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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 63 80
Rank change year-on-year -13 +17 -21
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,280 911 977
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.03% 3.72% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 4.08% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 817 586 656
10th Percentile £315 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £384 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% -3.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £623
90th Percentile £680 £730 £700
UK median daily rate £493 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.68% -5.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 27 47
10th Percentile £16.00 £32.96 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.50 £35.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £33.98 £53.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.49% +78.33% +13.21%
75th Percentile £60.25 £71.33 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.60 £89.50 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £53.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -36.47% +68.72% +7.15%

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 35,948 22,351 32,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 91.35% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,764 14,463 20,809
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 1,016 2,371
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -27 649 £522 +4.40% 298
North of England -16 197 £450 +7.46% 120
Midlands -5 155 £475 +18.16% 55
South East -17 130 £490 +3.16% 144
North West -6 121 £423 -5.48% 81
West Midlands -9 106 £475 -9.52% 38
South West +1 74 £475 +26.67% 33
Yorkshire -29 55 £513 +29.91% 25
East Midlands 0 49 £550 +55.81% 17
East of England -8 32 £410 -13.68% 50
North East -16 21 £450 -6.25% 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 53 (4.14%) SharePoint
2 42 (3.28%) Confluence
3 40 (3.13%) CMS
4 22 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.55%) WordPress
7 5 (0.39%) Drupal
7 5 (0.39%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) Camunda
8 4 (0.31%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.31%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.31%) Kentico
9 3 (0.23%) Mendix
9 3 (0.23%) nginx
9 3 (0.23%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.16%) Apache
10 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.16%) IIS
11 1 (0.078%) Appian
Applications
1 23 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.72%) Photoshop
3 20 (1.56%) Chatbot
3 20 (1.56%) Sketch
4 17 (1.33%) Adobe Illustrator
5 14 (1.09%) Adobe After Effects
5 14 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (0.86%) Adobe XD
7 10 (0.78%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 8 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 4 (0.31%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.23%) InVision
11 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.23%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.23%) UXPin
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.16%) Trello
13 1 (0.078%) Blender
13 1 (0.078%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 11 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.70%) Workday HCM
3 8 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.63%) Shopify
4 6 (0.47%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.16%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.078%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.078%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.078%) Magento
7 1 (0.078%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.078%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.078%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 199 (15.55%) Azure
2 174 (13.59%) Figma
3 107 (8.36%) Microsoft 365
4 106 (8.28%) AWS
5 90 (7.03%) Power Platform
6 55 (4.30%) Entra ID
7 45 (3.52%) Microsoft Copilot
8 44 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (2.89%) GCP
9 37 (2.89%) SaaS
10 36 (2.81%) GitHub
11 33 (2.58%) PowerApps
12 29 (2.27%) OneDrive
13 28 (2.19%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.80%) Copilot Studio
14 23 (1.80%) Google Workspace
15 22 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (1.64%) Serverless
17 19 (1.48%) Google Sheets
18 18 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.95%) DNS
2 23 (1.80%) DHCP
3 20 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
4 18 (1.41%) Wireless
5 17 (1.33%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.09%) LAN
7 13 (1.02%) Internet
8 12 (0.94%) Intranet
9 9 (0.70%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.63%) Cisco Wireless
11 7 (0.55%) 5G
11 7 (0.55%) Skype
11 7 (0.55%) VPN
11 7 (0.55%) WAN
11 7 (0.55%) WLAN
12 6 (0.47%) Firewall
13 5 (0.39%) 802.11
13 5 (0.39%) HTTP
13 5 (0.39%) SMS
14 4 (0.31%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.30%) Power BI
2 21 (1.64%) Metadata
3 19 (1.48%) Relational Database
3 19 (1.48%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.25%) NoSQL
6 15 (1.17%) Power Query
7 14 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (1.02%) MySQL
9 9 (0.70%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.70%) Tableau
10 6 (0.47%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.47%) Pinecone
10 6 (0.47%) Redis
10 6 (0.47%) ZAP BI
11 5 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.39%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.39%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.31%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.31%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 80 (6.25%) JIRA
2 57 (4.45%) Git
3 21 (1.64%) GitLab
4 19 (1.48%) Cypress.io
5 18 (1.41%) Jenkins
6 14 (1.09%) JUnit
7 11 (0.86%) Gradle
7 11 (0.86%) Vite
8 10 (0.78%) Android Studio
8 10 (0.78%) Browser DevTools
9 9 (0.70%) Xcode
10 8 (0.63%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.63%) fastlane
11 6 (0.47%) Axure RP
11 6 (0.47%) Postman
12 5 (0.39%) Mocha
12 5 (0.39%) Selenium
12 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.31%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.31%) Maven
General
1 382 (29.84%) Social Skills
2 231 (18.05%) Finance
3 153 (11.95%) Public Sector
