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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 65 80
Rank change year-on-year -28 +15 -16
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,347 1,032 877
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.91% 3.77% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 4.15% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 797 657 534
10th Percentile £293 £300 £313
25th Percentile £390 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £683 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 46 23
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.50 £30.00
25th Percentile £26.50 £30.31 £30.51
Median hourly rate £33.99 £36.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -27.72% +6.32%
75th Percentile £67.89 £54.69 £74.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £66.96 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £35.22 £36.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -3.51% -27.72% +6.32%

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 39,157 24,863 28,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.87% 86.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,010 15,784 17,561
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £648
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,714 1,478 1,320
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.29 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.74 £66.53
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -31 681 £516 +3.25% 2,091
North of England -10 258 £435 +3.88% 375
Midlands -10 152 £475 +9.20% 194
North West -28 127 £410 -3.53% 235
West Midlands -9 120 £469 -6.14% 142
South East -49 100 £403 -12.97% 284
South West -9 81 £475 -2.56% 151
Yorkshire -1 80 £500 +25.00% 98
North East -3 50 £338 -25.00% 45
East of England -11 42 £418 -20.48% 144
East Midlands -11 32 £500 +39.66% 52
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 68 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 56 (4.16%) CMS
3 36 (2.67%) Confluence
4 28 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.11%) WordPress
6 9 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.52%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.45%) Apache
8 6 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.37%) Drupal
9 5 (0.37%) 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%) Traefik
11 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 24 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 20 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.41%) Photoshop
4 18 (1.34%) Chatbot
5 16 (1.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 15 (1.11%) Sketch
7 12 (0.89%) Adobe After Effects
8 11 (0.82%) MS Visio
9 10 (0.74%) Adobe XD
10 9 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
13 1 (0.074%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.074%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.074%) Blender
13 1 (0.074%) Final Cut Pro
13 1 (0.074%) InVision
13 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
1 6 (0.45%) Shopify
1 6 (0.45%) Workday HCM
2 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
3 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.22%) iTrent
4 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.15%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.074%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.074%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.074%) Magento
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.074%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.074%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 197 (14.63%) Azure
2 148 (10.99%) Figma
3 140 (10.39%) Microsoft 365
4 115 (8.54%) AWS
5 94 (6.98%) Power Platform
6 61 (4.53%) Entra ID
7 58 (4.31%) Microsoft Copilot
8 48 (3.56%) GitHub
9 45 (3.34%) SaaS
10 42 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
11 37 (2.75%) GCP
12 31 (2.30%) OneDrive
12 31 (2.30%) PowerApps
13 27 (2.00%) Copilot Studio
14 26 (1.93%) Power Automate
15 20 (1.48%) Azure AI
16 16 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (1.11%) Serverless
18 13 (0.97%) Firebase
19 12 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.27%) DNS
2 38 (2.82%) DHCP
3 34 (2.52%) TCP/IP
4 29 (2.15%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (1.48%) VPN
5 20 (1.48%) Wireless
6 17 (1.26%) LAN
7 16 (1.19%) Firewall
8 15 (1.11%) WAN
9 12 (0.89%) NetScaler
10 9 (0.67%) Internet
10 9 (0.67%) Network Security
11 8 (0.59%) Cisco Wireless
11 8 (0.59%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.59%) Skype
12 6 (0.45%) Intranet
13 5 (0.37%) SMS
13 5 (0.37%) SNMP
13 5 (0.37%) SSL
13 5 (0.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.79%) Power BI
2 24 (1.78%) Metadata
3 13 (0.97%) Power Query
3 13 (0.97%) Tableau
4 12 (0.89%) SQL Server
5 11 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (0.74%) NoSQL
6 10 (0.74%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.67%) Looker
8 8 (0.59%) Qlik Sense
9 7 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.52%) MySQL
9 7 (0.52%) Redis
10 6 (0.45%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.45%) QlikView
10 6 (0.45%) Star Schema
11 5 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.37%) Flink
11 5 (0.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 73 (5.42%) JIRA
2 66 (4.90%) Git
3 28 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.48%) Vite
5 19 (1.41%) Cypress.io
6 16 (1.19%) Storybook
7 14 (1.04%) GitLab
8 12 (0.89%) fastlane
9 10 (0.74%) Android Studio
10 9 (0.67%) Browser DevTools
10 9 (0.67%) Xcode
11 7 (0.52%) JMeter
11 7 (0.52%) Postman
11 7 (0.52%) REST Assured
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%) MSI
13 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
General
1 436 (32.37%) Social Skills
2 229 (17.00%) Finance
3 181 (13.44%) Public Sector
4 132 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (7.42%) Banking
6 79 (5.86%) Retail
7 69 (5.12%) Marketing
8 48 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 38 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
10 37 (2.75%) Legal
11 28 (2.08%) Automotive
