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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 66 80
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 -20
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,289 889 953
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.09% 3.71% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 4.06% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 577 642
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% -1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £624
90th Percentile £677 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +2.08% -4.00% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 24 44
10th Percentile £16.00 £33.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.12 £42.94 £22.82
Median hourly rate £33.99 £53.50 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year -36.47% +105.53% -1.77%
75th Percentile £61.25 £75.12 £62.94
90th Percentile £82.20 £92.50 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £53.50 £29.14
% change year-on-year -36.47% +83.63% -1.55%

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 35,523 21,911 31,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.02% 91.34% 85.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,505 14,200 20,503
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,228 974 2,317
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.69 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £27.64 £36.50
% change year-on-year +54.50% -24.27% +1.39%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -21 645 £513 - 590
North of England -10 203 £450 +0.67% 178
Midlands 0 166 £475 +17.28% 88
South East -11 129 £475 +4.63% 164
North West +6 127 £420 -6.67% 118
West Midlands -11 115 £475 -9.52% 60
South West -9 72 £475 +26.67% 46
Yorkshire -29 56 £525 +34.96% 38
East Midlands +5 51 £550 +54.49% 27
East of England -18 31 £410 -14.14% 67
North East -22 20 £450 -6.25% 24
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 56 (4.34%) SharePoint
2 41 (3.18%) Confluence
3 39 (3.03%) CMS
4 23 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.54%) WordPress
7 5 (0.39%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) Drupal
7 5 (0.39%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) Camunda
8 4 (0.31%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.31%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.31%) Kentico
9 3 (0.23%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.23%) Mendix
9 3 (0.23%) nginx
9 3 (0.23%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.16%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (1.94%) Sketch
2 23 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.78%) Photoshop
3 19 (1.47%) Chatbot
4 18 (1.40%) Adobe Illustrator
5 16 (1.24%) Adobe XD
6 14 (1.09%) Adobe After Effects
6 14 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
7 11 (0.85%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 8 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 4 (0.31%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.23%) InVision
11 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.23%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.23%) UXPin
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.16%) Trello
13 1 (0.078%) Blender
13 1 (0.078%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 11 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.70%) Workday HCM
3 8 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.62%) Shopify
4 6 (0.47%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.16%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.078%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.078%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.078%) Magento
7 1 (0.078%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.078%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.078%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.078%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 200 (15.52%) Azure
2 178 (13.81%) Figma
3 110 (8.53%) AWS
4 107 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
5 90 (6.98%) Power Platform
6 57 (4.42%) Entra ID
7 43 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (3.34%) Microsoft Copilot
8 40 (3.10%) GCP
9 39 (3.03%) SaaS
10 38 (2.95%) GitHub
11 34 (2.64%) PowerApps
12 27 (2.09%) OneDrive
12 27 (2.09%) Power Automate
13 24 (1.86%) Google Workspace
14 23 (1.78%) Copilot Studio
14 23 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (1.71%) Serverless
16 20 (1.55%) Google Sheets
17 19 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.55%) DNS
2 19 (1.47%) DHCP
2 19 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
3 16 (1.24%) Wireless
4 14 (1.09%) LAN
5 13 (1.01%) Internet
6 12 (0.93%) Intranet
6 12 (0.93%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.70%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.62%) Cisco Wireless
9 7 (0.54%) 5G
9 7 (0.54%) Skype
9 7 (0.54%) VPN
9 7 (0.54%) WAN
9 7 (0.54%) WLAN
10 5 (0.39%) 802.11
10 5 (0.39%) Firewall
10 5 (0.39%) HTTP
10 5 (0.39%) SMS
11 4 (0.31%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (4.19%) Power BI
2 20 (1.55%) Metadata
2 20 (1.55%) Relational Database
3 19 (1.47%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.24%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (1.09%) MySQL
7 13 (1.01%) Power Query
8 10 (0.78%) Tableau
9 9 (0.70%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.54%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 6 (0.47%) Pinecone
11 6 (0.47%) ZAP BI
12 5 (0.39%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.39%) Redis
12 5 (0.39%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.31%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 81 (6.28%) JIRA
2 62 (4.81%) Git
3 29 (2.25%) GitLab
4 21 (1.63%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.32%) Jenkins
6 15 (1.16%) Gradle
6 15 (1.16%) JUnit
7 12 (0.93%) Android Studio
8 11 (0.85%) Browser DevTools
8 11 (0.85%) Vite
9 10 (0.78%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.78%) Xcode
10 9 (0.70%) fastlane
11 6 (0.47%) Axure RP
11 6 (0.47%) Mocha
11 6 (0.47%) Postman
12 5 (0.39%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.39%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.39%) Selenium
12 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 394 (30.57%) Social Skills
2 232 (18.00%) Finance
