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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 61 71
Rank change year-on-year -18 +10 -8
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,215 875 1,021
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.18% 3.61% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 3.97% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 589 678
10th Percentile £304 £300 £291
25th Percentile £390 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £601
90th Percentile £663 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 21 44
10th Percentile £16.36 £25.26 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £41.91 £23.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £49.50 £29.14
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% +69.90% -35.26%
75th Percentile £64.58 £82.96 £62.45
90th Percentile £82.50 £95.50 £73.49
UK median hourly rate £47.25 £51.00 £31.71
% change year-on-year -7.35% +60.83% -19.21%

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 32,913 22,023 32,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.03% 90.83% 86.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,101 14,513 21,559
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,010 854 2,155
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.34 £20.00 £15.92
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.88 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -18 627 £500 -2.91% 296
North of England +2 210 £450 - 176
North West +12 131 £420 -6.67% 94
South East -13 124 £490 -2.24% 122
Midlands -15 119 £500 +25.00% 93
West Midlands -33 78 £475 +9.51% 62
South West -15 65 £463 +23.33% 59
Yorkshire -21 54 £513 +28.04% 45
East Midlands -10 41 £550 +54.49% 31
East of England -22 29 £425 -10.99% 33
North East 0 24 £405 -15.63% 39
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 52 (4.28%) SharePoint
2 41 (3.37%) Confluence
3 37 (3.05%) CMS
4 20 (1.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 18 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.82%) Headless CMS
7 8 (0.66%) Apache
8 7 (0.58%) Sitecore CMS
9 6 (0.49%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.33%) Camunda
10 4 (0.33%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.33%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.25%) Drupal
11 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.25%) nginx
12 2 (0.16%) Appian
12 2 (0.16%) Mendix
13 1 (0.082%) Traefik
Applications
1 34 (2.80%) Sketch
2 27 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (2.06%) Adobe XD
4 22 (1.81%) Chatbot
5 20 (1.65%) MS Visio
6 16 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
7 11 (0.91%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.66%) InVision
9 7 (0.58%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 6 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.33%) UXPin
12 3 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.25%) Trello
12 3 (0.25%) UserZoom
13 2 (0.16%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.16%) Camtasia
13 2 (0.16%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 16 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.49%) Sage X3
4 6 (0.49%) Shopify
5 3 (0.25%) Magento
5 3 (0.25%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.25%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.16%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.16%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.082%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.082%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.082%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.082%) iTrent
7 1 (0.082%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.082%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 201 (16.54%) Azure
2 164 (13.50%) Figma
3 114 (9.38%) AWS
4 90 (7.41%) Power Platform
5 82 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
6 51 (4.20%) GCP
7 50 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (4.12%) Entra ID
8 43 (3.54%) GitHub
9 42 (3.46%) SaaS
10 33 (2.72%) PowerApps
11 28 (2.30%) Power Automate
12 27 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
13 25 (2.06%) Serverless
14 23 (1.89%) Google Workspace
15 22 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
16 21 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
17 19 (1.56%) Google Sheets
18 18 (1.48%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.32%) Wireless
2 15 (1.23%) DNS
3 11 (0.91%) LAN
4 10 (0.82%) Intranet
4 10 (0.82%) VPN
4 10 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (0.74%) DHCP
5 9 (0.74%) Internet
5 9 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.66%) Firewall
6 8 (0.66%) SD-WAN
6 8 (0.66%) WAN
7 7 (0.58%) BGP
7 7 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (0.58%) Cisco Wireless
8 6 (0.49%) HTTP
8 6 (0.49%) SSL
9 5 (0.41%) NX-OS
9 5 (0.41%) VXLAN
9 5 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.86%) Power BI
2 28 (2.30%) NoSQL
3 27 (2.22%) Relational Database
4 23 (1.89%) MySQL
5 22 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (1.73%) SQL Server
7 17 (1.40%) Tableau
8 14 (1.15%) Metadata
9 12 (0.99%) MongoDB
10 10 (0.82%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.66%) Looker
12 7 (0.58%) Pinecone
12 7 (0.58%) Power Query
12 7 (0.58%) Redis
13 6 (0.49%) ZAP BI
14 5 (0.41%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 95 (7.82%) JIRA
2 70 (5.76%) Git
3 42 (3.46%) GitLab
4 24 (1.98%) Jenkins
5 23 (1.89%) Cypress.io
6 22 (1.81%) JUnit
7 15 (1.23%) Axure RP
8 14 (1.15%) Gradle
9 13 (1.07%) Android Studio
10 12 (0.99%) CircleCI
11 11 (0.91%) Xcode
12 10 (0.82%) Browser DevTools
13 9 (0.74%) Eclipse
13 9 (0.74%) Postman
13 9 (0.74%) Selenium
14 8 (0.66%) Artifactory
14 8 (0.66%) Mocha
15 7 (0.58%) Vite
16 6 (0.49%) Cucumber
17 5 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 403 (33.17%) Social Skills
2 243 (20.00%) Finance
3 156 (12.84%) Public Sector
4 149 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (8.15%) Banking
6 56 (4.61%) Marketing
7 44 (3.62%) Retail
8 29 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
9 27 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
9 27 (2.22%) Legal
