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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 65 87
Rank change year-on-year -21 +22 -29
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,358 1,018 844
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 3.66% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 4.04% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 648 546
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £390 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £624
90th Percentile £680 £722 £722
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 40 31
10th Percentile £16.00 £24.53 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.62 £34.48 £28.28
Median hourly rate £33.99 £48.25 £41.68
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% +15.78% +57.26%
75th Percentile £67.84 £65.35 £72.20
90th Percentile £74.68 £73.55 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £49.00 £41.68
% change year-on-year -30.63% +17.58% +54.35%

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 38,664 25,206 28,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.74% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,131 16,135 18,803
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
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 £757
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 1,396 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.85 £70.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -24 691 £525 +5.00% 605
North of England -11 228 £440 -2.22% 157
Midlands -7 143 £475 +11.76% 80
South East -45 121 £450 -5.26% 139
West Midlands -11 114 £475 -5.00% 61
North West -26 112 £425 -5.56% 84
South West -14 78 £475 +18.75% 79
Yorkshire -29 64 £500 +25.00% 51
North East -1 51 £363 -24.48% 22
East of England +14 50 £410 -16.33% 47
East Midlands -11 29 £468 +31.32% 19
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 59 (4.34%) SharePoint
2 54 (3.98%) CMS
3 34 (2.50%) Confluence
4 25 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.10%) WordPress
6 8 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.52%) 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 (0.074%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 27 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.84%) Sketch
3 20 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 20 (1.47%) Chatbot
3 20 (1.47%) Photoshop
4 16 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.10%) Adobe Illustrator
6 13 (0.96%) Adobe After Effects
6 13 (0.96%) Adobe XD
7 10 (0.74%) 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 (0.074%) Blender
11 1 (0.074%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
1 11 (0.81%) Workday HCM
2 7 (0.52%) 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 (0.074%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.074%) Magento
7 1 (0.074%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.074%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 208 (15.32%) Azure
2 180 (13.25%) Figma
3 124 (9.13%) Microsoft 365
4 116 (8.54%) AWS
5 96 (7.07%) Power Platform
6 58 (4.27%) Entra ID
7 49 (3.61%) Microsoft Copilot
8 46 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (3.31%) GCP
10 42 (3.09%) GitHub
11 41 (3.02%) SaaS
12 33 (2.43%) PowerApps
13 29 (2.14%) OneDrive
14 25 (1.84%) Copilot Studio
14 25 (1.84%) Power Automate
15 19 (1.40%) Azure AI
16 18 (1.33%) Serverless
17 14 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
18 11 (0.81%) Firebase
19 10 (0.74%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.87%) DNS
2 33 (2.43%) DHCP
3 29 (2.14%) TCP/IP
4 25 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (1.55%) Wireless
6 20 (1.47%) LAN
7 13 (0.96%) Firewall
7 13 (0.96%) WAN
8 12 (0.88%) Internet
8 12 (0.88%) VPN
9 10 (0.74%) Intranet
10 9 (0.66%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.59%) Cisco Wireless
11 8 (0.59%) Skype
12 7 (0.52%) 5G
13 6 (0.44%) Network Security
13 6 (0.44%) WLAN
14 5 (0.37%) 802.11
14 5 (0.37%) SMS
14 5 (0.37%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.05%) Power BI
2 23 (1.69%) Metadata
3 17 (1.25%) Power Query
4 16 (1.18%) Relational Database
5 15 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.03%) Tableau
7 13 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (0.96%) NoSQL
8 11 (0.81%) SQL Server
9 9 (0.66%) MySQL
10 8 (0.59%) Looker
11 7 (0.52%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.52%) Star Schema
12 6 (0.44%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.44%) ZAP BI
13 5 (0.37%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.37%) Flink
13 5 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
13 5 (0.37%) Redis
14 4 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 73 (5.38%) JIRA
2 53 (3.90%) Git
3 24 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.47%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.25%) GitLab
5 17 (1.25%) Vite
6 10 (0.74%) Android Studio
6 10 (0.74%) Browser DevTools
6 10 (0.74%) fastlane
7 9 (0.66%) Storybook
7 9 (0.66%) Xcode
8 8 (0.59%) Gradle
9 6 (0.44%) Selenium
10 5 (0.37%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.37%) Crashlytics
10 5 (0.37%) Fiddler
10 5 (0.37%) JUnit
10 5 (0.37%) Postman
10 5 (0.37%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.29%) REST Assured
General
1 432 (31.81%) Social Skills
2 248 (18.26%) Finance
3 178 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 133 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
5 113 (8.32%) Banking
6 80 (5.89%) Retail
7 69 (5.08%) Marketing
8 46 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
10 33 (2.43%) Legal
11 30 (2.21%) Publishing
12 28 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (1.99%) Automotive
14 22 (1.62%) Manufacturing
