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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 63 78
Rank change year-on-year -12 +15 -15
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,243 884 992
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.09% 3.63% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 3.98% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 579 670
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £399 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £499 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% -0.20% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.56% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 21 46
10th Percentile £16.00 £25.26 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.89 £46.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £47.97 £53.50 £29.14
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +83.63% -1.55%
75th Percentile £66.75 £82.96 £61.63
90th Percentile £82.30 £95.50 £73.67
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £53.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -6.54% +68.72% -3.00%

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 34,177 22,233 31,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,833 14,556 20,949
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,126 928 2,245
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.65 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.83
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.06% -0.47%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -20 643 £513 -0.49% 679
North of England +5 197 £449 -0.33% 330
Midlands -6 148 £500 +25.00% 126
North West +5 122 £420 -6.67% 244
South East -22 110 £475 +2.70% 293
West Midlands -21 96 £475 +1.33% 66
South West -17 68 £475 +26.67% 89
East Midlands +3 52 £550 +53.63% 60
Yorkshire -16 51 £513 +28.04% 63
East of England -23 31 £410 -13.68% 162
North East -10 22 £418 -7.73% 24
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 45 (3.62%) SharePoint
2 43 (3.46%) Confluence
3 35 (2.82%) CMS
4 17 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.48%) WordPress
7 5 (0.40%) Apache
7 5 (0.40%) Drupal
8 4 (0.32%) Camunda
8 4 (0.32%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.32%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.32%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.32%) Mendix
8 4 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.24%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
9 3 (0.24%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) Kentico
Applications
1 27 (2.17%) Sketch
2 23 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.61%) Adobe XD
3 20 (1.61%) Chatbot
4 14 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.05%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.72%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.64%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.40%) InVision
10 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.32%) Trello
11 3 (0.24%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.24%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.24%) UXPin
12 2 (0.16%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.72%) Shopify
3 8 (0.64%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.48%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.16%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.080%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.080%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.080%) iTrent
6 1 (0.080%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.080%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.080%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.080%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.080%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 190 (15.29%) Azure
2 173 (13.92%) Figma
3 99 (7.96%) AWS
4 90 (7.24%) Microsoft 365
5 89 (7.16%) Power Platform
6 47 (3.78%) Entra ID
7 41 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
7 41 (3.30%) GCP
8 37 (2.98%) Microsoft Copilot
9 33 (2.65%) GitHub
9 33 (2.65%) PowerApps
9 33 (2.65%) SaaS
10 30 (2.41%) Power Automate
11 23 (1.85%) Google Workspace
12 22 (1.77%) Copilot Studio
12 22 (1.77%) Serverless
13 19 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (1.53%) Google Sheets
14 17 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (1.37%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.97%) DNS
1 12 (0.97%) Internet
1 12 (0.97%) Intranet
1 12 (0.97%) LAN
2 11 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (0.80%) SD-WAN
3 10 (0.80%) Wireless
4 9 (0.72%) DHCP
5 8 (0.64%) VPN
6 7 (0.56%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.56%) WAN
7 6 (0.48%) Cisco Wireless
7 6 (0.48%) WLAN
8 5 (0.40%) 5G
8 5 (0.40%) Firewall
8 5 (0.40%) HTTP
8 5 (0.40%) SMS
8 5 (0.40%) SSL
9 4 (0.32%) 802.11
9 4 (0.32%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.67%) Power BI
2 20 (1.61%) Relational Database
3 18 (1.45%) NoSQL
3 18 (1.45%) SQL Server
4 16 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (1.21%) MySQL
5 15 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.13%) Metadata
7 11 (0.88%) Tableau
8 10 (0.80%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.72%) Power Query
10 8 (0.64%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 7 (0.56%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.48%) Looker
12 6 (0.48%) ZAP BI
13 5 (0.40%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.40%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.40%) Redis
14 4 (0.32%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 92 (7.40%) JIRA
2 62 (4.99%) Git
3 31 (2.49%) GitLab
4 23 (1.85%) Cypress.io
5 16 (1.29%) JUnit
6 14 (1.13%) Jenkins
7 13 (1.05%) Gradle
8 11 (0.88%) Axure RP
8 11 (0.88%) Browser DevTools
8 11 (0.88%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.80%) Android Studio
10 9 (0.72%) Xcode
11 8 (0.64%) Selenium
11 8 (0.64%) Vite
12 6 (0.48%) Eclipse
12 6 (0.48%) Mocha
12 6 (0.48%) Postman
