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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 67 83
Rank change year-on-year -16 +16 -25
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,306 939 952
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.98% 3.64% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 3.99% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 602 642
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £401 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% -4.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £585 £598 £623
90th Percentile £679 £720 £711
UK median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 34 45
10th Percentile £16.00 £24.04 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.17 £34.67 £25.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £49.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.98% +64.17% +13.21%
75th Percentile £67.84 £68.56 £68.00
90th Percentile £86.73 £85.50 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £49.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -31.33% +56.10% +7.15%

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 37,451 23,541 31,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.15% 85.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,583 15,155 20,721
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.08% -3.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,352 1,173 2,326
10th Percentile £15.26 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +85.35% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.50 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.07
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -24 652 £525 +5.00% 527
North of England -21 201 £450 - 167
Midlands +10 154 £475 +18.16% 70
South East -19 135 £500 +5.26% 155
West Midlands +3 112 £475 -9.52% 44
North West -25 111 £437 -3.00% 85
South West -6 75 £475 +26.67% 49
Yorkshire -23 58 £500 +24.84% 43
East of England +6 43 £410 -13.68% 50
East Midlands +1 42 £550 +54.49% 26
North East -12 32 £440 -8.33% 40
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 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.45%) CMS
3 37 (2.83%) Confluence
4 26 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.77%) WordPress
6 7 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.38%) Drupal
7 5 (0.38%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.31%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.31%) Kentico
8 4 (0.31%) Mendix
9 3 (0.23%) Camunda
9 3 (0.23%) nginx
9 3 (0.23%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.15%) Apache
10 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
11 1 (0.077%) Traefik
Applications
1 25 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.53%) Photoshop
2 20 (1.53%) Sketch
3 18 (1.38%) Chatbot
4 16 (1.23%) Adobe Illustrator
5 14 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (1.00%) Adobe After Effects
6 13 (1.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 11 (0.84%) Adobe XD
8 10 (0.77%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 4 (0.31%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.23%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.23%) UXPin
12 2 (0.15%) InVision
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.077%) Blender
13 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.077%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
1 11 (0.84%) Workday HCM
2 8 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.61%) Shopify
3 6 (0.46%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.31%) Oracle iProcurement
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.077%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.077%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.077%) iTrent
6 1 (0.077%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.077%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.077%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 209 (16.00%) Azure
2 176 (13.48%) Figma
3 112 (8.58%) Microsoft 365
4 106 (8.12%) AWS
5 95 (7.27%) Power Platform
6 56 (4.29%) Entra ID
7 50 (3.83%) Microsoft Copilot
8 48 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (3.37%) SaaS
10 40 (3.06%) PowerApps
11 37 (2.83%) GCP
11 37 (2.83%) GitHub
12 33 (2.53%) OneDrive
13 31 (2.37%) Power Automate
14 28 (2.14%) Copilot Studio
15 21 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (1.53%) Serverless
17 17 (1.30%) Azure AI
17 17 (1.30%) Google Workspace
18 14 (1.07%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.37%) DNS
2 28 (2.14%) DHCP
3 24 (1.84%) TCP/IP
4 22 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (1.53%) Wireless
6 18 (1.38%) LAN
7 13 (1.00%) Internet
8 11 (0.84%) WAN
9 10 (0.77%) Firewall
9 10 (0.77%) Intranet
10 9 (0.69%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.69%) VPN
11 8 (0.61%) Cisco Wireless
12 7 (0.54%) 5G
12 7 (0.54%) Skype
12 7 (0.54%) WLAN
13 5 (0.38%) 802.11
13 5 (0.38%) HTTP
13 5 (0.38%) SMS
13 5 (0.38%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.21%) Power BI
2 21 (1.61%) Metadata
3 20 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (1.53%) Relational Database
4 18 (1.38%) Power Query
5 17 (1.30%) NoSQL
5 17 (1.30%) SQL Server
6 12 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (0.92%) MySQL
7 10 (0.77%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.69%) Tableau
9 6 (0.46%) DynamoDB
9 6 (0.46%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.46%) Redis
9 6 (0.46%) ZAP BI
10 5 (0.38%) Star Schema
11 4 (0.31%) Db2
11 4 (0.31%) EDRMS
11 4 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.23%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 77 (5.90%) JIRA
2 56 (4.29%) Git
3 22 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.45%) Cypress.io
4 19 (1.45%) GitLab
5 17 (1.30%) Vite
6 13 (1.00%) JUnit
7 10 (0.77%) fastlane
8 9 (0.69%) Android Studio
8 9 (0.69%) Browser DevTools
8 9 (0.69%) Xcode
9 8 (0.61%) Gradle
9 8 (0.61%) Postman
10 6 (0.46%) Selenium
10 6 (0.46%) Storybook
11 5 (0.38%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.38%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.38%) Fiddler
11 5 (0.38%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 404 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 245 (18.76%) Finance
