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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 67 89
Rank change year-on-year -21 +22 -29
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,340 1,020 837
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.94% 3.69% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.46% 4.07% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 646 536
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £390 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £680 £723 £722
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 41 31
10th Percentile £16.51 £25.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.38 £33.00 £28.28
Median hourly rate £33.99 £47.50 £41.68
Median % change year-on-year -28.44% +13.98% +57.26%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.75 £72.20
90th Percentile £76.53 £72.50 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £48.25 £41.68
% change year-on-year -29.55% +15.78% +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 38,782 25,081 28,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 90.77% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,156 16,055 18,761
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 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,506 1,391 1,691
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.87 £18.21
Median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.16 £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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -24 677 £525 +5.00% 699
North of England -12 228 £440 -2.22% 160
Midlands -13 143 £475 +11.24% 82
South East -37 120 £450 -5.26% 159
West Midlands -13 114 £475 -7.32% 67
North West -33 111 £425 -5.56% 85
South West -20 76 £475 +18.75% 73
Yorkshire -30 65 £500 +25.00% 48
North East -3 51 £363 -24.48% 27
East of England +9 50 £410 -16.33% 52
East Midlands -3 29 £468 +31.32% 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 61 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 52 (3.88%) CMS
3 33 (2.46%) Confluence
4 25 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.12%) WordPress
6 8 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.52%) Apache
8 6 (0.45%) Drupal
8 6 (0.45%) Skype for Business
9 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.30%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.30%) Kentico
10 4 (0.30%) 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 (0.075%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 26 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.64%) Sketch
3 20 (1.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 19 (1.42%) Chatbot
4 19 (1.42%) Photoshop
5 16 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
6 15 (1.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 12 (0.90%) Adobe After Effects
7 12 (0.90%) Adobe XD
8 9 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 7 (0.52%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.22%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.15%) InVision
11 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.075%) Blender
12 1 (0.075%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.075%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.90%) Workday HCM
2 10 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.52%) Shopify
4 6 (0.45%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
6 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.22%) iTrent
6 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.075%) Magento
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.075%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.075%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.075%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 207 (15.45%) Azure
2 170 (12.69%) Figma
3 129 (9.63%) Microsoft 365
4 116 (8.66%) AWS
5 99 (7.39%) Power Platform
6 59 (4.40%) Entra ID
7 50 (3.73%) Microsoft Copilot
8 45 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (3.36%) GCP
9 43 (3.21%) GitHub
10 41 (3.06%) SaaS
11 33 (2.46%) PowerApps
12 29 (2.16%) OneDrive
13 25 (1.87%) Power Automate
14 24 (1.79%) Copilot Studio
15 19 (1.42%) Azure AI
16 18 (1.34%) Serverless
17 14 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
18 11 (0.82%) Firebase
19 10 (0.75%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.99%) DNS
2 34 (2.54%) DHCP
3 29 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 26 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (1.57%) Wireless
6 20 (1.49%) LAN
7 13 (0.97%) Firewall
7 13 (0.97%) WAN
8 12 (0.90%) Internet
8 12 (0.90%) VPN
9 10 (0.75%) Intranet
10 9 (0.67%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.60%) Cisco Wireless
11 8 (0.60%) Skype
12 7 (0.52%) 5G
13 6 (0.45%) Network Security
13 6 (0.45%) WLAN
14 5 (0.37%) SMS
14 5 (0.37%) SNMP
14 5 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.25%) Power BI
2 25 (1.87%) Metadata
3 17 (1.27%) Power Query
4 14 (1.04%) Relational Database
5 13 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (0.97%) NoSQL
5 13 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (0.90%) Tableau
7 10 (0.75%) SQL Server
8 9 (0.67%) MySQL
9 8 (0.60%) Looker
10 7 (0.52%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.52%) Star Schema
11 6 (0.45%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.45%) Qlik Sense
11 6 (0.45%) ZAP BI
12 5 (0.37%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.37%) Flink
12 5 (0.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 5 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 73 (5.45%) JIRA
2 53 (3.96%) Git
3 22 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.49%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.27%) Vite
6 16 (1.19%) GitLab
7 10 (0.75%) Android Studio
7 10 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
7 10 (0.75%) fastlane
7 10 (0.75%) Storybook
8 9 (0.67%) Xcode
9 8 (0.60%) Gradle
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
11 4 (0.30%) JMeter
11 4 (0.30%) MSI
11 4 (0.30%) Selenium
General
1 422 (31.49%) Social Skills
2 249 (18.58%) Finance
3 173 (12.91%) Public Sector
4 130 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
5 109 (8.13%) Banking
6 80 (5.97%) Retail
7 67 (5.00%) Marketing