14 22 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
15 18 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (0.96%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.81%) Front Office
17 11 (0.81%) Military
18 8 (0.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 299 (22.02%) Designer
2 185 (13.62%) Senior
3 175 (12.89%) Developer
4 127 (9.35%) UX Designer
5 107 (7.88%) Lead
6 102 (7.51%) Analyst
7 75 (5.52%) UI Designer
8 72 (5.30%) Consultant
9 55 (4.05%) User Researcher
10 52 (3.83%) Senior Designer
11 51 (3.76%) Architect
11 51 (3.76%) Content Designer
12 49 (3.61%) Business Analyst
13 45 (3.31%) IT Support
13 45 (3.31%) Product Manager
14 43 (3.17%) Support Engineer
14 43 (3.17%) UI/UX Designer
15 41 (3.02%) User Experience Researcher
16 40 (2.95%) Product Designer
17 29 (2.14%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (8.47%) React
2 97 (7.14%) CSS
3 84 (6.19%) HTML
4 82 (6.04%) REST
5 46 (3.39%) RESTful
6 44 (3.24%) AngularJS
7 37 (2.72%) GraphQL
8 35 (2.58%) .NET
9 33 (2.43%) HTML5
10 32 (2.36%) CSS3
11 26 (1.91%) Spring
12 25 (1.84%) Spring Boot
13 21 (1.55%) Node.js
14 20 (1.47%) Jest
14 20 (1.47%) JSON
14 20 (1.47%) Next.js
15 18 (1.33%) ASP.NET
15 18 (1.33%) OAuth
15 18 (1.33%) Redux
15 18 (1.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 127 (9.35%) Product Ownership
2 81 (5.96%) Mobile App
3 77 (5.67%) Onboarding
4 38 (2.80%) Cloud Native
5 35 (2.58%) AI Agents
6 29 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (1.62%) Data Centre
10 21 (1.55%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.47%) Social Media
12 19 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.25%) Graphic Design
14 16 (1.18%) Educational Technology
15 15 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 15 (1.10%) Management Information System
16 14 (1.03%) Algorithms
16 14 (1.03%) NHS
16 14 (1.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 127 (9.35%) Windows
2 51 (3.76%) Android
3 48 (3.53%) Apple iOS
4 44 (3.24%) Windows 10
5 25 (1.84%) Mac OS
6 19 (1.40%) Windows Server
7 16 (1.18%) Linux
8 10 (0.74%) 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
1 433 (31.89%) UX Design
2 390 (28.72%) Agile
3 252 (18.56%) AI
4 224 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
5 207 (15.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 185 (13.62%) Analytics
7 178 (13.11%) User Research
8 176 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 160 (11.78%) CI/CD
10 149 (10.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 139 (10.24%) Roadmaps
12 128 (9.43%) Decision-Making
13 117 (8.62%) Prototyping
14 116 (8.54%) DevOps
15 110 (8.10%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 106 (7.81%) UX Research
16 106 (7.81%) Wireframes
17 104 (7.66%) Service Design
18 98 (7.22%) Scrum
19 97 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 118 (8.69%) JavaScript
2 92 (6.77%) Java
3 90 (6.63%) Python
3 90 (6.63%) SQL
4 86 (6.33%) TypeScript
5 50 (3.68%) PowerShell
6 32 (2.36%) Kotlin
7 30 (2.21%) C#
8 23 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (1.03%) Swift
10 13 (0.96%) Bash
11 8 (0.59%) Korn
12 7 (0.52%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.52%) Go
12 7 (0.52%) PHP
12 7 (0.52%) R
12 7 (0.52%) Scala
12 7 (0.52%) VBScript
13 6 (0.44%) VB
13 6 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 203 (14.95%) Security Cleared
2 156 (11.49%) SC Cleared
3 122 (8.98%) Degree
4 31 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (1.84%) DV Cleared
6 24 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 21 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (0.74%) PMP
9 9 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.59%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.59%) Citrix Certification
10 8 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (0.52%) CCA
12 6 (0.44%) CCIE
12 6 (0.44%) CCNP
12 6 (0.44%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.44%) MCSE
13 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (16.35%) Accessibility
2 93 (6.85%) QA
3 71 (5.23%) WCAG
4 44 (3.24%) Data Quality
5 20 (1.47%) GDPR
6 14 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.59%) PMO
8 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (0.44%) SLA
10 4 (0.29%) GRC
11 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.15%) PSD2
12 1 (0.074%) COBIT
12 1 (0.074%) GMP
12 1 (0.074%) GxP
12 1 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.074%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.074%) WAI
System Software
1 81 (5.96%) Active Directory
2 39 (2.87%) Docker
3 28 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (1.03%) 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 (0.074%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 42 (3.09%) Kubernetes
1 42 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 42 (3.09%) Terraform
2 32 (2.36%) SCCM
3 22 (1.62%) Grafana
4 16 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (0.96%) Ansible
5 13 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
6 11 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.29%) Clonezilla
8 4 (0.29%) Podman
9 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.22%) WSUS
10 2 (0.15%) Argo
10 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.15%) Packer
10 2 (0.15%) SCOM
10 2 (0.15%) vMotion
11 1 (0.074%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 231 (17.01%) Microsoft
2 76 (5.60%) Adobe
3 74 (5.45%) ServiceNow
4 48 (3.53%) Google
5 39 (2.87%) SAP
6 37 (2.72%) Oracle
7 31 (2.28%) Salesforce
8 25 (1.84%) Citrix
9 24 (1.77%) Splunk
10 22 (1.62%) Dynatrace
11 21 (1.55%) Workday
12 18 (1.33%) Cisco
13 17 (1.25%) VMware
14 16 (1.18%) Apple
15 15 (1.10%) Foundry
16 14 (1.03%) Zscaler
17 12 (0.88%) Aruba
18 11 (0.81%) OpenAI
19 9 (0.66%) Okta
20 8 (0.59%) Databricks