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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 69 70
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,213 866 1,079
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.58% 3.34% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 3.72% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 525 742
10th Percentile £306 £310 £306
25th Percentile £377 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £568 £601 £595
90th Percentile £650 £733 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 21 39
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.26 £23.01
25th Percentile £17.69 £31.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £38.94 £42.50 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% -7.72% -24.81%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £72.70
90th Percentile £72.56 £74.44 £81.25
UK median hourly rate £35.55 £42.50 £43.03
% change year-on-year -16.35% -1.23% -28.29%

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 29,666 23,261 33,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.57% 89.75% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,990 14,365 22,049
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £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 1,857 734 1,965
10th Percentile £15.14 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.05 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.48%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -10 638 £494 -4.17% 313
North of England +23 219 £425 -5.56% 135
North West +27 150 £402 -10.67% 79
South East -14 114 £469 -6.25% 197
Midlands -12 110 £505 +26.25% 81
South West 0 67 £450 -18.18% 72
West Midlands -31 62 £475 -5.00% 47
Yorkshire -25 50 £513 +20.52% 40
East Midlands +7 48 £545 +53.09% 34
East of England -14 29 £454 +0.44% 50
North East -2 18 £405 -4.71% 17
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 59 (4.86%) Confluence
2 51 (4.20%) SharePoint
3 43 (3.54%) CMS
4 23 (1.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 13 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.99%) Headless CMS
7 8 (0.66%) Sitecore CMS
8 7 (0.58%) Apache
8 7 (0.58%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.41%) SugarCRM
10 4 (0.33%) Camunda
10 4 (0.33%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.33%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.16%) Appian
12 2 (0.16%) Drupal
12 2 (0.16%) WordPress
13 1 (0.082%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 39 (3.22%) Sketch
2 25 (2.06%) Adobe XD
3 22 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.81%) MS Visio
4 19 (1.57%) Chatbot
5 16 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
6 10 (0.82%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.74%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.66%) InVision
9 7 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 6 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.33%) Trello
11 4 (0.33%) UXPin
12 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.25%) UserZoom
13 2 (0.16%) Adobe Captivate
13 2 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.16%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.16%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 19 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.33%) Shopify
3 4 (0.33%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.25%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.25%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.16%) iTrent
5 2 (0.16%) Magento
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.082%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.082%) assyst
6 1 (0.082%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.082%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.082%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.082%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.082%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.082%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.082%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 211 (17.39%) Azure
2 161 (13.27%) Figma
3 130 (10.72%) AWS
4 84 (6.92%) Power Platform
5 75 (6.18%) SaaS
6 72 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
7 64 (5.28%) GCP
8 55 (4.53%) Entra ID
9 47 (3.87%) GitHub
10 45 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (2.06%) PowerApps
13 24 (1.98%) Google Workspace
14 23 (1.90%) Power Automate
15 22 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
15 22 (1.81%) Google Analytics
16 21 (1.73%) Miro
16 21 (1.73%) Serverless
17 18 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
17 18 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.14%) DNS
2 22 (1.81%) Wireless
3 14 (1.15%) Internet
4 11 (0.91%) HTTP
5 10 (0.82%) VPN
5 10 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (0.74%) DHCP
6 9 (0.74%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.66%) BGP
7 8 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (0.58%) Cisco Wireless
8 7 (0.58%) Firewall
8 7 (0.58%) NX-OS
8 7 (0.58%) VXLAN
9 6 (0.49%) Intranet
9 6 (0.49%) Unified Communications
9 6 (0.49%) WAN
10 5 (0.41%) SSL
11 4 (0.33%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (4.37%) Power BI
2 36 (2.97%) MySQL
3 34 (2.80%) Relational Database
4 28 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.14%) SQL Server
6 25 (2.06%) NoSQL
7 17 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (1.40%) Tableau
8 12 (0.99%) BigQuery
9 11 (0.91%) Looker
9 11 (0.91%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.74%) Metadata
11 7 (0.58%) Mixpanel
12 6 (0.49%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.41%) Pinecone
13 5 (0.41%) Redis
14 4 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.33%) Power Query
14 4 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 113 (9.32%) JIRA
2 78 (6.43%) Git
3 44 (3.63%) GitLab
4 33 (2.72%) Jenkins
5 25 (2.06%) Xcode
6 24 (1.98%) Cypress.io
7 22 (1.81%) Android Studio
7 22 (1.81%) Eclipse
8 20 (1.65%) JUnit
9 18 (1.48%) Gradle
10 17 (1.40%) Axure RP
10 17 (1.40%) Browser DevTools
11 11 (0.91%) CircleCI
11 11 (0.91%) Postman
12 9 (0.74%) Selenium
12 9 (0.74%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 8 (0.66%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.66%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.66%) IntelliJ
13 8 (0.66%) Mocha
General
1 416 (34.30%) Social Skills
2 228 (18.80%) Finance
