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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 68 71
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,130 873 1,075
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 3.25% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 3.64% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 752 511 735
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £371 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £568 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 24 30
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.26 £23.75
25th Percentile £17.69 £30.33 £31.37
Median hourly rate £35.60 £42.21 £60.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -29.95% -3.60%
75th Percentile £59.00 £53.75 £73.54
90th Percentile £70.05 £74.31 £81.38
UK median hourly rate £35.55 £41.46 £60.25
% change year-on-year -14.24% -31.20% -3.60%

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 28,048 23,994 32,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.18% 89.29% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,911 14,725 21,701
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,747 781 1,610
10th Percentile £15.14 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.29 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -18.75% +17.96%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 18 January 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 -10 583 £475 -9.52% 241
North of England +15 206 £410 -8.89% 173
North West +18 131 £400 -11.11% 80
South East -3 106 £436 -12.80% 269
Midlands -4 106 £488 +14.71% 102
West Midlands -14 66 £443 -11.50% 54
South West +13 65 £450 -20.70% 94
Yorkshire -11 59 £500 +11.11% 64
East Midlands +3 40 £523 +46.77% 47
East of England -2 33 £468 +3.43% 110
North East -1 15 £410 +17.14% 29
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 55 (4.87%) Confluence
2 49 (4.34%) SharePoint
3 43 (3.81%) CMS
4 22 (1.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 12 (1.06%) Headless CMS
5 12 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.80%) Apache
7 8 (0.71%) Sitecore CMS
8 7 (0.62%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.44%) SugarCRM
10 3 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.27%) WordPress
11 2 (0.18%) Appian
11 2 (0.18%) Camunda
11 2 (0.18%) Drupal
12 1 (0.088%) Moodle
12 1 (0.088%) nginx
12 1 (0.088%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 37 (3.27%) Sketch
2 23 (2.04%) Adobe XD
3 22 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (1.86%) MS Visio
5 19 (1.68%) Chatbot
6 12 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
7 10 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.88%) InVision
7 10 (0.88%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.44%) Trello
11 4 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.35%) Camtasia
11 4 (0.35%) UXPin
12 3 (0.27%) Snagit
12 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.18%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.18%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 19 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.27%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.27%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (0.27%) Shopify
3 3 (0.27%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.18%) iTrent
4 2 (0.18%) Magento
4 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.088%) assyst
5 1 (0.088%) Maximo
5 1 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.088%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.088%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.088%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.088%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.088%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (0.088%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 195 (17.26%) Azure
2 132 (11.68%) Figma
3 125 (11.06%) AWS
4 75 (6.64%) Power Platform
4 75 (6.64%) SaaS
5 71 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
6 57 (5.04%) GCP
7 50 (4.42%) Entra ID
8 40 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (3.45%) GitHub
10 23 (2.04%) Google Analytics
10 23 (2.04%) Serverless
11 20 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (1.68%) Google Workspace
12 19 (1.68%) Miro
13 18 (1.59%) Sauce Labs
14 17 (1.50%) PowerApps
15 16 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
16 15 (1.33%) Google Tag Manager
16 15 (1.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.48%) DNS
2 26 (2.30%) Wireless
3 14 (1.24%) Internet
4 10 (0.88%) VPN
4 10 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (0.80%) DHCP
5 9 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.71%) BGP
6 8 (0.71%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (0.62%) Cisco Wireless
7 7 (0.62%) Firewall
7 7 (0.62%) HTTP
7 7 (0.62%) NX-OS
7 7 (0.62%) VXLAN
8 6 (0.53%) Intranet
8 6 (0.53%) Unified Communications
8 6 (0.53%) WAN
9 5 (0.44%) SSL
10 4 (0.35%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.35%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.98%) Power BI
2 37 (3.27%) MySQL
3 35 (3.10%) Relational Database
4 27 (2.39%) SQL Server
5 26 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (1.77%) NoSQL
7 15 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (1.33%) Tableau
8 12 (1.06%) BigQuery
9 11 (0.97%) Looker
10 10 (0.88%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.71%) Metadata
12 7 (0.62%) Mixpanel
12 7 (0.62%) Redis
12 7 (0.62%) SAP HANA
13 4 (0.35%) Big Data
13 4 (0.35%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.35%) Pinecone
14 3 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.27%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 112 (9.91%) JIRA
2 78 (6.90%) Git
3 45 (3.98%) GitLab
4 34 (3.01%) Jenkins
5 29 (2.57%) Xcode
6 26 (2.30%) Android Studio
6 26 (2.30%) Eclipse
7 21 (1.86%) Cypress.io
8 20 (1.77%) Browser DevTools
9 18 (1.59%) Gradle
10 15 (1.33%) Axure RP
11 13 (1.15%) JUnit
11 13 (1.15%) Postman
12 12 (1.06%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.88%) Artifactory
14 9 (0.80%) Visual Website Optimizer
15 8 (0.71%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.71%) IntelliJ
15 8 (0.71%) Selenium
15 8 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 397 (35.13%) Social Skills
2 207 (18.32%) Finance
3 142 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (11.77%) Public Sector
5 81 (7.17%) Banking
6 78 (6.90%) Marketing
7 36 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
8 28 (2.48%) Legal
9 25 (2.21%) Retail
