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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 62 88
Rank change year-on-year -29 +26 -26
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,344 1,045 846
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.95% 3.82% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 4.20% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 799 667 520
10th Percentile £286 £300 £305
25th Percentile £376 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £680 £696 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 44 27
10th Percentile £16.73 £21.68 £16.28
25th Percentile £26.13 £33.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £43.50 £41.68
Median % change year-on-year -21.86% +4.38% +51.55%
75th Percentile £67.86 £63.75 £69.20
90th Percentile £77.00 £71.84 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £43.50 £40.84
% change year-on-year -21.86% +6.52% +8.90%

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 38,700 24,856 28,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.77% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,864 15,818 18,112
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,605 1,463 1,438
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.56
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -33 673 £513 +2.50% 1,438
North of England -17 249 £425 +3.34% 244
Midlands -7 156 £475 +10.27% 109
West Midlands -3 126 £475 -6.77% 73
North West -31 126 £393 -7.53% 145
South East -54 105 £405 -9.40% 176
South West -5 82 £475 - 134
Yorkshire -17 73 £500 +25.00% 70
North East -9 49 £338 -29.69% 32
East of England -2 43 £425 -15.00% 83
East Midlands -13 30 £500 +39.66% 36
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 66 (4.91%) SharePoint
2 53 (3.94%) CMS
3 35 (2.60%) Confluence
4 27 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.12%) WordPress
6 9 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.52%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.45%) 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 20 (1.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 20 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.41%) Chatbot
2 19 (1.41%) Photoshop
3 18 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (1.26%) Sketch
5 16 (1.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 12 (0.89%) Adobe After Effects
7 10 (0.74%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.67%) Adobe XD
8 9 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.15%) InVision
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.074%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.074%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.074%) Blender
10 1 (0.074%) Final Cut Pro
10 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.52%) Workday HCM
2 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.45%) Shopify
3 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
4 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.22%) iTrent
5 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.074%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.074%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.074%) Magento
7 1 (0.074%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.074%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 197 (14.66%) Azure
2 156 (11.61%) Figma
3 144 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 112 (8.33%) AWS
5 100 (7.44%) Power Platform
6 60 (4.46%) Entra ID
6 60 (4.46%) Microsoft Copilot
7 45 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (3.35%) GitHub
8 43 (3.20%) SaaS
9 36 (2.68%) GCP
10 35 (2.60%) PowerApps
11 32 (2.38%) OneDrive
12 28 (2.08%) Copilot Studio
12 28 (2.08%) Power Automate
13 19 (1.41%) Azure AI
14 17 (1.26%) Serverless
15 15 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (0.97%) Firebase
17 12 (0.89%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.20%) DNS
2 37 (2.75%) DHCP
3 32 (2.38%) TCP/IP
4 30 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (1.56%) Wireless
6 20 (1.49%) LAN
7 19 (1.41%) VPN
8 16 (1.19%) Firewall
8 16 (1.19%) WAN
9 12 (0.89%) Internet
10 10 (0.74%) NetScaler
10 10 (0.74%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.67%) Skype
12 8 (0.60%) Cisco Wireless
12 8 (0.60%) Intranet
12 8 (0.60%) Network Security
13 6 (0.45%) 5G
13 6 (0.45%) SSL
13 6 (0.45%) WLAN
14 5 (0.37%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (4.17%) Power BI
2 25 (1.86%) Metadata
3 13 (0.97%) Power Query
4 12 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (0.89%) SQL Server
4 12 (0.89%) Tableau
5 11 (0.82%) NoSQL
6 10 (0.74%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.67%) Looker
8 8 (0.60%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.52%) MySQL
9 7 (0.52%) Redis
10 6 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.45%) Qlik Sense
10 6 (0.45%) Star Schema
11 5 (0.37%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.37%) Flink
11 5 (0.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 77 (5.73%) JIRA
2 63 (4.69%) Git
3 24 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.49%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.26%) Vite
6 14 (1.04%) Storybook
7 13 (0.97%) GitLab
8 12 (0.89%) fastlane
9 10 (0.74%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.74%) Browser DevTools
10 9 (0.67%) Xcode
11 7 (0.52%) Postman
12 6 (0.45%) Gradle
13 5 (0.37%) Claude Code
13 5 (0.37%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.37%) Fiddler
13 5 (0.37%) JMeter
13 5 (0.37%) MSI
13 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
13 5 (0.37%) REST Assured
General
1 433 (32.22%) Social Skills
2 235 (17.49%) Finance
3 179 (13.32%) Public Sector
4 137 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (7.81%) Banking
6 79 (5.88%) Retail
7 65 (4.84%) Marketing
8 47 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
10 34 (2.53%) Legal
11 28 (2.08%) Automotive
12 25 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (1.86%) Publishing
13 19 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
