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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 71 72
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,138 865 1,067
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.56% 3.21% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 3.60% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 757 505 725
10th Percentile £300 £307 £313
25th Percentile £371 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £568 £601 £600
90th Percentile £654 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 24 30
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.26 £23.75
25th Percentile £17.69 £30.33 £31.37
Median hourly rate £35.60 £42.21 £60.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -29.95% -5.49%
75th Percentile £59.00 £53.75 £73.54
90th Percentile £70.05 £74.31 £81.38
UK median hourly rate £35.55 £41.46 £60.25
% change year-on-year -14.24% -31.20% -3.60%

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 28,213 24,003 32,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.28% 89.19% 87.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,027 14,736 21,710
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,750 779 1,598
10th Percentile £15.17 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.29
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -13.14% +15.12%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.47 £75.00 £76.33
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -18.75% +16.65%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -14 585 £475 -9.52% 238
North of England +13 207 £410 -8.89% 166
North West +13 131 £400 -11.11% 79
Midlands +2 110 £488 +14.71% 104
South East +1 107 £425 -15.00% 242
West Midlands -12 70 £443 -11.50% 56
South West +6 65 £450 -20.70% 88
Yorkshire -11 60 £500 +11.11% 60
East Midlands -3 40 £523 +46.77% 47
East of England -7 33 £468 +3.89% 93
North East +3 15 £410 - 27
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 (4.83%) Confluence
2 51 (4.48%) SharePoint
3 43 (3.78%) CMS
4 22 (1.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 13 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (1.05%) Headless CMS
7 9 (0.79%) Apache
8 8 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.62%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.44%) SugarCRM
11 3 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.26%) WordPress
12 2 (0.18%) Appian
12 2 (0.18%) Camunda
12 2 (0.18%) Drupal
13 1 (0.088%) Moodle
13 1 (0.088%) nginx
13 1 (0.088%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 37 (3.25%) Sketch
2 23 (2.02%) Adobe XD
2 23 (2.02%) MS Visio
3 22 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.67%) Chatbot
5 13 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
6 12 (1.05%) Adobe Illustrator
6 12 (1.05%) Photoshop
7 10 (0.88%) InVision
8 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.44%) Trello
11 4 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.35%) Camtasia
11 4 (0.35%) UXPin
12 3 (0.26%) Snagit
12 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.18%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.18%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 19 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.26%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.26%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (0.26%) Shopify
3 3 (0.26%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.18%) iTrent
4 2 (0.18%) Magento
4 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.088%) assyst
5 1 (0.088%) Maximo
5 1 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.088%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.088%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.088%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.088%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.088%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (0.088%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 196 (17.22%) Azure
2 133 (11.69%) Figma
3 125 (10.98%) AWS
4 79 (6.94%) Power Platform
5 75 (6.59%) SaaS
6 72 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
7 57 (5.01%) GCP
8 51 (4.48%) Entra ID
9 40 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
10 39 (3.43%) GitHub
11 23 (2.02%) Google Analytics
11 23 (2.02%) Serverless
12 20 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (1.67%) Google Workspace
13 19 (1.67%) Miro
14 18 (1.58%) PowerApps
14 18 (1.58%) Sauce Labs
15 16 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
15 16 (1.41%) Power Automate
16 15 (1.32%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.46%) DNS
2 26 (2.28%) Wireless
3 14 (1.23%) Internet
4 10 (0.88%) VPN
4 10 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (0.79%) DHCP
5 9 (0.79%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.70%) BGP
6 8 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (0.62%) Cisco Wireless
7 7 (0.62%) Firewall
7 7 (0.62%) HTTP
7 7 (0.62%) NX-OS
7 7 (0.62%) VXLAN
8 6 (0.53%) Intranet
8 6 (0.53%) Unified Communications
8 6 (0.53%) WAN
9 5 (0.44%) SSL
10 4 (0.35%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (4.22%) Power BI
2 37 (3.25%) MySQL
3 35 (3.08%) Relational Database
4 27 (2.37%) SQL Server
5 26 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (1.76%) NoSQL
7 18 (1.58%) Tableau
8 15 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (1.05%) BigQuery
10 11 (0.97%) Looker
11 10 (0.88%) MongoDB
12 8 (0.70%) Metadata
13 7 (0.62%) Mixpanel
13 7 (0.62%) Redis
13 7 (0.62%) SAP HANA
14 4 (0.35%) Big Data
14 4 (0.35%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.35%) Pinecone
15 3 (0.26%) Amazon Athena
15 3 (0.26%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 114 (10.02%) JIRA
2 78 (6.85%) Git
3 45 (3.95%) GitLab
4 34 (2.99%) Jenkins
5 29 (2.55%) Xcode
6 26 (2.28%) Android Studio
6 26 (2.28%) Eclipse
7 21 (1.85%) Cypress.io
8 20 (1.76%) Browser DevTools
9 18 (1.58%) Gradle
10 15 (1.32%) Axure RP
11 13 (1.14%) JUnit
11 13 (1.14%) Postman
12 12 (1.05%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.88%) Artifactory
14 9 (0.79%) Visual Website Optimizer
15 8 (0.70%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.70%) IntelliJ
15 8 (0.70%) Selenium
15 8 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 401 (35.24%) Social Skills
2 208 (18.28%) Finance
3 145 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (11.86%) Public Sector
5 81 (7.12%) Banking
6 78 (6.85%) Marketing
