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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 70 87
Rank change year-on-year -15 +17 -29
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,367 1,005 864
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.02% 3.65% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 4.02% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 644 565
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £393 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £623
90th Percentile £680 £724 £723
UK median daily rate £476 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 37 32
10th Percentile £16.00 £27.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.12 £35.25 £26.17
Median hourly rate £33.99 £49.50 £41.68
Median % change year-on-year -31.33% +18.78% +57.26%
75th Percentile £67.84 £70.16 £71.29
90th Percentile £76.53 £76.68 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £51.00 £41.68
% change year-on-year -33.35% +22.38% +51.55%

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 38,641 24,977 29,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.76% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,154 16,016 19,101
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,371 1,780
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.92 £17.98 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -21 698 £525 +5.00% 419
North of England -12 222 £439 -2.44% 112
Midlands -5 144 £475 +12.43% 71
South East -31 128 £483 +1.58% 132
West Midlands -11 115 £475 -5.00% 54
North West -33 111 £425 -5.56% 57
South West -16 78 £475 +18.75% 65
Yorkshire -37 60 £500 +25.00% 36
North East -4 51 £375 -21.88% 19
East of England +9 49 £410 -16.33% 53
East Midlands -8 29 £468 +31.32% 17
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 61 (4.46%) SharePoint
2 53 (3.88%) CMS
3 34 (2.49%) Confluence
4 25 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.02%) WordPress
6 8 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.51%) Apache
8 6 (0.44%) Drupal
8 6 (0.44%) Skype for Business
9 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.29%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.29%) Kentico
10 4 (0.29%) 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%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.073%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 28 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.83%) Sketch
3 20 (1.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 20 (1.46%) Chatbot
3 20 (1.46%) Photoshop
4 16 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.10%) Adobe Illustrator
6 13 (0.95%) Adobe After Effects
6 13 (0.95%) Adobe XD
7 10 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.59%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.29%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.15%) InVision
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.073%) Blender
11 1 (0.073%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.073%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
1 11 (0.80%) Workday HCM
2 7 (0.51%) Shopify
3 6 (0.44%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.29%) Oracle iProcurement
5 3 (0.22%) iTrent
5 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.073%) Magento
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.073%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.073%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.073%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 209 (15.29%) Azure
2 183 (13.39%) Figma
3 124 (9.07%) Microsoft 365
4 113 (8.27%) AWS
5 98 (7.17%) Power Platform
6 58 (4.24%) Entra ID
7 50 (3.66%) Microsoft Copilot
8 47 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
9 46 (3.37%) GCP
10 41 (3.00%) GitHub
10 41 (3.00%) SaaS
11 34 (2.49%) PowerApps
12 30 (2.19%) OneDrive
13 26 (1.90%) Copilot Studio
13 26 (1.90%) Power Automate
14 19 (1.39%) Azure AI
15 17 (1.24%) Serverless
16 14 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (0.80%) Firebase
18 10 (0.73%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.85%) DNS
2 33 (2.41%) DHCP
3 29 (2.12%) TCP/IP
4 25 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (1.54%) Wireless
6 20 (1.46%) LAN
7 13 (0.95%) Firewall
7 13 (0.95%) WAN
8 12 (0.88%) Internet
8 12 (0.88%) VPN
9 10 (0.73%) Intranet
10 9 (0.66%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.59%) Cisco Wireless
11 8 (0.59%) Skype
12 7 (0.51%) 5G
13 6 (0.44%) Network Security
13 6 (0.44%) WLAN
14 5 (0.37%) SMS
14 5 (0.37%) SNMP
14 5 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (4.10%) Power BI
2 23 (1.68%) Metadata
3 17 (1.24%) Power Query
4 16 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (1.17%) Relational Database
5 14 (1.02%) NoSQL
6 13 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (0.95%) Tableau
7 12 (0.88%) SQL Server
8 10 (0.73%) MySQL
9 8 (0.59%) Looker
10 7 (0.51%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.44%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.44%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.44%) Star Schema
11 6 (0.44%) ZAP BI
12 5 (0.37%) Flink
12 5 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
12 5 (0.37%) Redis
13 4 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 73 (5.34%) JIRA
2 53 (3.88%) Git
3 24 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.46%) Cypress.io
5 18 (1.32%) Vite
6 17 (1.24%) GitLab
7 10 (0.73%) Android Studio
7 10 (0.73%) Browser DevTools
7 10 (0.73%) fastlane
7 10 (0.73%) Storybook
8 9 (0.66%) Xcode
9 8 (0.59%) Gradle
10 6 (0.44%) Selenium
11 5 (0.37%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.37%) Fiddler
11 5 (0.37%) JUnit
11 5 (0.37%) Postman
11 5 (0.37%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.37%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 435 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 250 (18.29%) Finance
3 180 (13.17%) Public Sector
4 134 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
5 114 (8.34%) Banking
6 81 (5.93%) Retail
7 68 (4.97%) Marketing
8 45 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
9 33 (2.41%) Legal
10 29 (2.12%) Publishing