12 26 (1.93%) Publishing
13 23 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
15 19 (1.41%) Manufacturing
16 17 (1.26%) Military
17 14 (1.04%) Investment Banking
18 12 (0.89%) Front Office
19 9 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 273 (20.27%) Designer
2 188 (13.96%) Developer
3 179 (13.29%) Senior
4 120 (8.91%) Lead
5 116 (8.61%) UX Designer
6 88 (6.53%) Analyst
7 68 (5.05%) UI Designer
8 62 (4.60%) Consultant
9 57 (4.23%) Architect
10 55 (4.08%) IT Support
11 53 (3.93%) Support Engineer
12 51 (3.79%) Product Manager
12 51 (3.79%) User Researcher
13 49 (3.64%) Senior Designer
14 44 (3.27%) Business Analyst
15 43 (3.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 41 (3.04%) Content Designer
17 39 (2.90%) User Experience Researcher
18 37 (2.75%) IT Support Engineer
18 37 (2.75%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (9.87%) React
2 99 (7.35%) CSS
3 87 (6.46%) HTML
4 79 (5.86%) REST
5 42 (3.12%) RESTful
6 41 (3.04%) Terraform
7 40 (2.97%) AngularJS
8 39 (2.90%) GraphQL
9 38 (2.82%) HTML5
10 36 (2.67%) CSS3
11 35 (2.60%) .NET
12 31 (2.30%) Next.js
13 24 (1.78%) OAuth
13 24 (1.78%) Spring
14 23 (1.71%) Spring Boot
15 21 (1.56%) Jest
15 21 (1.56%) Playwright
16 20 (1.48%) Node.js
17 18 (1.34%) OAuth2
17 18 (1.34%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 126 (9.35%) Product Ownership
2 80 (5.94%) Onboarding
3 74 (5.49%) Mobile App
4 44 (3.27%) Cloud Native
5 42 (3.12%) AI Agents
6 29 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
6 29 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 27 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (1.56%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.48%) NHS
11 20 (1.48%) Social Media
12 18 (1.34%) Educational Technology
13 17 (1.26%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.19%) Graphic Design
15 13 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (0.97%) Taxonomies
15 13 (0.97%) Virtual Reality
16 12 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 148 (10.99%) Windows
2 58 (4.31%) Apple iOS
3 57 (4.23%) Android
4 56 (4.16%) Windows 10
5 34 (2.52%) Windows Server
6 32 (2.38%) Mac OS
7 18 (1.34%) Linux
8 12 (0.89%) 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
1 431 (32.00%) UX Design
2 382 (28.36%) Agile
3 257 (19.08%) AI
4 245 (18.19%) Stakeholder Management
5 230 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
6 193 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 186 (13.81%) Analytics
8 161 (11.95%) CI/CD
9 157 (11.66%) User Research
10 146 (10.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 141 (10.47%) Roadmaps
12 136 (10.10%) Decision-Making
13 108 (8.02%) DevOps
14 107 (7.94%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 104 (7.72%) Scrum
16 101 (7.50%) Workshop Facilitation
17 100 (7.42%) ITIL
17 100 (7.42%) Service Design
18 99 (7.35%) Prototyping
19 96 (7.13%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 128 (9.50%) JavaScript
2 104 (7.72%) TypeScript
3 88 (6.53%) Python
4 85 (6.31%) Java
5 82 (6.09%) SQL
6 49 (3.64%) PowerShell
7 31 (2.30%) C#
8 26 (1.93%) Kotlin
9 18 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (1.19%) Bash
11 15 (1.11%) Swift
12 8 (0.59%) Go
12 8 (0.59%) VBScript
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%) C++
Qualifications
1 210 (15.59%) Security Cleared
2 161 (11.95%) SC Cleared
3 104 (7.72%) Degree
4 31 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 20 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.04%) PMP
10 9 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (0.59%) AWS Certification
11 8 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.59%) 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%) CISSP
14 5 (0.37%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.30%) CCA
15 4 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (15.07%) Accessibility
2 85 (6.31%) QA
3 73 (5.42%) WCAG
4 45 (3.34%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.41%) GDPR
6 13 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.67%) SLA
8 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 7 (0.52%) PMO
9 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.22%) GRC
12 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.15%) PSD2
13 1 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.074%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.074%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.074%) NIST
13 1 (0.074%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.074%) WAI
System Software
1 102 (7.57%) Active Directory
2 42 (3.12%) Docker
3 26 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 23 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 9 (0.67%) XenApp
7 8 (0.59%) XenDesktop
8 7 (0.52%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.45%) vSphere
10 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.22%) UAG
12 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
13 2 (0.15%) Firmware
13 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.074%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 47 (3.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (3.19%) Kubernetes
3 31 (2.30%) SCCM
4 21 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (1.48%) Grafana
6 16 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
7 14 (1.04%) Ansible
8 11 (0.82%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.45%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.37%) SysTrack
11 4 (0.30%) Clonezilla
11 4 (0.30%) Podman
12 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.22%) WSUS
13 2 (0.15%) Argo
13 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.15%) Istio
13 2 (0.15%) Packer
13 2 (0.15%) SCOM
13 2 (0.15%) vMotion
Vendors
1 242 (17.97%) Microsoft
2 84 (6.24%) ServiceNow
3 68 (5.05%) Adobe
4 44 (3.27%) Google
5 43 (3.19%) Oracle
6 31 (2.30%) SAP
7 29 (2.15%) Salesforce
8 26 (1.93%) Citrix
8 26 (1.93%) VMware
9 25 (1.86%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.71%) Splunk
11 18 (1.34%) Apple
12 17 (1.26%) Cisco
13 16 (1.19%) Foundry
14 15 (1.11%) Workday
15 14 (1.04%) Zscaler
16 13 (0.97%) OpenAI
17 10 (0.74%) Aruba
17 10 (0.74%) Okta
18 8 (0.59%) Databricks