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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 74 71
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -10
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,134 902 1,094
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.61% 3.09% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.06% 3.50% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 745 528 760
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £371 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £568 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 25 27
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.26 £18.64
25th Percentile £17.69 £30.00 £28.75
Median hourly rate £35.60 £41.91 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -17.01% -19.20%
75th Percentile £60.50 £51.75 £71.91
90th Percentile £70.16 £74.00 £81.25
UK median hourly rate £35.60 £41.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -13.17% -18.81% -19.20%

All Process and 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 27,925 25,808 32,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.90% 88.45% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,780 15,959 22,396
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,812 863 1,395
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.97 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 -5 582 £476 -9.29% 225
North of England +22 202 £429 -4.67% 199
North West +10 129 £403 -10.50% 113
South East -3 113 £450 - 254
Midlands +14 111 £447 +0.45% 140
West Midlands +6 79 £441 -17.95% 89
South West +20 67 £550 -4.35% 85
Yorkshire -4 58 £475 - 57
East of England -1 37 £460 -6.03% 68
East Midlands -8 32 £456 +28.09% 51
North East +5 14 £393 - 32
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 50 (4.41%) Confluence
2 49 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 47 (4.14%) CMS
4 17 (1.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 14 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (1.06%) Headless CMS
7 10 (0.88%) Sitecore CMS
8 9 (0.79%) Apache
9 7 (0.62%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.44%) SugarCRM
10 5 (0.44%) WordPress
11 3 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.26%) Drupal
11 3 (0.26%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.088%) Appian
12 1 (0.088%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.088%) Mendix
12 1 (0.088%) Traefik
Applications
1 40 (3.53%) Sketch
2 23 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.85%) Adobe XD
3 21 (1.85%) MS Visio
4 19 (1.68%) Chatbot
5 15 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
6 11 (0.97%) Adobe Illustrator
6 11 (0.97%) InVision
7 10 (0.88%) Photoshop
8 9 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 6 (0.53%) Trello
10 4 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.35%) Camtasia
11 3 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.26%) Snagit
11 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.26%) UserZoom
12 2 (0.18%) OmniGraffle
12 2 (0.18%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 19 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.35%) Magento
3 4 (0.35%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.26%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.26%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.26%) Shopify
4 3 (0.26%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.18%) iTrent
5 2 (0.18%) Maximo
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.088%) assyst
6 1 (0.088%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.088%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.088%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.088%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.088%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 195 (17.20%) Azure
2 120 (10.58%) Figma
3 119 (10.49%) AWS
4 85 (7.50%) SaaS
5 78 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
6 75 (6.61%) Power Platform
7 67 (5.91%) GCP
8 51 (4.50%) Entra ID
9 37 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
10 35 (3.09%) GitHub
11 26 (2.29%) Google Analytics
12 25 (2.20%) Miro
13 22 (1.94%) Google Workspace
14 21 (1.85%) Sauce Labs
14 21 (1.85%) Serverless
15 19 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (1.59%) Power Automate
16 18 (1.59%) PowerApps
17 16 (1.41%) Google Tag Manager
18 15 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.65%) DNS
2 29 (2.56%) Wireless
3 16 (1.41%) Internet
4 11 (0.97%) VPN
5 10 (0.88%) DHCP
6 9 (0.79%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (0.71%) Firewall
7 8 (0.71%) SSL
8 7 (0.62%) BGP
8 7 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (0.62%) Cisco Wireless
8 7 (0.62%) HTTP
8 7 (0.62%) NX-OS
8 7 (0.62%) VXLAN
9 6 (0.53%) Unified Communications
10 5 (0.44%) Intranet
10 5 (0.44%) Network Security
10 5 (0.44%) NFC
10 5 (0.44%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (4.14%) Power BI
2 39 (3.44%) Relational Database
3 38 (3.35%) MySQL
4 30 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (2.20%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.12%) Tableau
7 21 (1.85%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.50%) MongoDB
9 14 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (1.06%) BigQuery
10 12 (1.06%) Looker
11 11 (0.97%) Redis
12 7 (0.62%) Metadata
12 7 (0.62%) Mixpanel
12 7 (0.62%) SAP HANA
13 5 (0.44%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.35%) Big Data
15 3 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.26%) Hadoop
15 3 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 111 (9.79%) JIRA
2 74 (6.53%) Git
3 42 (3.70%) GitLab
4 37 (3.26%) Jenkins
5 33 (2.91%) Xcode
6 30 (2.65%) Eclipse
7 29 (2.56%) Android Studio
8 23 (2.03%) Browser DevTools
9 16 (1.41%) Cypress.io
9 16 (1.41%) webpack
10 15 (1.32%) Axure RP
10 15 (1.32%) Gradle
11 13 (1.15%) Postman
12 10 (0.88%) Artifactory
13 9 (0.79%) Visual Website Optimizer
14 8 (0.71%) CircleCI
14 8 (0.71%) IntelliJ
14 8 (0.71%) JUnit
14 8 (0.71%) Selenium
15 6 (0.53%) Cucumber
General
1 410 (36.16%) Social Skills
2 210 (18.52%) Finance
3 154 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (11.73%) Public Sector
5 86 (7.58%) Banking
6 84 (7.41%) Marketing
7 36 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
8 30 (2.65%) Legal
9 28 (2.47%) Retail
