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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 64 80
Rank change year-on-year -30 +16 -13
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,353 1,036 877
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.91% 3.73% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 4.10% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 661 512
10th Percentile £305 £300 £307
25th Percentile £400 £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 £680 £685 £714
UK median daily rate £484 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.84% -5.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 48 26
10th Percentile £17.25 £15.50 £27.63
25th Percentile £26.75 £25.15 £30.48
Median hourly rate £33.99 £36.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -21.08% -2.63%
75th Percentile £67.94 £55.44 £73.10
90th Percentile £77.00 £65.67 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £35.22 £36.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -3.51% -14.12% -10.53%

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 39,415 25,251 27,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.00% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,982 16,042 16,911
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
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 2,873 1,537 1,195
10th Percentile £13.88 £14.39 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £47.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.86 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +54.51% -40.82% -

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -30 691 £513 +3.54% 1,622
North of England -10 260 £425 - 407
Midlands -3 152 £463 +3.23% 201
North West -30 130 £388 -8.82% 227
West Midlands +2 121 £463 -7.40% 132
South East -51 94 £403 -9.96% 258
Yorkshire -9 82 £500 +23.08% 129
South West +1 81 £475 -5.00% 160
North East 0 47 £325 -32.29% 54
East of England -9 43 £410 -21.90% 118
East Midlands -19 31 £475 +18.16% 69
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 70 (5.17%) SharePoint
2 60 (4.43%) CMS
3 39 (2.88%) Confluence
4 28 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.11%) WordPress
6 9 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.52%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.52%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.44%) Apache
8 6 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.37%) Drupal
9 5 (0.37%) Traefik
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
Applications
1 25 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 18 (1.33%) Photoshop
4 17 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
5 16 (1.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 14 (1.03%) Chatbot
6 14 (1.03%) Sketch
7 12 (0.89%) Adobe After Effects
8 10 (0.74%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.67%) Adobe XD
10 8 (0.59%) 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
3 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
4 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.30%) Shopify
5 3 (0.22%) iTrent
5 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.074%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.074%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.074%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.074%) Magento
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.074%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.074%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 195 (14.41%) Azure
2 148 (10.94%) Figma
3 138 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
4 122 (9.02%) AWS
5 103 (7.61%) Power Platform
6 65 (4.80%) Entra ID
7 57 (4.21%) Microsoft Copilot
8 48 (3.55%) GitHub
9 46 (3.40%) SaaS
10 41 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (2.51%) GCP
12 32 (2.37%) PowerApps
13 31 (2.29%) OneDrive
14 28 (2.07%) Power Automate
15 27 (2.00%) Copilot Studio
16 17 (1.26%) Azure AI
16 17 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (1.11%) Serverless
18 13 (0.96%) Firebase
19 12 (0.89%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.40%) DNS
2 39 (2.88%) DHCP
3 37 (2.73%) TCP/IP
4 27 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
5 22 (1.63%) VPN
6 18 (1.33%) Firewall
6 18 (1.33%) Wireless
7 16 (1.18%) LAN
7 16 (1.18%) WAN
8 14 (1.03%) NetScaler
9 11 (0.81%) Network Security
10 8 (0.59%) Internet
11 7 (0.52%) Cisco Wireless
11 7 (0.52%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.52%) Skype
12 6 (0.44%) Intranet
13 5 (0.37%) SMS
13 5 (0.37%) SNMP
13 5 (0.37%) SSL
14 4 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.29%) Power BI
2 24 (1.77%) Metadata
3 17 (1.26%) Power Query
4 14 (1.03%) SQL Server
5 13 (0.96%) Tableau
6 11 (0.81%) MySQL
6 11 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (0.74%) NoSQL
7 10 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (0.67%) Looker
9 8 (0.59%) Qlik Sense
10 7 (0.52%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.52%) Redis
10 7 (0.52%) Star Schema
11 6 (0.44%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.44%) QlikView
12 5 (0.37%) Flink
12 5 (0.37%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.30%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 74 (5.47%) JIRA
2 69 (5.10%) Git
3 27 (2.00%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.48%) Storybook
5 19 (1.40%) Vite
6 17 (1.26%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.96%) GitLab
8 11 (0.81%) fastlane
9 9 (0.67%) Android Studio
9 9 (0.67%) Browser DevTools
10 8 (0.59%) Xcode
11 7 (0.52%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.44%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.44%) JMeter
12 6 (0.44%) Postman
13 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.37%) Gradle
13 5 (0.37%) MSI
13 5 (0.37%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 440 (32.52%) Social Skills
2 228 (16.85%) Finance
3 182 (13.45%) Public Sector
4 125 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (6.87%) Banking
6 80 (5.91%) Retail
7 75 (5.54%) Marketing