8 47 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (2.46%) Legal
10 31 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (2.31%) Publishing
11 27 (2.01%) Automotive
12 26 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (1.72%) Manufacturing
14 22 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
15 18 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (0.97%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.82%) Front Office
17 11 (0.82%) Military
18 9 (0.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 293 (21.87%) Designer
2 183 (13.66%) Senior
3 173 (12.91%) Developer
4 124 (9.25%) UX Designer
5 108 (8.06%) Lead
6 96 (7.16%) Analyst
7 74 (5.52%) Consultant
8 72 (5.37%) UI Designer
9 56 (4.18%) User Researcher
10 51 (3.81%) Architect
10 51 (3.81%) Senior Designer
11 50 (3.73%) Content Designer
12 49 (3.66%) Business Analyst
13 48 (3.58%) IT Support
14 46 (3.43%) Support Engineer
15 43 (3.21%) Product Manager
16 42 (3.13%) UI/UX Designer
16 42 (3.13%) User Experience Researcher
17 35 (2.61%) Product Designer
18 32 (2.39%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (8.21%) React
2 94 (7.01%) CSS
3 84 (6.27%) REST
4 80 (5.97%) HTML
5 45 (3.36%) RESTful
6 42 (3.13%) AngularJS
7 37 (2.76%) GraphQL
8 35 (2.61%) .NET
9 33 (2.46%) HTML5
10 32 (2.39%) CSS3
11 23 (1.72%) Spring
12 22 (1.64%) Spring Boot
13 21 (1.57%) Jest
13 21 (1.57%) Next.js
14 20 (1.49%) JSON
15 19 (1.42%) OAuth
15 19 (1.42%) SOAP
16 18 (1.34%) ASP.NET
16 18 (1.34%) Node.js
16 18 (1.34%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 122 (9.10%) Product Ownership
2 81 (6.04%) Mobile App
3 80 (5.97%) Onboarding
4 38 (2.84%) Cloud Native
5 34 (2.54%) AI Agents
6 29 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (1.64%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.49%) Social Media
12 18 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.27%) Data Structures
13 17 (1.27%) Educational Technology
13 17 (1.27%) Graphic Design
13 17 (1.27%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.04%) NHS
14 14 (1.04%) Taxonomies
15 13 (0.97%) Virtual Reality
16 12 (0.90%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 130 (9.70%) Windows
2 52 (3.88%) Android
3 47 (3.51%) Apple iOS
3 47 (3.51%) Windows 10
4 24 (1.79%) Mac OS
5 20 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.19%) Linux
7 10 (0.75%) Unix
8 9 (0.67%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (31.94%) UX Design
2 381 (28.43%) Agile
3 249 (18.58%) AI
4 223 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
5 202 (15.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 177 (13.21%) Analytics
7 176 (13.13%) User Research
8 172 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 156 (11.64%) CI/CD
10 146 (10.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 137 (10.22%) Roadmaps
12 124 (9.25%) Decision-Making
13 113 (8.43%) DevOps
14 109 (8.13%) Prototyping
15 104 (7.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 103 (7.69%) Service Design
17 101 (7.54%) Wireframes
18 100 (7.46%) UX Research
19 96 (7.16%) Scrum
20 95 (7.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 114 (8.51%) JavaScript
2 87 (6.49%) Java
3 84 (6.27%) Python
4 83 (6.19%) TypeScript
5 82 (6.12%) SQL
6 51 (3.81%) PowerShell
7 33 (2.46%) Kotlin
8 30 (2.24%) C#
9 23 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (1.04%) Swift
11 13 (0.97%) Bash
12 7 (0.52%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.52%) Go
12 7 (0.52%) PHP
12 7 (0.52%) VBScript
13 6 (0.45%) Korn
13 6 (0.45%) Scala
13 6 (0.45%) VB
13 6 (0.45%) VBA
14 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 204 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 155 (11.57%) SC Cleared
3 121 (9.03%) Degree
4 31 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (1.87%) DV Cleared
6 24 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (1.57%) Azure Certification
7 21 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (0.75%) PMP
9 8 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.60%) Citrix Certification
9 8 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 7 (0.52%) CCA
11 6 (0.45%) CCIE
11 6 (0.45%) CCNP
11 6 (0.45%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.45%) MCSE
12 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (15.82%) Accessibility
2 89 (6.64%) QA
3 69 (5.15%) WCAG
4 45 (3.36%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.42%) GDPR
6 12 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.60%) PMO
8 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 5 (0.37%) SLA
10 4 (0.30%) GRC
11 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.15%) PSD2
12 1 (0.075%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.075%) GMP
12 1 (0.075%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.075%) NIST
12 1 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.075%) SEPA
System Software
1 84 (6.27%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.84%) Docker
3 27 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.45%) BitLocker
5 6 (0.45%) Firmware
5 6 (0.45%) vSphere
6 5 (0.37%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.30%) 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 (0.075%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 42 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
1 42 (3.13%) Terraform
2 41 (3.06%) Kubernetes
3 31 (2.31%) SCCM
4 23 (1.72%) Grafana
5 16 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.97%) Ansible
6 13 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
7 12 (0.90%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.30%) Clonezilla
9 4 (0.30%) Podman
10 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.22%) WSUS
11 2 (0.15%) Argo
11 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.15%) Packer
11 2 (0.15%) SCOM
11 2 (0.15%) vMotion
12 1 (0.075%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 228 (17.01%) Microsoft
2 75 (5.60%) ServiceNow
3 73 (5.45%) Adobe
4 46 (3.43%) Google
5 39 (2.91%) Oracle
6 38 (2.84%) SAP
7 31 (2.31%) Salesforce
8 24 (1.79%) Citrix
8 24 (1.79%) Splunk
9 22 (1.64%) Dynatrace
9 22 (1.64%) Workday
10 18 (1.34%) Cisco
11 16 (1.19%) Apple
11 16 (1.19%) VMware
12 15 (1.12%) Foundry
13 14 (1.04%) Zscaler
14 12 (0.90%) Aruba
15 11 (0.82%) OpenAI
16 9 (0.67%) Okta
17 8 (0.60%) Databricks