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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 60 76
Rank change year-on-year -20 +16 -14
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,210 891 994
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.06% 3.63% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 3.99% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 825 596 669
10th Percentile £310 £300 £293
25th Percentile £393 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% -0.10% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £611
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.56% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 19 46
10th Percentile £16.51 £25.16 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.89 £41.58 £24.06
Median hourly rate £47.97 £49.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +56.10% -9.40%
75th Percentile £66.75 £84.23 £64.88
90th Percentile £82.30 £95.70 £74.10
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £51.50 £32.11
% change year-on-year -2.91% +60.41% -8.27%

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 33,718 22,322 32,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 91.07% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,550 14,669 21,082
10th Percentile £315 £310 £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 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,104 894 2,218
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.32 £18.51 £15.86
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.31 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.18 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -6.67%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -21 625 £513 -0.24% 569
North of England +2 199 £450 - 419
Midlands -11 136 £500 +25.00% 137
North West +2 124 £423 -6.11% 330
South East -20 115 £488 +5.41% 278
West Midlands -22 92 £475 +2.70% 79
South West -12 64 £469 +25.84% 72
Yorkshire -34 51 £500 +24.84% 66
East Midlands -4 44 £550 +53.63% 58
East of England -22 26 £418 -12.11% 158
North East -4 22 £405 -10.50% 25
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 49 (4.05%) SharePoint
2 41 (3.39%) Confluence
3 32 (2.64%) CMS
4 18 (1.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 18 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (0.41%) Apache
6 5 (0.41%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.41%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.33%) Camunda
7 4 (0.33%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.33%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.25%) Mendix
8 3 (0.25%) nginx
9 2 (0.17%) Appian
9 2 (0.17%) Drupal
9 2 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.083%) Traefik
Applications
1 32 (2.64%) Sketch
2 24 (1.98%) Adobe XD
2 24 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.57%) Chatbot
4 17 (1.40%) MS Visio
5 14 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (0.91%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.58%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.58%) InVision
8 6 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
8 6 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.33%) Trello
10 4 (0.33%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.25%) UXPin
12 2 (0.17%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.17%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.083%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.66%) Shopify
3 8 (0.66%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.50%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.17%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.17%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.17%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.17%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.17%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.083%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.083%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.083%) iTrent
6 1 (0.083%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 195 (16.12%) Azure
2 169 (13.97%) Figma
3 100 (8.26%) AWS
4 87 (7.19%) Microsoft 365
5 86 (7.11%) Power Platform
6 53 (4.38%) Entra ID
7 52 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
8 48 (3.97%) GCP
9 45 (3.72%) GitHub
10 33 (2.73%) SaaS
11 32 (2.64%) Microsoft Copilot
11 32 (2.64%) PowerApps
12 28 (2.31%) Power Automate
13 26 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (1.98%) Serverless
15 23 (1.90%) Google Workspace
16 22 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
17 19 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (1.57%) Google Sheets
18 18 (1.49%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.16%) DNS
2 12 (0.99%) LAN
2 12 (0.99%) Wireless
3 11 (0.91%) Internet
4 10 (0.83%) DHCP
4 10 (0.83%) Intranet
4 10 (0.83%) SD-WAN
4 10 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (0.66%) VPN
6 7 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.58%) WAN
7 6 (0.50%) Cisco Wireless
7 6 (0.50%) SSL
7 6 (0.50%) WLAN
8 5 (0.41%) 5G
8 5 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (0.41%) Firewall
8 5 (0.41%) SMS
9 4 (0.33%) BGP
9 4 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.79%) Power BI
2 23 (1.90%) NoSQL
3 22 (1.82%) SQL Server
4 20 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.65%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.49%) MySQL
6 17 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.32%) Tableau
8 13 (1.07%) Metadata
9 11 (0.91%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.74%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.66%) Power Query
12 7 (0.58%) Looker
12 7 (0.58%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 6 (0.50%) ZAP BI
14 5 (0.41%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.41%) Redis
15 4 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 93 (7.69%) JIRA
2 61 (5.04%) Git
3 37 (3.06%) GitLab
4 22 (1.82%) Cypress.io
4 22 (1.82%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.74%) JUnit
6 14 (1.16%) Axure RP
7 13 (1.07%) Gradle
8 11 (0.91%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.83%) Browser DevTools
10 9 (0.74%) Selenium
11 8 (0.66%) Android Studio
12 7 (0.58%) Vite
12 7 (0.58%) Xcode
13 6 (0.50%) Mocha
13 6 (0.50%) Postman
