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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 69 71
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,191 874 1,063
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.35% 3.40% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 3.77% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 550 715
10th Percentile £313 £312 £300
25th Percentile £386 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £601 £600
90th Percentile £654 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 21 42
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.26 £19.33
25th Percentile £17.69 £31.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £35.72 £42.50 £37.09
Median % change year-on-year -15.95% +14.59% -29.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £72.80
90th Percentile £73.83 £74.44 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £38.94 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -8.38% +6.25% -18.37%

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 30,972 23,170 33,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.17% 90.22% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,848 14,569 21,913
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £617 £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 1,919 779 2,056
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.59 £13.42
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.77
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +0.68% -0.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.93
90th Percentile £72.51 £75.30 £72.17
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% -2.99% -4.29%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -17 619 £500 -4.76% 223
North of England +14 206 £458 +1.67% 120
North West +14 134 £420 -6.67% 66
South East -7 122 £480 -4.24% 160
Midlands -15 107 £515 +28.75% 80
South West -9 67 £450 +16.13% 42
West Midlands -34 59 £456 -2.67% 48
Yorkshire -28 51 £519 +29.61% 35
East Midlands +10 48 £550 +54.49% 32
East of England -20 28 £425 -10.99% 34
North East 0 20 £388 -8.82% 20
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 53 (4.45%) SharePoint
2 48 (4.03%) Confluence
3 33 (2.77%) CMS
4 23 (1.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 15 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.92%) Headless CMS
7 8 (0.67%) Apache
7 8 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
8 7 (0.59%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.42%) SugarCRM
10 4 (0.34%) Camunda
10 4 (0.34%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.34%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.25%) Drupal
11 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.17%) Appian
12 2 (0.17%) Mendix
12 2 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (2.85%) Sketch
2 27 (2.27%) Adobe XD
3 20 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.68%) MS Visio
4 17 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.34%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.84%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.67%) InVision
9 6 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 6 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.34%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.34%) Trello
10 4 (0.34%) UXPin
11 3 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.25%) UserZoom
12 2 (0.17%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.17%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.17%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 19 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.34%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.34%) Shopify
5 3 (0.25%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.25%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.17%) iTrent
6 2 (0.17%) Magento
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.084%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.084%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.084%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.084%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.084%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.084%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.084%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 203 (17.04%) Azure
2 152 (12.76%) Figma
3 130 (10.92%) AWS
4 91 (7.64%) Power Platform
5 75 (6.30%) Microsoft 365
6 66 (5.54%) SaaS
7 64 (5.37%) GCP
8 54 (4.53%) Entra ID
9 46 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (3.78%) GitHub
11 29 (2.43%) PowerApps
12 27 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (2.27%) Power Automate
13 24 (2.02%) Serverless
14 23 (1.93%) Google Workspace
15 22 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
16 20 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
16 20 (1.68%) Google Analytics
16 20 (1.68%) Microsoft Copilot
17 18 (1.51%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.93%) DNS
2 19 (1.60%) Wireless
3 14 (1.18%) Internet
4 11 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.84%) DHCP
5 10 (0.84%) VPN
6 9 (0.76%) HTTP
6 9 (0.76%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.67%) BGP
7 8 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
7 8 (0.67%) Intranet
8 7 (0.59%) Cisco Wireless
8 7 (0.59%) Firewall
8 7 (0.59%) NX-OS
8 7 (0.59%) VXLAN
9 6 (0.50%) Unified Communications
9 6 (0.50%) WAN
10 5 (0.42%) SSL
11 4 (0.34%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.34%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.95%) Power BI
2 33 (2.77%) MySQL
3 30 (2.52%) Relational Database
4 25 (2.10%) NoSQL
5 23 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (1.68%) SQL Server
7 17 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (1.26%) Tableau
9 12 (1.01%) BigQuery
10 11 (0.92%) Looker
10 11 (0.92%) Metadata
10 11 (0.92%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.59%) Mixpanel
11 7 (0.59%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.50%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.50%) Redis
13 5 (0.42%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.42%) Power Query
14 4 (0.34%) SAP HANA
14 4 (0.34%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 101 (8.48%) JIRA
2 74 (6.21%) Git
3 45 (3.78%) GitLab
4 27 (2.27%) Jenkins
5 23 (1.93%) Cypress.io
6 21 (1.76%) JUnit
7 20 (1.68%) Android Studio
8 19 (1.60%) Xcode
9 16 (1.34%) Axure RP
9 16 (1.34%) Eclipse
10 15 (1.26%) Gradle
11 14 (1.18%) Browser DevTools
12 12 (1.01%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.76%) Artifactory
13 9 (0.76%) Postman
14 8 (0.67%) Mocha
15 7 (0.59%) Selenium
16 6 (0.50%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.50%) IntelliJ
16 6 (0.50%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 410 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 222 (18.64%) Finance
