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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 64 80
Rank change year-on-year -31 +16 -18
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,345 1,052 885
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.91% 3.79% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 4.17% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 795 672 541
10th Percentile £295 £300 £313
25th Percentile £390 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £685 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 48 23
10th Percentile £20.31 £15.50 £30.00
25th Percentile £26.75 £30.94 £30.51
Median hourly rate £33.99 £36.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -27.72% +6.32%
75th Percentile £67.94 £57.13 £72.20
90th Percentile £77.00 £70.16 £74.35
UK median hourly rate £35.22 £36.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -3.51% -27.72% +6.32%

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 39,153 25,217 28,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.77% 90.89% 86.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,009 16,021 17,785
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,713 1,491 1,342
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.30 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -35 679 £513 +2.50% 1,147
North of England -6 258 £435 +3.88% 213
Midlands -8 151 £475 +9.20% 99
North West -29 130 £420 -1.18% 121
West Midlands -6 120 £475 -5.00% 67
South East -53 101 £403 -12.97% 189
South West -5 81 £475 - 106
Yorkshire -11 77 £500 +25.00% 65
North East -6 50 £338 -27.42% 30
East of England -4 41 £425 -19.05% 76
East Midlands -16 31 £500 +39.66% 32
South Coast - 1 £450 -
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 68 (5.06%) SharePoint
2 53 (3.94%) CMS
3 35 (2.60%) Confluence
4 27 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.12%) WordPress
6 9 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.52%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.45%) Apache
8 6 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.37%) Drupal
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%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.074%) MTS
Applications
1 23 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 20 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.41%) Photoshop
4 18 (1.34%) Chatbot
5 16 (1.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 15 (1.12%) Sketch
7 12 (0.89%) Adobe After Effects
8 11 (0.82%) MS Visio
9 10 (0.74%) Adobe XD
10 9 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
13 1 (0.074%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.074%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.074%) Blender
13 1 (0.074%) Final Cut Pro
13 1 (0.074%) InVision
13 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.52%) Workday HCM
2 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.45%) Shopify
3 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
4 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.22%) iTrent
5 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.15%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.074%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.074%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.074%) Magento
7 1 (0.074%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.074%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 196 (14.57%) Azure
2 149 (11.08%) Figma
3 138 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
4 115 (8.55%) AWS
5 95 (7.06%) Power Platform
6 60 (4.46%) Entra ID
7 58 (4.31%) Microsoft Copilot
8 48 (3.57%) GitHub
9 44 (3.27%) SaaS
10 43 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (2.68%) GCP
12 31 (2.30%) OneDrive
12 31 (2.30%) PowerApps
13 28 (2.08%) Copilot Studio
14 26 (1.93%) Power Automate
15 20 (1.49%) Azure AI
16 16 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (1.12%) Serverless
18 13 (0.97%) Firebase
19 12 (0.89%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.27%) DNS
2 38 (2.83%) DHCP
3 33 (2.45%) TCP/IP
4 30 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (1.56%) Wireless
6 19 (1.41%) VPN
7 18 (1.34%) LAN
8 16 (1.19%) Firewall
8 16 (1.19%) WAN
9 11 (0.82%) NetScaler
10 10 (0.74%) Internet
11 9 (0.67%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.59%) Cisco Wireless
12 8 (0.59%) Network Security
12 8 (0.59%) Skype
13 6 (0.45%) 5G
13 6 (0.45%) Intranet
13 6 (0.45%) WLAN
14 5 (0.37%) SMS
14 5 (0.37%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.79%) Power BI
2 24 (1.78%) Metadata
3 13 (0.97%) Power Query
3 13 (0.97%) Tableau
4 12 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (0.82%) NoSQL
5 11 (0.82%) SQL Server
6 10 (0.74%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.67%) Looker
8 8 (0.59%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.52%) MySQL
9 7 (0.52%) Qlik Sense
9 7 (0.52%) Redis
10 6 (0.45%) Star Schema
11 5 (0.37%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.37%) Flink
11 5 (0.37%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.37%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 74 (5.50%) JIRA
2 65 (4.83%) Git
3 27 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.41%) Cypress.io
4 19 (1.41%) Vite
5 16 (1.19%) Storybook
6 14 (1.04%) GitLab
7 12 (0.89%) fastlane
8 10 (0.74%) Android Studio
9 9 (0.67%) Browser DevTools
9 9 (0.67%) Xcode
10 7 (0.52%) JMeter
10 7 (0.52%) Postman
10 7 (0.52%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.45%) Gradle
12 5 (0.37%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.37%) Crashlytics
12 5 (0.37%) Fiddler
12 5 (0.37%) MSI
12 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
General
1 433 (32.19%) Social Skills
2 229 (17.03%) Finance
3 181 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 133 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (7.51%) Banking
6 80 (5.95%) Retail
7 67 (4.98%) Marketing
8 48 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 38 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
10 36 (2.68%) Legal
11 28 (2.08%) Automotive
12 27 (2.01%) Publishing
13 23 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (1.34%) Manufacturing
