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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 70 68
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -7
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,137 910 1,103
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.62% 3.16% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 3.57% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 751 529 765
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 25 28
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.26 £18.79
25th Percentile £17.69 £30.44 £30.00
Median hourly rate £37.27 £42.50 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% -23.08% -11.60%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £70.99
90th Percentile £70.16 £74.00 £81.25
UK median hourly rate £35.60 £41.91 £55.25
% change year-on-year -15.06% -24.14% -11.60%

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 27,831 25,521 32,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.70% 88.62% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,689 15,759 22,371
10th Percentile £300 £310 £310
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
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 1,818 840 1,378
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.88 £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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -8 575 £476 -9.29% 175
North of England +24 212 £425 -5.56% 113
North West +17 138 £402 -10.67% 68
Midlands +10 112 £449 -5.08% 80
South East -1 111 £447 -3.35% 141
West Midlands +6 79 £432 -19.63% 54
South West +10 67 £550 -4.35% 46
Yorkshire -4 58 £475 - 31
East of England -11 36 £460 -6.03% 37
East Midlands -2 33 £480 +34.83% 26
North East +8 15 £410 - 15
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 51 (4.49%) Confluence
2 49 (4.31%) SharePoint
3 46 (4.05%) CMS
4 18 (1.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 13 (1.14%) 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 (3.52%) Sketch
2 22 (1.93%) Adobe XD
2 22 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.85%) MS Visio
4 19 (1.67%) Chatbot
5 15 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
6 11 (0.97%) Adobe Illustrator
6 11 (0.97%) InVision
6 11 (0.97%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.62%) Trello
9 5 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 4 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.35%) Camtasia
11 3 (0.26%) Snagit
11 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.18%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.18%) OmniGraffle
12 2 (0.18%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 19 (1.67%) 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 CRM
6 1 (0.088%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 192 (16.89%) Azure
2 122 (10.73%) Figma
3 119 (10.47%) AWS
4 86 (7.56%) SaaS
5 78 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
5 78 (6.86%) Power Platform
6 65 (5.72%) GCP
7 50 (4.40%) Entra ID
8 36 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (3.08%) GitHub
10 26 (2.29%) Google Analytics
11 25 (2.20%) Miro
12 24 (2.11%) Google Workspace
13 21 (1.85%) Sauce Labs
13 21 (1.85%) Serverless
14 19 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (1.67%) PowerApps
15 18 (1.58%) Power Automate
16 16 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
16 16 (1.41%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.55%) DNS
1 29 (2.55%) Wireless
2 16 (1.41%) Internet
3 11 (0.97%) VPN
4 10 (0.88%) DHCP
5 9 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.62%) BGP
6 7 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (0.62%) Cisco Wireless
6 7 (0.62%) Firewall
6 7 (0.62%) HTTP
6 7 (0.62%) NX-OS
6 7 (0.62%) SSL
6 7 (0.62%) VXLAN
7 6 (0.53%) Unified Communications
8 5 (0.44%) Intranet
8 5 (0.44%) Network Security
8 5 (0.44%) WAN
9 4 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (4.31%) Power BI
2 39 (3.43%) Relational Database
3 38 (3.34%) MySQL
4 29 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (2.20%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.11%) Tableau
7 21 (1.85%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.50%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (1.06%) BigQuery
10 12 (1.06%) Looker
11 11 (0.97%) Redis
12 8 (0.70%) Metadata
13 7 (0.62%) Mixpanel
13 7 (0.62%) SAP HANA
14 5 (0.44%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.35%) Big Data
16 3 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (0.26%) Hadoop
16 3 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 110 (9.67%) JIRA
2 71 (6.24%) Git
3 42 (3.69%) GitLab
4 35 (3.08%) Jenkins
5 33 (2.90%) Xcode
6 29 (2.55%) Android Studio
6 29 (2.55%) Eclipse
7 23 (2.02%) Browser DevTools
8 17 (1.50%) Axure RP
8 17 (1.50%) Cypress.io
9 16 (1.41%) Gradle
10 13 (1.14%) Postman
10 13 (1.14%) webpack
11 10 (0.88%) Artifactory
12 9 (0.79%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.79%) JUnit
12 9 (0.79%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 8 (0.70%) IntelliJ
13 8 (0.70%) Selenium
14 6 (0.53%) Cucumber
General
1 415 (36.50%) Social Skills
2 206 (18.12%) Finance
3 152 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (12.14%) Public Sector
5 87 (7.65%) Marketing
6 82 (7.21%) Banking
7 34 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
8 30 (2.64%) Legal
9 27 (2.37%) Retail
10 24 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 17 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
