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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 61 75
Rank change year-on-year -16 +14 -12
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,239 889 997
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.08% 3.66% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 4.01% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 586 674
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +0.82% -2.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 20 48
10th Percentile £16.00 £25.21 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.29 £41.75 £23.75
Median hourly rate £44.50 £51.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +62.41% -6.31%
75th Percentile £65.67 £83.60 £64.65
90th Percentile £82.20 £95.60 £73.96
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £53.50 £32.11
% change year-on-year -6.54% +66.64% -8.27%

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 34,200 22,151 32,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.97% 91.14% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,858 14,510 20,977
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,144 918 2,231
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.74 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.50% -14.23% -5.33%
75th Percentile £67.31 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.66 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +39.87% -16.94% -6.17%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -23 645 £513 -1.44% 223
North of England +5 197 £458 +1.72% 288
Midlands -5 145 £500 +24.69% 94
North West +10 119 £423 -6.11% 228
South East -28 109 £480 +4.75% 111
West Midlands -18 95 £475 +1.33% 55
South West -13 68 £463 +23.33% 43
Yorkshire -28 53 £513 +27.97% 46
East Midlands -5 50 £550 +53.63% 39
East of England -24 29 £410 -13.68% 47
North East -5 23 £410 -9.39% 16
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 47 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 44 (3.55%) Confluence
3 37 (2.99%) CMS
4 18 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 16 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (0.48%) WordPress
7 5 (0.40%) Apache
7 5 (0.40%) Drupal
7 5 (0.40%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.40%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.32%) Camunda
8 4 (0.32%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.32%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.32%) Mendix
9 3 (0.24%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) Kentico
Applications
1 28 (2.26%) Sketch
2 23 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.69%) Adobe XD
3 21 (1.69%) Chatbot
4 14 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (0.89%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.65%) Adobe After Effects
8 6 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.48%) InVision
8 6 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.32%) Trello
10 4 (0.32%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.24%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.24%) UXPin
12 2 (0.16%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
1 12 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.73%) Shopify
3 8 (0.65%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.48%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.16%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.16%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.16%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.081%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.081%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.081%) iTrent
6 1 (0.081%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.081%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 196 (15.82%) Azure
2 173 (13.96%) Figma
3 103 (8.31%) AWS
4 91 (7.34%) Power Platform
5 90 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (3.95%) Entra ID
7 45 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (3.63%) GCP
8 39 (3.15%) GitHub
9 37 (2.99%) Microsoft Copilot
10 34 (2.74%) PowerApps
11 32 (2.58%) SaaS
12 31 (2.50%) Power Automate
13 23 (1.86%) Google Workspace
14 22 (1.78%) Serverless
15 21 (1.69%) Copilot Studio
16 20 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (1.53%) Google Sheets
18 18 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.05%) DNS
2 12 (0.97%) Internet
2 12 (0.97%) Intranet
2 12 (0.97%) LAN
3 11 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (0.89%) Wireless
4 10 (0.81%) SD-WAN
5 9 (0.73%) DHCP
6 8 (0.65%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.65%) VPN
7 7 (0.56%) WAN
8 6 (0.48%) Cisco Wireless
8 6 (0.48%) WLAN
9 5 (0.40%) 5G
9 5 (0.40%) Firewall
9 5 (0.40%) HTTP
9 5 (0.40%) SMS
9 5 (0.40%) SSL
10 4 (0.32%) 802.11
10 4 (0.32%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.68%) Power BI
2 21 (1.69%) NoSQL
3 20 (1.61%) Relational Database
3 20 (1.61%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.29%) MySQL
6 13 (1.05%) Metadata
7 12 (0.97%) Tableau
8 10 (0.81%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.73%) Power Query
10 8 (0.65%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 7 (0.56%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.48%) Looker
12 6 (0.48%) ZAP BI
13 5 (0.40%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.40%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.40%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 94 (7.59%) JIRA
2 65 (5.25%) Git
3 34 (2.74%) GitLab
4 24 (1.94%) Cypress.io
5 20 (1.61%) JUnit
6 17 (1.37%) Jenkins
7 13 (1.05%) Gradle
8 11 (0.89%) Axure RP
8 11 (0.89%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.81%) Browser DevTools
10 9 (0.73%) Selenium
11 8 (0.65%) Android Studio
12 7 (0.56%) Xcode
13 6 (0.48%) Mocha
13 6 (0.48%) Postman
13 6 (0.48%) Vite
14 5 (0.40%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.40%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.40%) Storybook
14 5 (0.40%) TestRail
General
1 393 (31.72%) Social Skills
2 246 (19.85%) Finance
3 155 (12.51%) Public Sector
4 135 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (7.83%) Banking