11 28 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (1.98%) Automotive
13 22 (1.61%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (0.95%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.80%) Front Office
16 11 (0.80%) Military
17 8 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 301 (22.02%) Designer
2 185 (13.53%) Senior
3 176 (12.87%) Developer
4 128 (9.36%) UX Designer
5 111 (8.12%) Lead
6 104 (7.61%) Analyst
7 76 (5.56%) UI Designer
8 72 (5.27%) Consultant
9 54 (3.95%) User Researcher
10 52 (3.80%) Senior Designer
11 51 (3.73%) Architect
11 51 (3.73%) Content Designer
12 50 (3.66%) Business Analyst
13 44 (3.22%) IT Support
13 44 (3.22%) Product Manager
13 44 (3.22%) UI/UX Designer
14 43 (3.15%) Product Designer
15 42 (3.07%) Support Engineer
15 42 (3.07%) User Experience Researcher
16 31 (2.27%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (8.49%) React
2 98 (7.17%) CSS
3 85 (6.22%) HTML
4 83 (6.07%) REST
5 48 (3.51%) RESTful
6 46 (3.37%) AngularJS
7 37 (2.71%) GraphQL
8 36 (2.63%) .NET
9 33 (2.41%) HTML5
10 32 (2.34%) CSS3
11 24 (1.76%) Spring
12 23 (1.68%) Spring Boot
13 21 (1.54%) Node.js
14 20 (1.46%) Jest
14 20 (1.46%) JSON
14 20 (1.46%) Next.js
15 19 (1.39%) OAuth
16 18 (1.32%) ASP.NET
16 18 (1.32%) Redux
16 18 (1.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 128 (9.36%) Product Ownership
2 83 (6.07%) Mobile App
3 77 (5.63%) Onboarding
4 37 (2.71%) Cloud Native
5 36 (2.63%) AI Agents
6 29 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (1.61%) Data Centre
10 21 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.46%) Social Media
12 19 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.24%) Graphic Design
14 16 (1.17%) Educational Technology
15 15 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 15 (1.10%) Management Information System
16 14 (1.02%) Algorithms
16 14 (1.02%) NHS
16 14 (1.02%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 128 (9.36%) Windows
2 51 (3.73%) Android
3 48 (3.51%) Apple iOS
4 43 (3.15%) Windows 10
5 27 (1.98%) Mac OS
6 19 (1.39%) Windows Server
7 16 (1.17%) Linux
8 10 (0.73%) Unix
9 9 (0.66%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (31.82%) UX Design
2 390 (28.53%) Agile
3 256 (18.73%) AI
4 227 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
5 208 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 187 (13.68%) Analytics
7 180 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 177 (12.95%) User Research
9 161 (11.78%) CI/CD
10 150 (10.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 142 (10.39%) Roadmaps
12 132 (9.66%) Decision-Making
13 118 (8.63%) Prototyping
14 117 (8.56%) DevOps
15 110 (8.05%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 109 (7.97%) UX Research
16 109 (7.97%) Wireframes
17 104 (7.61%) Service Design
18 98 (7.17%) Workshop Facilitation
19 96 (7.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 119 (8.71%) JavaScript
2 91 (6.66%) Java
2 91 (6.66%) Python
3 89 (6.51%) SQL
4 88 (6.44%) TypeScript
5 49 (3.58%) PowerShell
6 32 (2.34%) Kotlin
7 31 (2.27%) C#
8 23 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (1.02%) Swift
10 13 (0.95%) Bash
11 8 (0.59%) Korn
12 7 (0.51%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.51%) Go
12 7 (0.51%) R
12 7 (0.51%) Scala
12 7 (0.51%) VBScript
13 6 (0.44%) PHP
13 6 (0.44%) VB
13 6 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 208 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 159 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 122 (8.92%) Degree
4 30 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (1.83%) DV Cleared
6 21 (1.54%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (0.73%) PMP
8 9 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (0.59%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.59%) Citrix Certification
9 8 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 7 (0.51%) CCA
11 6 (0.44%) CCIE
11 6 (0.44%) CCNP
11 6 (0.44%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.44%) MCSE
12 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (16.39%) Accessibility
2 94 (6.88%) QA
3 71 (5.19%) WCAG
4 48 (3.51%) Data Quality
5 20 (1.46%) GDPR
6 14 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.59%) PMO
8 7 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 7 (0.51%) SLA
9 4 (0.29%) GRC
10 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.15%) PSD2
11 1 (0.073%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.073%) GMP
11 1 (0.073%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.073%) NIST
11 1 (0.073%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.073%) SEPA
System Software
1 80 (5.85%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.93%) Docker
3 29 (2.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.44%) BitLocker
5 6 (0.44%) Firmware
5 6 (0.44%) vSphere
6 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.22%) UAG
8 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.15%) XenApp
9 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.073%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 44 (3.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (3.15%) Kubernetes
3 42 (3.07%) Terraform
4 35 (2.56%) SCCM
5 22 (1.61%) Grafana
6 17 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.95%) Ansible
7 13 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (0.80%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.29%) Clonezilla
10 4 (0.29%) Podman
11 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.22%) WSUS
12 2 (0.15%) Argo
12 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.15%) Packer
12 2 (0.15%) SCOM
12 2 (0.15%) vMotion
13 1 (0.073%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 235 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 76 (5.56%) Adobe
3 74 (5.41%) ServiceNow
4 49 (3.58%) Google
5 40 (2.93%) SAP
6 37 (2.71%) Oracle
7 31 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 26 (1.90%) Citrix
9 24 (1.76%) Splunk
10 22 (1.61%) Dynatrace
11 21 (1.54%) Workday
12 19 (1.39%) VMware
13 18 (1.32%) Cisco
14 16 (1.17%) Apple
15 15 (1.10%) Foundry
16 14 (1.02%) Zscaler
17 12 (0.88%) Aruba
18 11 (0.80%) OpenAI
19 9 (0.66%) Databricks
19 9 (0.66%) Okta