3 151 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (12.04%) Public Sector
5 88 (7.25%) Banking
6 73 (6.02%) Marketing
7 36 (2.97%) Retail
8 33 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (2.14%) Legal
10 24 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.32%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
13 15 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.24%) Telecoms
14 12 (0.99%) Financial Institution
14 12 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (0.91%) Front Office
16 7 (0.58%) Local Government
16 7 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 204 (16.82%) Designer
2 195 (16.08%) Developer
3 174 (14.34%) Senior
4 119 (9.81%) Analyst
5 114 (9.40%) UX Designer
6 84 (6.92%) Lead
7 58 (4.78%) Product Designer
8 55 (4.53%) Business Analyst
8 55 (4.53%) Senior Designer
9 43 (3.54%) Architect
9 43 (3.54%) Consultant
10 37 (3.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 37 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
11 35 (2.89%) Support Engineer
11 35 (2.89%) UI Designer
12 34 (2.80%) Software Engineer
13 33 (2.72%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 31 (2.56%) Senior UX Designer
14 31 (2.56%) User Researcher
15 30 (2.47%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (13.60%) React
2 156 (12.86%) CSS
3 138 (11.38%) HTML
4 91 (7.50%) REST
5 87 (7.17%) AngularJS
6 76 (6.27%) RESTful
7 55 (4.53%) Node.js
8 54 (4.45%) Spring
9 52 (4.29%) Spring Boot
10 43 (3.54%) GraphQL
11 40 (3.30%) .NET
12 36 (2.97%) HTML5
13 30 (2.47%) CSS3
14 28 (2.31%) Jest
15 27 (2.23%) Playwright
16 25 (2.06%) Next.js
16 25 (2.06%) Redux
17 21 (1.73%) OAuth
17 21 (1.73%) Vue
18 19 (1.57%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 114 (9.40%) Product Ownership
2 98 (8.08%) Mobile App
3 55 (4.53%) Onboarding
4 28 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (1.73%) AI Agents
7 18 (1.48%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.24%) Cloud Native
9 14 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.15%) Low-Code
9 14 (1.15%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.07%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (0.99%) CMDB
11 12 (0.99%) e-Learning
11 12 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (0.99%) NHS
12 11 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (0.91%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 124 (10.22%) Windows
2 66 (5.44%) Android
3 49 (4.04%) Apple iOS
4 36 (2.97%) Windows 10
5 34 (2.80%) Linux
6 23 (1.90%) Mac OS
7 20 (1.65%) Unix
8 6 (0.49%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.16%) VMS
11 1 (0.082%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (34.38%) Agile
2 389 (32.07%) UX Design
3 214 (17.64%) Analytics
4 197 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
5 162 (13.36%) Stakeholder Management
6 158 (13.03%) User Research
7 157 (12.94%) CI/CD
8 143 (11.79%) AI
9 140 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 140 (11.54%) DevOps
10 131 (10.80%) Roadmaps
11 129 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 111 (9.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 104 (8.57%) Decision-Making
13 104 (8.57%) Prototyping
13 104 (8.57%) UX Research
14 98 (8.08%) Wireframes
15 95 (7.83%) Usability Testing
16 88 (7.25%) Service Design
17 87 (7.17%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 193 (15.91%) JavaScript
2 127 (10.47%) SQL
3 123 (10.14%) Java
4 113 (9.32%) TypeScript
5 107 (8.82%) Python
6 59 (4.86%) PowerShell
7 45 (3.71%) C#
8 33 (2.72%) Kotlin
9 22 (1.81%) Bash
10 20 (1.65%) Perl
11 18 (1.48%) Swift
12 14 (1.15%) PHP
13 11 (0.91%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.74%) C++
14 9 (0.74%) Go
15 8 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.58%) Lisp
16 7 (0.58%) Objective-C
17 6 (0.49%) Scala
18 5 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 148 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 111 (9.15%) Degree
3 106 (8.74%) SC Cleared
4 23 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.91%) DV Cleared
7 11 (0.91%) MOS
8 9 (0.74%) CCNP
8 9 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (0.74%) OCA
8 9 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (0.58%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.25%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.16%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.16%) CISSP
11 2 (0.16%) PMP
11 2 (0.16%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (16.65%) Accessibility
2 123 (10.14%) QA
3 66 (5.44%) WCAG
4 59 (4.86%) GDPR
5 39 (3.22%) Data Quality
6 25 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
8 17 (1.40%) SLA
9 6 (0.49%) NCSC
10 5 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.41%) PMO
11 4 (0.33%) GxP
12 3 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.25%) NIST
12 3 (0.25%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.16%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.16%) PSD2
13 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 69 (5.69%) Active Directory
2 57 (4.70%) Docker
3 23 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.16%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.082%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.082%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.082%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.082%) XenApp
7 1 (0.082%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (4.45%) Kubernetes
2 45 (3.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (3.13%) SCCM
4 30 (2.47%) Terraform
5 19 (1.57%) Grafana
6 15 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.91%) Ansible
8 7 (0.58%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.49%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.33%) Argo
10 4 (0.33%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.25%) Nagios
11 3 (0.25%) Rancher
12 2 (0.16%) PingFederate
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%) Istio
13 1 (0.082%) Podman
Vendors
1 222 (18.30%) Microsoft
2 82 (6.76%) Google
3 75 (6.18%) Adobe
4 66 (5.44%) ServiceNow
5 46 (3.79%) Oracle
6 41 (3.38%) SAP
7 40 (3.30%) Salesforce
8 29 (2.39%) Splunk
9 24 (1.98%) VMware
10 19 (1.57%) Citrix
11 13 (1.07%) Cisco
12 12 (0.99%) Apple
13 11 (0.91%) Hotjar
13 11 (0.91%) Optimizely
13 11 (0.91%) Red Hat
13 11 (0.91%) Zscaler
14 10 (0.82%) Amplitude
15 9 (0.74%) Workday
16 8 (0.66%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.66%) OpenAI