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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 63 73
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,218 884 1,017
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 3.63% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 3.99% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 592 679
10th Percentile £308 £305 £291
25th Percentile £390 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £611
90th Percentile £678 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £485 £486 £500
% change year-on-year -0.21% -2.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 20 47
10th Percentile £16.51 £25.21 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.49 £41.75 £24.38
Median hourly rate £47.97 £51.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +60.83% -25.82%
75th Percentile £66.75 £83.60 £63.14
90th Percentile £82.30 £95.60 £73.24
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.76% +61.54% -14.47%

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 33,552 22,163 32,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.57% 90.95% 86.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,495 14,584 21,337
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 £613 £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 2,072 874 2,199
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.91
25th Percentile £19.98 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £40.54 £32.00 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +26.69% -6.46% -8.77%
75th Percentile £66.00 £64.50 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.70 £75.43 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.81 £34.00
% change year-on-year +20.11% -9.40% -5.88%

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 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 12 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 12 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 -21 623 £500 -2.91% 285
North of England +4 207 £450 - 148
North West +6 131 £420 -6.67% 75
Midlands -17 128 £488 +21.27% 112
South East -15 120 £490 +1.82% 133
West Midlands -29 86 £475 +1.33% 82
South West -9 68 £475 +26.67% 46
Yorkshire -25 52 £500 +17.58% 48
East Midlands -5 42 £550 +53.63% 30
East of England -28 29 £425 -10.99% 47
North East -7 23 £405 -15.63% 27
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 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 41 (3.37%) Confluence
3 33 (2.71%) CMS
4 19 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.57%) Apache
7 6 (0.49%) Sitecore CMS
8 5 (0.41%) Headless 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 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.25%) nginx
11 2 (0.16%) Appian
11 2 (0.16%) Mendix
11 2 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (2.71%) Sketch
2 26 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (1.97%) Adobe XD
4 21 (1.72%) Chatbot
5 18 (1.48%) MS Visio
6 14 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
7 11 (0.90%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.66%) InVision
9 7 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 6 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
11 5 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.25%) Trello
12 3 (0.25%) UserZoom
12 3 (0.25%) 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 (0.74%) 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%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.082%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.082%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.082%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.082%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 198 (16.26%) Azure
2 166 (13.63%) Figma
3 109 (8.95%) AWS
4 87 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 86 (7.06%) Power Platform
6 55 (4.52%) Entra ID
7 51 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (3.86%) GCP
9 45 (3.69%) GitHub
10 36 (2.96%) SaaS
11 32 (2.63%) PowerApps
12 29 (2.38%) Power Automate
13 28 (2.30%) Microsoft Copilot
14 27 (2.22%) Serverless
15 26 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
16 23 (1.89%) Google Workspace
17 22 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
18 19 (1.56%) Google Sheets
19 17 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.23%) Wireless
2 14 (1.15%) DNS
2 14 (1.15%) LAN
3 11 (0.90%) Internet
3 11 (0.90%) VPN
4 10 (0.82%) Firewall
4 10 (0.82%) Intranet
4 10 (0.82%) SD-WAN
4 10 (0.82%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (0.74%) DHCP
5 9 (0.74%) WAN
6 8 (0.66%) 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 57 (4.68%) Power BI
2 26 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 25 (2.05%) Relational Database
4 22 (1.81%) MySQL
4 22 (1.81%) SQL Server
5 21 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (1.40%) Tableau
7 15 (1.23%) Metadata
8 12 (0.99%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.74%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.57%) Looker
10 7 (0.57%) Pinecone
10 7 (0.57%) Power Query
11 6 (0.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 6 (0.49%) Redis
11 6 (0.49%) ZAP BI
12 5 (0.41%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 96 (7.88%) JIRA
2 68 (5.58%) Git
3 40 (3.28%) GitLab
4 24 (1.97%) Jenkins
5 22 (1.81%) Cypress.io
5 22 (1.81%) JUnit
6 14 (1.15%) Axure RP
6 14 (1.15%) Gradle
7 12 (0.99%) Android Studio
7 12 (0.99%) CircleCI
8 11 (0.90%) Browser DevTools
9 10 (0.82%) Xcode
10 9 (0.74%) Postman
10 9 (0.74%) Selenium
11 8 (0.66%) Eclipse
12 7 (0.57%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.57%) Mocha
12 7 (0.57%) Vite
13 5 (0.41%) Storybook
13 5 (0.41%) TestRail