14 17 (1.26%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.12%) Military
16 13 (0.97%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.67%) Front Office
17 9 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 282 (20.98%) Designer
2 180 (13.39%) Developer
3 172 (12.80%) Senior
4 118 (8.78%) UX Designer
5 115 (8.56%) Lead
6 93 (6.92%) Analyst
7 68 (5.06%) UI Designer
8 66 (4.91%) Consultant
9 55 (4.09%) IT Support
10 54 (4.02%) Architect
11 53 (3.94%) Support Engineer
12 51 (3.79%) Product Manager
12 51 (3.79%) User Researcher
13 50 (3.72%) Senior Designer
14 45 (3.35%) Business Analyst
15 44 (3.27%) Content Designer
16 43 (3.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 39 (2.90%) User Experience Researcher
18 38 (2.83%) IT Engineer
18 38 (2.83%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (9.45%) React
2 103 (7.66%) CSS
3 90 (6.70%) HTML
4 80 (5.95%) REST
5 44 (3.27%) RESTful
6 42 (3.13%) AngularJS
7 39 (2.90%) Terraform
8 37 (2.75%) GraphQL
9 36 (2.68%) .NET
9 36 (2.68%) CSS3
9 36 (2.68%) HTML5
10 30 (2.23%) Next.js
11 24 (1.79%) OAuth
12 22 (1.64%) Playwright
12 22 (1.64%) Spring
13 21 (1.56%) Jest
13 21 (1.56%) Node.js
13 21 (1.56%) Spring Boot
14 18 (1.34%) ASP.NET
15 17 (1.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 124 (9.23%) Product Ownership
2 80 (5.95%) Onboarding
3 76 (5.65%) Mobile App
4 43 (3.20%) Cloud Native
5 40 (2.98%) AI Agents
6 28 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 28 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (1.86%) Management Information System
9 24 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (1.49%) Data Centre
10 20 (1.49%) Social Media
11 19 (1.41%) NHS
12 18 (1.34%) Educational Technology
12 18 (1.34%) Graphic Design
13 15 (1.12%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.12%) Virtual Reality
14 14 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (1.04%) Taxonomies
15 13 (0.97%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 147 (10.94%) Windows
2 58 (4.32%) Android
3 57 (4.24%) Apple iOS
4 55 (4.09%) Windows 10
5 32 (2.38%) Mac OS
6 31 (2.31%) Windows Server
7 18 (1.34%) Linux
8 11 (0.82%) 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 (31.99%) UX Design
2 385 (28.65%) Agile
3 254 (18.90%) AI
4 236 (17.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 230 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
6 189 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 183 (13.62%) Analytics
8 159 (11.83%) CI/CD
9 158 (11.76%) User Research
10 147 (10.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 143 (10.64%) Roadmaps
12 138 (10.27%) Decision-Making
13 108 (8.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 106 (7.89%) DevOps
15 105 (7.81%) Prototyping
16 104 (7.74%) Scrum
17 102 (7.59%) Workshop Facilitation
18 99 (7.37%) Service Design
19 97 (7.22%) ITIL
20 94 (6.99%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 131 (9.75%) JavaScript
2 96 (7.14%) TypeScript
3 86 (6.40%) Python
4 81 (6.03%) Java
5 78 (5.80%) SQL
6 48 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 30 (2.23%) C#
8 26 (1.93%) Kotlin
9 18 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (1.19%) Bash
11 15 (1.12%) Swift
12 8 (0.60%) VBScript
13 7 (0.52%) Go
13 7 (0.52%) PHP
13 7 (0.52%) VB
14 6 (0.45%) Scala
14 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.37%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.37%) Korn
16 4 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 210 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 160 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 108 (8.04%) Degree
4 32 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 22 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.04%) PMP
9 10 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.60%) AWS Certification
11 8 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.45%) MCSE
14 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.37%) CCIE
14 5 (0.37%) CCNP
14 5 (0.37%) CISSP
14 5 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (15.77%) Accessibility
2 86 (6.40%) QA
3 74 (5.51%) WCAG
4 40 (2.98%) Data Quality
5 20 (1.49%) GDPR
6 13 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.60%) SLA
8 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.45%) PMO
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%) NIST
13 1 (0.074%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.074%) WAI
System Software
1 99 (7.37%) Active Directory
2 41 (3.05%) Docker
3 27 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
4 21 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (1.04%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 7 (0.52%) BitLocker
7 7 (0.52%) XenApp
7 7 (0.52%) XenDesktop
8 6 (0.45%) vSphere
9 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.22%) UAG
12 2 (0.15%) Firmware
12 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.074%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 44 (3.27%) Kubernetes
1 44 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (2.31%) SCCM
3 22 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (1.41%) Grafana
5 16 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
6 13 (0.97%) Ansible
7 11 (0.82%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.37%) SysTrack
8 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.30%) Clonezilla
9 4 (0.30%) Podman
10 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.22%) WSUS
11 2 (0.15%) Argo
11 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.15%) Packer
11 2 (0.15%) SCOM
11 2 (0.15%) vMotion
12 1 (0.074%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 237 (17.63%) Microsoft
2 82 (6.10%) ServiceNow
3 68 (5.06%) Adobe
4 45 (3.35%) Google
4 45 (3.35%) Oracle
5 32 (2.38%) SAP
6 28 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 26 (1.93%) Citrix
8 24 (1.79%) Dynatrace
8 24 (1.79%) VMware
9 21 (1.56%) Splunk
10 20 (1.49%) Apple
11 18 (1.34%) Cisco
12 17 (1.26%) Workday
13 15 (1.12%) Foundry
14 14 (1.04%) Zscaler
15 12 (0.89%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.82%) Aruba
17 10 (0.74%) Okta
18 8 (0.60%) Databricks