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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 61 75
Rank change year-on-year -18 +14 -12
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,239 892 1,003
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.10% 3.65% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 4.00% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 588 676
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -2.20%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £611
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +1.45% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 20 47
10th Percentile £16.00 £25.21 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.49 £41.75 £23.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +62.41% -9.40%
75th Percentile £62.94 £83.60 £64.77
90th Percentile £82.30 £95.60 £74.03
UK median hourly rate £47.25 £53.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -11.68% +68.72% -9.40%

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 33,993 22,301 32,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.07% 91.14% 86.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,750 14,633 21,159
10th Percentile £316 £310 £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 £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,113 919 2,234
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.74 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.61 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% -13.00% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.99
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.22% -16.71% -6.67%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -21 639 £513 -1.44% 185
North of England +3 196 £450 +0.06% 296
Midlands -5 144 £500 +24.69% 105
North West +11 121 £425 -5.56% 226
South East -19 119 £488 +6.38% 102
West Midlands -19 95 £475 +1.33% 57
South West -18 64 £463 +23.33% 50
Yorkshire -31 50 £506 +26.40% 54
East Midlands -5 49 £550 +53.63% 48
East of England -19 31 £425 -10.53% 48
North East -7 23 £410 -9.39% 18
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 48 (3.87%) SharePoint
2 42 (3.39%) Confluence
3 34 (2.74%) CMS
4 18 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 16 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
7 5 (0.40%) Apache
7 5 (0.40%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.40%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.40%) WordPress
8 4 (0.32%) Camunda
8 4 (0.32%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.32%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.32%) Mendix
9 3 (0.24%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.24%) Drupal
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) Kentico
Applications
1 32 (2.58%) Sketch
2 23 (1.86%) Adobe XD
2 23 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.61%) Chatbot
4 15 (1.21%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.81%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.65%) Adobe After Effects
8 7 (0.56%) InVision
9 6 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
9 6 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.32%) Trello
11 4 (0.32%) UserZoom
12 3 (0.24%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.24%) UXPin
13 2 (0.16%) Camtasia
13 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.73%) Shopify
4 8 (0.65%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.48%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
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 CO
6 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.16%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.16%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.081%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.081%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.081%) iTrent
7 1 (0.081%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 197 (15.90%) Azure
2 175 (14.12%) Figma
3 102 (8.23%) AWS
4 89 (7.18%) Power Platform
5 88 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (4.20%) Entra ID
7 50 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (3.79%) GCP
9 43 (3.47%) GitHub
10 35 (2.82%) Microsoft Copilot
11 34 (2.74%) SaaS
12 33 (2.66%) PowerApps
13 30 (2.42%) Power Automate
14 25 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (1.94%) Serverless
16 23 (1.86%) Google Workspace
17 20 (1.61%) Copilot Studio
17 20 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
18 19 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
18 19 (1.53%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.13%) DNS
2 13 (1.05%) Wireless
3 12 (0.97%) LAN
4 11 (0.89%) Internet
4 11 (0.89%) Intranet
4 11 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.81%) DHCP
5 10 (0.81%) SD-WAN
6 8 (0.65%) VPN
7 7 (0.56%) Cisco Wireless
7 7 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.56%) WAN
8 6 (0.48%) SSL
8 6 (0.48%) WLAN
9 5 (0.40%) 5G
9 5 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
9 5 (0.40%) Firewall
9 5 (0.40%) HTTP
9 5 (0.40%) SMS
10 4 (0.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.60%) Power BI
2 22 (1.78%) NoSQL
3 21 (1.69%) Relational Database
3 21 (1.69%) SQL Server
4 20 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.53%) MySQL
6 16 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.05%) Tableau
8 12 (0.97%) Metadata
9 11 (0.89%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.73%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.65%) Power Query
12 7 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 7 (0.56%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.48%) Looker
13 6 (0.48%) ZAP BI
14 5 (0.40%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.40%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.40%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 97 (7.83%) JIRA
2 63 (5.08%) Git
3 37 (2.99%) GitLab
4 23 (1.86%) Cypress.io
5 22 (1.78%) Jenkins
6 21 (1.69%) JUnit
7 13 (1.05%) Axure RP
7 13 (1.05%) Gradle
8 11 (0.89%) Browser DevTools
8 11 (0.89%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.73%) Android Studio
9 9 (0.73%) Selenium
10 8 (0.65%) Xcode
11 6 (0.48%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.48%) Mocha
11 6 (0.48%) Postman
11 6 (0.48%) Vite
12 5 (0.40%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.40%) Storybook
