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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 66 90
Rank change year-on-year -27 +24 -29
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,317 1,025 829
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.88% 3.71% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.39% 4.09% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 644 527
10th Percentile £292 £300 £300
25th Percentile £378 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £621
90th Percentile £680 £709 £705
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 44 31
10th Percentile £16.58 £25.05 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.50 £34.11 £28.28
Median hourly rate £33.99 £45.50 £41.68
Median % change year-on-year -25.30% +9.18% +57.26%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.75 £72.20
90th Percentile £75.60 £72.35 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £47.50 £40.84
% change year-on-year -28.44% +16.31% +54.10%

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 38,860 25,068 28,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.79% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,530
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,442 1,597
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.20 £14.15
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -28 670 £520 +4.00% 252
North of England -18 232 £425 -4.92% 115
Midlands -12 143 £475 +9.83% 69
West Midlands -13 113 £475 -8.65% 54
North West -31 111 £387 -13.53% 59
South East -55 111 £413 -8.33% 134
South West -22 72 £475 +11.76% 60
Yorkshire -23 71 £500 +25.00% 34
North East -4 49 £363 -24.48% 22
East of England +4 47 £410 -13.68% 26
East Midlands -14 30 £468 +31.69% 15
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 62 (4.71%) SharePoint
2 52 (3.95%) CMS
3 32 (2.43%) Confluence
4 28 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.14%) WordPress
6 8 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.53%) Apache
7 7 (0.53%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.46%) Drupal
9 5 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.38%) 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 (0.076%) MTS
Applications
1 23 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 20 (1.52%) Sketch
3 19 (1.44%) Chatbot
3 19 (1.44%) Photoshop
4 18 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.14%) Adobe Illustrator
6 12 (0.91%) Adobe After Effects
7 10 (0.76%) Adobe XD
8 8 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 6 (0.46%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.15%) InVision
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.076%) Blender
11 1 (0.076%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.076%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.61%) Workday HCM
2 6 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.46%) Shopify
3 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
3 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.30%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.23%) iTrent
4 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.076%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.076%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.076%) Magento
6 1 (0.076%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 195 (14.81%) Azure
2 156 (11.85%) Figma
3 138 (10.48%) Microsoft 365
4 112 (8.50%) AWS
5 94 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 64 (4.86%) Entra ID
7 52 (3.95%) Microsoft Copilot
8 42 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (3.11%) GitHub
10 40 (3.04%) SaaS
11 39 (2.96%) GCP
12 30 (2.28%) OneDrive
12 30 (2.28%) PowerApps
13 24 (1.82%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.75%) Copilot Studio
15 19 (1.44%) Azure AI
16 18 (1.37%) Serverless
17 13 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
18 11 (0.84%) Firebase
18 11 (0.84%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.26%) DNS
2 37 (2.81%) DHCP
3 31 (2.35%) TCP/IP
3 31 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
4 22 (1.67%) Wireless
5 21 (1.59%) LAN
6 16 (1.21%) Firewall
6 16 (1.21%) VPN
7 15 (1.14%) WAN
8 12 (0.91%) Internet
9 11 (0.84%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.68%) Cisco Wireless
10 9 (0.68%) Intranet
10 9 (0.68%) Skype
11 8 (0.61%) Network Security
12 7 (0.53%) 5G
12 7 (0.53%) NetScaler
12 7 (0.53%) WLAN
13 6 (0.46%) SSL
14 5 (0.38%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (4.02%) Power BI
2 24 (1.82%) Metadata
3 15 (1.14%) Power Query
4 14 (1.06%) Tableau
5 11 (0.84%) NoSQL
5 11 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (0.84%) Relational Database
6 10 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (0.76%) Looker
6 10 (0.76%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.53%) MySQL
8 6 (0.46%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.46%) Qlik Sense
8 6 (0.46%) Redis
8 6 (0.46%) Star Schema
9 5 (0.38%) Flink
9 5 (0.38%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.30%) QlikView
10 4 (0.30%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 73 (5.54%) JIRA
2 52 (3.95%) Git
3 22 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.59%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.29%) GitLab
5 17 (1.29%) Vite
6 10 (0.76%) Android Studio
6 10 (0.76%) Browser DevTools
6 10 (0.76%) fastlane
6 10 (0.76%) Storybook
7 9 (0.68%) Xcode
8 7 (0.53%) Gradle
9 6 (0.46%) Postman
10 5 (0.38%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.38%) Crashlytics
10 5 (0.38%) Fiddler
10 5 (0.38%) MSI
10 5 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.30%) JMeter
11 4 (0.30%) JUnit
General
1 413 (31.36%) Social Skills
2 237 (18.00%) Finance
3 172 (13.06%) Public Sector
4 129 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (7.97%) Banking
6 78 (5.92%) Retail
7 66 (5.01%) Marketing
8 47 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (2.43%) Legal
10 31 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (2.05%) Automotive
11 27 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (2.05%) Publishing
