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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 61 72
Rank change year-on-year -18 +11 -9
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,221 884 1,020
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.16% 3.63% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 3.99% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 591 678
10th Percentile £309 £305 £298
25th Percentile £390 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 20 46
10th Percentile £16.36 £25.21 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £41.75 £24.06
Median hourly rate £47.97 £51.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +60.83% -29.53%
75th Percentile £64.58 £83.60 £63.84
90th Percentile £82.50 £95.60 £73.32
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £32.11
% change year-on-year -4.76% +63.53% -18.20%

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 33,181 22,150 32,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.82% 90.86% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,274 14,593 21,355
10th Percentile £313 £311 £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 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,050 865 2,166
10th Percentile £15.49 £14.99 £12.89
25th Percentile £19.48 £19.00 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -1.52% -13.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.95 £70.44
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £31.58 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.71% -2.83% -13.33%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -21 630 £500 -2.91% 296
North of England -5 208 £450 - 176
North West +2 130 £420 -6.67% 94
South East -15 122 £490 -2.24% 122
Midlands -18 122 £500 +25.00% 93
West Midlands -25 81 £475 +9.51% 62
South West -8 67 £475 +26.67% 59
Yorkshire -20 53 £506 +26.40% 45
East Midlands -6 41 £550 +54.06% 31
East of England -20 29 £425 -10.99% 33
North East -1 24 £405 -15.63% 39
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 (4.18%) SharePoint
2 41 (3.36%) Confluence
3 34 (2.78%) CMS
4 19 (1.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 18 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.57%) Apache
6 7 (0.57%) Headless CMS
7 6 (0.49%) Sitecore CMS
8 5 (0.41%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.33%) Camunda
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%) Drupal
10 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.25%) nginx
11 2 (0.16%) Appian
11 2 (0.16%) Mendix
12 1 (0.082%) Traefik
Applications
1 35 (2.87%) Sketch
2 27 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (2.05%) Adobe XD
4 22 (1.80%) Chatbot
5 19 (1.56%) MS Visio
6 16 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
7 11 (0.90%) Photoshop
8 9 (0.74%) InVision
9 7 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 6 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.33%) UXPin
12 3 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.25%) Trello
12 3 (0.25%) UserZoom
13 2 (0.16%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.16%) Camtasia
13 2 (0.16%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 16 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.49%) Sage X3
4 6 (0.49%) Shopify
5 2 (0.16%) Magento
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%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.082%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.082%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.082%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.082%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 205 (16.79%) Azure
2 166 (13.60%) Figma
3 113 (9.25%) AWS
4 89 (7.29%) Power Platform
5 85 (6.96%) Microsoft 365
6 53 (4.34%) Entra ID
7 52 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 50 (4.10%) GCP
9 44 (3.60%) GitHub
10 38 (3.11%) SaaS
11 32 (2.62%) PowerApps
12 28 (2.29%) Power Automate
13 27 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (2.21%) Microsoft Copilot
13 27 (2.21%) Serverless
14 23 (1.88%) Google Workspace
15 22 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
15 22 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
16 19 (1.56%) Google Sheets
17 17 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.31%) DNS
2 14 (1.15%) Wireless
3 13 (1.06%) LAN
4 12 (0.98%) VPN
5 11 (0.90%) Internet
5 11 (0.90%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.82%) DHCP
6 10 (0.82%) Firewall
6 10 (0.82%) Intranet
6 10 (0.82%) SD-WAN
6 10 (0.82%) WAN
6 10 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (0.66%) SSL
8 6 (0.49%) BGP
8 6 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
8 6 (0.49%) Cisco Wireless
8 6 (0.49%) HTTP
8 6 (0.49%) Network Security
9 5 (0.41%) WLAN
10 4 (0.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.75%) Power BI
2 28 (2.29%) NoSQL
3 26 (2.13%) Relational Database
4 22 (1.80%) MySQL
4 22 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (1.72%) SQL Server
6 17 (1.39%) Tableau
7 14 (1.15%) Metadata
8 12 (0.98%) MongoDB
9 10 (0.82%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.66%) Looker
11 7 (0.57%) Pinecone
11 7 (0.57%) Power Query
11 7 (0.57%) Redis
12 6 (0.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 6 (0.49%) ZAP BI
13 5 (0.41%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 97 (7.94%) JIRA
2 69 (5.65%) Git
3 41 (3.36%) GitLab
4 24 (1.97%) Jenkins
5 22 (1.80%) Cypress.io
5 22 (1.80%) JUnit
6 15 (1.23%) Axure RP
7 14 (1.15%) Gradle
8 12 (0.98%) Android Studio
8 12 (0.98%) CircleCI
9 11 (0.90%) Browser DevTools
10 10 (0.82%) Xcode
11 9 (0.74%) Postman
11 9 (0.74%) Selenium
12 8 (0.66%) Eclipse
12 8 (0.66%) Mocha
13 7 (0.57%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.57%) Vite
14 6 (0.49%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 401 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 245 (20.07%) Finance