12 5 (0.40%) TestRail
General
1 395 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 247 (19.94%) Finance
3 151 (12.19%) Public Sector
4 137 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (7.99%) Banking
6 54 (4.36%) Marketing
7 49 (3.95%) Retail
8 34 (2.74%) Legal
9 30 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.53%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.21%) Publishing
14 14 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (1.05%) Automotive
16 12 (0.97%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.89%) Front Office
17 11 (0.89%) Telecoms
18 10 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 260 (20.98%) Designer
2 196 (15.82%) Senior
3 161 (12.99%) Developer
4 126 (10.17%) UX Designer
5 115 (9.28%) Analyst
6 66 (5.33%) Lead
7 64 (5.17%) Consultant
8 58 (4.68%) Product Designer
9 57 (4.60%) Architect
10 56 (4.52%) Senior Designer
11 55 (4.44%) Business Analyst
12 50 (4.04%) UI Designer
13 41 (3.31%) Content Designer
13 41 (3.31%) User Researcher
14 39 (3.15%) User Experience Researcher
15 37 (2.99%) UI/UX Designer
16 35 (2.82%) IT Support
16 35 (2.82%) Service Designer
16 35 (2.82%) Support Engineer
17 33 (2.66%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (11.38%) React
2 127 (10.25%) CSS
3 114 (9.20%) HTML
4 86 (6.94%) REST
5 69 (5.57%) AngularJS
6 61 (4.92%) RESTful
7 56 (4.52%) Spring
8 55 (4.44%) Spring Boot
9 45 (3.63%) .NET
10 35 (2.82%) Node.js
11 32 (2.58%) GraphQL
12 29 (2.34%) HTML5
13 28 (2.26%) Redux
14 27 (2.18%) CSS3
15 24 (1.94%) Next.js
16 22 (1.78%) JSON
17 20 (1.61%) Jest
18 19 (1.53%) Kafka
18 19 (1.53%) Vue
19 18 (1.45%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 109 (8.80%) Product Ownership
2 65 (5.25%) Mobile App
3 50 (4.04%) Onboarding
4 31 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (2.34%) AI Agents
6 21 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (1.69%) Cloud Native
6 21 (1.69%) Data Structures
7 17 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 16 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.21%) Virtual Reality
10 14 (1.13%) Augmented Reality
10 14 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (0.89%) Algorithms
14 10 (0.81%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.81%) Management Information System
14 10 (0.81%) NHS
14 10 (0.81%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 93 (7.51%) Windows
2 38 (3.07%) Windows 10
3 33 (2.66%) Android
4 26 (2.10%) Apple iOS
5 19 (1.53%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.89%) Linux
7 7 (0.56%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.48%) Unix
9 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.081%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (31.56%) UX Design
2 390 (31.48%) Agile
3 195 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
4 194 (15.66%) AI
5 190 (15.33%) Analytics
6 172 (13.88%) User Research
7 156 (12.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 148 (11.95%) CI/CD
9 144 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 143 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 138 (11.14%) DevOps
12 132 (10.65%) Roadmaps
13 121 (9.77%) UX Research
14 118 (9.52%) Prototyping
15 110 (8.88%) Wireframes
16 101 (8.15%) Decision-Making
16 101 (8.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 98 (7.91%) Service Design
18 92 (7.43%) Usability Testing
19 90 (7.26%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 155 (12.51%) JavaScript
2 114 (9.20%) Java
3 112 (9.04%) SQL
4 94 (7.59%) TypeScript
5 93 (7.51%) Python
6 46 (3.71%) C#
7 43 (3.47%) PowerShell
8 25 (2.02%) Kotlin
9 18 (1.45%) Bash
10 13 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.65%) Swift
12 7 (0.56%) Korn
12 7 (0.56%) PHP
13 6 (0.48%) Go
13 6 (0.48%) Perl
13 6 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.48%) VBA
14 5 (0.40%) R
15 3 (0.24%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 150 (12.11%) Security Cleared
2 114 (9.20%) SC Cleared
3 105 (8.47%) Degree
4 28 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 11 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (0.73%) CCNP
10 7 (0.56%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.56%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.48%) CCA
11 6 (0.48%) CCIE
11 6 (0.48%) Citrix Certification
11 6 (0.48%) OCA
11 6 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.32%) PMP
13 3 (0.24%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (15.74%) Accessibility
2 114 (9.20%) QA
3 62 (5.00%) WCAG
4 43 (3.47%) Data Quality
5 39 (3.15%) GDPR
6 21 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.73%) SLA
9 7 (0.56%) PMO
10 5 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.24%) GMP
12 3 (0.24%) GRC
12 3 (0.24%) GxP
12 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.24%) NCSC
13 2 (0.16%) COBIT
13 2 (0.16%) NIST
13 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (5.65%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.47%) Docker
3 19 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.48%) Firmware
6 4 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.24%) XenApp
7 3 (0.24%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.081%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.081%) Varnish
9 1 (0.081%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 54 (4.36%) Kubernetes
2 40 (3.23%) Terraform
3 32 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (2.26%) SCCM
5 22 (1.78%) Grafana
6 15 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.05%) Ansible
8 10 (0.81%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.24%) Argo
9 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.24%) Nagios
9 3 (0.24%) Podman
9 3 (0.24%) Rancher
9 3 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.16%) WSUS
11 1 (0.081%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 196 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 74 (5.97%) Adobe
3 61 (4.92%) Google
4 49 (3.95%) ServiceNow
5 48 (3.87%) Oracle
6 46 (3.71%) SAP
7 39 (3.15%) Salesforce
8 24 (1.94%) Citrix
9 18 (1.45%) VMware
10 17 (1.37%) Splunk
10 17 (1.37%) Workday
11 14 (1.13%) Cisco
12 13 (1.05%) Apple
13 10 (0.81%) Sitecore
14 9 (0.73%) Aruba
14 9 (0.73%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.65%) Foundry
16 7 (0.56%) Dynatrace
16 7 (0.56%) Ekahau
16 7 (0.56%) Zscaler