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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 71 71
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -3
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,181 833 1,053
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.28% 3.34% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 3.69% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 536 699
10th Percentile £313 £301 £293
25th Percentile £386 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -2.30% -0.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 21 47
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.26 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £31.50 £24.38
Median hourly rate £38.94 £47.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.02% +46.15% -33.67%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £72.70
90th Percentile £75.81 £74.44 £79.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -11.11%

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 31,205 22,550 33,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.68% 90.54% 86.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,990 14,548 21,873
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,928 809 2,164
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.26 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.80 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.44 £71.83
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.77% - -7.14%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -15 611 £500 -4.76% 309
North of England +15 204 £465 +9.41% 176
North West +21 131 £420 -6.67% 94
South East -11 122 £488 -2.99% 238
Midlands -13 111 £505 +26.25% 114
South West -13 65 £450 +20.00% 90
West Midlands -31 62 £475 +18.01% 61
Yorkshire -22 52 £513 +28.13% 54
East Midlands +2 49 £550 +54.49% 50
East of England -26 29 £400 -16.67% 94
North East +2 20 £388 -8.82% 29
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 54 (4.57%) SharePoint
2 43 (3.64%) Confluence
3 33 (2.79%) CMS
4 23 (1.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 18 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.93%) Headless CMS
7 8 (0.68%) Apache
7 8 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
8 7 (0.59%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.42%) SugarCRM
10 4 (0.34%) Camunda
10 4 (0.34%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.34%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.25%) Drupal
11 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.17%) Appian
12 2 (0.17%) Mendix
12 2 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (2.88%) Sketch
2 26 (2.20%) Adobe XD
3 21 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (1.61%) Chatbot
4 19 (1.61%) MS Visio
5 17 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (0.93%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.68%) InVision
9 6 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 6 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.34%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.34%) Trello
10 4 (0.34%) UXPin
11 3 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.25%) UserZoom
12 2 (0.17%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.17%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.17%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 17 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.51%) Sage X3
3 6 (0.51%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.34%) Shopify
5 3 (0.25%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.25%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.17%) iTrent
6 2 (0.17%) Magento
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.085%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.085%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.085%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.085%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.085%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.085%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.085%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 198 (16.77%) Azure
2 153 (12.96%) Figma
3 126 (10.67%) AWS
4 88 (7.45%) Power Platform
5 77 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (5.00%) GCP
6 59 (5.00%) SaaS
7 56 (4.74%) Entra ID
8 46 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (3.90%) GitHub
9 29 (2.46%) PowerApps
10 27 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
11 26 (2.20%) Power Automate
12 23 (1.95%) Google Workspace
12 23 (1.95%) Serverless
13 22 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
14 19 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
14 19 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
15 18 (1.52%) Google Analytics
15 18 (1.52%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.78%) DNS
2 19 (1.61%) Wireless
3 14 (1.19%) Internet
4 10 (0.85%) DHCP
4 10 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (0.76%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.76%) VPN
6 8 (0.68%) BGP
6 8 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
6 8 (0.68%) Cisco Wireless
6 8 (0.68%) HTTP
6 8 (0.68%) Intranet
7 7 (0.59%) Firewall
7 7 (0.59%) NX-OS
7 7 (0.59%) VXLAN
8 6 (0.51%) LAN
8 6 (0.51%) WAN
9 5 (0.42%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.42%) SSL
10 4 (0.34%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.91%) Power BI
2 30 (2.54%) MySQL
2 30 (2.54%) Relational Database
3 26 (2.20%) NoSQL
4 21 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (1.61%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.35%) Tableau
7 12 (1.02%) BigQuery
8 11 (0.93%) Metadata
9 10 (0.85%) Looker
9 10 (0.85%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.59%) Mixpanel
10 7 (0.59%) Pinecone
10 7 (0.59%) Power Query
11 6 (0.51%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.51%) Redis
11 6 (0.51%) ZAP BI
12 5 (0.42%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 97 (8.21%) JIRA
2 75 (6.35%) Git
3 45 (3.81%) GitLab
4 27 (2.29%) Jenkins
5 23 (1.95%) Cypress.io
6 21 (1.78%) JUnit
7 19 (1.61%) Android Studio
8 18 (1.52%) Xcode
9 16 (1.35%) Axure RP
9 16 (1.35%) Gradle
10 15 (1.27%) Eclipse
11 13 (1.10%) Browser DevTools
12 12 (1.02%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.76%) Artifactory
14 8 (0.68%) Mocha
14 8 (0.68%) Postman
15 7 (0.59%) Selenium
16 6 (0.51%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.51%) Visual Website Optimizer
17 5 (0.42%) Storybook
General
1 409 (34.63%) Social Skills
