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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 62 83
Rank change year-on-year -32 +21 -13
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,345 1,041 876
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.91% 3.71% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 4.08% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 797 663 510
10th Percentile £306 £292 £306
25th Percentile £400 £373 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £680 £675 £701
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 53 25
10th Percentile £16.11 £15.50 £27.15
25th Percentile £26.25 £20.25 £30.44
Median hourly rate £35.22 £35.60 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% -16.24% -10.53%
75th Percentile £69.25 £53.75 £74.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £63.75 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £42.31 £35.60 £39.75
% change year-on-year +18.85% -10.44% -16.32%

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 39,257 25,497 27,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.90% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,690 16,157 17,059
10th Percentile £325 £293 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,996 1,590 1,150
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.54 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.33 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £67.38
90th Percentile £78.88 £67.28 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.16
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.38% -8.38%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -32 683 £507 +4.05% 1,887
North of England -7 273 £425 - 378
North West -22 145 £408 -2.19% 205
Midlands -10 143 £475 +5.56% 190
West Midlands -5 113 £463 -7.34% 124
South East -61 95 £400 -15.79% 284
Yorkshire 0 81 £500 +15.94% 117
South West -6 75 £475 +5.56% 147
North East -3 46 £325 -27.78% 56
East of England -16 44 £410 -21.90% 137
East Midlands -15 30 £500 +23.92% 66
South Coast - 1 £450 -
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 72 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 59 (4.39%) CMS
3 40 (2.97%) Confluence
4 25 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.04%) WordPress
6 7 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.52%) Headless CMS
6 7 (0.52%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.37%) Apache
8 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.30%) Drupal
9 4 (0.30%) Kentico
9 4 (0.30%) Mendix
9 4 (0.30%) Traefik
10 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 2 (0.15%) Moodle
10 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.074%) MTS
Applications
1 24 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 19 (1.41%) Photoshop
3 18 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (1.26%) Adobe Illustrator
5 13 (0.97%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.97%) Sketch
6 12 (0.89%) Adobe After Effects
7 10 (0.74%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.67%) Adobe XD
9 8 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 4 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.074%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.074%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.074%) Blender
12 1 (0.074%) Final Cut Pro
12 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.52%) Workday HCM
2 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
4 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.22%) iTrent
5 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.22%) SAP HR
5 3 (0.22%) Shopify
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.074%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.074%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.074%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 194 (14.42%) Azure
2 142 (10.56%) Figma
3 137 (10.19%) Microsoft 365
4 123 (9.14%) AWS
5 113 (8.40%) Power Platform
6 63 (4.68%) Entra ID
7 57 (4.24%) Microsoft Copilot
8 50 (3.72%) SaaS
9 47 (3.49%) GitHub
10 42 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (2.60%) GCP
11 35 (2.60%) PowerApps
12 30 (2.23%) OneDrive
13 27 (2.01%) Copilot Studio
13 27 (2.01%) Power Automate
14 18 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (1.19%) Azure AI
16 14 (1.04%) Firebase
17 13 (0.97%) Serverless
18 12 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.27%) DNS
2 38 (2.83%) DHCP
3 35 (2.60%) TCP/IP
4 27 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (1.49%) VPN
6 19 (1.41%) Wireless
7 16 (1.19%) Firewall
8 15 (1.12%) NetScaler
9 14 (1.04%) LAN
9 14 (1.04%) WAN
10 9 (0.67%) Network Security
11 7 (0.52%) Cisco Wireless
11 7 (0.52%) Skype
12 6 (0.45%) 5G
12 6 (0.45%) Internet
12 6 (0.45%) Intranet
13 5 (0.37%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.37%) SNMP
13 5 (0.37%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (4.83%) Power BI
2 23 (1.71%) Metadata
3 19 (1.41%) Power Query
4 13 (0.97%) NoSQL
4 13 (0.97%) SQL Server
4 13 (0.97%) Tableau
5 12 (0.89%) MySQL
6 11 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (0.82%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.67%) Looker
8 8 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (0.59%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.59%) Qlik Sense
8 8 (0.59%) Redis
9 7 (0.52%) Star Schema
10 6 (0.45%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.45%) QlikView
11 5 (0.37%) Flink
11 5 (0.37%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.30%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 74 (5.50%) JIRA
2 68 (5.06%) Git
3 28 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.49%) Storybook
5 19 (1.41%) Vite
6 18 (1.34%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.97%) GitLab
8 12 (0.89%) fastlane
9 9 (0.67%) Android Studio
9 9 (0.67%) Claude Code
10 8 (0.59%) Xcode
11 7 (0.52%) Postman
11 7 (0.52%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.45%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.45%) Browser DevTools
12 6 (0.45%) JMeter
13 5 (0.37%) Gradle
13 5 (0.37%) MSI
13 5 (0.37%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 446 (33.16%) Social Skills
2 226 (16.80%) Finance
3 190 (14.13%) Public Sector
4 129 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (6.62%) Banking
6 79 (5.87%) Retail
7 77 (5.72%) Marketing