7 36 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
8 28 (2.46%) Legal
9 26 (2.28%) Retail
10 22 (1.93%) Manufacturing
10 22 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 16 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.32%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.14%) Investment Banking
15 12 (1.05%) Automotive
16 10 (0.88%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.70%) Front Office
17 8 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 187 (16.43%) Designer
2 182 (15.99%) Developer
3 155 (13.62%) Senior
4 107 (9.40%) UX Designer
5 97 (8.52%) Analyst
6 89 (7.82%) Lead
7 50 (4.39%) Business Analyst
8 46 (4.04%) Consultant
9 43 (3.78%) Senior Designer
10 40 (3.51%) Product Designer
11 38 (3.34%) Architect
12 37 (3.25%) Support Engineer
13 35 (3.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 32 (2.81%) Full-Stack Developer
15 31 (2.72%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
16 30 (2.64%) UI Designer
17 29 (2.55%) Service Designer
18 27 (2.37%) Software Engineer
18 27 (2.37%) User Researcher
19 25 (2.20%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (13.71%) CSS
2 153 (13.44%) React
3 139 (12.21%) HTML
4 84 (7.38%) AngularJS
5 82 (7.21%) REST
6 73 (6.41%) RESTful
7 48 (4.22%) GraphQL
8 47 (4.13%) Node.js
9 41 (3.60%) HTML5
10 37 (3.25%) .NET
11 33 (2.90%) Spring
12 31 (2.72%) CSS3
13 30 (2.64%) Jest
13 30 (2.64%) Spring Boot
14 25 (2.20%) Playwright
15 24 (2.11%) Next.js
16 22 (1.93%) Redux
17 21 (1.85%) OAuth
18 20 (1.76%) SOAP
19 19 (1.67%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 100 (8.79%) Mobile App
2 99 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 63 (5.54%) Onboarding
4 26 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (1.67%) e-Learning
7 16 (1.41%) Data Structures
7 16 (1.41%) Management Information System
8 15 (1.32%) Data Centre
9 14 (1.23%) AI Agents
9 14 (1.23%) Learning Management System
9 14 (1.23%) Low-Code
9 14 (1.23%) NHS
10 13 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.05%) CMDB
11 12 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 11 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (0.97%) Graphic Design
12 11 (0.97%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 125 (10.98%) Windows
2 71 (6.24%) Android
3 57 (5.01%) Apple iOS
4 37 (3.25%) Linux
5 36 (3.16%) Windows 10
6 23 (2.02%) Unix
7 21 (1.85%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.62%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.35%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.18%) VMS
11 1 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.088%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (35.94%) Agile
2 368 (32.34%) UX Design
3 204 (17.93%) Analytics
4 192 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
5 146 (12.83%) CI/CD
6 142 (12.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 138 (12.13%) User Research
8 129 (11.34%) DevOps
9 125 (10.98%) Roadmaps
10 124 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 122 (10.72%) AI
12 119 (10.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 105 (9.23%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 91 (8.00%) Decision-Making
15 89 (7.82%) Wireframes
16 88 (7.73%) Front End Development
16 88 (7.73%) Usability Testing
17 85 (7.47%) UX Research
18 82 (7.21%) Service Design
18 82 (7.21%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 190 (16.70%) JavaScript
2 111 (9.75%) Python
3 109 (9.58%) Java
4 107 (9.40%) SQL
5 88 (7.73%) TypeScript
6 60 (5.27%) PowerShell
7 41 (3.60%) C#
8 34 (2.99%) Kotlin
9 26 (2.28%) Swift
10 23 (2.02%) Perl
11 22 (1.93%) Bash
12 14 (1.23%) PHP
13 12 (1.05%) C++
14 11 (0.97%) Objective-C
14 11 (0.97%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.88%) Go
16 7 (0.62%) Lisp
17 5 (0.44%) C
17 5 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 151 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 106 (9.31%) Degree
3 104 (9.14%) SC Cleared
4 26 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.97%) MOS
8 11 (0.97%) PMI Certification
9 9 (0.79%) CCNP
9 9 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (0.79%) OCA
9 9 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.53%) MCP
11 6 (0.53%) PMP
12 3 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.18%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.18%) CCA
13 2 (0.18%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (16.61%) Accessibility
2 116 (10.19%) QA
3 63 (5.54%) GDPR
4 58 (5.10%) WCAG
5 31 (2.72%) Data Quality
6 25 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.49%) SLA
8 16 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.62%) GxP
10 6 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.53%) NCSC
11 5 (0.44%) PMO
11 5 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.26%) NIST
12 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.26%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.18%) FIPS 140-2
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 69 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 52 (4.57%) Docker
3 21 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.18%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.088%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.088%) Firmware
7 1 (0.088%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.088%) XenApp
7 1 (0.088%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 48 (4.22%) Kubernetes
2 43 (3.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 33 (2.90%) SCCM
4 27 (2.37%) Terraform
5 16 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.32%) Grafana
7 13 (1.14%) Ansible
8 7 (0.62%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.53%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.35%) Argo
12 3 (0.26%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.26%) Nagios
12 3 (0.26%) Rancher
13 2 (0.18%) PingFederate
13 2 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.18%) SysTrack
14 1 (0.088%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.088%) Istio
14 1 (0.088%) Podman
Vendors
1 199 (17.49%) Microsoft
2 78 (6.85%) Google
3 77 (6.77%) Adobe
4 69 (6.06%) ServiceNow
5 50 (4.39%) Oracle
6 43 (3.78%) Salesforce
7 39 (3.43%) SAP
8 28 (2.46%) Splunk
9 22 (1.93%) VMware
10 17 (1.49%) Apple
11 16 (1.41%) Citrix
12 14 (1.23%) Cisco
13 13 (1.14%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.97%) Hotjar
14 11 (0.97%) Optimizely
14 11 (0.97%) Zscaler
15 10 (0.88%) Amplitude
16 9 (0.79%) MuleSoft
17 8 (0.70%) Ekahau
17 8 (0.70%) Sitecore