10 22 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 16 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (1.33%) Telecoms
15 14 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 13 (1.15%) Investment Banking
17 12 (1.06%) Automotive
18 10 (0.88%) Financial Institution
19 8 (0.71%) Front Office
19 8 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 186 (16.46%) Designer
2 182 (16.11%) Developer
3 154 (13.63%) Senior
4 106 (9.38%) UX Designer
5 96 (8.50%) Analyst
6 89 (7.88%) Lead
7 50 (4.42%) Business Analyst
8 45 (3.98%) Consultant
9 42 (3.72%) Senior Designer
10 40 (3.54%) Product Designer
11 38 (3.36%) Architect
12 37 (3.27%) Support Engineer
13 35 (3.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 32 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
15 31 (2.74%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
16 30 (2.65%) UI Designer
17 29 (2.57%) Service Designer
18 27 (2.39%) Software Engineer
18 27 (2.39%) User Researcher
19 25 (2.21%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (13.81%) CSS
2 153 (13.54%) React
3 139 (12.30%) HTML
4 84 (7.43%) AngularJS
5 82 (7.26%) REST
6 73 (6.46%) RESTful
7 48 (4.25%) GraphQL
8 47 (4.16%) Node.js
9 41 (3.63%) HTML5
10 37 (3.27%) .NET
11 33 (2.92%) Spring
12 31 (2.74%) CSS3
13 30 (2.65%) Jest
13 30 (2.65%) Spring Boot
14 25 (2.21%) Playwright
15 24 (2.12%) Next.js
16 22 (1.95%) Redux
17 21 (1.86%) OAuth
18 20 (1.77%) SOAP
19 19 (1.68%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 100 (8.85%) Mobile App
2 99 (8.76%) Product Ownership
3 63 (5.58%) Onboarding
4 26 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 17 (1.50%) e-Learning
7 16 (1.42%) Data Structures
7 16 (1.42%) Management Information System
8 15 (1.33%) Data Centre
9 14 (1.24%) AI Agents
9 14 (1.24%) Learning Management System
9 14 (1.24%) Low-Code
9 14 (1.24%) NHS
10 13 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.06%) CMDB
11 12 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.06%) Virtual Team
12 11 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (0.97%) Mobile Banking
13 10 (0.88%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 123 (10.88%) Windows
2 71 (6.28%) Android
3 57 (5.04%) Apple iOS
4 37 (3.27%) Linux
5 36 (3.19%) Windows 10
6 23 (2.04%) Unix
7 21 (1.86%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.62%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.35%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.18%) VMS
11 1 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.088%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (35.84%) Agile
2 367 (32.48%) UX Design
3 202 (17.88%) Analytics
4 192 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
5 146 (12.92%) CI/CD
6 142 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 137 (12.12%) User Research
8 129 (11.42%) DevOps
9 124 (10.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 123 (10.88%) Roadmaps
11 122 (10.80%) AI
12 118 (10.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 104 (9.20%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 91 (8.05%) Decision-Making
15 89 (7.88%) Wireframes
16 88 (7.79%) Front End Development
16 88 (7.79%) Usability Testing
17 85 (7.52%) UX Research
18 82 (7.26%) Service Design
19 80 (7.08%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 190 (16.81%) JavaScript
2 110 (9.73%) Python
3 109 (9.65%) Java
4 106 (9.38%) SQL
5 88 (7.79%) TypeScript
6 59 (5.22%) PowerShell
7 41 (3.63%) C#
8 34 (3.01%) Kotlin
9 26 (2.30%) Swift
10 23 (2.04%) Perl
11 22 (1.95%) Bash
12 14 (1.24%) PHP
13 12 (1.06%) C++
14 11 (0.97%) Objective-C
14 11 (0.97%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.88%) Go
16 7 (0.62%) Lisp
17 5 (0.44%) C
17 5 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 148 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 106 (9.38%) Degree
3 103 (9.12%) SC Cleared
4 26 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.33%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.15%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.97%) MOS
8 11 (0.97%) PMI Certification
9 9 (0.80%) CCNP
9 9 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (0.80%) OCA
9 9 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.53%) MCP
11 6 (0.53%) PMP
12 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.18%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.18%) CCA
13 2 (0.18%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (16.73%) Accessibility
2 116 (10.27%) QA
3 61 (5.40%) GDPR
4 58 (5.13%) WCAG
5 31 (2.74%) Data Quality
6 25 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.50%) SLA
8 16 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.62%) GxP
10 6 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.53%) NCSC
11 5 (0.44%) PMO
11 5 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.27%) NIST
12 3 (0.27%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.18%) GMP
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.18%) PSD2
14 1 (0.088%) COBIT
System Software
1 68 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 52 (4.60%) Docker
3 20 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.18%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.088%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.088%) Firmware
7 1 (0.088%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.088%) XenApp
7 1 (0.088%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 48 (4.25%) Kubernetes
2 42 (3.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 33 (2.92%) SCCM
4 27 (2.39%) Terraform
5 16 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.33%) Grafana
7 13 (1.15%) Ansible
8 7 (0.62%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.53%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.35%) Argo
12 3 (0.27%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.27%) Nagios
12 3 (0.27%) Rancher
13 2 (0.18%) PingFederate
13 2 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.18%) SysTrack
14 1 (0.088%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.088%) Istio
14 1 (0.088%) Podman
Vendors
1 197 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 78 (6.90%) Google
3 76 (6.73%) Adobe
4 68 (6.02%) ServiceNow
5 50 (4.42%) Oracle
6 43 (3.81%) Salesforce
7 39 (3.45%) SAP
8 28 (2.48%) Splunk
9 21 (1.86%) VMware
10 17 (1.50%) Apple
11 16 (1.42%) Citrix
12 13 (1.15%) Cisco
12 13 (1.15%) Red Hat
13 11 (0.97%) Hotjar
13 11 (0.97%) Optimizely
13 11 (0.97%) Zscaler
14 10 (0.88%) Amplitude
15 9 (0.80%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.71%) Ekahau
16 8 (0.71%) Sitecore