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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 73 72
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 -14
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,098 917 1,139
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 3.02% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 3.44% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 722 537 790
10th Percentile £290 £300 £325
25th Percentile £369 £388 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £672 £707 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 27 26
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.26 £17.72
25th Percentile £17.69 £30.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £33.69 £41.91 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.63% -23.80% -12.00%
75th Percentile £44.75 £52.75 £72.83
90th Percentile £66.96 £74.00 £81.25
UK median hourly rate £33.69 £41.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% -25.45% -12.00%

All Process and 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 27,655 26,658 34,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.31% 87.92% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,614 16,424 23,309
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,796 941 1,445
10th Percentile £14.92 £15.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 -3 586 £475 -9.52% 327
North of England +23 192 £425 -5.56% 368
North West +20 118 £401 -10.81% 195
South East -13 108 £475 +16.14% 469
Midlands -1 94 £450 -10.00% 336
West Midlands +5 67 £450 -16.28% 189
South West +8 64 £550 -4.35% 168
Yorkshire +2 59 £450 -5.26% 137
East of England -4 34 £468 +2.97% 224
East Midlands -11 27 £447 +11.75% 129
North East +9 14 £393 - 38
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 52 (4.74%) Confluence
2 48 (4.37%) CMS
3 45 (4.10%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 12 (1.09%) Headless CMS
7 10 (0.91%) Sitecore CMS
8 7 (0.64%) Apache
8 7 (0.64%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.46%) SugarCRM
9 5 (0.46%) WordPress
10 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.27%) Drupal
10 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.091%) IIS
12 1 (0.091%) Moodle
12 1 (0.091%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 42 (3.83%) Sketch
2 21 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.82%) Adobe XD
3 20 (1.82%) MS Visio
4 19 (1.73%) Chatbot
5 14 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
6 12 (1.09%) InVision
7 11 (1.00%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (0.91%) Photoshop
9 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
10 6 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 6 (0.55%) Trello
11 4 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.36%) Camtasia
11 4 (0.36%) Siemens NX
12 3 (0.27%) OmniGraffle
12 3 (0.27%) Snagit
12 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.27%) UserZoom
12 3 (0.27%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 18 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.55%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.36%) Magento
4 4 (0.36%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.27%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.27%) Shopify
6 2 (0.18%) iTrent
6 2 (0.18%) Maximo
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.091%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.091%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.091%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.091%) SAP Travel Management
7 1 (0.091%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 183 (16.67%) Azure
2 118 (10.75%) Figma
3 115 (10.47%) AWS
4 84 (7.65%) SaaS
5 79 (7.19%) Microsoft 365
6 72 (6.56%) Power Platform
7 64 (5.83%) GCP
8 54 (4.92%) Entra ID
9 36 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (3.01%) GitHub
11 24 (2.19%) Google Analytics
11 24 (2.19%) Miro
12 21 (1.91%) Serverless
13 19 (1.73%) Google Workspace
13 19 (1.73%) Power Automate
13 19 (1.73%) Sauce Labs
14 18 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (1.64%) PowerApps
15 15 (1.37%) Google Tag Manager
16 14 (1.28%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.73%) DNS
2 29 (2.64%) Wireless
3 16 (1.46%) Internet
4 11 (1.00%) VPN
5 10 (0.91%) DHCP
6 9 (0.82%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (0.73%) Firewall
7 8 (0.73%) SSL
8 7 (0.64%) BGP
8 7 (0.64%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (0.64%) Cisco Wireless
8 7 (0.64%) HTTP
8 7 (0.64%) NX-OS
8 7 (0.64%) VXLAN
9 6 (0.55%) Network Security
9 6 (0.55%) NFC
9 6 (0.55%) PPP
9 6 (0.55%) Unified Communications
10 5 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (4.01%) Power BI
2 37 (3.37%) Relational Database
3 36 (3.28%) MySQL
4 34 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (2.19%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.09%) Tableau
7 20 (1.82%) NoSQL
8 19 (1.73%) MongoDB
9 14 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (1.09%) Redis
11 11 (1.00%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.00%) Looker
12 7 (0.64%) SAP HANA
13 6 (0.55%) Mixpanel
14 5 (0.46%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.46%) Metadata
15 4 (0.36%) Big Data
16 3 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (0.27%) Hadoop
16 3 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 110 (10.02%) JIRA
2 71 (6.47%) Git
3 37 (3.37%) Jenkins
4 35 (3.19%) GitLab
5 30 (2.73%) Xcode
6 29 (2.64%) Eclipse
7 27 (2.46%) Android Studio
8 21 (1.91%) Browser DevTools
9 20 (1.82%) Axure RP
10 16 (1.46%) webpack
11 13 (1.18%) Cypress.io
11 13 (1.18%) Postman
12 9 (0.82%) Gradle
12 9 (0.82%) JUnit
12 9 (0.82%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 8 (0.73%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.73%) Selenium
14 6 (0.55%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.55%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.55%) Valgrind
General
1 382 (34.79%) Social Skills
2 217 (19.76%) Finance
3 143 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (11.20%) Public Sector
5 91 (8.29%) Banking
6 82 (7.47%) Marketing
7 34 (3.10%) Legal
8 32 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (2.55%) Retail
10 24 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.73%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
