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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 64 82
Rank change year-on-year -28 +18 -22
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,353 1,061 876
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.92% 3.81% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 4.20% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 677 540
10th Percentile £287 £300 £313
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £681 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 48 23
10th Percentile £17.20 £15.50 £30.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £32.17 £30.51
Median hourly rate £33.99 £37.72 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% -25.31% +34.67%
75th Percentile £67.88 £63.75 £72.20
90th Percentile £77.60 £71.62 £74.35
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £37.72 £50.50
% change year-on-year -9.89% -25.31% +34.67%

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 39,380 25,274 28,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.84% 85.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,176 16,039 17,819
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,707 1,489 1,353
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.33 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +3.61%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -32 682 £520 +4.00% 874
North of England -12 259 £425 - 192
Midlands -13 150 £475 +9.83% 89
North West -26 131 £400 -5.88% 108
West Midlands -6 120 £475 -5.00% 58
South East -44 103 £403 -10.56% 176
South West -11 82 £475 - 103
Yorkshire -14 77 £500 +25.00% 61
North East -8 50 £338 -29.69% 26
East of England -13 43 £438 -16.67% 73
East Midlands -11 30 £500 +39.66% 31
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 69 (5.10%) SharePoint
2 53 (3.92%) CMS
3 34 (2.51%) Confluence
4 29 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.11%) WordPress
6 9 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.52%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.44%) Apache
9 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.37%) Drupal
9 5 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.30%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.30%) Kentico
10 4 (0.30%) Mendix
11 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.15%) IIS
11 2 (0.15%) Moodle
11 2 (0.15%) nginx
11 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.074%) MTS
Applications
1 23 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 19 (1.40%) Photoshop
5 18 (1.33%) Chatbot
6 16 (1.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 16 (1.18%) Sketch
7 12 (0.89%) Adobe After Effects
8 11 (0.81%) MS Visio
9 10 (0.74%) Adobe XD
10 9 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
13 1 (0.074%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.074%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.074%) Blender
13 1 (0.074%) Final Cut Pro
13 1 (0.074%) InVision
13 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.52%) Workday HCM
2 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.44%) Shopify
3 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
4 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.22%) iTrent
5 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.15%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.074%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.074%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.074%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.074%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.074%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.074%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 199 (14.71%) Azure
2 151 (11.16%) Figma
3 145 (10.72%) Microsoft 365
4 113 (8.35%) AWS
5 99 (7.32%) Power Platform
6 61 (4.51%) Microsoft Copilot
7 60 (4.43%) Entra ID
8 47 (3.47%) GitHub
9 44 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (3.25%) SaaS
10 36 (2.66%) GCP
11 34 (2.51%) PowerApps
12 32 (2.37%) OneDrive
13 28 (2.07%) Copilot Studio
13 28 (2.07%) Power Automate
14 20 (1.48%) Azure AI
15 17 (1.26%) Serverless
16 16 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (0.96%) Firebase
18 12 (0.89%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.25%) DNS
2 38 (2.81%) DHCP
3 33 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 30 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (1.55%) Wireless
6 19 (1.40%) VPN
7 18 (1.33%) LAN
8 16 (1.18%) Firewall
8 16 (1.18%) WAN
9 11 (0.81%) NetScaler
10 10 (0.74%) Internet
11 9 (0.67%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.59%) Cisco Wireless
12 8 (0.59%) Network Security
12 8 (0.59%) Skype
13 7 (0.52%) Intranet
14 6 (0.44%) 5G
14 6 (0.44%) WLAN
15 5 (0.37%) SMS
15 5 (0.37%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.99%) Power BI
2 24 (1.77%) Metadata
3 13 (0.96%) Power Query
3 13 (0.96%) Tableau
4 12 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (0.89%) SQL Server
5 11 (0.81%) NoSQL
6 10 (0.74%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.67%) Looker
8 8 (0.59%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.52%) MySQL
9 7 (0.52%) Redis
10 6 (0.44%) Qlik Sense
10 6 (0.44%) Star Schema
11 5 (0.37%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.37%) Flink
11 5 (0.37%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 74 (5.47%) JIRA
2 65 (4.80%) Git
3 26 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.40%) Cypress.io
4 19 (1.40%) Vite
5 16 (1.18%) Storybook
6 14 (1.03%) GitLab
7 12 (0.89%) fastlane
8 10 (0.74%) Android Studio
9 9 (0.67%) Browser DevTools
9 9 (0.67%) Xcode
10 7 (0.52%) Postman
10 7 (0.52%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.44%) Gradle
11 6 (0.44%) JMeter
12 5 (0.37%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.37%) Crashlytics
12 5 (0.37%) Fiddler
12 5 (0.37%) MSI
12 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
General
1 436 (32.22%) Social Skills
2 233 (17.22%) Finance
3 182 (13.45%) Public Sector
4 134 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (7.46%) Banking
6 80 (5.91%) Retail
7 67 (4.95%) Marketing
8 48 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 38 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