8 44 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 41 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
10 38 (2.83%) Legal
11 25 (1.86%) Automotive
12 24 (1.78%) Publishing
13 22 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
15 18 (1.34%) Military
16 17 (1.26%) Manufacturing
17 15 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
18 13 (0.97%) Investment Banking
19 11 (0.82%) Front Office
20 9 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 259 (19.26%) Designer
2 205 (15.24%) Developer
3 164 (12.19%) Senior
4 129 (9.59%) Lead
5 115 (8.55%) UX Designer
6 87 (6.47%) Analyst
7 61 (4.54%) UI Designer
8 54 (4.01%) User Researcher
9 53 (3.94%) Architect
9 53 (3.94%) IT Support
10 51 (3.79%) Support Engineer
11 50 (3.72%) Consultant
11 50 (3.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 48 (3.57%) Product Manager
12 48 (3.57%) Senior Designer
13 45 (3.35%) Business Analyst
14 37 (2.75%) User Experience Researcher
15 34 (2.53%) IT Engineer
15 34 (2.53%) IT Support Engineer
15 34 (2.53%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (9.96%) React
2 98 (7.29%) CSS
3 85 (6.32%) HTML
4 77 (5.72%) REST
5 44 (3.27%) RESTful
6 38 (2.83%) AngularJS
7 37 (2.75%) HTML5
8 36 (2.68%) GraphQL
9 34 (2.53%) Terraform
10 33 (2.45%) .NET
10 33 (2.45%) CSS3
11 27 (2.01%) Next.js
11 27 (2.01%) OAuth
12 21 (1.56%) Node.js
12 21 (1.56%) OAuth2
12 21 (1.56%) Playwright
13 20 (1.49%) Spring
13 20 (1.49%) Spring Boot
14 19 (1.41%) OpenID
15 17 (1.26%) Android SDK
Miscellaneous
1 133 (9.89%) Product Ownership
2 81 (6.02%) Mobile App
3 76 (5.65%) Onboarding
4 43 (3.20%) Cloud Native
5 42 (3.12%) AI Agents
6 35 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 26 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (1.64%) Data Centre
11 19 (1.41%) Social Media
12 18 (1.34%) Educational Technology
12 18 (1.34%) NHS
13 16 (1.19%) Graphic Design
14 15 (1.12%) Low-Code
14 15 (1.12%) Taxonomies
15 14 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.97%) Data Structures
17 12 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 149 (11.08%) Windows
2 64 (4.76%) Apple iOS
3 58 (4.31%) Android
3 58 (4.31%) Windows 10
4 36 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 28 (2.08%) Mac OS
6 16 (1.19%) Linux
7 14 (1.04%) Unix
8 9 (0.67%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (31.23%) UX Design
2 380 (28.25%) Agile
3 271 (20.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 250 (18.59%) AI
5 225 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
6 215 (15.99%) Continuous Improvement
7 183 (13.61%) Analytics
8 177 (13.16%) User Research
9 160 (11.90%) Decision-Making
10 156 (11.60%) CI/CD
11 154 (11.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 148 (11.00%) Roadmaps
13 114 (8.48%) Service Design
14 111 (8.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 106 (7.88%) Workshop Facilitation
16 103 (7.66%) DevOps
16 103 (7.66%) Prototyping
17 101 (7.51%) Scrum
17 101 (7.51%) UX Research
18 99 (7.36%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (9.59%) JavaScript
2 107 (7.96%) TypeScript
3 87 (6.47%) SQL
4 83 (6.17%) Java
5 76 (5.65%) Python
6 48 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 32 (2.38%) C#
8 26 (1.93%) Kotlin
9 24 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 18 (1.34%) Swift
11 15 (1.12%) Bash
12 9 (0.67%) Go
13 7 (0.52%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.52%) VB
13 7 (0.52%) VBScript
14 6 (0.45%) Objective-C
14 6 (0.45%) PHP
14 6 (0.45%) Scala
15 5 (0.37%) C++
15 5 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 213 (15.84%) Security Cleared
2 158 (11.75%) SC Cleared
3 101 (7.51%) Degree
4 41 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.04%) Azure Certification
7 14 (1.04%) PMP
8 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (0.74%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.59%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.45%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.37%) CISSP
12 5 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.30%) CCA
13 4 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (15.46%) Accessibility
2 91 (6.77%) QA
3 77 (5.72%) WCAG
4 48 (3.57%) Data Quality
5 20 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
6 16 (1.19%) GDPR
7 13 (0.97%) PMO
8 11 (0.82%) SLA
9 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.15%) GRC
12 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.15%) PSD2
12 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.074%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.074%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.074%) WAI
System Software
1 108 (8.03%) Active Directory
2 44 (3.27%) Docker
3 26 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 24 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.19%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 11 (0.82%) XenApp
8 10 (0.74%) XenDesktop
9 7 (0.52%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.45%) vSphere
11 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.22%) UAG
13 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
14 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.074%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 50 (3.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (3.27%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.93%) SCCM
4 21 (1.56%) Grafana
5 18 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
7 12 (0.89%) Ansible
8 11 (0.82%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.45%) SysTrack
9 6 (0.45%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.37%) Istio
11 4 (0.30%) Clonezilla
12 3 (0.22%) WSUS
13 2 (0.15%) Argo
13 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.15%) Packer
13 2 (0.15%) Podman
13 2 (0.15%) SCOM
13 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.15%) vMotion
Vendors
1 245 (18.22%) Microsoft
2 83 (6.17%) ServiceNow
3 57 (4.24%) Adobe
4 43 (3.20%) Google
5 42 (3.12%) Oracle
6 29 (2.16%) SAP
7 27 (2.01%) VMware
8 26 (1.93%) Citrix
8 26 (1.93%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.86%) Splunk
10 24 (1.78%) Dynatrace
11 20 (1.49%) Apple
12 14 (1.04%) Zscaler
13 13 (0.97%) Cisco
13 13 (0.97%) Foundry
14 12 (0.89%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.89%) Workday
15 10 (0.74%) Okta
16 8 (0.59%) Aruba
16 8 (0.59%) Databricks