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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 67 73
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,214 891 1,071
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.47% 3.45% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 3.83% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 555 730
10th Percentile £313 £311 £306
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.90% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 21 40
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.26 £23.38
25th Percentile £17.69 £31.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £35.72 £42.50 £43.87
Median % change year-on-year -15.95% -3.11% -21.67%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £72.60
90th Percentile £73.83 £74.44 £81.25
UK median hourly rate £37.22 £42.50 £41.68
% change year-on-year -12.42% +1.98% -20.62%

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 30,524 23,282 33,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.36% 90.06% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,511 14,543 22,029
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £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 1,903 748 2,025
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.28 £21.25 £16.30
Median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% - -
75th Percentile £63.05 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.08 £73.35
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -7.14% -

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -13 632 £500 -4.08% 293
North of England +20 215 £450 - 125
North West +22 143 £402 -10.58% 72
South East -3 120 £475 -5.24% 196
Midlands -12 109 £500 +25.00% 85
South West -3 69 £450 -5.26% 63
West Midlands -40 60 £450 -5.26% 51
Yorkshire -28 52 £519 +21.99% 34
East Midlands +8 49 £548 +53.79% 34
East of England -14 30 £426 -10.69% 36
North East -7 19 £375 -11.76% 20
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 53 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 49 (4.04%) Confluence
3 35 (2.88%) CMS
4 22 (1.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 13 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.91%) Headless CMS
7 8 (0.66%) Apache
7 8 (0.66%) Sitecore CMS
8 7 (0.58%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.41%) SugarCRM
10 4 (0.33%) Camunda
10 4 (0.33%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.33%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.16%) Appian
12 2 (0.16%) Drupal
12 2 (0.16%) WordPress
13 1 (0.082%) Mendix
Applications
1 38 (3.13%) Sketch
2 27 (2.22%) Adobe XD
3 21 (1.73%) MS Visio
4 20 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
5 19 (1.57%) Chatbot
5 19 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.82%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.74%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.66%) InVision
9 6 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 6 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.33%) Trello
10 4 (0.33%) UXPin
11 3 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.25%) UserZoom
12 2 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.16%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.16%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 18 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.41%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.33%) Shopify
5 3 (0.25%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.25%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.25%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.16%) iTrent
6 2 (0.16%) Magento
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.082%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.082%) assyst
7 1 (0.082%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.082%) Maximo
7 1 (0.082%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.082%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 207 (17.05%) Azure
2 161 (13.26%) Figma
3 125 (10.30%) AWS
4 89 (7.33%) Power Platform
5 74 (6.10%) SaaS
6 72 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (5.19%) GCP
8 51 (4.20%) Entra ID
9 48 (3.95%) GitHub
10 45 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (2.22%) PowerApps
13 25 (2.06%) Power Automate
14 24 (1.98%) Google Workspace
15 22 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
15 22 (1.81%) Miro
15 22 (1.81%) Serverless
16 21 (1.73%) Google Analytics
17 20 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
18 19 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.14%) DNS
2 20 (1.65%) Wireless
3 14 (1.15%) Internet
4 11 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.82%) DHCP
5 10 (0.82%) VPN
6 9 (0.74%) HTTP
6 9 (0.74%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.66%) BGP
7 8 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (0.58%) Cisco Wireless
8 7 (0.58%) Firewall
8 7 (0.58%) Intranet
8 7 (0.58%) NX-OS
8 7 (0.58%) VXLAN
9 6 (0.49%) Unified Communications
9 6 (0.49%) WAN
10 5 (0.41%) SSL
11 4 (0.33%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.33%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.78%) Power BI
2 34 (2.80%) MySQL
3 32 (2.64%) Relational Database
4 25 (2.06%) NoSQL
4 25 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.89%) SQL Server
6 17 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.15%) Tableau
8 12 (0.99%) BigQuery
9 11 (0.91%) Looker
9 11 (0.91%) MongoDB
10 10 (0.82%) Metadata
11 7 (0.58%) Mixpanel
12 6 (0.49%) Pinecone
13 5 (0.41%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.41%) Power Query
13 5 (0.41%) Redis
14 4 (0.33%) SAP HANA
15 3 (0.25%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 103 (8.48%) JIRA
2 76 (6.26%) Git
3 44 (3.62%) GitLab
4 28 (2.31%) Jenkins
5 23 (1.89%) Cypress.io
6 21 (1.73%) Android Studio
6 21 (1.73%) JUnit
6 21 (1.73%) Xcode
7 20 (1.65%) Eclipse
8 16 (1.32%) Axure RP
8 16 (1.32%) Gradle
9 15 (1.24%) Browser DevTools
10 12 (0.99%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.74%) Artifactory
11 9 (0.74%) Postman
12 8 (0.66%) Mocha
12 8 (0.66%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 7 (0.58%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.58%) Selenium
14 6 (0.49%) IntelliJ
General
1 420 (34.60%) Social Skills
2 224 (18.45%) Finance
3 152 (12.52%) Public Sector
4 147 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (6.84%) Banking
6 71 (5.85%) Marketing
7 36 (2.97%) Retail