10 35 (2.59%) Legal
11 28 (2.07%) Automotive
12 27 (2.00%) Publishing
13 24 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (1.26%) Manufacturing
17 16 (1.18%) Military
18 13 (0.96%) Investment Banking
19 12 (0.89%) Front Office
20 9 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 273 (20.18%) Designer
2 189 (13.97%) Developer
3 179 (13.23%) Senior
4 121 (8.94%) Lead
5 114 (8.43%) UX Designer
6 93 (6.87%) Analyst
7 68 (5.03%) UI Designer
8 63 (4.66%) Consultant
9 56 (4.14%) Architect
9 56 (4.14%) IT Support
10 54 (3.99%) Support Engineer
11 52 (3.84%) User Researcher
12 51 (3.77%) Product Manager
13 50 (3.70%) Senior Designer
14 45 (3.33%) Business Analyst
15 43 (3.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 42 (3.10%) Content Designer
17 40 (2.96%) User Experience Researcher
18 39 (2.88%) IT Engineer
18 39 (2.88%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (9.76%) React
2 102 (7.54%) CSS
3 90 (6.65%) HTML
4 80 (5.91%) REST
5 43 (3.18%) RESTful
6 41 (3.03%) AngularJS
7 39 (2.88%) GraphQL
7 39 (2.88%) HTML5
7 39 (2.88%) Terraform
8 37 (2.73%) .NET
8 37 (2.73%) CSS3
9 30 (2.22%) Next.js
10 24 (1.77%) OAuth
10 24 (1.77%) Spring
11 23 (1.70%) Spring Boot
12 21 (1.55%) Jest
12 21 (1.55%) Node.js
12 21 (1.55%) Playwright
13 18 (1.33%) ASP.NET
13 18 (1.33%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 127 (9.39%) Product Ownership
2 80 (5.91%) Onboarding
3 74 (5.47%) Mobile App
4 43 (3.18%) Cloud Native
5 41 (3.03%) AI Agents
6 30 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 28 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
8 27 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (1.55%) Data Centre
12 20 (1.48%) Social Media
13 19 (1.40%) NHS
14 18 (1.33%) Educational Technology
15 16 (1.18%) Data Structures
15 16 (1.18%) Graphic Design
16 13 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.96%) Taxonomies
16 13 (0.96%) Virtual Reality
17 12 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 148 (10.94%) Windows
2 59 (4.36%) Android
3 58 (4.29%) Apple iOS
4 55 (4.07%) Windows 10
5 33 (2.44%) Windows Server
6 32 (2.37%) Mac OS
7 18 (1.33%) Linux
8 12 (0.89%) Unix
9 9 (0.67%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (31.78%) UX Design
2 379 (28.01%) Agile
3 259 (19.14%) AI
4 241 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 233 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
6 193 (14.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 182 (13.45%) Analytics
8 159 (11.75%) CI/CD
9 158 (11.68%) User Research
10 144 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 141 (10.42%) Roadmaps
12 137 (10.13%) Decision-Making
13 108 (7.98%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 106 (7.83%) DevOps
15 105 (7.76%) Scrum
16 100 (7.39%) Service Design
16 100 (7.39%) Workshop Facilitation
17 99 (7.32%) ITIL
17 99 (7.32%) Prototyping
18 97 (7.17%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 132 (9.76%) JavaScript
2 102 (7.54%) TypeScript
3 86 (6.36%) Python
4 84 (6.21%) Java
5 82 (6.06%) SQL
6 48 (3.55%) PowerShell
7 33 (2.44%) C#
8 26 (1.92%) Kotlin
9 18 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (1.18%) Bash
11 15 (1.11%) Swift
12 8 (0.59%) Go
12 8 (0.59%) VBScript
13 7 (0.52%) PHP
13 7 (0.52%) VB
14 6 (0.44%) Scala
14 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.37%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.37%) Korn
16 4 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 209 (15.45%) Security Cleared
2 160 (11.83%) SC Cleared
3 105 (7.76%) Degree
4 31 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 21 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.03%) PMP
9 9 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.59%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.44%) MCSE
13 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.37%) CCIE
13 5 (0.37%) CCNP
13 5 (0.37%) CISSP
13 5 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (15.30%) Accessibility
2 86 (6.36%) QA
3 75 (5.54%) WCAG
4 42 (3.10%) Data Quality
5 20 (1.48%) GDPR
6 13 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.67%) SLA
8 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 7 (0.52%) PMO
9 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.30%) GRC
12 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.15%) PSD2
13 1 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.074%) GMP
13 1 (0.074%) GxP
13 1 (0.074%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.074%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.074%) WAI
System Software
1 100 (7.39%) Active Directory
2 41 (3.03%) Docker
3 26 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 8 (0.59%) XenApp
7 8 (0.59%) XenDesktop
8 7 (0.52%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.44%) vSphere
10 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.22%) UAG
13 2 (0.15%) Firmware
13 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
13 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.074%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 46 (3.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (3.10%) Kubernetes
3 31 (2.29%) SCCM
4 21 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (1.40%) Grafana
6 16 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
7 13 (0.96%) Ansible
8 11 (0.81%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.37%) SysTrack
9 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.30%) Clonezilla
10 4 (0.30%) Podman
11 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.22%) WSUS
12 2 (0.15%) Argo
12 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.15%) Packer
12 2 (0.15%) SCOM
12 2 (0.15%) vMotion
13 1 (0.074%) Istio
Vendors
1 248 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 82 (6.06%) ServiceNow
3 68 (5.03%) Adobe
4 44 (3.25%) Google
5 43 (3.18%) Oracle
6 31 (2.29%) SAP
7 29 (2.14%) Salesforce
8 25 (1.85%) Citrix
8 25 (1.85%) VMware
9 24 (1.77%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.63%) Splunk
11 20 (1.48%) Apple
12 18 (1.33%) Cisco
13 16 (1.18%) Foundry
13 16 (1.18%) Workday
14 14 (1.03%) Zscaler
15 13 (0.96%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.81%) Aruba
17 10 (0.74%) Okta
18 8 (0.59%) Databricks