General
1 401 (32.92%) Social Skills
2 244 (20.03%) Finance
3 152 (12.48%) Public Sector
4 151 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (8.21%) Banking
6 52 (4.27%) Marketing
7 47 (3.86%) Retail
8 31 (2.55%) Legal
9 29 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (1.64%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.15%) Publishing
14 13 (1.07%) Front Office
14 13 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.07%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.90%) Telecoms
16 9 (0.74%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 236 (19.38%) Designer
2 185 (15.19%) Senior
3 174 (14.29%) Developer
4 120 (9.85%) UX Designer
5 117 (9.61%) Analyst
6 64 (5.25%) Lead
7 58 (4.76%) Consultant
8 55 (4.52%) Product Designer
9 54 (4.43%) Business Analyst
10 52 (4.27%) Architect
11 49 (4.02%) Senior Designer
12 44 (3.61%) UI Designer
13 36 (2.96%) Support Engineer
13 36 (2.96%) User Researcher
14 35 (2.87%) IT Support
14 35 (2.87%) UI/UX Designer
15 34 (2.79%) Senior Developer
16 33 (2.71%) Software Engineer
17 32 (2.63%) Content Designer
17 32 (2.63%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (12.07%) React
2 128 (10.51%) CSS
3 115 (9.44%) HTML
4 96 (7.88%) REST
5 74 (6.08%) AngularJS
6 69 (5.67%) RESTful
7 57 (4.68%) Spring
8 56 (4.60%) Spring Boot
9 43 (3.53%) .NET
10 39 (3.20%) Node.js
11 35 (2.87%) GraphQL
12 33 (2.71%) HTML5
13 31 (2.55%) CSS3
14 29 (2.38%) Redux
15 24 (1.97%) Next.js
15 24 (1.97%) Vue
16 23 (1.89%) Jest
17 20 (1.64%) JSON
17 20 (1.64%) Kafka
18 17 (1.40%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 111 (9.11%) Product Ownership
2 71 (5.83%) Mobile App
3 46 (3.78%) Onboarding
4 29 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (2.22%) AI Agents
6 24 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 22 (1.81%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.40%) Cloud Native
9 17 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (0.99%) Algorithms
11 12 (0.99%) Data Centre
11 12 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (0.99%) Virtual Team
12 11 (0.90%) NHS
13 10 (0.82%) Augmented Reality
13 10 (0.82%) Virtual Reality
14 9 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 109 (8.95%) Windows
2 41 (3.37%) Windows 10
3 40 (3.28%) Android
4 29 (2.38%) Apple iOS
5 20 (1.64%) Linux
5 20 (1.64%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.66%) 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
1 389 (31.94%) Agile
2 375 (30.79%) UX Design
3 203 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 194 (15.93%) Analytics
5 177 (14.53%) AI
6 165 (13.55%) User Research
7 154 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 148 (12.15%) CI/CD
9 145 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 144 (11.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 139 (11.41%) DevOps
12 123 (10.10%) Roadmaps
13 109 (8.95%) Prototyping
14 107 (8.78%) UX Research
14 107 (8.78%) Wireframes
15 105 (8.62%) Decision-Making
15 105 (8.62%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 95 (7.80%) Service Design
17 88 (7.22%) Usability Testing
18 80 (6.57%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 159 (13.05%) JavaScript
2 122 (10.02%) SQL
3 113 (9.28%) Java
4 100 (8.21%) Python
5 94 (7.72%) TypeScript
6 53 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 46 (3.78%) C#
8 28 (2.30%) Kotlin
9 18 (1.48%) Bash
10 12 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (0.90%) Perl
12 9 (0.74%) Swift
13 8 (0.66%) 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 (0.25%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 156 (12.81%) Security Cleared
2 115 (9.44%) SC Cleared
3 103 (8.46%) Degree
4 27 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (1.48%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.07%) Azure Certification
8 12 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (0.82%) CCNP
10 9 (0.74%) 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 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (15.68%) Accessibility
2 115 (9.44%) QA
3 59 (4.84%) WCAG
4 42 (3.45%) Data Quality
5 38 (3.12%) GDPR
6 19 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.90%) SLA
9 7 (0.57%) 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 (0.16%) COBIT
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 71 (5.83%) Active Directory
2 52 (4.27%) Docker
3 20 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.41%) Firmware
6 4 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.16%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.082%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.082%) Varnish
8 1 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.082%) XenApp
8 1 (0.082%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (4.52%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (2.96%) Terraform
3 25 (2.05%) SCCM
4 18 (1.48%) Grafana
5 14 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.90%) Ansible
7 6 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.33%) FortiGate
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
11 2 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
12 1 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.082%) SCOM
12 1 (0.082%) WMI
Vendors
1 198 (16.26%) Microsoft
2 72 (5.91%) Adobe
3 63 (5.17%) Google
4 58 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 41 (3.37%) Oracle
6 39 (3.20%) SAP
7 33 (2.71%) Salesforce
8 23 (1.89%) Citrix
9 20 (1.64%) VMware
10 18 (1.48%) Cisco
11 16 (1.31%) Splunk
12 15 (1.23%) Workday
13 13 (1.07%) Apple
14 10 (0.82%) Zscaler
15 9 (0.74%) Ekahau
15 9 (0.74%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.74%) Red Hat
15 9 (0.74%) Sitecore
16 8 (0.66%) Foundry
17 7 (0.57%) Aruba