3 153 (12.85%) Public Sector
4 144 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (7.05%) Banking
6 69 (5.79%) Marketing
7 37 (3.11%) Retail
8 31 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
9 27 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (2.18%) Legal
11 21 (1.76%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (1.34%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.18%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (0.92%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (0.84%) Front Office
17 9 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 203 (17.04%) Designer
2 187 (15.70%) Developer
3 181 (15.20%) Senior
4 114 (9.57%) Analyst
4 114 (9.57%) UX Designer
5 70 (5.88%) Lead
6 57 (4.79%) Product Designer
7 51 (4.28%) Senior Designer
8 49 (4.11%) Consultant
9 48 (4.03%) Business Analyst
10 42 (3.53%) Architect
11 35 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
11 35 (2.94%) Software Engineer
11 35 (2.94%) Support Engineer
11 35 (2.94%) UI Designer
12 34 (2.85%) User Researcher
13 33 (2.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 33 (2.77%) Senior Developer
14 31 (2.60%) IT Support
14 31 (2.60%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (13.18%) React
2 142 (11.92%) CSS
3 124 (10.41%) HTML
4 93 (7.81%) REST
5 82 (6.88%) AngularJS
6 74 (6.21%) RESTful
7 52 (4.37%) Node.js
7 52 (4.37%) Spring
7 52 (4.37%) Spring Boot
8 39 (3.27%) .NET
9 38 (3.19%) GraphQL
10 34 (2.85%) HTML5
11 29 (2.43%) CSS3
12 26 (2.18%) Jest
13 24 (2.02%) Redux
14 23 (1.93%) Next.js
15 22 (1.85%) JSON
16 21 (1.76%) OAuth
16 21 (1.76%) Vue
17 20 (1.68%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 114 (9.57%) Product Ownership
2 85 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 52 (4.37%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 26 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (2.02%) AI Agents
7 20 (1.68%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.26%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (1.26%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.18%) Cloud Native
9 14 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (1.01%) CMDB
11 12 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (1.01%) Low-Code
12 11 (0.92%) NHS
13 10 (0.84%) e-Learning
14 9 (0.76%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 128 (10.75%) Windows
2 52 (4.37%) Android
3 39 (3.27%) Windows 10
4 37 (3.11%) Apple iOS
5 29 (2.43%) Linux
6 22 (1.85%) Mac OS
7 17 (1.43%) Unix
8 5 (0.42%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.17%) VMS
11 1 (0.084%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.084%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (32.83%) Agile
2 369 (30.98%) UX Design
3 205 (17.21%) Analytics
4 195 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
5 170 (14.27%) User Research
6 153 (12.85%) CI/CD
7 149 (12.51%) Stakeholder Management
8 144 (12.09%) AI
9 142 (11.92%) DevOps
10 141 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 132 (11.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 125 (10.50%) Roadmaps
13 111 (9.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 105 (8.82%) UX Research
15 104 (8.73%) Prototyping
16 103 (8.65%) Decision-Making
17 99 (8.31%) Wireframes
18 96 (8.06%) Usability Testing
19 91 (7.64%) Service Design
20 80 (6.72%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 183 (15.37%) JavaScript
2 124 (10.41%) SQL
3 109 (9.15%) Java
4 106 (8.90%) Python
5 104 (8.73%) TypeScript
6 64 (5.37%) PowerShell
7 45 (3.78%) C#
8 32 (2.69%) Kotlin
9 21 (1.76%) Bash
10 17 (1.43%) Perl
11 15 (1.26%) Swift
12 14 (1.18%) PHP
13 10 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.76%) Go
15 7 (0.59%) Lisp
15 7 (0.59%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.50%) C++
17 4 (0.34%) Korn
17 4 (0.34%) Objective-C
17 4 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 159 (13.35%) Security Cleared
2 116 (9.74%) SC Cleared
3 112 (9.40%) Degree
4 24 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.34%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.92%) MOS
9 9 (0.76%) CCNP
9 9 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.59%) OCA
10 7 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (0.59%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.42%) CCA
11 5 (0.42%) Citrix Certification
12 4 (0.34%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.25%) CESG Certified Professional
13 3 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (15.79%) Accessibility
2 121 (10.16%) QA
3 60 (5.04%) WCAG
4 42 (3.53%) Data Quality
4 42 (3.53%) GDPR
5 24 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.76%) Actionable Recommendations
7 19 (1.60%) SLA
8 7 (0.59%) PMO
9 6 (0.50%) NCSC
10 4 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.34%) GxP
11 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
11 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.25%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.17%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.17%) GMP
12 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 74 (6.21%) Active Directory
2 55 (4.62%) Docker
3 22 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.34%) Firmware
6 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.17%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.084%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.084%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.084%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.084%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.084%) XenApp
8 1 (0.084%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 49 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (3.19%) SCCM
4 32 (2.69%) Terraform
5 21 (1.76%) Grafana
6 12 (1.01%) Ansible
7 11 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.59%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.59%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.34%) Argo
9 4 (0.34%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.25%) Nagios
10 3 (0.25%) Rancher
11 2 (0.17%) PingFederate
11 2 (0.17%) SysTrack
12 1 (0.084%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.084%) Consul
12 1 (0.084%) Istio
12 1 (0.084%) Podman
Vendors
1 215 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 80 (6.72%) Google
3 76 (6.38%) Adobe
4 74 (6.21%) ServiceNow
5 45 (3.78%) SAP
6 38 (3.19%) Oracle
7 33 (2.77%) Salesforce
8 25 (2.10%) Splunk
9 23 (1.93%) VMware
10 22 (1.85%) Citrix
11 14 (1.18%) Cisco
12 13 (1.09%) Apple
13 12 (1.01%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.92%) Amplitude
14 11 (0.92%) Hotjar
15 9 (0.76%) Workday
15 9 (0.76%) Zscaler
16 8 (0.67%) Ekahau
16 8 (0.67%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.67%) Optimizely