3 156 (12.78%) Public Sector
4 150 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (8.27%) Banking
6 53 (4.34%) Marketing
7 46 (3.77%) Retail
8 30 (2.46%) Legal
8 30 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
9 27 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (1.56%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.06%) Front Office
11 13 (1.06%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (0.98%) Publishing
13 11 (0.90%) Telecoms
14 10 (0.82%) Financial Institution
14 10 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 235 (19.25%) Designer
2 186 (15.23%) Senior
3 177 (14.50%) Developer
4 121 (9.91%) Analyst
4 121 (9.91%) UX Designer
5 62 (5.08%) Lead
6 58 (4.75%) Product Designer
7 56 (4.59%) Consultant
8 55 (4.50%) Architect
8 55 (4.50%) Business Analyst
9 51 (4.18%) Senior Designer
10 42 (3.44%) UI Designer
11 37 (3.03%) Support Engineer
11 37 (3.03%) User Researcher
12 35 (2.87%) IT Support
12 35 (2.87%) Senior Developer
13 34 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
14 33 (2.70%) Software Engineer
14 33 (2.70%) UI/UX Designer
15 32 (2.62%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (12.45%) React
2 130 (10.65%) CSS
3 116 (9.50%) HTML
4 93 (7.62%) REST
5 73 (5.98%) AngularJS
6 70 (5.73%) RESTful
7 58 (4.75%) Spring
8 57 (4.67%) Spring Boot
9 46 (3.77%) Node.js
10 42 (3.44%) .NET
11 35 (2.87%) HTML5
12 33 (2.70%) GraphQL
13 32 (2.62%) CSS3
14 29 (2.38%) Redux
15 24 (1.97%) Jest
15 24 (1.97%) Next.js
15 24 (1.97%) Vue
16 20 (1.64%) JSON
16 20 (1.64%) Kafka
17 19 (1.56%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 114 (9.34%) Product Ownership
2 73 (5.98%) Mobile App
3 47 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 29 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (2.21%) AI Agents
6 23 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 22 (1.80%) Data Structures
8 19 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.39%) Cloud Native
9 17 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.06%) Virtual Team
11 12 (0.98%) Algorithms
11 12 (0.98%) Data Centre
12 11 (0.90%) NHS
12 11 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.82%) Augmented Reality
14 9 (0.74%) e-Learning
14 9 (0.74%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 114 (9.34%) Windows
2 44 (3.60%) Windows 10
3 42 (3.44%) Android
4 30 (2.46%) Apple iOS
5 21 (1.72%) Linux
5 21 (1.72%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.66%) Unix
7 6 (0.49%) 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
1 394 (32.27%) Agile
2 375 (30.71%) UX Design
3 200 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
4 191 (15.64%) Analytics
5 176 (14.41%) AI
6 168 (13.76%) User Research
7 152 (12.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 150 (12.29%) CI/CD
9 144 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 144 (11.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 143 (11.71%) DevOps
11 119 (9.75%) Roadmaps
12 113 (9.25%) Prototyping
13 108 (8.85%) UX Research
14 107 (8.76%) Decision-Making
14 107 (8.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 107 (8.76%) Wireframes
15 95 (7.78%) Service Design
16 88 (7.21%) Usability Testing
17 81 (6.63%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 164 (13.43%) JavaScript
2 125 (10.24%) SQL
3 112 (9.17%) Java
4 100 (8.19%) Python
5 97 (7.94%) TypeScript
6 52 (4.26%) PowerShell
7 45 (3.69%) C#
8 28 (2.29%) Kotlin
9 17 (1.39%) Bash
10 12 (0.98%) 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%) C++
Qualifications
1 159 (13.02%) Security Cleared
2 117 (9.58%) SC Cleared
3 104 (8.52%) Degree
4 27 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 17 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (0.98%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (0.74%) CCNP
9 9 (0.74%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.57%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.49%) Citrix Certification
11 6 (0.49%) MOS
11 6 (0.49%) OCA
11 6 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (0.41%) CCA
13 4 (0.33%) CCIE
14 3 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (15.81%) Accessibility
2 118 (9.66%) QA
3 63 (5.16%) WCAG
4 43 (3.52%) Data Quality
5 38 (3.11%) GDPR
6 19 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 13 (1.06%) SLA
8 12 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.57%) PMO
10 6 (0.49%) NCSC
11 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.25%) GMP
12 3 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
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%) NIST
13 2 (0.16%) COBIT
System Software
1 73 (5.98%) Active Directory
2 55 (4.50%) Docker
3 19 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.31%) 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 56 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 35 (2.87%) Terraform
4 26 (2.13%) SCCM
5 19 (1.56%) Grafana
6 15 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.90%) Ansible
8 6 (0.49%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.33%) Argo
10 4 (0.33%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.25%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.25%) Nagios
11 3 (0.25%) Rancher
12 2 (0.16%) Podman
12 2 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
13 1 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.082%) AirWatch
13 1 (0.082%) Consul
Vendors
1 200 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 71 (5.81%) Adobe
3 65 (5.32%) Google
4 59 (4.83%) ServiceNow
5 41 (3.36%) Oracle
6 39 (3.19%) SAP
7 32 (2.62%) Salesforce
8 23 (1.88%) Citrix
9 20 (1.64%) VMware
10 16 (1.31%) Cisco
10 16 (1.31%) Splunk
11 14 (1.15%) Apple
12 13 (1.06%) Workday
13 10 (0.82%) Red Hat
13 10 (0.82%) Zscaler
14 9 (0.74%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.66%) Ekahau
15 8 (0.66%) Foundry
15 8 (0.66%) Sitecore
16 6 (0.49%) Aruba