17 16 (1.19%) Military
18 13 (0.97%) Investment Banking
19 12 (0.89%) Front Office
20 9 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 274 (20.37%) Designer
2 187 (13.90%) Developer
3 180 (13.38%) Senior
4 120 (8.92%) Lead
5 115 (8.55%) UX Designer
6 89 (6.62%) Analyst
7 68 (5.06%) UI Designer
8 62 (4.61%) Consultant
9 56 (4.16%) Architect
10 54 (4.01%) IT Support
11 53 (3.94%) Support Engineer
12 51 (3.79%) Product Manager
12 51 (3.79%) User Researcher
13 50 (3.72%) Senior Designer
14 44 (3.27%) Business Analyst
15 42 (3.12%) Content Designer
15 42 (3.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 39 (2.90%) User Experience Researcher
17 37 (2.75%) IT Support Engineer
17 37 (2.75%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (9.74%) React
2 99 (7.36%) CSS
3 87 (6.47%) HTML
4 79 (5.87%) REST
5 43 (3.20%) RESTful
6 40 (2.97%) AngularJS
7 39 (2.90%) GraphQL
7 39 (2.90%) Terraform
8 38 (2.83%) HTML5
9 36 (2.68%) CSS3
10 35 (2.60%) .NET
11 30 (2.23%) Next.js
12 24 (1.78%) Spring
13 23 (1.71%) OAuth
13 23 (1.71%) Spring Boot
14 21 (1.56%) Jest
14 21 (1.56%) Playwright
15 20 (1.49%) Node.js
16 18 (1.34%) Redux
17 17 (1.26%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 126 (9.37%) Product Ownership
2 80 (5.95%) Onboarding
3 74 (5.50%) Mobile App
4 43 (3.20%) Cloud Native
5 42 (3.12%) AI Agents
6 30 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 28 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
8 27 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (1.56%) Data Centre
12 20 (1.49%) NHS
12 20 (1.49%) Social Media
13 18 (1.34%) Educational Technology
14 16 (1.19%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.19%) Graphic Design
15 13 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (0.97%) Taxonomies
15 13 (0.97%) Virtual Reality
16 12 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 145 (10.78%) Windows
2 58 (4.31%) Apple iOS
3 57 (4.24%) Android
4 54 (4.01%) Windows 10
5 33 (2.45%) Windows Server
6 32 (2.38%) Mac OS
7 18 (1.34%) Linux
8 12 (0.89%) Unix
9 9 (0.67%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (31.97%) UX Design
2 379 (28.18%) Agile
3 258 (19.18%) AI
4 243 (18.07%) Stakeholder Management
5 232 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
6 194 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 183 (13.61%) Analytics
8 160 (11.90%) CI/CD
9 158 (11.75%) User Research
10 146 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 140 (10.41%) Roadmaps
12 137 (10.19%) Decision-Making
13 107 (7.96%) DevOps
13 107 (7.96%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 104 (7.73%) Scrum
15 101 (7.51%) Workshop Facilitation
16 100 (7.43%) ITIL
16 100 (7.43%) Service Design
17 99 (7.36%) Prototyping
18 96 (7.14%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 128 (9.52%) JavaScript
2 102 (7.58%) TypeScript
3 85 (6.32%) Java
3 85 (6.32%) Python
4 81 (6.02%) SQL
5 48 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 31 (2.30%) C#
7 26 (1.93%) Kotlin
8 18 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (1.19%) Bash
10 15 (1.12%) Swift
11 8 (0.59%) Go
11 8 (0.59%) VBScript
12 7 (0.52%) PHP
12 7 (0.52%) VB
13 6 (0.45%) Scala
13 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.37%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.37%) Korn
15 4 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 208 (15.46%) Security Cleared
2 159 (11.82%) SC Cleared
3 104 (7.73%) Degree
4 31 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.56%) Azure Certification
7 21 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.04%) PMP
9 9 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.59%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.45%) MCSE
13 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.37%) CCIE
13 5 (0.37%) CCNP
13 5 (0.37%) CISSP
13 5 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (15.17%) Accessibility
2 86 (6.39%) QA
3 74 (5.50%) WCAG
4 43 (3.20%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.41%) GDPR
6 13 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.67%) SLA
8 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 7 (0.52%) PMO
9 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.22%) GRC
12 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.15%) PSD2
13 1 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.074%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.074%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.074%) NIST
13 1 (0.074%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.074%) WAI
System Software
1 99 (7.36%) Active Directory
2 41 (3.05%) Docker
3 26 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.12%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 8 (0.59%) XenApp
7 8 (0.59%) XenDesktop
8 7 (0.52%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.45%) vSphere
10 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.22%) UAG
13 2 (0.15%) Firmware
13 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
13 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.074%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 46 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (3.12%) Kubernetes
3 31 (2.30%) SCCM
4 21 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (1.49%) Grafana
6 16 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
7 13 (0.97%) Ansible
8 11 (0.82%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.37%) SysTrack
9 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.30%) Clonezilla
10 4 (0.30%) Podman
11 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.22%) WSUS
12 2 (0.15%) Argo
12 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.15%) Packer
12 2 (0.15%) SCOM
12 2 (0.15%) vMotion
13 1 (0.074%) Istio
Vendors
1 242 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 82 (6.10%) ServiceNow
3 68 (5.06%) Adobe
4 44 (3.27%) Oracle
5 43 (3.20%) Google
6 31 (2.30%) SAP
7 29 (2.16%) Salesforce
8 25 (1.86%) Citrix
8 25 (1.86%) Dynatrace
8 25 (1.86%) VMware
9 23 (1.71%) Splunk
10 18 (1.34%) Apple
10 18 (1.34%) Cisco
11 16 (1.19%) Foundry
11 16 (1.19%) Workday
12 14 (1.04%) Zscaler
13 13 (0.97%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.82%) Aruba
15 10 (0.74%) Okta
16 8 (0.59%) Databricks