13 17 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.46%) Investment Banking
15 15 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (1.28%) Telecoms
17 13 (1.18%) Automotive
18 12 (1.09%) Financial Institution
18 12 (1.09%) Front Office
19 11 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 180 (16.39%) Developer
2 179 (16.30%) Designer
3 144 (13.11%) Senior
4 95 (8.65%) UX Designer
5 93 (8.47%) Lead
6 88 (8.01%) Analyst
7 54 (4.92%) Business Analyst
8 47 (4.28%) Consultant
9 37 (3.37%) Support Engineer
10 35 (3.19%) Architect
11 34 (3.10%) Senior Designer
12 32 (2.91%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 31 (2.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 31 (2.82%) UI Designer
14 28 (2.55%) Full-Stack Developer
14 28 (2.55%) Product Designer
15 27 (2.46%) Service Designer
16 24 (2.19%) UI/UX Designer
16 24 (2.19%) User Researcher
16 24 (2.19%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (12.93%) CSS
2 136 (12.39%) React
3 126 (11.48%) HTML
4 71 (6.47%) REST
5 66 (6.01%) RESTful
6 63 (5.74%) AngularJS
7 53 (4.83%) Node.js
8 47 (4.28%) GraphQL
8 47 (4.28%) HTML5
9 35 (3.19%) .NET
10 30 (2.73%) CSS3
11 28 (2.55%) Jest
12 27 (2.46%) Redux
13 26 (2.37%) Bootstrap
14 25 (2.28%) Next.js
15 22 (2.00%) Web Services
15 22 (2.00%) XML
16 20 (1.82%) Ajax
17 19 (1.73%) Playwright
18 18 (1.64%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 112 (10.20%) Mobile App
2 97 (8.83%) Product Ownership
3 69 (6.28%) Onboarding
4 25 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
4 25 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (1.91%) Management Information System
6 18 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (1.55%) Data Centre
8 16 (1.46%) e-Learning
8 16 (1.46%) Learning Management System
8 16 (1.46%) Low-Code
9 15 (1.37%) AI Agents
9 15 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.18%) Cloud Native
12 12 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.09%) NHS
13 11 (1.00%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (0.91%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 128 (11.66%) Windows
2 82 (7.47%) Android
3 69 (6.28%) Apple iOS
4 43 (3.92%) Linux
5 31 (2.82%) Windows 10
6 26 (2.37%) Mac OS
7 24 (2.19%) Unix
8 9 (0.82%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.55%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.18%) tvOS
10 2 (0.18%) VMS
11 1 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.091%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (35.61%) Agile
2 343 (31.24%) UX Design
3 197 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
4 187 (17.03%) Analytics
5 134 (12.20%) CI/CD
6 125 (11.38%) AI
7 123 (11.20%) Roadmaps
8 121 (11.02%) DevOps
8 121 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
9 115 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 110 (10.02%) User Research
11 106 (9.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 95 (8.65%) Front End Development
13 91 (8.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 89 (8.11%) Service Design
15 85 (7.74%) Decision-Making
16 75 (6.83%) User Stories
17 74 (6.74%) Scrum
18 70 (6.38%) Test Automation
19 69 (6.28%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 171 (15.57%) JavaScript
2 123 (11.20%) Python
3 96 (8.74%) Java
3 96 (8.74%) SQL
4 82 (7.47%) TypeScript
5 56 (5.10%) PowerShell
6 41 (3.73%) C#
7 30 (2.73%) Kotlin
8 27 (2.46%) Swift
9 24 (2.19%) Bash
9 24 (2.19%) Perl
10 14 (1.28%) PHP
11 13 (1.18%) C++
12 11 (1.00%) Objective-C
12 11 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.82%) Go
14 7 (0.64%) Lisp
15 5 (0.46%) C
15 5 (0.46%) Ruby
15 5 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 160 (14.57%) Security Cleared
2 117 (10.66%) SC Cleared
3 97 (8.83%) Degree
4 23 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.28%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.09%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.00%) MOS
10 9 (0.82%) OCA
10 9 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
10 9 (0.82%) PMP
11 8 (0.73%) CCNP
11 8 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.36%) Citrix Certification
14 3 (0.27%) CSPO
14 3 (0.27%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.18%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (15.66%) Accessibility
2 101 (9.20%) QA
3 60 (5.46%) GDPR
4 42 (3.83%) WCAG
5 36 (3.28%) Data Quality
6 23 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.91%) SLA
8 12 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.46%) GxP
10 5 (0.46%) PMO
10 5 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.36%) NCSC
12 3 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.27%) NIST
12 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.27%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.18%) FIPS 140-2
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 69 (6.28%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.92%) Docker
3 22 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.091%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.091%) Firmware
8 1 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.091%) XenApp
8 1 (0.091%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 49 (4.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (3.28%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.28%) SCCM
3 25 (2.28%) Terraform
4 14 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (1.09%) Ansible
6 10 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (0.73%) Grafana
8 7 (0.64%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.55%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.36%) Argo
11 3 (0.27%) Nagios
11 3 (0.27%) Rancher
11 3 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.18%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.18%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (0.18%) PingFederate
12 2 (0.18%) SysTrack
13 1 (0.091%) Istio
Vendors
1 208 (18.94%) Microsoft
2 82 (7.47%) Google
3 67 (6.10%) Adobe
4 65 (5.92%) ServiceNow
5 55 (5.01%) Oracle
6 43 (3.92%) SAP
7 38 (3.46%) Salesforce
8 29 (2.64%) Splunk
9 24 (2.19%) VMware
10 21 (1.91%) Apple
11 17 (1.55%) Citrix
12 15 (1.37%) Cisco
13 13 (1.18%) Optimizely
14 12 (1.09%) Hotjar
15 11 (1.00%) Zscaler
16 10 (0.91%) Sitecore
17 9 (0.82%) Amplitude
17 9 (0.82%) OpenAI
17 9 (0.82%) Workday
18 8 (0.73%) Red Hat