14 16 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (1.32%) Investment Banking
16 13 (1.14%) Automotive
16 13 (1.14%) Telecoms
17 10 (0.88%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.70%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 188 (16.53%) Designer
2 184 (16.18%) Developer
3 153 (13.46%) Senior
4 102 (8.97%) UX Designer
5 93 (8.18%) Lead
6 91 (8.00%) Analyst
7 51 (4.49%) Business Analyst
8 47 (4.13%) Consultant
9 41 (3.61%) Support Engineer
10 40 (3.52%) Senior Designer
11 38 (3.34%) Architect
12 34 (2.99%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 34 (2.99%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 34 (2.99%) Product Designer
13 33 (2.90%) Service Designer
14 30 (2.64%) Full-Stack Developer
15 29 (2.55%) UI Designer
16 27 (2.37%) Technical Support
17 26 (2.29%) UX Engineer
18 25 (2.20%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (13.28%) CSS
2 146 (12.84%) React
3 132 (11.61%) HTML
4 81 (7.12%) REST
5 75 (6.60%) AngularJS
6 72 (6.33%) RESTful
7 52 (4.57%) GraphQL
8 48 (4.22%) Node.js
9 47 (4.13%) HTML5
10 35 (3.08%) .NET
11 30 (2.64%) CSS3
12 29 (2.55%) Jest
13 26 (2.29%) Spring
14 25 (2.20%) Next.js
15 23 (2.02%) Playwright
15 23 (2.02%) Spring Boot
16 22 (1.93%) Ajax
17 21 (1.85%) Bootstrap
18 20 (1.76%) Redux
18 20 (1.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 108 (9.50%) Mobile App
2 96 (8.44%) Product Ownership
3 67 (5.89%) Onboarding
4 26 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
5 25 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (1.76%) e-Learning
7 19 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 17 (1.50%) Data Centre
8 17 (1.50%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.50%) Low-Code
9 16 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (1.32%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.32%) Learning Management System
11 14 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.23%) NHS
11 14 (1.23%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.14%) Cloud Native
13 11 (0.97%) CMDB
13 11 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (0.88%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 137 (12.05%) Windows
2 76 (6.68%) Android
3 61 (5.36%) Apple iOS
4 41 (3.61%) Linux
5 38 (3.34%) Windows 10
6 26 (2.29%) Mac OS
6 26 (2.29%) Unix
7 8 (0.70%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.35%) 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
1 407 (35.80%) Agile
2 356 (31.31%) UX Design
3 205 (18.03%) Analytics
4 200 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
5 141 (12.40%) CI/CD
6 132 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
7 131 (11.52%) User Research
8 130 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 129 (11.35%) AI
9 129 (11.35%) Roadmaps
10 123 (10.82%) DevOps
11 116 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 105 (9.23%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 98 (8.62%) Service Design
14 95 (8.36%) Decision-Making
15 93 (8.18%) Front End Development
16 78 (6.86%) User Stories
17 75 (6.60%) Scrum
17 75 (6.60%) Test Automation
18 73 (6.42%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 176 (15.48%) JavaScript
2 117 (10.29%) Python
3 105 (9.23%) Java
4 103 (9.06%) SQL
5 83 (7.30%) TypeScript
6 62 (5.45%) PowerShell
7 38 (3.34%) C#
8 36 (3.17%) Kotlin
9 29 (2.55%) Swift
10 26 (2.29%) Perl
11 23 (2.02%) Bash
12 14 (1.23%) PHP
13 13 (1.14%) Objective-C
14 11 (0.97%) C++
14 11 (0.97%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.70%) Go
16 7 (0.62%) Lisp
17 5 (0.44%) C
17 5 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 163 (14.34%) Security Cleared
2 115 (10.11%) SC Cleared
3 108 (9.50%) Degree
4 28 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (1.58%) DV Cleared
6 17 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.23%) PMI Certification
8 13 (1.14%) 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 (0.70%) CCNP
11 8 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.35%) Citrix Certification
14 3 (0.26%) CSPO
14 3 (0.26%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.26%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (16.53%) Accessibility
2 114 (10.03%) QA
3 64 (5.63%) GDPR
4 52 (4.57%) WCAG
5 36 (3.17%) Data Quality
6 28 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (1.93%) 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 20022
14 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 70 (6.16%) Active Directory
2 46 (4.05%) Docker
3 25 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.18%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.088%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.088%) Firmware
7 1 (0.088%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.088%) XenApp
7 1 (0.088%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 50 (4.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (3.78%) Kubernetes
3 40 (3.52%) SCCM
4 23 (2.02%) Terraform
5 14 (1.23%) Ansible
5 14 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (1.14%) 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%) PingFederate
11 2 (0.18%) SysTrack
12 1 (0.088%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.088%) Istio
12 1 (0.088%) Podman
Vendors
1 216 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 89 (7.83%) Google
3 74 (6.51%) Adobe
4 68 (5.98%) ServiceNow
5 58 (5.10%) Oracle
6 43 (3.78%) SAP
7 38 (3.34%) Salesforce
8 32 (2.81%) Splunk
9 27 (2.37%) VMware
10 21 (1.85%) Citrix
11 16 (1.41%) Apple
12 14 (1.23%) Cisco
13 13 (1.14%) 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