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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 72 71
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,114 855 1,051
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.52% 3.19% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 3.58% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 740 494 713
10th Percentile £290 £304 £325
25th Percentile £368 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £564 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 24 29
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.26 £23.75
25th Percentile £17.69 £30.33 £31.71
Median hourly rate £35.60 £42.21 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -30.24% -5.10%
75th Percentile £59.00 £53.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.05 £74.31 £81.50
UK median hourly rate £35.55 £41.46 £60.50
% change year-on-year -14.24% -31.48% -3.20%

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 27,954 23,866 31,707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.33% 89.11% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,831 14,651 21,413
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,737 769 1,474
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.60 £14.23
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.79 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -14 576 £480 -8.57% 256
North of England +14 201 £405 -10.00% 155
North West +19 129 £400 -11.11% 77
Midlands +2 108 £480 +18.52% 100
South East -3 105 £388 -22.50% 268
West Midlands -9 69 £435 -13.00% 55
South West -4 61 £500 -11.89% 98
Yorkshire -11 56 £500 +11.11% 56
East Midlands 0 39 £520 +46.07% 45
East of England -3 33 £460 +1.32% 108
North East +2 15 £410 - 22
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 (4.76%) Confluence
2 50 (4.49%) SharePoint
3 42 (3.77%) CMS
4 22 (1.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 13 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (1.08%) Headless CMS
7 9 (0.81%) Apache
8 8 (0.72%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.63%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.45%) SugarCRM
11 3 (0.27%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.27%) WordPress
12 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.18%) Appian
12 2 (0.18%) Camunda
12 2 (0.18%) Drupal
13 1 (0.090%) Moodle
13 1 (0.090%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 37 (3.32%) Sketch
2 23 (2.06%) MS Visio
3 22 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (1.89%) Adobe XD
5 20 (1.80%) Chatbot
6 13 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
7 11 (0.99%) Adobe Illustrator
7 11 (0.99%) Photoshop
8 10 (0.90%) InVision
9 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
10 6 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 5 (0.45%) Trello
12 4 (0.36%) Adobe After Effects
12 4 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.36%) Camtasia
13 3 (0.27%) Snagit
13 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
14 2 (0.18%) Autodesk Smoke
14 2 (0.18%) OmniGraffle
14 2 (0.18%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 19 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.27%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.27%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (0.27%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.18%) iTrent
4 2 (0.18%) Magento
4 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.090%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.090%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.090%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.090%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.090%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.090%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.090%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.090%) Shopify
5 1 (0.090%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 192 (17.24%) Azure
2 122 (10.95%) AWS
2 122 (10.95%) Figma
3 77 (6.91%) Power Platform
4 75 (6.73%) SaaS
5 72 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
6 57 (5.12%) GCP
7 49 (4.40%) Entra ID
8 39 (3.50%) GitHub
9 38 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (2.06%) Google Analytics
10 23 (2.06%) Serverless
11 21 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (1.89%) Miro
12 19 (1.71%) Google Workspace
12 19 (1.71%) Sauce Labs
13 17 (1.53%) PowerApps
14 15 (1.35%) Google Tag Manager
14 15 (1.35%) Power Automate
15 14 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.51%) DNS
2 26 (2.33%) Wireless
3 13 (1.17%) Internet
4 10 (0.90%) VPN
5 9 (0.81%) DHCP
5 9 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.63%) BGP
6 7 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (0.63%) Cisco Wireless
6 7 (0.63%) Firewall
6 7 (0.63%) HTTP
6 7 (0.63%) NX-OS
6 7 (0.63%) VXLAN
7 6 (0.54%) Unified Communications
8 5 (0.45%) Intranet
8 5 (0.45%) SSL
8 5 (0.45%) WAN
9 4 (0.36%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (4.31%) Power BI
2 37 (3.32%) MySQL
2 37 (3.32%) Relational Database
3 28 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (2.42%) SQL Server
5 20 (1.80%) NoSQL
6 19 (1.71%) Tableau
7 15 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.08%) MongoDB
9 11 (0.99%) BigQuery
9 11 (0.99%) Looker
10 9 (0.81%) Redis
11 8 (0.72%) Metadata
12 7 (0.63%) Mixpanel
12 7 (0.63%) SAP HANA
13 4 (0.36%) Big Data
13 4 (0.36%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.36%) Pinecone
14 3 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.27%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 112 (10.05%) JIRA
2 77 (6.91%) Git
3 42 (3.77%) GitLab
4 31 (2.78%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.69%) Xcode
6 27 (2.42%) Android Studio
6 27 (2.42%) Eclipse
7 21 (1.89%) Browser DevTools
7 21 (1.89%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.62%) Gradle
9 15 (1.35%) Axure RP
10 13 (1.17%) JUnit
10 13 (1.17%) Postman
11 12 (1.08%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.90%) Artifactory
12 10 (0.90%) webpack
13 9 (0.81%) Visual Website Optimizer
14 8 (0.72%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.72%) IntelliJ
14 8 (0.72%) Selenium
General
1 397 (35.64%) Social Skills
2 209 (18.76%) Finance
3 143 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (11.85%) Public Sector
5 77 (6.91%) Banking
6 76 (6.82%) Marketing
7 35 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (2.42%) Legal
9 24 (2.15%) Retail
