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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 61 72
Rank change year-on-year -19 +11 -9
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,214 886 1,018
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.08% 3.62% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 3.97% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 593 684
10th Percentile £305 £300 £296
25th Percentile £390 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £601
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.56% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 19 47
10th Percentile £16.44 £25.16 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.89 £41.58 £24.38
Median hourly rate £51.44 £49.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year +3.92% +56.10% -15.44%
75th Percentile £67.84 £84.23 £64.77
90th Percentile £82.40 £95.70 £74.03
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £51.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -2.91% +58.46% -10.34%

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 33,651 22,305 32,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 91.07% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,531 14,664 21,253
10th Percentile £313 £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 £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,083 886 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.80 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%
75th Percentile £67.13 £63.75 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.38 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.18% -5.92%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -18 629 £505 -1.46% 603
North of England -1 198 £450 - 329
Midlands -14 134 £488 +21.88% 129
North West -1 123 £420 -6.67% 230
South East -5 117 £488 -2.50% 276
West Midlands -27 91 £475 +2.70% 73
South West -11 66 £475 +26.67% 71
Yorkshire -26 51 £500 +24.84% 73
East Midlands -5 43 £550 +53.63% 56
East of England -23 26 £413 -13.16% 157
North East -3 22 £405 -10.50% 28
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 50 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 42 (3.46%) Confluence
3 32 (2.64%) CMS
4 18 (1.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 18 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.49%) Apache
5 6 (0.49%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (0.41%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.41%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.33%) Camunda
7 4 (0.33%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.33%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.25%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) Appian
9 2 (0.16%) Drupal
9 2 (0.16%) IIS
9 2 (0.16%) Mendix
10 1 (0.082%) Traefik
Applications
1 33 (2.72%) Sketch
2 24 (1.98%) Adobe XD
2 24 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.57%) Chatbot
4 18 (1.48%) MS Visio
5 14 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (0.91%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.66%) InVision
8 7 (0.58%) Adobe Illustrator
9 6 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
9 6 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.33%) Trello
11 4 (0.33%) UserZoom
12 3 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.25%) UXPin
13 2 (0.16%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.16%) Camtasia
14 1 (0.082%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.66%) Shopify
3 8 (0.66%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.49%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.16%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.16%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.16%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.16%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.082%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.082%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.082%) iTrent
6 1 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.082%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.082%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 194 (15.98%) Azure
2 169 (13.92%) Figma
3 105 (8.65%) AWS
4 88 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
5 85 (7.00%) Power Platform
6 52 (4.28%) Entra ID
7 51 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
8 48 (3.95%) GCP
9 46 (3.79%) GitHub
10 34 (2.80%) SaaS
11 31 (2.55%) Microsoft Copilot
11 31 (2.55%) PowerApps
12 28 (2.31%) Power Automate
13 27 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (2.14%) Serverless
15 23 (1.89%) Google Workspace
16 22 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
17 20 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
18 19 (1.57%) Google Sheets
19 18 (1.48%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.24%) DNS
2 14 (1.15%) LAN
2 14 (1.15%) Wireless
3 11 (0.91%) DHCP
3 11 (0.91%) Internet
4 10 (0.82%) Intranet
4 10 (0.82%) SD-WAN
4 10 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (0.74%) WAN
6 8 (0.66%) SSL
6 8 (0.66%) VPN
7 7 (0.58%) Cisco Wireless
7 7 (0.58%) Firewall
7 7 (0.58%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
8 6 (0.49%) Network Security
8 6 (0.49%) WLAN
9 5 (0.41%) 5G
9 5 (0.41%) BGP
9 5 (0.41%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.70%) Power BI
2 23 (1.89%) NoSQL
3 22 (1.81%) Relational Database
3 22 (1.81%) SQL Server
4 21 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (1.65%) MySQL
6 19 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (1.40%) Tableau
8 15 (1.24%) Metadata
9 11 (0.91%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.74%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.66%) Power Query
12 7 (0.58%) Looker
12 7 (0.58%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 6 (0.49%) ZAP BI
14 5 (0.41%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.41%) Redis
15 4 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 94 (7.74%) JIRA
2 62 (5.11%) Git
3 38 (3.13%) GitLab
4 23 (1.89%) Jenkins
5 22 (1.81%) Cypress.io
5 22 (1.81%) JUnit
6 14 (1.15%) Axure RP
6 14 (1.15%) Gradle
7 12 (0.99%) CircleCI
8 11 (0.91%) Android Studio
8 11 (0.91%) Browser DevTools
9 9 (0.74%) Selenium
9 9 (0.74%) Xcode
10 7 (0.58%) Postman
10 7 (0.58%) Vite
11 6 (0.49%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.49%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.49%) Mocha