8 46 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
10 38 (2.81%) Legal
11 28 (2.07%) Automotive
12 27 (2.00%) Publishing
13 23 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (1.40%) Manufacturing
16 18 (1.33%) Military
17 17 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (1.03%) Investment Banking
19 13 (0.96%) Front Office
20 8 (0.59%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 267 (19.73%) Designer
2 201 (14.86%) Developer
3 172 (12.71%) Senior
4 126 (9.31%) Lead
5 119 (8.80%) UX Designer
6 84 (6.21%) Analyst
7 66 (4.88%) UI Designer
8 60 (4.43%) Architect
9 56 (4.14%) User Researcher
10 54 (3.99%) Consultant
11 53 (3.92%) IT Support
12 51 (3.77%) Support Engineer
13 48 (3.55%) Senior Designer
14 47 (3.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 47 (3.47%) Product Manager
15 43 (3.18%) User Experience Researcher
16 42 (3.10%) Business Analyst
17 39 (2.88%) Content Designer
18 37 (2.73%) UI/UX Designer
19 34 (2.51%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (9.98%) React
2 98 (7.24%) CSS
3 86 (6.36%) HTML
4 81 (5.99%) REST
5 41 (3.03%) RESTful
6 39 (2.88%) AngularJS
7 37 (2.73%) GraphQL
8 36 (2.66%) HTML5
9 35 (2.59%) Terraform
10 33 (2.44%) .NET
11 32 (2.37%) CSS3
12 28 (2.07%) Next.js
13 27 (2.00%) OAuth
14 21 (1.55%) Node.js
14 21 (1.55%) OAuth2
14 21 (1.55%) Playwright
14 21 (1.55%) SOAP
14 21 (1.55%) Spring
14 21 (1.55%) Spring Boot
15 19 (1.40%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 135 (9.98%) Product Ownership
2 79 (5.84%) Mobile App
3 76 (5.62%) Onboarding
4 44 (3.25%) Cloud Native
5 40 (2.96%) AI Agents
6 32 (2.37%) Management Information System
7 27 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (1.63%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.48%) Social Media
12 18 (1.33%) Educational Technology
12 18 (1.33%) NHS
13 16 (1.18%) Graphic Design
14 15 (1.11%) Taxonomies
15 14 (1.03%) Data Structures
16 13 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
17 12 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 12 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 150 (11.09%) Windows
2 58 (4.29%) Apple iOS
3 57 (4.21%) Android
4 55 (4.07%) Windows 10
5 36 (2.66%) Windows Server
6 32 (2.37%) Mac OS
7 16 (1.18%) Linux
8 13 (0.96%) 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
1 421 (31.12%) UX Design
2 390 (28.82%) Agile
3 253 (18.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 251 (18.55%) AI
5 223 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
6 194 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 182 (13.45%) Analytics
8 172 (12.71%) User Research
9 162 (11.97%) CI/CD
10 152 (11.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 151 (11.16%) Decision-Making
12 149 (11.01%) Roadmaps
13 109 (8.06%) DevOps
14 105 (7.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 104 (7.69%) Service Design
16 103 (7.61%) Scrum
17 102 (7.54%) Prototyping
17 102 (7.54%) UX Research
18 101 (7.46%) Workshop Facilitation
19 99 (7.32%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 128 (9.46%) JavaScript
2 110 (8.13%) TypeScript
3 86 (6.36%) SQL
4 83 (6.13%) Java
5 77 (5.69%) Python
6 47 (3.47%) PowerShell
7 29 (2.14%) C#
8 27 (2.00%) Kotlin
9 22 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (1.18%) Swift
11 15 (1.11%) Bash
12 9 (0.67%) Go
13 7 (0.52%) PHP
13 7 (0.52%) VB
13 7 (0.52%) VBScript
14 6 (0.44%) Scala
14 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.37%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.37%) C++
16 4 (0.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 224 (16.56%) Security Cleared
2 170 (12.56%) SC Cleared
3 101 (7.46%) Degree
4 35 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.48%) DV Cleared
7 17 (1.26%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.18%) PMP
9 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.59%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.37%) CISSP
13 5 (0.37%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.37%) MCSE
14 4 (0.30%) CCA
14 4 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (15.59%) Accessibility
2 96 (7.10%) QA
3 74 (5.47%) WCAG
4 47 (3.47%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.40%) GDPR
6 17 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (0.74%) PMO
7 10 (0.74%) SLA
8 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.22%) GRC
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
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%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.074%) WAI
System Software
1 107 (7.91%) Active Directory
2 44 (3.25%) Docker
3 24 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (1.18%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 10 (0.74%) XenApp
8 9 (0.67%) XenDesktop
9 7 (0.52%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.44%) 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
15 1 (0.074%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 49 (3.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (3.25%) Kubernetes
3 29 (2.14%) SCCM
4 21 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (1.40%) Grafana
6 15 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
7 13 (0.96%) Ansible
8 11 (0.81%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.44%) SysTrack
9 6 (0.44%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.37%) Istio
11 4 (0.30%) Clonezilla
12 3 (0.22%) Podman
12 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
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%) SCOM
13 2 (0.15%) vMotion
Vendors
1 240 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 85 (6.28%) ServiceNow
3 61 (4.51%) Adobe
4 44 (3.25%) Oracle
5 42 (3.10%) Google
6 29 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 29 (2.14%) SAP
7 27 (2.00%) Citrix
7 27 (2.00%) VMware
8 24 (1.77%) Splunk
9 23 (1.70%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.18%) Apple
10 16 (1.18%) Zscaler
11 14 (1.03%) Cisco
11 14 (1.03%) Foundry
11 14 (1.03%) Workday
12 12 (0.89%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.67%) Okta
14 8 (0.59%) Aruba
15 7 (0.52%) IBM