6 54 (4.36%) Marketing
7 50 (4.04%) Retail
8 33 (2.66%) Legal
9 30 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (1.45%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (1.37%) Publishing
13 15 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (1.05%) Automotive
15 11 (0.89%) Front Office
15 11 (0.89%) Investment Banking
16 10 (0.81%) Local Government
16 10 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 258 (20.82%) Designer
2 192 (15.50%) Senior
3 163 (13.16%) Developer
4 125 (10.09%) UX Designer
5 114 (9.20%) Analyst
6 69 (5.57%) Lead
7 65 (5.25%) Consultant
8 58 (4.68%) Product Designer
9 56 (4.52%) Architect
10 55 (4.44%) Business Analyst
11 52 (4.20%) Senior Designer
12 50 (4.04%) UI Designer
13 43 (3.47%) Content Designer
14 42 (3.39%) User Researcher
15 39 (3.15%) User Experience Researcher
16 37 (2.99%) UI/UX Designer
17 35 (2.82%) IT Support
18 34 (2.74%) Service Designer
18 34 (2.74%) Support Engineer
19 32 (2.58%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (11.62%) React
2 126 (10.17%) CSS
3 113 (9.12%) HTML
4 85 (6.86%) REST
5 68 (5.49%) AngularJS
6 60 (4.84%) RESTful
7 52 (4.20%) Spring
8 51 (4.12%) Spring Boot
9 41 (3.31%) .NET
10 36 (2.91%) Node.js
11 31 (2.50%) HTML5
12 29 (2.34%) CSS3
12 29 (2.34%) GraphQL
12 29 (2.34%) Redux
13 24 (1.94%) Next.js
14 23 (1.86%) JSON
15 21 (1.69%) Jest
16 20 (1.61%) Vue
17 19 (1.53%) Kafka
18 18 (1.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 112 (9.04%) Product Ownership
2 62 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 50 (4.04%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.58%) AI Agents
5 30 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (1.78%) Cloud Native
7 21 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 21 (1.69%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.21%) Virtual Reality
11 14 (1.13%) Augmented Reality
12 13 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (0.89%) Algorithms
14 11 (0.89%) Management Information System
15 10 (0.81%) Low-Code
15 10 (0.81%) NHS
15 10 (0.81%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 92 (7.43%) Windows
2 38 (3.07%) Windows 10
3 32 (2.58%) Android
4 26 (2.10%) Apple iOS
5 19 (1.53%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.89%) Linux
7 8 (0.65%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.40%) Unix
9 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.081%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (31.56%) UX Design
2 390 (31.48%) Agile
3 194 (15.66%) AI
4 192 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
5 189 (15.25%) Analytics
6 172 (13.88%) User Research
7 156 (12.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 146 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 144 (11.62%) CI/CD
9 144 (11.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 136 (10.98%) Roadmaps
11 131 (10.57%) DevOps
12 120 (9.69%) UX Research
13 117 (9.44%) Prototyping
14 107 (8.64%) Wireframes
15 101 (8.15%) Decision-Making
16 99 (7.99%) Service Design
17 98 (7.91%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 91 (7.34%) Usability Testing
18 91 (7.34%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 152 (12.27%) JavaScript
2 109 (8.80%) Java
3 108 (8.72%) SQL
4 96 (7.75%) TypeScript
5 91 (7.34%) Python
6 42 (3.39%) C#
6 42 (3.39%) PowerShell
7 24 (1.94%) Kotlin
8 16 (1.29%) Bash
9 14 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.65%) Swift
11 7 (0.56%) Korn
12 6 (0.48%) Go
12 6 (0.48%) VBA
13 5 (0.40%) Perl
13 5 (0.40%) R
14 4 (0.32%) PHP
14 4 (0.32%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.24%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 156 (12.59%) Security Cleared
2 117 (9.44%) SC Cleared
3 108 (8.72%) Degree
4 29 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (1.78%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 11 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (0.65%) CCNP
10 7 (0.56%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.56%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.48%) CCA
11 6 (0.48%) CCIE
11 6 (0.48%) Citrix Certification
12 4 (0.32%) CCNA
12 4 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.32%) OCA
12 4 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (15.98%) Accessibility
2 112 (9.04%) QA
3 63 (5.08%) WCAG
4 41 (3.31%) Data Quality
5 37 (2.99%) GDPR
6 22 (1.78%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.73%) SLA
9 7 (0.56%) PMO
10 6 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.24%) GMP
12 3 (0.24%) GRC
12 3 (0.24%) GxP
12 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.24%) NCSC
13 2 (0.16%) COBIT
13 2 (0.16%) NIST
13 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 68 (5.49%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.47%) Docker
3 19 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.48%) Firmware
6 5 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.24%) XenApp
7 3 (0.24%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.081%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.081%) Varnish
9 1 (0.081%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (4.36%) Kubernetes
2 39 (3.15%) Terraform
3 32 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (2.26%) SCCM
5 22 (1.78%) Grafana
6 15 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.13%) Ansible
8 10 (0.81%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.32%) Podman
10 3 (0.24%) Argo
10 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.24%) Nagios
10 3 (0.24%) Rancher
10 3 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.16%) WSUS
12 1 (0.081%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.081%) WMI
Vendors
1 193 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 73 (5.89%) Adobe
3 62 (5.00%) Google
4 49 (3.95%) ServiceNow
5 46 (3.71%) SAP
6 45 (3.63%) Oracle
7 40 (3.23%) Salesforce
8 23 (1.86%) Citrix
9 18 (1.45%) VMware
10 17 (1.37%) Workday
11 16 (1.29%) Splunk
12 14 (1.13%) Cisco
13 13 (1.05%) Apple
14 10 (0.81%) Sitecore
15 9 (0.73%) Aruba
15 9 (0.73%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.65%) Foundry
16 8 (0.65%) Zscaler
17 7 (0.56%) Dynatrace
17 7 (0.56%) OpenAI