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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 64 76
Rank change year-on-year -15 +12 -13
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,232 892 999
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.09% 3.63% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 3.98% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 588 672
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £611
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +0.93% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 20 47
10th Percentile £16.00 £25.21 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.49 £41.75 £23.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +62.41% -9.40%
75th Percentile £62.94 £83.60 £64.77
90th Percentile £82.30 £95.60 £74.03
UK median hourly rate £47.25 £53.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -11.68% +68.72% -9.40%

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 33,939 22,408 32,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.13% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,724 14,703 21,181
10th Percentile £316 £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 £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,107 917 2,235
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.73 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.97
Median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -16 634 £513 -1.44% 181
North of England +2 196 £450 +0.06% 295
Midlands -3 142 £500 +24.69% 105
North West +7 121 £425 -5.56% 227
South East -18 119 £488 +5.41% 102
West Midlands -19 93 £475 +1.33% 56
South West -27 64 £463 +23.33% 51
Yorkshire -30 50 £506 +26.40% 53
East Midlands -1 49 £550 +53.63% 49
East of England -25 31 £425 -10.53% 47
North East -7 23 £410 -9.39% 17
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 48 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.25%) Confluence
3 34 (2.76%) CMS
4 18 (1.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 16 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.49%) Sitecore CMS
7 5 (0.41%) Apache
7 5 (0.41%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.41%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.41%) WordPress
8 4 (0.32%) Camunda
8 4 (0.32%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.32%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.32%) Mendix
9 3 (0.24%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.24%) Drupal
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) IIS
Applications
1 32 (2.60%) Sketch
2 23 (1.87%) Adobe XD
2 23 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.62%) Chatbot
4 15 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.73%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.57%) Adobe After Effects
7 7 (0.57%) InVision
8 6 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.32%) Trello
10 4 (0.32%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.24%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.24%) UXPin
12 2 (0.16%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.73%) Shopify
4 8 (0.65%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.49%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.16%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.16%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.16%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.16%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.081%) Oracle Payroll
7 1 (0.081%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.081%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 197 (15.99%) Azure
2 171 (13.88%) Figma
3 102 (8.28%) AWS
4 89 (7.22%) Power Platform
5 88 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (4.22%) Entra ID
7 50 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (3.73%) GCP
9 43 (3.49%) GitHub
10 35 (2.84%) Microsoft Copilot
11 34 (2.76%) SaaS
12 33 (2.68%) PowerApps
13 30 (2.44%) Power Automate
14 25 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (1.95%) Serverless
16 23 (1.87%) Google Workspace
17 20 (1.62%) Copilot Studio
17 20 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
18 19 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
18 19 (1.54%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.14%) DNS
2 13 (1.06%) Wireless
3 12 (0.97%) LAN
4 11 (0.89%) Internet
4 11 (0.89%) Intranet
4 11 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.81%) DHCP
5 10 (0.81%) SD-WAN
6 8 (0.65%) VPN
7 7 (0.57%) Cisco Wireless
7 7 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.57%) WAN
8 6 (0.49%) SSL
8 6 (0.49%) WLAN
9 5 (0.41%) 5G
9 5 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
9 5 (0.41%) Firewall
9 5 (0.41%) HTTP
9 5 (0.41%) SMS
10 4 (0.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.63%) Power BI
2 22 (1.79%) NoSQL
3 21 (1.70%) Relational Database
3 21 (1.70%) SQL Server
4 20 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.54%) MySQL
6 16 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.06%) Tableau
8 12 (0.97%) Metadata
9 11 (0.89%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.73%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.65%) Power Query
12 7 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 7 (0.57%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.49%) Looker
13 6 (0.49%) ZAP BI
14 5 (0.41%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.41%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 95 (7.71%) JIRA
2 63 (5.11%) Git
3 37 (3.00%) GitLab
4 22 (1.79%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.70%) Cypress.io
5 21 (1.70%) JUnit
6 13 (1.06%) Axure RP
6 13 (1.06%) Gradle
7 11 (0.89%) Browser DevTools
7 11 (0.89%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.73%) Android Studio
8 9 (0.73%) Selenium
9 8 (0.65%) Xcode
10 6 (0.49%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.49%) Mocha
10 6 (0.49%) Postman
10 6 (0.49%) Vite
11 5 (0.41%) Maven
11 5 (0.41%) Storybook
11 5 (0.41%) TestRail
General
1 395 (32.06%) Social Skills
2 246 (19.97%) Finance
3 148 (12.01%) Public Sector
4 137 (11.12%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (8.04%) Banking