10 23 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (1.97%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
13 15 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.17%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.17%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.08%) Automotive
16 10 (0.90%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.72%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 180 (16.16%) Designer
2 177 (15.89%) Developer
3 152 (13.64%) Senior
4 100 (8.98%) UX Designer
5 95 (8.53%) Analyst
6 88 (7.90%) Lead
7 50 (4.49%) Business Analyst
8 45 (4.04%) Consultant
9 41 (3.68%) Senior Designer
10 39 (3.50%) Product Designer
11 38 (3.41%) Support Engineer
12 35 (3.14%) Architect
12 35 (3.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 32 (2.87%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 31 (2.78%) Service Designer
15 30 (2.69%) UI Designer
16 29 (2.60%) Full-Stack Developer
17 27 (2.42%) Software Engineer
18 26 (2.33%) UX Engineer
19 25 (2.24%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (13.73%) CSS
1 153 (13.73%) React
2 136 (12.21%) HTML
3 83 (7.45%) REST
4 81 (7.27%) AngularJS
5 71 (6.37%) RESTful
6 49 (4.40%) GraphQL
7 44 (3.95%) Node.js
8 41 (3.68%) HTML5
9 37 (3.32%) .NET
10 30 (2.69%) Jest
10 30 (2.69%) Spring
11 28 (2.51%) CSS3
12 27 (2.42%) Spring Boot
13 25 (2.24%) Playwright
14 24 (2.15%) Next.js
15 22 (1.97%) Redux
16 20 (1.80%) Ajax
16 20 (1.80%) Bootstrap
16 20 (1.80%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 102 (9.16%) Mobile App
2 94 (8.44%) Product Ownership
3 63 (5.66%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (1.80%) e-Learning
7 18 (1.62%) Management Information System
8 16 (1.44%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.35%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.35%) Learning Management System
10 14 (1.26%) Low-Code
10 14 (1.26%) NHS
11 13 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.08%) CMDB
12 12 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (0.99%) AI Agents
13 11 (0.99%) Cloud Native
13 11 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (0.90%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 126 (11.31%) Windows
2 71 (6.37%) Android
3 56 (5.03%) Apple iOS
4 37 (3.32%) Linux
5 36 (3.23%) Windows 10
6 24 (2.15%) Unix
7 21 (1.89%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.63%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.18%) VMS
11 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.090%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (35.82%) Agile
2 356 (31.96%) UX Design
3 198 (17.77%) Analytics
4 190 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
5 142 (12.75%) CI/CD
6 137 (12.30%) Stakeholder Management
7 133 (11.94%) User Research
8 125 (11.22%) DevOps
9 123 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 120 (10.77%) Roadmaps
11 118 (10.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 117 (10.50%) AI
13 100 (8.98%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 92 (8.26%) Front End Development
15 90 (8.08%) Decision-Making
16 86 (7.72%) Service Design
17 81 (7.27%) Wireframes
18 80 (7.18%) Test Automation
18 80 (7.18%) Usability Testing
18 80 (7.18%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 183 (16.43%) JavaScript
2 112 (10.05%) Python
3 106 (9.52%) SQL
4 105 (9.43%) Java
5 87 (7.81%) TypeScript
6 60 (5.39%) PowerShell
7 41 (3.68%) C#
8 34 (3.05%) Kotlin
9 26 (2.33%) Swift
10 24 (2.15%) Perl
11 21 (1.89%) Bash
12 13 (1.17%) PHP
13 12 (1.08%) C++
14 11 (0.99%) Objective-C
14 11 (0.99%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.90%) Go
16 7 (0.63%) Lisp
17 5 (0.45%) C
17 5 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 150 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 106 (9.52%) Degree
3 104 (9.34%) SC Cleared
4 26 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (1.44%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.08%) PMI Certification
9 11 (0.99%) MOS
10 9 (0.81%) OCA
10 9 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (0.72%) CCNP
11 8 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.54%) MCP
13 6 (0.54%) PMP
14 3 (0.27%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.18%) A+ Certification
15 2 (0.18%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (16.52%) Accessibility
2 117 (10.50%) QA
3 61 (5.48%) GDPR
4 55 (4.94%) WCAG
5 32 (2.87%) Data Quality
6 25 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.62%) SLA
8 14 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.63%) GxP
10 6 (0.54%) NCSC
11 5 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.45%) PMO
11 5 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.27%) NIST
12 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.27%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.18%) FIPS 140-2
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 70 (6.28%) Active Directory
2 48 (4.31%) Docker
3 21 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.18%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.090%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.090%) Firmware
7 1 (0.090%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.090%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.090%) XenApp
7 1 (0.090%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 45 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 43 (3.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 32 (2.87%) SCCM
4 26 (2.33%) Terraform
5 16 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.35%) Grafana
7 13 (1.17%) Ansible
8 7 (0.63%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.54%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.36%) Argo
12 3 (0.27%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.27%) Nagios
12 3 (0.27%) Rancher
13 2 (0.18%) PingFederate
13 2 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.18%) SysTrack
14 1 (0.090%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.090%) Istio
14 1 (0.090%) Podman
Vendors
1 198 (17.77%) Microsoft
2 78 (7.00%) Google
3 74 (6.64%) Adobe
4 69 (6.19%) ServiceNow
5 53 (4.76%) Oracle
6 40 (3.59%) Salesforce
6 40 (3.59%) SAP
7 29 (2.60%) Splunk
8 22 (1.97%) VMware
9 17 (1.53%) Apple
10 16 (1.44%) Citrix
11 13 (1.17%) Cisco
11 13 (1.17%) Red Hat
12 11 (0.99%) Hotjar
12 11 (0.99%) Optimizely
13 10 (0.90%) Amplitude
13 10 (0.90%) Zscaler
14 9 (0.81%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.72%) OpenAI
15 8 (0.72%) Sitecore