12 24 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
13 21 (1.59%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (0.99%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.84%) Military
17 9 (0.68%) Law
17 9 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 285 (21.64%) Designer
2 178 (13.52%) Senior
3 169 (12.83%) Developer
4 115 (8.73%) UX Designer
5 111 (8.43%) Lead
6 92 (6.99%) Analyst
7 70 (5.32%) UI Designer
8 68 (5.16%) Consultant
9 54 (4.10%) User Researcher
10 52 (3.95%) IT Support
10 52 (3.95%) Support Engineer
11 50 (3.80%) Content Designer
11 50 (3.80%) Senior Designer
12 48 (3.64%) Architect
13 46 (3.49%) Product Manager
14 43 (3.26%) Business Analyst
15 41 (3.11%) User Experience Researcher
16 39 (2.96%) UI/UX Designer
17 36 (2.73%) IT Engineer
17 36 (2.73%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (8.43%) React
2 93 (7.06%) CSS
3 81 (6.15%) REST
4 79 (6.00%) HTML
5 44 (3.34%) RESTful
6 42 (3.19%) AngularJS
7 38 (2.89%) GraphQL
8 34 (2.58%) .NET
8 34 (2.58%) HTML5
9 33 (2.51%) CSS3
10 23 (1.75%) Next.js
11 21 (1.59%) Jest
12 20 (1.52%) OAuth
13 19 (1.44%) Node.js
13 19 (1.44%) SOAP
13 19 (1.44%) Spring
14 18 (1.37%) ASP.NET
14 18 (1.37%) Playwright
14 18 (1.37%) Spring Boot
15 17 (1.29%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 118 (8.96%) Product Ownership
2 81 (6.15%) Onboarding
3 78 (5.92%) Mobile App
4 40 (3.04%) Cloud Native
5 34 (2.58%) AI Agents
6 29 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
9 25 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (1.52%) Data Centre
10 20 (1.52%) Management Information System
10 20 (1.52%) Social Media
11 19 (1.44%) NHS
12 18 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
12 18 (1.37%) Educational Technology
13 17 (1.29%) Data Structures
13 17 (1.29%) Graphic Design
14 15 (1.14%) Virtual Reality
15 14 (1.06%) Algorithms
15 14 (1.06%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 146 (11.09%) Windows
2 55 (4.18%) Android
2 55 (4.18%) Windows 10
3 52 (3.95%) Apple iOS
4 30 (2.28%) Mac OS
5 26 (1.97%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.29%) Linux
7 10 (0.76%) Unix
7 10 (0.76%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (31.36%) UX Design
2 371 (28.17%) Agile
3 250 (18.98%) AI
4 229 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 213 (16.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 178 (13.52%) Analytics
7 173 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 166 (12.60%) User Research
9 149 (11.31%) CI/CD
9 149 (11.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 132 (10.02%) Roadmaps
11 128 (9.72%) Decision-Making
12 107 (8.12%) Prototyping
13 103 (7.82%) DevOps
13 103 (7.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 99 (7.52%) ITIL
15 98 (7.44%) Service Design
16 97 (7.37%) Scrum
16 97 (7.37%) Workshop Facilitation
17 94 (7.14%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 118 (8.96%) JavaScript
2 88 (6.68%) Python
3 86 (6.53%) TypeScript
4 81 (6.15%) Java
5 77 (5.85%) SQL
6 53 (4.02%) PowerShell
7 28 (2.13%) C#
8 26 (1.97%) Kotlin
9 20 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 15 (1.14%) Bash
11 14 (1.06%) Swift
12 8 (0.61%) VBScript
13 7 (0.53%) Go
13 7 (0.53%) PHP
13 7 (0.53%) VB
14 6 (0.46%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.46%) Scala
15 5 (0.38%) Korn
15 5 (0.38%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 204 (15.49%) Security Cleared
2 155 (11.77%) SC Cleared
3 112 (8.50%) Degree
4 29 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 20 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 20 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (0.84%) PMP
8 10 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.61%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (0.53%) CCA
11 7 (0.53%) Citrix Certification
11 7 (0.53%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.46%) CCIE
12 6 (0.46%) CCNP
12 6 (0.46%) MCSE
13 5 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (15.41%) Accessibility
2 83 (6.30%) QA
3 69 (5.24%) WCAG
4 43 (3.26%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.44%) GDPR
6 11 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 7 (0.53%) PMO
8 5 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.38%) SLA
9 4 (0.30%) GRC
10 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.15%) PSD2
11 1 (0.076%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.076%) GMP
11 1 (0.076%) GxP
11 1 (0.076%) NIST
11 1 (0.076%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.076%) WAI
System Software
1 98 (7.44%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.89%) Docker
3 29 (2.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 19 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.84%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.53%) BitLocker
7 6 (0.46%) Firmware
7 6 (0.46%) vSphere
8 5 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.38%) XenApp
8 5 (0.38%) XenDesktop
9 4 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.23%) UAG
11 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.076%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 49 (3.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (3.26%) Kubernetes
3 41 (3.11%) Terraform
4 33 (2.51%) SCCM
5 20 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (1.37%) Grafana
7 15 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (1.06%) Ansible
9 12 (0.91%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.38%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.30%) Clonezilla
11 4 (0.30%) Podman
11 4 (0.30%) SysTrack
12 3 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.23%) 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
1 232 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 76 (5.77%) ServiceNow
3 71 (5.39%) Adobe
4 44 (3.34%) Google
5 42 (3.19%) Oracle
6 31 (2.35%) SAP
7 29 (2.20%) Salesforce
8 28 (2.13%) Citrix
9 22 (1.67%) Dynatrace
9 22 (1.67%) VMware
10 20 (1.52%) Apple
11 19 (1.44%) Splunk
12 18 (1.37%) Cisco
12 18 (1.37%) Workday
13 15 (1.14%) Foundry
14 14 (1.06%) Zscaler
15 12 (0.91%) Aruba
16 11 (0.84%) OpenAI
17 10 (0.76%) Okta
18 8 (0.61%) Databricks