3 161 (12.33%) Public Sector
4 130 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
5 107 (8.19%) Banking
6 76 (5.82%) Retail
7 57 (4.36%) Marketing
8 39 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (2.45%) Legal
10 29 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
12 27 (2.07%) Automotive
13 25 (1.91%) Publishing
14 20 (1.53%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
16 16 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (1.00%) Investment Banking
18 11 (0.84%) Front Office
19 8 (0.61%) Law
19 8 (0.61%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 283 (21.67%) Designer
2 184 (14.09%) Senior
3 174 (13.32%) Developer
4 124 (9.49%) UX Designer
5 101 (7.73%) Analyst
5 101 (7.73%) Lead
6 72 (5.51%) UI Designer
7 68 (5.21%) Consultant
8 56 (4.29%) Senior Designer
9 54 (4.13%) Architect
10 51 (3.91%) Content Designer
10 51 (3.91%) Product Designer
11 48 (3.68%) Business Analyst
12 44 (3.37%) IT Support
13 43 (3.29%) User Experience Researcher
14 42 (3.22%) Product Manager
14 42 (3.22%) UI/UX Designer
15 39 (2.99%) User Researcher
16 34 (2.60%) Support Engineer
17 31 (2.37%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (9.34%) React
2 97 (7.43%) CSS
3 82 (6.28%) HTML
4 80 (6.13%) REST
5 50 (3.83%) RESTful
6 49 (3.75%) AngularJS
7 45 (3.45%) .NET
8 41 (3.14%) Spring
9 40 (3.06%) Spring Boot
10 35 (2.68%) GraphQL
11 23 (1.76%) HTML5
11 23 (1.76%) Next.js
12 22 (1.68%) CSS3
12 22 (1.68%) JSON
12 22 (1.68%) Node.js
13 21 (1.61%) Redux
14 20 (1.53%) ASP.NET
15 18 (1.38%) SOAP
16 17 (1.30%) Kafka
16 17 (1.30%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 135 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 62 (4.75%) Onboarding
3 61 (4.67%) Mobile App
4 36 (2.76%) Cloud Native
5 35 (2.68%) AI Agents
6 29 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 24 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.53%) Data Centre
10 19 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (1.45%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 17 (1.30%) Taxonomies
12 16 (1.23%) Graphic Design
13 14 (1.07%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.07%) Social Media
14 13 (1.00%) Virtual Reality
15 12 (0.92%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 111 (8.50%) Windows
2 45 (3.45%) Apple iOS
3 41 (3.14%) Android
4 33 (2.53%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.76%) Mac OS
6 14 (1.07%) Windows Server
7 13 (1.00%) Linux
8 7 (0.54%) Unix
9 6 (0.46%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (32.39%) UX Design
2 390 (29.86%) Agile
3 226 (17.30%) AI
4 205 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
5 186 (14.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 167 (12.79%) Analytics
7 161 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 154 (11.79%) User Research
9 148 (11.33%) CI/CD
10 143 (10.95%) Roadmaps
10 143 (10.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 123 (9.42%) DevOps
12 121 (9.26%) Decision-Making
13 119 (9.11%) Prototyping
14 108 (8.27%) UX Research
15 100 (7.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 100 (7.66%) Wireframes
16 98 (7.50%) Service Design
17 95 (7.27%) Workshop Facilitation
18 94 (7.20%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 121 (9.26%) JavaScript
2 99 (7.58%) SQL
3 98 (7.50%) Java
4 97 (7.43%) TypeScript
5 84 (6.43%) Python
6 48 (3.68%) PowerShell
7 43 (3.29%) C#
8 25 (1.91%) Kotlin
9 24 (1.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (1.00%) Swift
11 11 (0.84%) Bash
12 8 (0.61%) Korn
13 7 (0.54%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.54%) R
14 6 (0.46%) Go
14 6 (0.46%) VBA
14 6 (0.46%) VBScript
15 5 (0.38%) VB
16 4 (0.31%) PHP
17 3 (0.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 175 (13.40%) Security Cleared
2 134 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 129 (9.88%) Degree
4 28 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (1.61%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (0.54%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.54%) CCIE
10 7 (0.54%) CCNP
10 7 (0.54%) Citrix Certification
10 7 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 6 (0.46%) CCA
11 6 (0.46%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.46%) PMP
12 5 (0.38%) CISSP
12 5 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (15.47%) Accessibility
2 91 (6.97%) QA
3 63 (4.82%) WCAG
4 42 (3.22%) Data Quality
5 25 (1.91%) GDPR
6 16 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 7 (0.54%) PMO
8 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.38%) SLA
10 3 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.15%) PSD2
12 1 (0.077%) COBIT
12 1 (0.077%) GMP
12 1 (0.077%) GxP
12 1 (0.077%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.077%) WAI
System Software
1 68 (5.21%) Active Directory
2 39 (2.99%) Docker
3 23 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.46%) Firmware
6 5 (0.38%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.23%) vSphere
9 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.15%) XenApp
9 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.077%) UAG
10 1 (0.077%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 44 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (3.22%) Kubernetes
3 38 (2.91%) Terraform
4 34 (2.60%) SCCM
5 17 (1.30%) Grafana
6 15 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (0.84%) Ansible
9 8 (0.61%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.31%) Clonezilla
11 3 (0.23%) Podman
11 3 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.23%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.23%) 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 (0.077%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 226 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 69 (5.28%) Adobe
3 63 (4.82%) ServiceNow
4 46 (3.52%) Google
5 43 (3.29%) SAP
6 37 (2.83%) Oracle
7 35 (2.68%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.53%) Workday
9 19 (1.45%) Citrix
9 19 (1.45%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.30%) Apple
10 17 (1.30%) Cisco
11 16 (1.23%) Foundry
12 15 (1.15%) Splunk
13 14 (1.07%) VMware
14 12 (0.92%) Aruba
15 9 (0.69%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.69%) Zscaler
16 7 (0.54%) Databricks
16 7 (0.54%) Okta