12 5 (0.41%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 392 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 243 (20.02%) Finance
3 151 (12.44%) Public Sector
4 141 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (8.24%) Banking
6 50 (4.12%) Marketing
7 48 (3.95%) Retail
8 31 (2.55%) Legal
9 30 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.15%) Publishing
14 13 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.07%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.99%) Front Office
16 11 (0.91%) Telecoms
17 10 (0.82%) Automotive
17 10 (0.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 246 (20.26%) Designer
2 186 (15.32%) Senior
3 164 (13.51%) Developer
4 123 (10.13%) UX Designer
5 116 (9.56%) Analyst
6 63 (5.19%) Lead
7 57 (4.70%) Consultant
8 55 (4.53%) Product Designer
9 53 (4.37%) Business Analyst
10 52 (4.28%) Architect
11 51 (4.20%) Senior Designer
12 44 (3.62%) UI Designer
13 37 (3.05%) User Researcher
14 36 (2.97%) Content Designer
15 35 (2.88%) IT Support
15 35 (2.88%) Support Engineer
16 34 (2.80%) Service Designer
16 34 (2.80%) UI/UX Designer
17 31 (2.55%) Senior Developer
17 31 (2.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (11.53%) React
2 125 (10.30%) CSS
3 113 (9.31%) HTML
4 92 (7.58%) REST
5 72 (5.93%) AngularJS
6 66 (5.44%) RESTful
7 57 (4.70%) Spring
8 56 (4.61%) Spring Boot
9 44 (3.62%) .NET
10 35 (2.88%) Node.js
11 34 (2.80%) GraphQL
12 31 (2.55%) HTML5
13 29 (2.39%) CSS3
13 29 (2.39%) Redux
14 24 (1.98%) Next.js
15 23 (1.89%) Vue
16 21 (1.73%) Jest
16 21 (1.73%) JSON
17 20 (1.65%) Kafka
18 17 (1.40%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 110 (9.06%) Product Ownership
2 66 (5.44%) Mobile App
3 47 (3.87%) Onboarding
4 31 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (2.22%) AI Agents
6 23 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 20 (1.65%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 17 (1.40%) Cloud Native
9 17 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.15%) Virtual Reality
11 13 (1.07%) Augmented Reality
11 13 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (0.91%) Algorithms
12 11 (0.91%) NHS
13 10 (0.82%) Management Information System
13 10 (0.82%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 99 (8.15%) Windows
2 39 (3.21%) Windows 10
3 38 (3.13%) Android
4 29 (2.39%) Apple iOS
5 21 (1.73%) Mac OS
6 12 (0.99%) Linux
7 7 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.49%) Unix
9 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.082%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.082%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (31.88%) Agile
2 376 (30.97%) UX Design
3 192 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
4 188 (15.49%) Analytics
5 182 (14.99%) AI
6 169 (13.92%) User Research
7 152 (12.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 149 (12.27%) CI/CD
9 144 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 143 (11.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 138 (11.37%) DevOps
12 123 (10.13%) Roadmaps
13 114 (9.39%) Prototyping
14 110 (9.06%) UX Research
15 107 (8.81%) Wireframes
16 104 (8.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 101 (8.32%) Decision-Making
18 98 (8.07%) Service Design
19 88 (7.25%) Usability Testing
20 79 (6.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 158 (13.01%) JavaScript
2 114 (9.39%) SQL
3 113 (9.31%) Java
4 93 (7.66%) Python
5 92 (7.58%) TypeScript
6 46 (3.79%) C#
6 46 (3.79%) PowerShell
7 27 (2.22%) Kotlin
8 15 (1.24%) Bash
9 13 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.66%) Swift
11 7 (0.58%) Korn
11 7 (0.58%) Perl
11 7 (0.58%) PHP
12 6 (0.49%) Go
12 6 (0.49%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.49%) VBA
13 4 (0.33%) Lisp
13 4 (0.33%) R
14 3 (0.25%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 146 (12.03%) Security Cleared
2 107 (8.81%) SC Cleared
3 101 (8.32%) Degree
4 27 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (1.40%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.07%) Azure Certification
9 12 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (0.82%) CCNP
11 7 (0.58%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.58%) 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 (0.33%) MOS
13 4 (0.33%) PMP
14 3 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (15.90%) Accessibility
2 113 (9.31%) QA
3 59 (4.86%) WCAG
4 41 (3.38%) Data Quality
5 38 (3.13%) GDPR
6 20 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.82%) SLA
9 7 (0.58%) PMO
10 5 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.25%) GMP
12 3 (0.25%) GRC
12 3 (0.25%) GxP
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.25%) NCSC
13 2 (0.16%) COBIT
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 71 (5.85%) Active Directory
2 45 (3.71%) Docker
3 19 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.41%) Firmware
6 4 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.25%) XenApp
7 3 (0.25%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.16%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.082%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.082%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.082%) Varnish
9 1 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 56 (4.61%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.97%) Terraform
3 35 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (2.22%) SCCM
5 18 (1.48%) Grafana
6 14 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.82%) Ansible
8 6 (0.49%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.25%) Argo
10 3 (0.25%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.25%) Nagios
10 3 (0.25%) Podman
10 3 (0.25%) Rancher
10 3 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.16%) WSUS
12 1 (0.082%) WMI
Vendors
1 197 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 74 (6.10%) Adobe
3 61 (5.02%) Google
4 54 (4.45%) ServiceNow
5 42 (3.46%) Oracle
6 41 (3.38%) SAP
7 34 (2.80%) Salesforce
8 25 (2.06%) Citrix
9 19 (1.57%) VMware
10 16 (1.32%) Workday
11 15 (1.24%) Cisco
12 14 (1.15%) Apple
13 13 (1.07%) Splunk
14 10 (0.82%) Sitecore
14 10 (0.82%) Zscaler
15 9 (0.74%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.66%) Aruba
16 8 (0.66%) Ekahau
16 8 (0.66%) Foundry
16 8 (0.66%) Red Hat