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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 63 77
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 -15
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,265 881 977
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.14% 3.65% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 4.00% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 847 579 660
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% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £611
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.82% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 21 44
10th Percentile £16.00 £33.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.89 £46.25 £22.82
Median hourly rate £33.99 £53.50 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year -36.47% +105.53% -1.77%
75th Percentile £62.94 £82.96 £62.45
90th Percentile £82.50 £95.50 £73.98
UK median hourly rate £35.75 £53.50 £29.14
% change year-on-year -33.18% +83.63% -1.55%

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 34,138 22,003 31,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 91.23% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,766 14,379 20,694
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 924 2,243
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.42 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.47 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
% change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +1.39%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -16 650 £513 -0.49% 322
North of England +4 199 £450 +0.33% 141
Midlands +6 156 £488 +21.88% 80
North West +8 123 £420 -6.67% 84
South East -23 115 £475 +2.26% 148
West Midlands -13 105 £475 +1.33% 51
South West -17 67 £475 +26.67% 60
Yorkshire -18 53 £513 +28.04% 31
East Midlands +5 51 £550 +54.06% 27
East of England -18 30 £410 -13.68% 68
North East -10 21 £445 -1.66% 26
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 45 (3.56%) SharePoint
2 43 (3.40%) Confluence
3 34 (2.69%) CMS
4 18 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.55%) WordPress
7 5 (0.40%) Apache
7 5 (0.40%) Drupal
8 4 (0.32%) Camunda
8 4 (0.32%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.32%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.32%) Kentico
9 3 (0.24%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.24%) Mendix
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) IIS
10 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (1.98%) Sketch
2 23 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.50%) Chatbot
3 19 (1.50%) Photoshop
4 18 (1.42%) Adobe XD
5 14 (1.11%) Adobe Illustrator
5 14 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (1.03%) MS Visio
7 12 (0.95%) Adobe After Effects
8 6 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.32%) InVision
10 3 (0.24%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.24%) Trello
10 3 (0.24%) UserZoom
10 3 (0.24%) UXPin
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.079%) Blender
Business Applications
1 11 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.63%) Shopify
3 8 (0.63%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.47%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle iProcurement
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 ERP
7 1 (0.079%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.079%) iTrent
7 1 (0.079%) Magento
7 1 (0.079%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.079%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.079%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 192 (15.18%) Azure
2 174 (13.75%) Figma
3 99 (7.83%) AWS
4 93 (7.35%) Power Platform
5 92 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (3.95%) Entra ID
7 42 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (3.32%) GCP
8 36 (2.85%) GitHub
8 36 (2.85%) SaaS
9 35 (2.77%) Microsoft Copilot
10 32 (2.53%) PowerApps
11 30 (2.37%) Power Automate
12 24 (1.90%) Google Workspace
13 21 (1.66%) Copilot Studio
13 21 (1.66%) Serverless
14 20 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (1.58%) Google Sheets
15 19 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
16 18 (1.42%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
2 12 (0.95%) DNS
2 12 (0.95%) Internet
2 12 (0.95%) LAN
3 11 (0.87%) Intranet
3 11 (0.87%) Wireless
4 10 (0.79%) DHCP
4 10 (0.79%) SD-WAN
5 9 (0.71%) VPN
6 7 (0.55%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.55%) WAN
7 6 (0.47%) 5G
7 6 (0.47%) Cisco Wireless
7 6 (0.47%) WLAN
8 5 (0.40%) Firewall
8 5 (0.40%) HTTP
8 5 (0.40%) SMS
8 5 (0.40%) SSL
9 4 (0.32%) 802.11
9 4 (0.32%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (4.90%) Power BI
2 20 (1.58%) Relational Database
3 18 (1.42%) NoSQL
3 18 (1.42%) SQL Server
4 16 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (1.26%) Metadata
4 16 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (1.19%) MySQL
6 12 (0.95%) Power Query
7 11 (0.87%) Tableau
8 9 (0.71%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.63%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 7 (0.55%) Pinecone
11 6 (0.47%) ZAP BI
12 5 (0.40%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.40%) Looker
12 5 (0.40%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.40%) Redis
12 5 (0.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 91 (7.19%) JIRA
2 58 (4.58%) Git
3 31 (2.45%) GitLab
4 22 (1.74%) Cypress.io
5 16 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.26%) JUnit
6 14 (1.11%) Gradle
7 12 (0.95%) Browser DevTools
8 11 (0.87%) Android Studio
8 11 (0.87%) Vite
9 10 (0.79%) Axure RP
9 10 (0.79%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.79%) Xcode
10 6 (0.47%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.47%) fastlane
10 6 (0.47%) Mocha
10 6 (0.47%) Postman
10 6 (0.47%) Selenium
11 5 (0.40%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.40%) TestRail
General
1 378 (29.88%) Social Skills
2 241 (19.05%) Finance
3 157 (12.41%) Public Sector
4 129 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (7.83%) Banking
6 53 (4.19%) Marketing
7 52 (4.11%) Retail
8 32 (2.53%) Legal