4 117 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (7.66%) Banking
6 68 (5.31%) Retail
7 58 (4.53%) Marketing
8 34 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (2.19%) Automotive
11 27 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (2.11%) Legal
12 21 (1.64%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.64%) Publishing
13 15 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (0.94%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.86%) Local Government
17 9 (0.70%) Front Office
18 7 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 277 (21.64%) Designer
2 193 (15.08%) Senior
3 168 (13.13%) Developer
4 125 (9.77%) UX Designer
5 106 (8.28%) Analyst
6 85 (6.64%) Lead
7 69 (5.39%) UI Designer
8 63 (4.92%) Consultant
9 55 (4.30%) Product Designer
9 55 (4.30%) Senior Designer
10 50 (3.91%) Architect
10 50 (3.91%) Content Designer
11 47 (3.67%) Business Analyst
12 46 (3.59%) User Experience Researcher
13 45 (3.52%) IT Support
14 42 (3.28%) UI/UX Designer
15 40 (3.13%) Product Manager
16 35 (2.73%) User Researcher
17 32 (2.50%) Senior Developer
18 30 (2.34%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (10.47%) React
2 113 (8.83%) CSS
3 99 (7.73%) HTML
4 77 (6.02%) REST
5 62 (4.84%) AngularJS
6 51 (3.98%) RESTful
7 44 (3.44%) Spring
8 43 (3.36%) .NET
8 43 (3.36%) Spring Boot
9 30 (2.34%) GraphQL
10 25 (1.95%) Node.js
11 24 (1.88%) JSON
12 23 (1.80%) Redux
13 22 (1.72%) HTML5
14 21 (1.64%) CSS3
15 20 (1.56%) ASP.NET
15 20 (1.56%) Next.js
15 20 (1.56%) OAuth
15 20 (1.56%) SOAP
16 18 (1.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 123 (9.61%) Product Ownership
2 61 (4.77%) Mobile App
3 56 (4.38%) Onboarding
4 30 (2.34%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.11%) Cloud Native
6 25 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.41%) Data Structures
10 17 (1.33%) Data Centre
10 17 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 15 (1.17%) Social Media
12 15 (1.17%) Taxonomies
13 13 (1.02%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.02%) Graphic Design
13 13 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.02%) Virtual Reality
13 13 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 102 (7.97%) Windows
2 42 (3.28%) Apple iOS
3 40 (3.13%) Android
4 32 (2.50%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.80%) Mac OS
6 12 (0.94%) Linux
7 11 (0.86%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.47%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.31%) Unix
9 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (32.97%) UX Design
2 377 (29.45%) Agile
3 209 (16.33%) AI
4 198 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
5 177 (13.83%) Analytics
6 168 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 160 (12.50%) User Research
8 155 (12.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 142 (11.09%) Roadmaps
10 135 (10.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 133 (10.39%) CI/CD
12 120 (9.38%) Prototyping
13 115 (8.98%) UX Research
14 114 (8.91%) DevOps
15 109 (8.52%) Decision-Making
16 105 (8.20%) Wireframes
17 104 (8.13%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 92 (7.19%) Service Design
19 89 (6.95%) Usability Testing
20 87 (6.80%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 140 (10.94%) JavaScript
2 99 (7.73%) Java
3 94 (7.34%) TypeScript
4 92 (7.19%) SQL
5 84 (6.56%) Python
6 48 (3.75%) PowerShell
7 42 (3.28%) C#
8 27 (2.11%) Kotlin
9 20 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (1.02%) Bash
11 12 (0.94%) Swift
12 8 (0.63%) Korn
13 6 (0.47%) R
13 6 (0.47%) VBA
13 6 (0.47%) VBScript
14 5 (0.39%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.39%) VB
15 4 (0.31%) Perl
16 3 (0.23%) PHP
16 3 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 160 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 121 (9.45%) Degree
3 120 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 23 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 20 (1.56%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.25%) Azure Certification
9 10 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (0.55%) CCA
11 7 (0.55%) CCIE
11 7 (0.55%) CCNP
11 7 (0.55%) Citrix Certification
11 7 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (0.47%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.39%) MCSE
13 5 (0.39%) PMP
14 4 (0.31%) CWNA
14 4 (0.31%) CWSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (15.55%) Accessibility
2 86 (6.72%) QA
3 66 (5.16%) WCAG
4 42 (3.28%) Data Quality
5 26 (2.03%) GDPR
6 17 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 5 (0.39%) PMO
9 5 (0.39%) SLA
10 3 (0.23%) GMP
10 3 (0.23%) GRC
10 3 (0.23%) GxP
11 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.16%) NCSC
11 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.078%) COBIT
12 1 (0.078%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.078%) WAI
System Software
1 64 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 39 (3.05%) Docker
3 23 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.47%) Firmware
6 5 (0.39%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.16%) vSphere
9 2 (0.16%) XenApp
9 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.078%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 43 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 42 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 36 (2.81%) Terraform
4 34 (2.66%) SCCM
5 16 (1.25%) Grafana
5 16 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
7 10 (0.78%) Ansible
8 7 (0.55%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.31%) Clonezilla
9 4 (0.31%) Podman
10 3 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.23%) WSUS
11 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.16%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.16%) Packer
11 2 (0.16%) SCOM
11 2 (0.16%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.16%) vMotion
12 1 (0.078%) Argo
Vendors
1 214 (16.72%) Microsoft
2 70 (5.47%) Adobe
3 63 (4.92%) ServiceNow
4 53 (4.14%) Google
5 38 (2.97%) Salesforce
6 37 (2.89%) SAP
7 33 (2.58%) Oracle
8 22 (1.72%) Citrix
9 17 (1.33%) Workday
10 16 (1.25%) Apple
10 16 (1.25%) Cisco
10 16 (1.25%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.25%) VMware
11 13 (1.02%) Splunk
12 12 (0.94%) Aruba
13 11 (0.86%) Foundry
14 8 (0.63%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.55%) Databricks
15 7 (0.55%) Zscaler
16 6 (0.47%) Ekahau