10 20 (1.65%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.07%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.07%) Publishing
13 12 (0.99%) Front Office
13 12 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (0.91%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.82%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 232 (19.09%) Designer
2 184 (15.14%) Senior
3 180 (14.81%) Developer
4 122 (10.04%) Analyst
5 118 (9.71%) UX Designer
6 64 (5.27%) Lead
7 58 (4.77%) Product Designer
8 56 (4.61%) Consultant
9 55 (4.53%) Business Analyst
10 52 (4.28%) Architect
10 52 (4.28%) Senior Designer
11 40 (3.29%) UI Designer
12 38 (3.13%) Support Engineer
13 36 (2.96%) Full-Stack Developer
14 35 (2.88%) IT Support
14 35 (2.88%) Senior Developer
14 35 (2.88%) User Researcher
15 34 (2.80%) Software Engineer
16 33 (2.72%) Service Designer
17 31 (2.55%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (12.76%) React
2 132 (10.86%) CSS
3 117 (9.63%) HTML
4 92 (7.57%) REST
5 75 (6.17%) AngularJS
6 71 (5.84%) RESTful
7 58 (4.77%) Spring
8 57 (4.69%) Spring Boot
9 47 (3.87%) Node.js
10 43 (3.54%) .NET
11 35 (2.88%) HTML5
12 34 (2.80%) GraphQL
13 32 (2.63%) CSS3
14 28 (2.30%) Redux
15 24 (1.98%) Jest
15 24 (1.98%) Next.js
15 24 (1.98%) Vue
16 20 (1.65%) JSON
16 20 (1.65%) Kafka
16 20 (1.65%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 114 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 71 (5.84%) Mobile App
3 48 (3.95%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.22%) AI Agents
4 27 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 23 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 17 (1.40%) Cloud Native
6 17 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 14 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.07%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.07%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.07%) Virtual Team
10 11 (0.91%) NHS
11 9 (0.74%) Augmented Reality
11 9 (0.74%) e-Learning
11 9 (0.74%) Graphic Design
11 9 (0.74%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 114 (9.38%) Windows
2 42 (3.46%) Windows 10
3 41 (3.37%) Android
4 29 (2.39%) Apple iOS
5 22 (1.81%) Linux
6 18 (1.48%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.74%) Unix
8 6 (0.49%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.082%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.082%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.082%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (32.35%) Agile
2 376 (30.95%) UX Design
3 200 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
4 193 (15.88%) Analytics
5 175 (14.40%) AI
6 165 (13.58%) User Research
7 152 (12.51%) Stakeholder Management
8 150 (12.35%) CI/CD
9 146 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 143 (11.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 141 (11.60%) DevOps
12 116 (9.55%) Roadmaps
13 110 (9.05%) Prototyping
14 107 (8.81%) Decision-Making
14 107 (8.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 106 (8.72%) Wireframes
16 103 (8.48%) UX Research
17 95 (7.82%) Service Design
18 87 (7.16%) Usability Testing
19 82 (6.75%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 166 (13.66%) JavaScript
2 125 (10.29%) SQL
3 111 (9.14%) Java
4 102 (8.40%) Python
5 98 (8.07%) TypeScript
6 53 (4.36%) PowerShell
7 46 (3.79%) C#
8 26 (2.14%) Kotlin
9 17 (1.40%) Bash
10 13 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (0.99%) Perl
12 9 (0.74%) Swift
13 8 (0.66%) PHP
14 6 (0.49%) Go
14 6 (0.49%) Korn
14 6 (0.49%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.49%) VBA
15 5 (0.41%) Lisp
16 4 (0.33%) R
17 3 (0.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 154 (12.67%) Security Cleared
2 112 (9.22%) SC Cleared
3 104 (8.56%) Degree
4 27 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (1.48%) DV Cleared
7 17 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (0.82%) CCNP
10 9 (0.74%) Azure Certification
10 9 (0.74%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.58%) MOS
11 7 (0.58%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.49%) Citrix Certification
12 6 (0.49%) OCA
12 6 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (0.41%) CCA
14 4 (0.33%) CCIE
15 3 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (15.72%) Accessibility
2 118 (9.71%) QA
3 63 (5.19%) WCAG
4 44 (3.62%) Data Quality
5 36 (2.96%) GDPR
6 18 (1.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 14 (1.15%) SLA
8 13 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.58%) PMO
10 6 (0.49%) NCSC
11 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.25%) GMP
12 3 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.25%) GRC
12 3 (0.25%) GxP
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.25%) NIST
13 2 (0.16%) COBIT
System Software
1 70 (5.76%) Active Directory
2 56 (4.61%) Docker
3 19 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.41%) Firmware
6 4 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.16%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.082%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.082%) Varnish
8 1 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.082%) XenApp
8 1 (0.082%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 56 (4.61%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (2.96%) Terraform
3 25 (2.06%) SCCM
4 19 (1.56%) Grafana
5 12 (0.99%) Ansible
6 11 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.41%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.33%) Argo
9 4 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.25%) Nagios
10 3 (0.25%) Rancher
11 2 (0.16%) Podman
11 2 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
12 1 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.082%) Consul
12 1 (0.082%) WMI
Vendors
1 201 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 72 (5.93%) Adobe
3 68 (5.60%) Google
4 61 (5.02%) ServiceNow
5 40 (3.29%) Oracle
5 40 (3.29%) SAP
6 32 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.73%) Citrix
8 20 (1.65%) VMware
9 17 (1.40%) Cisco
9 17 (1.40%) Splunk
10 14 (1.15%) Apple
11 13 (1.07%) Workday
12 11 (0.91%) Red Hat
13 9 (0.74%) Ekahau
13 9 (0.74%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.74%) Sitecore
14 8 (0.66%) Zscaler
15 7 (0.58%) Foundry
16 6 (0.49%) Aruba