2 224 (18.97%) Finance
3 151 (12.79%) Public Sector
4 135 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (7.20%) Banking
6 69 (5.84%) Marketing
7 37 (3.13%) Retail
8 28 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
8 28 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
9 25 (2.12%) Legal
10 21 (1.78%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (1.35%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.10%) Telecoms
13 11 (0.93%) Financial Institution
13 11 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (0.85%) Front Office
14 10 (0.85%) Publishing
15 9 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 204 (17.27%) Designer
2 186 (15.75%) Developer
3 181 (15.33%) Senior
4 115 (9.74%) Analyst
5 112 (9.48%) UX Designer
6 65 (5.50%) Lead
7 55 (4.66%) Product Designer
8 52 (4.40%) Consultant
9 50 (4.23%) Senior Designer
10 48 (4.06%) Business Analyst
11 42 (3.56%) Architect
12 37 (3.13%) Support Engineer
13 35 (2.96%) Software Engineer
13 35 (2.96%) User Researcher
14 34 (2.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 34 (2.88%) Senior Developer
14 34 (2.88%) UI Designer
15 33 (2.79%) Full-Stack Developer
16 31 (2.62%) IT Support
16 31 (2.62%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (12.96%) React
2 143 (12.11%) CSS
3 127 (10.75%) HTML
4 95 (8.04%) REST
5 81 (6.86%) AngularJS
6 73 (6.18%) RESTful
7 52 (4.40%) Spring
7 52 (4.40%) Spring Boot
8 49 (4.15%) Node.js
9 39 (3.30%) .NET
10 36 (3.05%) GraphQL
11 35 (2.96%) HTML5
12 30 (2.54%) CSS3
13 26 (2.20%) Jest
14 25 (2.12%) Redux
15 23 (1.95%) JSON
15 23 (1.95%) Next.js
16 21 (1.78%) Vue
17 20 (1.69%) OAuth
17 20 (1.69%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 109 (9.23%) Product Ownership
2 84 (7.11%) Mobile App
3 52 (4.40%) Onboarding
4 25 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (1.95%) AI Agents
5 23 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (1.69%) Data Structures
7 16 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (1.27%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.27%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.10%) Cloud Native
11 12 (1.02%) CMDB
11 12 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (0.85%) e-Learning
13 10 (0.85%) Low-Code
13 10 (0.85%) NHS
14 9 (0.76%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.68%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 129 (10.92%) Windows
2 48 (4.06%) Android
3 44 (3.73%) Windows 10
4 35 (2.96%) Apple iOS
5 28 (2.37%) Linux
6 22 (1.86%) Mac OS
7 16 (1.35%) Unix
8 5 (0.42%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.085%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (32.43%) Agile
2 366 (30.99%) UX Design
3 197 (16.68%) Analytics
4 194 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
5 167 (14.14%) User Research
6 152 (12.87%) CI/CD
7 146 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
8 145 (12.28%) AI
9 141 (11.94%) DevOps
10 140 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 138 (11.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 121 (10.25%) Roadmaps
13 108 (9.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 104 (8.81%) UX Research
15 103 (8.72%) Decision-Making
16 100 (8.47%) Prototyping
17 99 (8.38%) Wireframes
18 92 (7.79%) Usability Testing
19 90 (7.62%) Service Design
20 82 (6.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 177 (14.99%) JavaScript
2 123 (10.41%) SQL
3 106 (8.98%) Java
4 102 (8.64%) Python
5 98 (8.30%) TypeScript
6 66 (5.59%) PowerShell
7 44 (3.73%) C#
8 30 (2.54%) Kotlin
9 21 (1.78%) Bash
10 16 (1.35%) Perl
11 14 (1.19%) Swift
12 13 (1.10%) PHP
13 12 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.59%) Lisp
14 7 (0.59%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.51%) C++
15 6 (0.51%) Go
15 6 (0.51%) VBA
16 4 (0.34%) Korn
16 4 (0.34%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 157 (13.29%) Security Cleared
2 112 (9.48%) SC Cleared
3 108 (9.14%) Degree
4 24 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.44%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (0.85%) CCNP
8 10 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.85%) MOS
9 7 (0.59%) OCA
9 7 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (0.59%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.42%) CCA
10 5 (0.42%) Citrix Certification
11 4 (0.34%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.25%) CESG Certified Professional
13 2 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (15.58%) Accessibility
2 119 (10.08%) QA
3 59 (5.00%) WCAG
4 44 (3.73%) Data Quality
5 41 (3.47%) GDPR
6 23 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
8 18 (1.52%) SLA
9 7 (0.59%) PMO
10 6 (0.51%) NCSC
11 4 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.17%) COBIT
13 2 (0.17%) GMP
13 2 (0.17%) GxP
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.17%) NIST
13 2 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (6.44%) Active Directory
2 54 (4.57%) Docker
3 23 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.34%) Firmware
6 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.17%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.085%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.085%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.085%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.085%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.085%) XenApp
8 1 (0.085%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (4.57%) Kubernetes
2 49 (4.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (3.22%) SCCM
4 32 (2.71%) Terraform
5 20 (1.69%) Grafana
6 12 (1.02%) Ansible
7 10 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.59%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.51%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.34%) Argo
10 4 (0.34%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.25%) Nagios
11 3 (0.25%) Rancher
12 2 (0.17%) SysTrack
13 1 (0.085%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.085%) Consul
13 1 (0.085%) PingFederate
13 1 (0.085%) Podman
13 1 (0.085%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 213 (18.04%) Microsoft
2 74 (6.27%) Adobe
2 74 (6.27%) Google
3 73 (6.18%) ServiceNow
4 42 (3.56%) SAP
5 37 (3.13%) Oracle
6 32 (2.71%) Salesforce
7 24 (2.03%) VMware
8 23 (1.95%) Citrix
9 22 (1.86%) Splunk
10 15 (1.27%) Cisco
11 13 (1.10%) Apple
12 12 (1.02%) Red Hat
13 10 (0.85%) Hotjar
14 9 (0.76%) Amplitude
14 9 (0.76%) Ekahau
14 9 (0.76%) Optimizely
14 9 (0.76%) Workday
14 9 (0.76%) Zscaler
15 8 (0.68%) MuleSoft