3 156 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 124 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (7.45%) Banking
6 66 (5.12%) Retail
7 57 (4.42%) Marketing
8 33 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (2.17%) Legal
12 27 (2.09%) Automotive
13 23 (1.78%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.63%) Publishing
15 17 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (0.93%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.93%) Local Government
18 9 (0.70%) Front Office
19 7 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 280 (21.72%) Designer
2 194 (15.05%) Senior
3 169 (13.11%) Developer
4 125 (9.70%) UX Designer
5 106 (8.22%) Analyst
6 86 (6.67%) Lead
7 70 (5.43%) UI Designer
8 62 (4.81%) Consultant
9 56 (4.34%) Senior Designer
10 55 (4.27%) Product Designer
11 50 (3.88%) Architect
12 48 (3.72%) Content Designer
13 47 (3.65%) Business Analyst
14 46 (3.57%) User Experience Researcher
15 44 (3.41%) IT Support
16 43 (3.34%) UI/UX Designer
17 40 (3.10%) Product Manager
18 35 (2.72%) User Researcher
19 31 (2.40%) Senior Developer
19 31 (2.40%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (10.78%) React
2 119 (9.23%) CSS
3 105 (8.15%) HTML
4 86 (6.67%) REST
5 68 (5.28%) AngularJS
6 58 (4.50%) RESTful
7 49 (3.80%) Spring
8 48 (3.72%) Spring Boot
9 42 (3.26%) .NET
10 34 (2.64%) GraphQL
11 30 (2.33%) Node.js
12 28 (2.17%) HTML5
13 27 (2.09%) CSS3
14 25 (1.94%) JSON
15 23 (1.78%) Redux
16 21 (1.63%) SOAP
17 20 (1.55%) Jest
17 20 (1.55%) Next.js
18 19 (1.47%) OAuth
19 18 (1.40%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 124 (9.62%) Product Ownership
2 61 (4.73%) Mobile App
3 54 (4.19%) Onboarding
4 26 (2.02%) AI Agents
4 26 (2.02%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (1.40%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 17 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.24%) Data Centre
10 15 (1.16%) Graphic Design
11 14 (1.09%) Social Media
11 14 (1.09%) Virtual Reality
12 13 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.01%) Taxonomies
13 12 (0.93%) Algorithms
13 12 (0.93%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 103 (7.99%) Windows
2 41 (3.18%) Android
3 40 (3.10%) Apple iOS
4 35 (2.72%) Windows 10
5 24 (1.86%) Mac OS
6 13 (1.01%) Linux
7 8 (0.62%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.47%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.39%) Unix
10 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (33.05%) UX Design
2 385 (29.87%) Agile
3 198 (15.36%) AI
4 197 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
5 178 (13.81%) Analytics
6 168 (13.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 163 (12.65%) User Research
8 161 (12.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 145 (11.25%) CI/CD
10 140 (10.86%) Roadmaps
11 139 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 120 (9.31%) DevOps
13 118 (9.15%) Prototyping
14 115 (8.92%) UX Research
15 112 (8.69%) Decision-Making
16 105 (8.15%) Wireframes
17 104 (8.07%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 95 (7.37%) Service Design
19 91 (7.06%) Usability Testing
20 85 (6.59%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 146 (11.33%) JavaScript
2 105 (8.15%) Java
3 94 (7.29%) SQL
4 93 (7.21%) TypeScript
5 88 (6.83%) Python
6 49 (3.80%) PowerShell
7 40 (3.10%) C#
8 31 (2.40%) Kotlin
9 18 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 15 (1.16%) Bash
11 13 (1.01%) Swift
12 8 (0.62%) Korn
13 6 (0.47%) VBA
13 6 (0.47%) VBScript
14 5 (0.39%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.39%) Perl
14 5 (0.39%) R
14 5 (0.39%) VB
15 3 (0.23%) PHP
15 3 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 159 (12.34%) Security Cleared
2 126 (9.78%) Degree
3 116 (9.00%) SC Cleared
4 27 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.09%) Azure Certification
9 10 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.62%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.54%) CCIE
11 7 (0.54%) CCNP
12 6 (0.47%) CCA
12 6 (0.47%) Citrix Certification
12 6 (0.47%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (0.39%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.39%) PMP
14 4 (0.31%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (15.90%) Accessibility
2 94 (7.29%) QA
3 71 (5.51%) WCAG
4 42 (3.26%) Data Quality
5 29 (2.25%) GDPR
6 17 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (0.47%) SLA
10 4 (0.31%) PMO
11 3 (0.23%) GMP
11 3 (0.23%) GxP
12 2 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.16%) GRC
12 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.16%) NCSC
12 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.078%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.078%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 65 (5.04%) Active Directory
2 41 (3.18%) Docker
3 22 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.47%) Firmware
6 5 (0.39%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.16%) XenApp
9 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.078%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.078%) Varnish
10 1 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.078%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 42 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (3.10%) Terraform
4 34 (2.64%) SCCM
5 18 (1.40%) Grafana
6 17 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.01%) Ansible
8 10 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (0.54%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.31%) Podman
11 3 (0.23%) Clonezilla
11 3 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.16%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.16%) Packer
12 2 (0.16%) WSUS
13 1 (0.078%) AirWatch
13 1 (0.078%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.078%) vMotion
13 1 (0.078%) WMI
Vendors
1 211 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 78 (6.05%) Adobe
3 62 (4.81%) ServiceNow
4 57 (4.42%) Google
5 38 (2.95%) Salesforce
6 35 (2.72%) Oracle
6 35 (2.72%) SAP
7 22 (1.71%) Citrix
8 17 (1.32%) VMware
8 17 (1.32%) Workday
9 16 (1.24%) Cisco
10 15 (1.16%) Apple
10 15 (1.16%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.16%) Splunk
11 12 (0.93%) Aruba
12 10 (0.78%) Foundry
13 9 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 7 (0.54%) Databricks
14 7 (0.54%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.54%) Zscaler