13 5 (0.40%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.40%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 387 (31.13%) Social Skills
2 240 (19.31%) Finance
3 156 (12.55%) Public Sector
4 132 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (7.80%) Banking
6 50 (4.02%) Marketing
7 49 (3.94%) Retail
8 32 (2.57%) Legal
9 30 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (1.45%) Publishing
12 16 (1.29%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.21%) Automotive
13 15 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (0.88%) Investment Banking
15 10 (0.80%) Front Office
15 10 (0.80%) Local Government
16 9 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 264 (21.24%) Designer
2 196 (15.77%) Senior
3 157 (12.63%) Developer
4 128 (10.30%) UX Designer
5 116 (9.33%) Analyst
6 67 (5.39%) Lead
7 64 (5.15%) Consultant
8 58 (4.67%) Product Designer
9 54 (4.34%) Architect
9 54 (4.34%) Business Analyst
9 54 (4.34%) Senior Designer
9 54 (4.34%) UI Designer
10 45 (3.62%) Content Designer
11 42 (3.38%) User Experience Researcher
12 41 (3.30%) User Researcher
13 40 (3.22%) UI/UX Designer
14 35 (2.82%) IT Support
15 34 (2.74%) Service Designer
16 33 (2.65%) Support Engineer
17 32 (2.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (11.02%) React
2 120 (9.65%) CSS
3 106 (8.53%) HTML
4 81 (6.52%) REST
5 62 (4.99%) AngularJS
6 54 (4.34%) RESTful
7 48 (3.86%) Spring
8 47 (3.78%) Spring Boot
9 36 (2.90%) .NET
9 36 (2.90%) Node.js
10 33 (2.65%) GraphQL
11 28 (2.25%) HTML5
11 28 (2.25%) Redux
12 27 (2.17%) CSS3
13 25 (2.01%) Next.js
14 22 (1.77%) JSON
15 20 (1.61%) Jest
16 18 (1.45%) Playwright
16 18 (1.45%) SOAP
17 17 (1.37%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 114 (9.17%) Product Ownership
2 61 (4.91%) Mobile App
3 48 (3.86%) Onboarding
4 33 (2.65%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (1.77%) Cloud Native
6 22 (1.77%) Data Structures
7 21 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (1.29%) Virtual Reality
10 14 (1.13%) Augmented Reality
10 14 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (0.88%) Algorithms
13 11 (0.88%) Management Information System
14 10 (0.80%) NHS
14 10 (0.80%) Social Media
14 10 (0.80%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 91 (7.32%) Windows
2 37 (2.98%) Android
3 35 (2.82%) Windows 10
4 30 (2.41%) Apple iOS
5 19 (1.53%) Mac OS
6 12 (0.97%) Linux
7 8 (0.64%) 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 7
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (32.02%) UX Design
2 380 (30.57%) Agile
3 193 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
4 191 (15.37%) AI
5 188 (15.12%) Analytics
6 174 (14.00%) User Research
7 154 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 152 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 142 (11.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 138 (11.10%) CI/CD
11 137 (11.02%) Roadmaps
12 123 (9.90%) DevOps
12 123 (9.90%) UX Research
13 117 (9.41%) Prototyping
14 105 (8.45%) Decision-Making
15 103 (8.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 103 (8.29%) Wireframes
16 98 (7.88%) Service Design
17 92 (7.40%) Usability Testing
18 91 (7.32%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 146 (11.75%) JavaScript
2 106 (8.53%) Java
3 102 (8.21%) SQL
4 92 (7.40%) TypeScript
5 90 (7.24%) Python
6 42 (3.38%) PowerShell
7 38 (3.06%) C#
8 25 (2.01%) Kotlin
9 15 (1.21%) Bash
9 15 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (0.72%) Swift
11 7 (0.56%) Korn
12 6 (0.48%) Go
12 6 (0.48%) Perl
12 6 (0.48%) VBA
13 5 (0.40%) R
14 4 (0.32%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.32%) PHP
14 4 (0.32%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.24%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 156 (12.55%) Security Cleared
2 116 (9.33%) SC Cleared
3 109 (8.77%) Degree
4 29 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (1.77%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (0.97%) Azure Certification
8 11 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (0.64%) CCNP
9 8 (0.64%) 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
12 4 (0.32%) CCNA
12 4 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.32%) OCA
12 4 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (16.33%) Accessibility
2 112 (9.01%) QA
3 62 (4.99%) WCAG
4 41 (3.30%) Data Quality
5 37 (2.98%) GDPR
6 21 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 13 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.64%) SLA
9 7 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.40%) PMO
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 64 (5.15%) Active Directory
2 39 (3.14%) Docker
3 19 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.48%) Firmware
6 5 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.24%) XenApp
7 3 (0.24%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.080%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.080%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.080%) Varnish
9 1 (0.080%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (3.94%) Kubernetes
2 38 (3.06%) Terraform
3 32 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (2.25%) SCCM
5 21 (1.69%) Grafana
6 15 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.05%) Ansible
8 9 (0.72%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.32%) Podman
10 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.16%) Argo
11 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.16%) Nagios
11 2 (0.16%) Rancher
11 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.16%) WSUS
12 1 (0.080%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.080%) WMI
Vendors
1 191 (15.37%) Microsoft
2 70 (5.63%) Adobe
3 61 (4.91%) Google
4 50 (4.02%) ServiceNow
5 45 (3.62%) Oracle
6 42 (3.38%) SAP
7 41 (3.30%) Salesforce
8 23 (1.85%) Citrix
9 18 (1.45%) VMware
10 17 (1.37%) Workday
11 16 (1.29%) Splunk
12 14 (1.13%) Cisco
13 13 (1.05%) Apple
14 9 (0.72%) Aruba
14 9 (0.72%) Foundry
14 9 (0.72%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.64%) Sitecore
15 8 (0.64%) Zscaler
16 7 (0.56%) Dynatrace
17 6 (0.48%) Solace