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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 75 71
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 -12
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,113 921 1,115
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.57% 3.01% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 3.43% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 728 536 773
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £368 £386 £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 £668 £708 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 28 26
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.26 £17.72
25th Percentile £17.69 £30.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £34.48 £41.46 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.83% -24.63% -12.00%
75th Percentile £44.75 £52.25 £72.83
90th Percentile £70.16 £74.00 £81.25
UK median hourly rate £34.48 £41.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.90% -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 27,869 26,864 33,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.46% 87.86% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,747 16,503 22,915
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,797 957 1,425
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.24 £15.00
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% +18.90%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.35 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £43.63
% change year-on-year -23.21% -24.93% +24.64%

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 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 4 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 4 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 0 594 £475 -9.52% 291
North of England +27 194 £425 -5.56% 424
North West +19 120 £400 -11.11% 223
South East -13 108 £475 +16.14% 486
Midlands +9 99 £450 -10.00% 325
West Midlands +3 69 £456 -13.10% 190
South West +15 65 £538 -6.52% 171
Yorkshire +11 59 £450 -5.26% 161
East of England -5 34 £468 +2.97% 214
East Midlands -4 30 £425 +6.25% 121
North East +4 14 £393 - 42
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 55 (4.94%) Confluence
2 49 (4.40%) CMS
3 44 (3.95%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 12 (1.08%) Headless CMS
7 10 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
8 8 (0.72%) Apache
9 7 (0.63%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.45%) SugarCRM
10 5 (0.45%) WordPress
11 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.27%) Drupal
11 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
13 1 (0.090%) CICS
13 1 (0.090%) IIS
13 1 (0.090%) Tomcat
Applications
1 42 (3.77%) Sketch
2 22 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.80%) MS Visio
4 19 (1.71%) Adobe XD
4 19 (1.71%) Chatbot
5 15 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
6 12 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
6 12 (1.08%) InVision
7 11 (0.99%) Photoshop
8 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
9 7 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.45%) Trello
11 4 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.36%) Camtasia
11 4 (0.36%) OmniGraffle
11 4 (0.36%) Siemens NX
11 4 (0.36%) UXPin
12 3 (0.27%) Snagit
12 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 18 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.54%) 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 (0.090%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.090%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.090%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.090%) SAP Travel Management
7 1 (0.090%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 184 (16.53%) Azure
2 120 (10.78%) Figma
3 117 (10.51%) AWS
4 84 (7.55%) SaaS
5 78 (7.01%) Microsoft 365
6 71 (6.38%) Power Platform
7 65 (5.84%) GCP
8 54 (4.85%) Entra ID
9 36 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (2.96%) GitHub
11 25 (2.25%) Miro
12 24 (2.16%) Google Analytics
13 21 (1.89%) Serverless
14 19 (1.71%) Google Workspace
14 19 (1.71%) Power Automate
14 19 (1.71%) Sauce Labs
15 18 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (1.53%) PowerApps
17 15 (1.35%) Firebase
17 15 (1.35%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.61%) DNS
1 29 (2.61%) Wireless
2 16 (1.44%) Internet
3 10 (0.90%) VPN
4 9 (0.81%) DHCP
4 9 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.72%) Firewall
5 8 (0.72%) SSL
5 8 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.63%) BGP
6 7 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (0.63%) Cisco Wireless
6 7 (0.63%) HTTP
6 7 (0.63%) Network Security
6 7 (0.63%) NFC
6 7 (0.63%) NX-OS
6 7 (0.63%) PPP
6 7 (0.63%) VXLAN
7 6 (0.54%) Unified Communications
7 6 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (3.95%) Power BI
2 38 (3.41%) Relational Database
3 36 (3.23%) MySQL
4 35 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (2.25%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.07%) Tableau
7 20 (1.80%) NoSQL
8 19 (1.71%) MongoDB
9 14 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.17%) Redis
11 11 (0.99%) BigQuery
11 11 (0.99%) Looker
12 7 (0.63%) SAP HANA
13 6 (0.54%) Mixpanel
14 5 (0.45%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.45%) Metadata
15 4 (0.36%) Big Data
15 4 (0.36%) DB2
16 3 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 112 (10.06%) JIRA
2 75 (6.74%) Git
3 38 (3.41%) Jenkins
4 34 (3.05%) GitLab
5 31 (2.79%) Eclipse
6 30 (2.70%) Xcode
7 27 (2.43%) Android Studio
8 21 (1.89%) Browser DevTools
9 20 (1.80%) Axure RP
10 18 (1.62%) webpack
11 13 (1.17%) Cypress.io
11 13 (1.17%) Postman
12 9 (0.81%) Gradle
12 9 (0.81%) JUnit
12 9 (0.81%) Selenium
12 9 (0.81%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 8 (0.72%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.63%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.63%) Storybook
14 7 (0.63%) Valgrind
General
1 385 (34.59%) Social Skills
2 221 (19.86%) Finance
