%) Prototyping
15 102 (7.79%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 97 (7.40%) Service Design
16 97 (7.40%) Workshop Facilitation
17 95 (7.25%) Scrum
17 95 (7.25%) UX Research
17 95 (7.25%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 114 (8.70%) JavaScript
2 88 (6.72%) Python
3 83 (6.34%) TypeScript
4 82 (6.26%) Java
5 80 (6.11%) SQL
6 54 (4.12%) PowerShell
7 30 (2.29%) C#
8 25 (1.91%) Kotlin
9 22 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 15 (1.15%) Bash
11 13 (0.99%) Swift
12 8 (0.61%) VBScript
13 7 (0.53%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.53%) Go
13 7 (0.53%) PHP
13 7 (0.53%) VB
14 6 (0.46%) Scala
14 6 (0.46%) VBA
15 5 (0.38%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.31%) Korn
Qualifications
1 201 (15.34%) Security Cleared
2 153 (11.68%) SC Cleared
3 113 (8.63%) Degree
4 30 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 21 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (0.84%) PMP
8 10 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.61%) Citrix Certification
9 8 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 7 (0.53%) CCA
11 6 (0.46%) CCIE
11 6 (0.46%) CCNP
11 6 (0.46%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.46%) MCSE
12 5 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (15.80%) Accessibility
2 81 (6.18%) QA
3 68 (5.19%) WCAG
4 45 (3.44%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.45%) GDPR
6 12 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.61%) PMO
8 7 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 5 (0.38%) SLA
10 4 (0.31%) GRC
11 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.15%) PSD2
12 1 (0.076%) COBIT
12 1 (0.076%) GMP
12 1 (0.076%) GxP
12 1 (0.076%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.076%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.076%) WAI
System Software
1 87 (6.64%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.90%) Docker
3 28 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.53%) BitLocker
6 6 (0.46%) Firmware
6 6 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.46%) vSphere
7 5 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.23%) UAG
10 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.15%) XenApp
10 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.076%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 45 (3.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 42 (3.21%) Terraform
4 32 (2.44%) SCCM
5 19 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (1.37%) Grafana
7 15 (1.15%) Jamf Pro
8 13 (0.99%) Ansible
9 12 (0.92%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.38%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.31%) Clonezilla
11 4 (0.31%) Podman
12 3 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.23%) 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%) vMotion
14 1 (0.076%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 226 (17.25%) Microsoft
2 78 (5.95%) ServiceNow
3 71 (5.42%) Adobe
4 44 (3.36%) Google
5 40 (3.05%) Oracle
6 36 (2.75%) SAP
7 31 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 24 (1.83%) Citrix
9 22 (1.68%) Dynatrace
10 19 (1.45%) Apple
10 19 (1.45%) Splunk
11 18 (1.37%) Cisco
11 18 (1.37%) Workday
12 16 (1.22%) VMware
13 15 (1.15%) Foundry
14 14 (1.07%) Zscaler
15 12 (0.92%) Aruba
16 10 (0.76%) Okta
16 10 (0.76%) OpenAI
17 8 (0.61%) Databricks