9 29 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
9 29 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.66%) Automotive
12 20 (1.58%) Publishing
13 19 (1.50%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.87%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.87%) Local Government
17 9 (0.71%) Front Office
18 8 (0.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 267 (21.11%) Designer
2 196 (15.49%) Senior
3 158 (12.49%) Developer
4 126 (9.96%) UX Designer
5 116 (9.17%) Analyst
6 73 (5.77%) Lead
7 66 (5.22%) Consultant
8 59 (4.66%) UI Designer
9 56 (4.43%) Product Designer
10 55 (4.35%) Architect
11 54 (4.27%) Senior Designer
12 53 (4.19%) Business Analyst
13 46 (3.64%) Content Designer
14 43 (3.40%) User Experience Researcher
15 39 (3.08%) UI/UX Designer
16 36 (2.85%) User Researcher
17 35 (2.77%) IT Support
18 34 (2.69%) Product Manager
18 34 (2.69%) Service Designer
19 32 (2.53%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (10.67%) React
2 116 (9.17%) CSS
3 102 (8.06%) HTML
4 82 (6.48%) REST
5 62 (4.90%) AngularJS
6 55 (4.35%) RESTful
7 49 (3.87%) Spring
8 48 (3.79%) Spring Boot
9 36 (2.85%) .NET
9 36 (2.85%) GraphQL
10 32 (2.53%) Node.js
11 27 (2.13%) HTML5
12 26 (2.06%) CSS3
12 26 (2.06%) Next.js
12 26 (2.06%) Redux
13 23 (1.82%) JSON
14 20 (1.58%) Jest
15 19 (1.50%) OAuth
16 18 (1.42%) SOAP
17 17 (1.34%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 118 (9.33%) Product Ownership
2 59 (4.66%) Mobile App
3 52 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 30 (2.37%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (1.82%) Cloud Native
7 22 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 17 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.19%) Virtual Reality
11 13 (1.03%) Augmented Reality
11 13 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.95%) Taxonomies
12 12 (0.95%) Virtual Team
13 11 (0.87%) Algorithms
13 11 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (0.87%) Management Information System
13 11 (0.87%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 94 (7.43%) Windows
2 42 (3.32%) Android
3 34 (2.69%) Windows 10
4 33 (2.61%) Apple iOS
5 20 (1.58%) Mac OS
6 14 (1.11%) Linux
7 8 (0.63%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.47%) Unix
9 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.24%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (31.54%) UX Design
2 382 (30.20%) Agile
3 191 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
4 187 (14.78%) AI
4 187 (14.78%) Analytics
5 167 (13.20%) User Research
6 158 (12.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 157 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 141 (11.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 139 (10.99%) CI/CD
9 139 (10.99%) Roadmaps
10 121 (9.57%) DevOps
11 120 (9.49%) UX Research
12 115 (9.09%) Prototyping
13 111 (8.77%) Decision-Making
14 104 (8.22%) Wireframes
15 103 (8.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 96 (7.59%) Service Design
17 92 (7.27%) Workshop Facilitation
18 88 (6.96%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 140 (11.07%) JavaScript
2 107 (8.46%) Java
3 101 (7.98%) SQL
4 93 (7.35%) Python
5 90 (7.11%) TypeScript
6 44 (3.48%) PowerShell
7 35 (2.77%) C#
8 29 (2.29%) Kotlin
9 18 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 17 (1.34%) Bash
11 11 (0.87%) Swift
12 7 (0.55%) Korn
13 6 (0.47%) Perl
13 6 (0.47%) VBA
14 5 (0.40%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.40%) Go
14 5 (0.40%) R
15 4 (0.32%) PHP
15 4 (0.32%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 158 (12.49%) Security Cleared
2 118 (9.33%) SC Cleared
3 115 (9.09%) Degree
4 29 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (1.74%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (1.03%) Azure Certification
9 10 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (0.63%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.55%) CCNP
12 6 (0.47%) CCA
12 6 (0.47%) CCIE
12 6 (0.47%) Citrix Certification
12 6 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.40%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.32%) OCA
14 4 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (16.28%) Accessibility
2 108 (8.54%) QA
3 62 (4.90%) WCAG
4 45 (3.56%) Data Quality
5 35 (2.77%) GDPR
6 18 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 13 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.55%) SLA
9 6 (0.47%) PMO
10 3 (0.24%) GMP
10 3 (0.24%) GRC
10 3 (0.24%) GxP
10 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 3 (0.24%) NCSC
11 2 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.16%) COBIT
11 2 (0.16%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 65 (5.14%) Active Directory
2 41 (3.24%) Docker
3 20 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.47%) Firmware
6 4 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.24%) XenApp
7 3 (0.24%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.16%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.079%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.079%) Varnish
9 1 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 40 (3.16%) Terraform
3 31 (2.45%) SCCM
4 30 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.58%) Grafana
6 17 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.19%) Ansible
8 9 (0.71%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.32%) Podman
10 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.16%) Argo
11 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.16%) Nagios
11 2 (0.16%) Packer
11 2 (0.16%) Rancher
11 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.16%) WSUS
12 1 (0.079%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 194 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 72 (5.69%) Adobe
3 58 (4.58%) Google
4 50 (3.95%) ServiceNow
5 45 (3.56%) Oracle
6 39 (3.08%) Salesforce
6 39 (3.08%) SAP
7 23 (1.82%) Citrix
8 18 (1.42%) VMware
9 17 (1.34%) Workday
10 16 (1.26%) Splunk
11 15 (1.19%) Cisco
12 14 (1.11%) Apple
13 13 (1.03%) Dynatrace
14 11 (0.87%) Aruba
15 9 (0.71%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.63%) Foundry
17 7 (0.55%) HP
17 7 (0.55%) Zscaler
18 6 (0.47%) Databricks