6 54 (4.38%) Marketing
7 49 (3.98%) Retail
8 34 (2.76%) Legal
9 30 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.54%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.22%) Publishing
14 14 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.97%) Automotive
15 12 (0.97%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.89%) Front Office
16 11 (0.89%) Telecoms
17 10 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 258 (20.94%) Designer
2 194 (15.75%) Senior
3 161 (13.07%) Developer
4 126 (10.23%) UX Designer
5 115 (9.33%) Analyst
6 63 (5.11%) Lead
7 62 (5.03%) Consultant
8 58 (4.71%) Product Designer
9 57 (4.63%) Architect
10 55 (4.46%) Business Analyst
10 55 (4.46%) Senior Designer
11 49 (3.98%) UI Designer
12 41 (3.33%) User Researcher
13 40 (3.25%) Content Designer
14 38 (3.08%) User Experience Researcher
15 37 (3.00%) UI/UX Designer
16 35 (2.84%) IT Support
16 35 (2.84%) Service Designer
16 35 (2.84%) Support Engineer
17 33 (2.68%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (11.28%) React
2 127 (10.31%) CSS
3 114 (9.25%) HTML
4 86 (6.98%) REST
5 69 (5.60%) AngularJS
6 61 (4.95%) RESTful
7 56 (4.55%) Spring
8 55 (4.46%) Spring Boot
9 45 (3.65%) .NET
10 35 (2.84%) Node.js
11 32 (2.60%) GraphQL
12 29 (2.35%) HTML5
13 28 (2.27%) Redux
14 27 (2.19%) CSS3
15 24 (1.95%) Next.js
16 22 (1.79%) JSON
17 20 (1.62%) Jest
18 19 (1.54%) Kafka
18 19 (1.54%) Vue
19 18 (1.46%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 109 (8.85%) Product Ownership
2 65 (5.28%) Mobile App
3 50 (4.06%) Onboarding
4 31 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (2.35%) AI Agents
6 21 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (1.70%) Cloud Native
6 21 (1.70%) Data Structures
7 17 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 16 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (1.14%) Virtual Reality
10 13 (1.06%) Augmented Reality
10 13 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (0.89%) Algorithms
13 10 (0.81%) Low-Code
13 10 (0.81%) NHS
13 10 (0.81%) Social Media
13 10 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 93 (7.55%) Windows
2 38 (3.08%) Windows 10
3 33 (2.68%) Android
4 26 (2.11%) Apple iOS
5 19 (1.54%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.89%) Linux
7 7 (0.57%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.49%) Unix
9 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.081%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (31.57%) Agile
2 386 (31.33%) UX Design
3 195 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
4 192 (15.58%) AI
5 190 (15.42%) Analytics
6 170 (13.80%) User Research
7 155 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 148 (12.01%) CI/CD
9 144 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 143 (11.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 138 (11.20%) DevOps
12 132 (10.71%) Roadmaps
13 118 (9.58%) UX Research
14 115 (9.33%) Prototyping
15 108 (8.77%) Wireframes
16 101 (8.20%) Decision-Making
16 101 (8.20%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 98 (7.95%) Service Design
18 90 (7.31%) Usability Testing
18 90 (7.31%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 154 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 113 (9.17%) Java
3 112 (9.09%) SQL
4 92 (7.47%) Python
4 92 (7.47%) TypeScript
5 46 (3.73%) C#
6 43 (3.49%) PowerShell
7 25 (2.03%) Kotlin
8 18 (1.46%) Bash
9 13 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.65%) Swift
11 7 (0.57%) Korn
11 7 (0.57%) PHP
12 6 (0.49%) Go
12 6 (0.49%) Perl
12 6 (0.49%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.49%) VBA
13 5 (0.41%) R
14 3 (0.24%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 147 (11.93%) Security Cleared
2 111 (9.01%) SC Cleared
3 104 (8.44%) Degree
4 28 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 11 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.73%) CCNP
11 7 (0.57%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.57%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.49%) CCA
12 6 (0.49%) CCIE
12 6 (0.49%) Citrix Certification
12 6 (0.49%) OCA
12 6 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.32%) PMP
14 3 (0.24%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (15.58%) Accessibility
2 114 (9.25%) QA
3 59 (4.79%) WCAG
4 43 (3.49%) Data Quality
5 39 (3.17%) GDPR
6 21 (1.70%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.73%) SLA
9 7 (0.57%) PMO
10 5 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.24%) GMP
12 3 (0.24%) GRC
12 3 (0.24%) GxP
12 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.24%) NCSC
13 2 (0.16%) COBIT
13 2 (0.16%) NIST
13 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (5.68%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.49%) Docker
3 19 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.49%) Firmware
6 4 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.24%) XenApp
7 3 (0.24%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.081%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.081%) Varnish
9 1 (0.081%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 53 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 40 (3.25%) Terraform
3 32 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (2.27%) SCCM
5 22 (1.79%) Grafana
6 15 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.06%) Ansible
8 10 (0.81%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.24%) Argo
9 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.24%) Nagios
9 3 (0.24%) Podman
9 3 (0.24%) Rancher
9 3 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.16%) WSUS
11 1 (0.081%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 196 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 73 (5.93%) Adobe
3 61 (4.95%) Google
4 49 (3.98%) ServiceNow
5 48 (3.90%) Oracle
6 45 (3.65%) SAP
7 39 (3.17%) Salesforce
8 24 (1.95%) Citrix
9 18 (1.46%) VMware
10 17 (1.38%) Splunk
10 17 (1.38%) Workday
11 14 (1.14%) Cisco
12 13 (1.06%) Apple
13 10 (0.81%) Sitecore
14 9 (0.73%) Aruba
14 9 (0.73%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.65%) Foundry
16 7 (0.57%) Dynatrace
16 7 (0.57%) Ekahau
16 7 (0.57%) Zscaler