10 22 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (1.94%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 16 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
13 16 (1.41%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.15%) Automotive
14 13 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 11 (0.97%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.97%) Publishing
16 10 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 187 (16.49%) Developer
2 184 (16.23%) Designer
3 153 (13.49%) Senior
4 95 (8.38%) Lead
4 95 (8.38%) UX Designer
5 90 (7.94%) Analyst
6 53 (4.67%) Business Analyst
7 47 (4.14%) Consultant
8 41 (3.62%) Senior Designer
9 40 (3.53%) Support Engineer
10 37 (3.26%) Architect
11 34 (3.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 34 (3.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 33 (2.91%) Product Designer
13 32 (2.82%) UI Designer
14 31 (2.73%) Service Designer
15 30 (2.65%) Full-Stack Developer
16 27 (2.38%) Technical Support
17 26 (2.29%) Software Engineer
17 26 (2.29%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (13.14%) CSS
2 145 (12.79%) React
3 131 (11.55%) HTML
4 80 (7.05%) REST
5 76 (6.70%) AngularJS
6 75 (6.61%) RESTful
7 52 (4.59%) GraphQL
8 50 (4.41%) HTML5
8 50 (4.41%) Node.js
9 36 (3.17%) .NET
10 33 (2.91%) CSS3
11 29 (2.56%) Jest
12 25 (2.20%) Next.js
13 24 (2.12%) Bootstrap
13 24 (2.12%) Spring
14 23 (2.03%) Playwright
15 22 (1.94%) Ajax
15 22 (1.94%) Redux
16 21 (1.85%) Spring Boot
17 20 (1.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 110 (9.70%) Mobile App
2 98 (8.64%) Product Ownership
3 70 (6.17%) Onboarding
4 26 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
5 25 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (1.68%) e-Learning
6 19 (1.68%) Management Information System
7 18 (1.59%) Data Centre
8 16 (1.41%) Data Structures
8 16 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (1.41%) Learning Management System
8 16 (1.41%) Low-Code
9 15 (1.32%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.23%) NHS
11 13 (1.15%) Cloud Native
11 13 (1.15%) Virtual Team
12 11 (0.97%) CMDB
12 11 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (0.97%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 138 (12.17%) Windows
2 77 (6.79%) Android
3 62 (5.47%) Apple iOS
4 42 (3.70%) Linux
5 37 (3.26%) Windows 10
6 26 (2.29%) Mac OS
6 26 (2.29%) Unix
7 9 (0.79%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.44%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.18%) tvOS
9 2 (0.18%) VMS
10 1 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.088%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (35.54%) Agile
2 353 (31.13%) UX Design
3 206 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
4 203 (17.90%) Analytics
5 143 (12.61%) CI/CD
6 130 (11.46%) Roadmaps
6 130 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 129 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 127 (11.20%) AI
9 125 (11.02%) User Research
10 124 (10.93%) DevOps
11 115 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 96 (8.47%) Front End Development
13 95 (8.38%) Service Design
14 94 (8.29%) Decision-Making
14 94 (8.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 78 (6.88%) User Stories
16 76 (6.70%) Scrum
17 74 (6.53%) Test Automation
18 70 (6.17%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 177 (15.61%) JavaScript
2 119 (10.49%) Python
3 103 (9.08%) Java
4 101 (8.91%) SQL
5 83 (7.32%) TypeScript
6 63 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 40 (3.53%) C#
8 36 (3.17%) Kotlin
9 29 (2.56%) Swift
10 26 (2.29%) Perl
11 24 (2.12%) Bash
12 14 (1.23%) PHP
13 13 (1.15%) Objective-C
14 12 (1.06%) C++
15 11 (0.97%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.79%) Go
17 7 (0.62%) Lisp
18 5 (0.44%) C
18 5 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 161 (14.20%) Security Cleared
2 115 (10.14%) SC Cleared
3 108 (9.52%) Degree
4 28 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.59%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.32%) PMI Certification
8 13 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (0.97%) MOS
10 9 (0.79%) OCA
10 9 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
10 9 (0.79%) PMP
11 8 (0.71%) CCNP
11 8 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.35%) Citrix Certification
14 3 (0.26%) CSPO
14 3 (0.26%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.18%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (15.87%) Accessibility
2 114 (10.05%) QA
3 63 (5.56%) GDPR
4 51 (4.50%) WCAG
5 36 (3.17%) Data Quality
6 28 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (1.94%) SLA
8 12 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 7 (0.62%) GxP
10 6 (0.53%) PMO
11 5 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.35%) NCSC
13 3 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.26%) NIST
13 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.26%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.18%) GMP
14 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 70 (6.17%) Active Directory
2 47 (4.14%) Docker
3 26 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.088%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.088%) Firmware
8 1 (0.088%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.088%) XenApp
8 1 (0.088%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 51 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (3.88%) Kubernetes
3 41 (3.62%) SCCM
4 24 (2.12%) Terraform
5 15 (1.32%) Ansible
5 15 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (1.15%) Grafana
7 7 (0.62%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.35%) Argo
10 3 (0.26%) Nagios
10 3 (0.26%) Rancher
10 3 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.18%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.18%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (0.18%) PingFederate
11 2 (0.18%) SysTrack
12 1 (0.088%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.088%) Podman
Vendors
1 216 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 87 (7.67%) Google
3 73 (6.44%) Adobe
4 68 (6.00%) ServiceNow
5 58 (5.11%) Oracle
6 43 (3.79%) SAP
7 38 (3.35%) Salesforce
8 32 (2.82%) Splunk
9 28 (2.47%) VMware
10 21 (1.85%) Citrix
11 17 (1.50%) Apple
12 15 (1.32%) Cisco
13 13 (1.15%) Optimizely
14 12 (1.06%) Hotjar
15 11 (0.97%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.97%) Zscaler
16 10 (0.88%) MuleSoft
16 10 (0.88%) Sitecore
17 9 (0.79%) Amplitude
17 9 (0.79%) Workday