8 31 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (2.14%) Legal
9 26 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (1.65%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.24%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.15%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (0.91%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.74%) Front Office
17 9 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 211 (17.38%) Designer
2 189 (15.57%) Developer
3 180 (14.83%) Senior
4 120 (9.88%) UX Designer
5 115 (9.47%) Analyst
6 76 (6.26%) Lead
7 59 (4.86%) Product Designer
8 55 (4.53%) Senior Designer
9 50 (4.12%) Consultant
10 49 (4.04%) Business Analyst
11 42 (3.46%) Architect
12 37 (3.05%) UI Designer
13 36 (2.97%) Full-Stack Developer
14 35 (2.88%) Software Engineer
14 35 (2.88%) Support Engineer
14 35 (2.88%) User Researcher
15 33 (2.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 33 (2.72%) Senior UX Designer
16 31 (2.55%) IT Support
16 31 (2.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (12.85%) React
2 148 (12.19%) CSS
3 129 (10.63%) HTML
4 94 (7.74%) REST
5 84 (6.92%) AngularJS
6 74 (6.10%) RESTful
7 53 (4.37%) Node.js
7 53 (4.37%) Spring
8 52 (4.28%) Spring Boot
9 41 (3.38%) .NET
10 40 (3.29%) GraphQL
11 36 (2.97%) HTML5
12 30 (2.47%) CSS3
13 27 (2.22%) Jest
14 25 (2.06%) Redux
15 23 (1.89%) Next.js
16 22 (1.81%) OAuth
17 21 (1.73%) JSON
17 21 (1.73%) SOAP
17 21 (1.73%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 114 (9.39%) Product Ownership
2 89 (7.33%) Mobile App
3 54 (4.45%) Onboarding
4 29 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 23 (1.89%) AI Agents
7 19 (1.57%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.24%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (1.24%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.15%) Cloud Native
9 14 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.07%) Low-Code
11 12 (0.99%) CMDB
11 12 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (0.99%) NHS
12 11 (0.91%) e-Learning
13 9 (0.74%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 122 (10.05%) Windows
2 58 (4.78%) Android
3 42 (3.46%) Apple iOS
4 37 (3.05%) Windows 10
5 31 (2.55%) Linux
6 22 (1.81%) Mac OS
7 18 (1.48%) Unix
8 5 (0.41%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.16%) VMS
11 1 (0.082%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.082%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (33.44%) Agile
2 383 (31.55%) UX Design
3 211 (17.38%) Analytics
4 196 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
5 171 (14.09%) User Research
6 157 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 156 (12.85%) CI/CD
8 145 (11.94%) AI
9 143 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 142 (11.70%) DevOps
11 129 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 128 (10.54%) Roadmaps
13 112 (9.23%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 106 (8.73%) Prototyping
15 104 (8.57%) UX Research
16 102 (8.40%) Decision-Making
16 102 (8.40%) Wireframes
17 100 (8.24%) Usability Testing
18 91 (7.50%) Service Design
19 83 (6.84%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 188 (15.49%) JavaScript
2 123 (10.13%) SQL
3 112 (9.23%) Java
4 105 (8.65%) Python
4 105 (8.65%) TypeScript
5 60 (4.94%) PowerShell
6 46 (3.79%) C#
7 32 (2.64%) Kotlin
8 21 (1.73%) Bash
9 18 (1.48%) Perl
10 15 (1.24%) Swift
11 14 (1.15%) PHP
12 10 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.74%) Go
13 9 (0.74%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.58%) Lisp
15 6 (0.49%) C++
16 4 (0.33%) Korn
16 4 (0.33%) Objective-C
17 3 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 160 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 117 (9.64%) SC Cleared
3 108 (8.90%) Degree
4 23 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 12 (0.99%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.91%) MOS
9 9 (0.74%) CCNP
9 9 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.58%) OCA
10 7 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (0.58%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.33%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.33%) CCA
11 4 (0.33%) Citrix Certification
12 3 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.16%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (16.56%) Accessibility
2 123 (10.13%) QA
3 63 (5.19%) WCAG
4 47 (3.87%) GDPR
5 42 (3.46%) Data Quality
6 25 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.73%) Actionable Recommendations
8 19 (1.57%) SLA
9 6 (0.49%) NCSC
9 6 (0.49%) PMO
10 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.33%) GxP
11 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
11 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.25%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.16%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.16%) GMP
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 70 (5.77%) Active Directory
2 55 (4.53%) Docker
3 22 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.16%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.082%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.082%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.082%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.082%) XenApp
7 1 (0.082%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (4.37%) Kubernetes
2 43 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 37 (3.05%) SCCM
4 32 (2.64%) Terraform
5 20 (1.65%) Grafana
6 15 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.99%) Ansible
8 7 (0.58%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.49%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.33%) Argo
10 4 (0.33%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.25%) Nagios
11 3 (0.25%) Rancher
12 2 (0.16%) PingFederate
12 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
13 1 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.082%) Consul
13 1 (0.082%) Istio
13 1 (0.082%) Podman
Vendors
1 216 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 82 (6.75%) Google
3 77 (6.34%) Adobe
4 74 (6.10%) ServiceNow
5 45 (3.71%) SAP
6 41 (3.38%) Oracle
7 40 (3.29%) Salesforce
8 26 (2.14%) Splunk
9 23 (1.89%) VMware
10 21 (1.73%) Citrix
11 14 (1.15%) Cisco
12 13 (1.07%) Apple
13 12 (0.99%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.91%) Hotjar
15 10 (0.82%) Amplitude
15 10 (0.82%) Optimizely
15 10 (0.82%) Zscaler
16 9 (0.74%) Workday
17 8 (0.66%) Ekahau
17 8 (0.66%) MuleSoft