14 5 (0.41%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.41%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.41%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 389 (32.15%) Social Skills
2 244 (20.17%) Finance
3 150 (12.40%) Public Sector
4 140 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (8.10%) Banking
6 51 (4.21%) Marketing
7 48 (3.97%) Retail
8 33 (2.73%) Legal
9 30 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (1.74%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.24%) Publishing
14 14 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (0.99%) Front Office
16 12 (0.99%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.91%) Automotive
17 11 (0.91%) Telecoms
18 10 (0.83%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 247 (20.41%) Designer
2 188 (15.54%) Senior
3 163 (13.47%) Developer
4 123 (10.17%) UX Designer
5 115 (9.50%) Analyst
6 62 (5.12%) Lead
7 56 (4.63%) Consultant
8 55 (4.55%) Business Analyst
8 55 (4.55%) Product Designer
9 52 (4.30%) Architect
10 51 (4.21%) Senior Designer
11 46 (3.80%) UI Designer
12 38 (3.14%) User Researcher
13 37 (3.06%) Content Designer
14 36 (2.98%) UI/UX Designer
15 35 (2.89%) IT Support
15 35 (2.89%) User Experience Researcher
16 34 (2.81%) Support Engineer
17 33 (2.73%) Service Designer
18 31 (2.56%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (11.49%) React
2 124 (10.25%) CSS
3 113 (9.34%) HTML
4 87 (7.19%) REST
5 70 (5.79%) AngularJS
6 64 (5.29%) RESTful
7 56 (4.63%) Spring
8 55 (4.55%) Spring Boot
9 44 (3.64%) .NET
10 35 (2.89%) Node.js
11 31 (2.56%) GraphQL
11 31 (2.56%) HTML5
12 29 (2.40%) CSS3
12 29 (2.40%) Redux
13 24 (1.98%) Next.js
14 23 (1.90%) Vue
15 22 (1.82%) JSON
16 21 (1.74%) Jest
17 20 (1.65%) Kafka
18 17 (1.40%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 111 (9.17%) Product Ownership
2 64 (5.29%) Mobile App
3 48 (3.97%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (2.23%) AI Agents
6 24 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 21 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 17 (1.40%) Cloud Native
10 16 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.16%) Virtual Reality
12 13 (1.07%) Augmented Reality
12 13 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (0.91%) Algorithms
13 11 (0.91%) NHS
14 10 (0.83%) Management Information System
14 10 (0.83%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 97 (8.02%) Windows
2 38 (3.14%) Windows 10
3 35 (2.89%) Android
4 28 (2.31%) Apple iOS
5 21 (1.74%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.91%) Linux
7 8 (0.66%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.41%) Unix
9 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.083%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (31.90%) Agile
2 378 (31.24%) UX Design
3 189 (15.62%) Analytics
4 188 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
5 184 (15.21%) AI
6 169 (13.97%) User Research
7 152 (12.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 147 (12.15%) CI/CD
9 142 (11.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 141 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 135 (11.16%) DevOps
12 123 (10.17%) Roadmaps
13 114 (9.42%) Prototyping
13 114 (9.42%) UX Research
14 106 (8.76%) Wireframes
15 102 (8.43%) Decision-Making
15 102 (8.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 97 (8.02%) Service Design
17 89 (7.36%) Usability Testing
18 80 (6.61%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 157 (12.98%) JavaScript
2 112 (9.26%) SQL
3 111 (9.17%) Java
4 92 (7.60%) TypeScript
5 88 (7.27%) Python
6 46 (3.80%) C#
7 44 (3.64%) PowerShell
8 25 (2.07%) Kotlin
9 15 (1.24%) Bash
10 13 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.66%) Swift
12 7 (0.58%) Korn
13 6 (0.50%) Go
13 6 (0.50%) Perl
13 6 (0.50%) PHP
13 6 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.50%) VBA
14 4 (0.33%) R
15 3 (0.25%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 145 (11.98%) Security Cleared
2 107 (8.84%) SC Cleared
3 101 (8.35%) Degree
4 27 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.24%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.07%) Azure Certification
9 11 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.74%) CCNP
11 7 (0.58%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.58%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.50%) CCA
12 6 (0.50%) CCIE
12 6 (0.50%) Citrix Certification
12 6 (0.50%) OCA
12 6 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.33%) MOS
13 4 (0.33%) PMP
14 3 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (15.87%) Accessibility
2 112 (9.26%) QA
3 59 (4.88%) WCAG
4 42 (3.47%) Data Quality
5 38 (3.14%) GDPR
6 21 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.83%) SLA
9 7 (0.58%) PMO
10 5 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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
12 3 (0.25%) NCSC
13 2 (0.17%) COBIT
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 72 (5.95%) Active Directory
2 44 (3.64%) Docker
3 19 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 19 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.41%) Firmware
5 4 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.25%) XenApp
6 3 (0.25%) XenDesktop
7 2 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.083%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.083%) Varnish
8 1 (0.083%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 54 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 35 (2.89%) Terraform
4 28 (2.31%) SCCM
5 18 (1.49%) Grafana
6 14 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.74%) Ansible
8 6 (0.50%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
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
10 3 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.17%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.17%) WSUS
12 1 (0.083%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 195 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 72 (5.95%) Adobe
3 60 (4.96%) Google
4 52 (4.30%) ServiceNow
5 43 (3.55%) Oracle
5 43 (3.55%) SAP
6 34 (2.81%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.07%) Citrix
8 19 (1.57%) VMware
9 16 (1.32%) Workday
10 14 (1.16%) Apple
10 14 (1.16%) Cisco
11 12 (0.99%) Splunk
12 10 (0.83%) Sitecore
12 10 (0.83%) Zscaler
13 9 (0.74%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.66%) Aruba
14 8 (0.66%) Foundry
15 7 (0.58%) Ekahau
15 7 (0.58%) Red Hat