3 144 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (11.05%) Public Sector
5 94 (8.45%) Banking
6 85 (7.64%) Marketing
7 34 (3.05%) Legal
8 32 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
9 30 (2.70%) Retail
10 25 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
13 17 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.44%) Investment Banking
15 15 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (1.26%) Telecoms
17 13 (1.17%) Automotive
17 13 (1.17%) Front Office
18 12 (1.08%) Financial Institution
19 11 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 186 (16.71%) Developer
2 180 (16.17%) Designer
3 145 (13.03%) Senior
4 96 (8.63%) UX Designer
5 93 (8.36%) Lead
6 88 (7.91%) Analyst
7 54 (4.85%) Business Analyst
8 47 (4.22%) Consultant
9 36 (3.23%) Support Engineer
10 35 (3.14%) Architect
11 34 (3.05%) Senior Designer
12 32 (2.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 32 (2.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 31 (2.79%) UI Designer
14 29 (2.61%) Product Designer
15 28 (2.52%) Full-Stack Developer
16 27 (2.43%) React Developer
17 26 (2.34%) Software Engineer
18 25 (2.25%) Service Designer
19 24 (2.16%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (12.94%) CSS
2 140 (12.58%) React
3 126 (11.32%) HTML
4 73 (6.56%) REST
5 67 (6.02%) RESTful
6 65 (5.84%) AngularJS
7 54 (4.85%) Node.js
8 48 (4.31%) HTML5
9 47 (4.22%) GraphQL
10 36 (3.23%) .NET
11 31 (2.79%) CSS3
12 30 (2.70%) Redux
13 29 (2.61%) Jest
14 26 (2.34%) Bootstrap
15 25 (2.25%) Next.js
16 24 (2.16%) Web Services
17 23 (2.07%) XML
18 20 (1.80%) Ajax
19 19 (1.71%) Playwright
20 18 (1.62%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 116 (10.42%) Mobile App
2 100 (8.98%) Product Ownership
3 71 (6.38%) Onboarding
4 25 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 25 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (1.80%) Management Information System
6 18 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (1.53%) Data Centre
8 16 (1.44%) e-Learning
8 16 (1.44%) Learning Management System
8 16 (1.44%) Low-Code
9 15 (1.35%) AI Agents
9 15 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.26%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.17%) Cloud Native
12 12 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.08%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (0.90%) Life Science
13 10 (0.90%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 127 (11.41%) Windows
2 84 (7.55%) Android
3 69 (6.20%) Apple iOS
4 44 (3.95%) Linux
5 30 (2.70%) Windows 10
6 25 (2.25%) Mac OS
7 24 (2.16%) Unix
8 9 (0.81%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.63%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.18%) tvOS
10 2 (0.18%) VMS
11 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.090%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (35.58%) Agile
2 350 (31.45%) UX Design
3 201 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
4 190 (17.07%) Analytics
5 135 (12.13%) CI/CD
6 128 (11.50%) Roadmaps
7 126 (11.32%) AI
8 124 (11.14%) DevOps
8 124 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 118 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 109 (9.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 108 (9.70%) User Research
12 99 (8.89%) Front End Development
13 90 (8.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 88 (7.91%) Service Design
15 86 (7.73%) Decision-Making
16 76 (6.83%) Scrum
17 74 (6.65%) User Stories
18 72 (6.47%) Test Automation
19 69 (6.20%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 176 (15.81%) JavaScript
2 125 (11.23%) Python
3 100 (8.98%) Java
4 95 (8.54%) SQL
5 85 (7.64%) TypeScript
6 56 (5.03%) PowerShell
7 42 (3.77%) C#
8 31 (2.79%) Kotlin
9 27 (2.43%) Swift
10 24 (2.16%) Bash
10 24 (2.16%) Perl
11 14 (1.26%) C++
11 14 (1.26%) PHP
12 11 (0.99%) Objective-C
13 10 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.81%) Go
15 7 (0.63%) Lisp
16 5 (0.45%) C
16 5 (0.45%) Ruby
16 5 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 160 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 116 (10.42%) SC Cleared
3 100 (8.98%) Degree
4 24 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.71%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.08%) PMI Certification
9 11 (0.99%) MOS
10 9 (0.81%) PMP
11 8 (0.72%) CCNP
11 8 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.72%) OCA
11 8 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.54%) 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
1 173 (15.54%) Accessibility
2 101 (9.07%) QA
3 60 (5.39%) GDPR
4 42 (3.77%) WCAG
5 37 (3.32%) Data Quality
6 23 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.89%) SLA
8 12 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.45%) GxP
10 5 (0.45%) PMO
10 5 (0.45%) 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%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 68 (6.11%) Active Directory
2 42 (3.77%) Docker
3 22 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.090%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.090%) Firmware
8 1 (0.090%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.090%) XenApp
8 1 (0.090%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 49 (4.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.23%) SCCM
3 25 (2.25%) Terraform
4 14 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (1.08%) Ansible
6 10 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (0.72%) Grafana
8 7 (0.63%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.54%) 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 (0.090%) Istio
Vendors
1 212 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 82 (7.37%) Google
3 66 (5.93%) Adobe
3 66 (5.93%) ServiceNow
4 54 (4.85%) Oracle
5 43 (3.86%) SAP
6 39 (3.50%) Salesforce
7 29 (2.61%) Splunk
8 24 (2.16%) VMware
9 20 (1.80%) Apple
10 17 (1.53%) Citrix
11 15 (1.35%) Cisco
12 13 (1.17%) Optimizely
13 12 (1.08%) Hotjar
14 11 (0.99%) Zscaler
15 10 (0.90%) Sitecore
16 9 (0.81%) Amplitude
16 9 (0.81%) OpenAI
16 9 (0.81%) Workday
17 8 (0.72%) Red Hat