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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 66 89
Rank change year-on-year -22 +23 -30
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,334 1,019 847
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.96% 3.69% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 4.07% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 647 545
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £390 £375 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £722 £723
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 41 31
10th Percentile £16.44 £25.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.08 £33.00 £28.28
Median hourly rate £33.99 £47.50 £41.68
Median % change year-on-year -28.44% +13.98% +57.26%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.75 £72.20
90th Percentile £77.45 £72.50 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £48.25 £41.68
% change year-on-year -29.55% +15.78% +54.35%

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 38,456 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,987 16,039 18,801
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,460 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -27 677 £525 +5.00% 611
North of England -11 226 £440 -2.22% 158
Midlands -11 143 £475 +11.24% 80
South East -45 118 £444 -6.53% 147
West Midlands -15 114 £475 -7.32% 61
North West -30 110 £425 -5.56% 85
South West -22 75 £475 +18.75% 81
Yorkshire -26 64 £500 +25.00% 51
North East -2 51 £363 -24.48% 22
East of England +12 50 £410 -16.33% 46
East Midlands -4 29 £468 +31.32% 19
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 60 (4.50%) SharePoint
2 53 (3.97%) CMS
3 33 (2.47%) Confluence
4 25 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.12%) WordPress
6 8 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.52%) Apache
8 6 (0.45%) Drupal
8 6 (0.45%) Skype for Business
9 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
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%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.075%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 26 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.87%) Sketch
3 20 (1.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 19 (1.42%) Chatbot
4 19 (1.42%) Photoshop
5 16 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
6 15 (1.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 13 (0.97%) Adobe XD
8 12 (0.90%) Adobe After Effects
9 9 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 7 (0.52%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.22%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.15%) InVision
12 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
13 1 (0.075%) Blender
13 1 (0.075%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.075%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.82%) Workday HCM
2 10 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.52%) Shopify
4 6 (0.45%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
6 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.22%) iTrent
6 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.075%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.075%) Magento
8 1 (0.075%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.075%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 207 (15.52%) Azure
2 173 (12.97%) Figma
3 126 (9.45%) Microsoft 365
4 116 (8.70%) AWS
5 96 (7.20%) Power Platform
6 58 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 49 (3.67%) Microsoft Copilot
8 45 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (3.37%) GCP
9 42 (3.15%) GitHub
10 41 (3.07%) SaaS
11 33 (2.47%) PowerApps
12 29 (2.17%) OneDrive
13 25 (1.87%) Power Automate
14 24 (1.80%) Copilot Studio
15 19 (1.42%) Azure AI
16 18 (1.35%) Serverless
17 14 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
18 11 (0.82%) Firebase
19 10 (0.75%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.92%) DNS
2 33 (2.47%) DHCP
3 29 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 25 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (1.57%) Wireless
6 20 (1.50%) LAN
7 13 (0.97%) Firewall
7 13 (0.97%) WAN
8 12 (0.90%) Internet
8 12 (0.90%) VPN
9 10 (0.75%) Intranet
10 9 (0.67%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.60%) Cisco Wireless
11 8 (0.60%) Skype
12 7 (0.52%) 5G
13 6 (0.45%) Network Security
13 6 (0.45%) WLAN
14 5 (0.37%) 802.11
14 5 (0.37%) SMS
14 5 (0.37%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.12%) Power BI
2 25 (1.87%) Metadata
3 17 (1.27%) Power Query
4 14 (1.05%) Relational Database
5 13 (0.97%) NoSQL
5 13 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (0.82%) Tableau
8 10 (0.75%) SQL Server
9 9 (0.67%) MySQL
10 8 (0.60%) Looker
11 7 (0.52%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.52%) Star Schema
12 6 (0.45%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.45%) ZAP BI
13 5 (0.37%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.37%) Flink
13 5 (0.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 5 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
13 5 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 73 (5.47%) JIRA
2 53 (3.97%) Git
3 23 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.42%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.27%) GitLab
5 17 (1.27%) Vite
6 10 (0.75%) Android Studio
6 10 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
6 10 (0.75%) fastlane
7 9 (0.67%) Storybook
7 9 (0.67%) Xcode
8 8 (0.60%) Gradle
9 5 (0.37%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.37%) Crashlytics
9 5 (0.37%) Fiddler
9 5 (0.37%) JUnit
9 5 (0.37%) Postman
10 4 (0.30%) JMeter
10 4 (0.30%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 420 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 246 (18.44%) Finance
3 173 (12.97%) Public Sector
4 129 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 110 (8.25%) Banking
6 80 (6.00%) Retail
7 67 (5.02%) Marketing
8 47 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (2.47%) Legal
10 31 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (2.32%) Publishing
11 27 (2.02%) Automotive
12 26 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (1.65%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (0.90%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.82%) Front Office
16 11 (0.82%) Military
17 8 (0.60%) Law
Job Titles
1 293 (21.96%) Designer
2 184 (13.79%) Senior
3 173 (12.97%) Developer
4 125 (9.37%) UX Designer
5 106 (7.95%) Lead
6 95 (7.12%) Analyst
7 73 (5.47%) Consultant
7 73 (5.47%) UI Designer
8 54 (4.05%) User Researcher
9 52 (3.90%) Senior Designer
10 51 (3.82%) Architect
10 51 (3.82%) Content Designer
11 48 (3.60%) Business Analyst
12 46 (3.45%) IT Support
13 44 (3.30%) Support Engineer
14 43 (3.22%) Product Manager
14 43 (3.22%) UI/UX Designer
15 42 (3.15%) User Experience Researcher
16 35 (2.62%) Product Designer
17 30 (2.25%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (8.40%) React
2 95 (7.12%) CSS
3 83 (6.22%) REST
4 81 (6.07%) HTML
5 45 (3.37%) RESTful
6 43 (3.22%) AngularJS
7 37 (2.77%) GraphQL
8 35 (2.62%) .NET
9 33 (2.47%) HTML5
10 32 (2.40%) CSS3
11 26 (1.95%) Spring
12 25 (1.87%) Spring Boot
13 21 (1.57%) Next.js
14 20 (1.50%) Jest
14 20 (1.50%) JSON
15 19 (1.42%) Node.js
15 19 (1.42%) SOAP
16 18 (1.35%) ASP.NET
16 18 (1.35%) OAuth
16 18 (1.35%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 122 (9.15%) Product Ownership
2 80 (6.00%) Mobile App
3 78 (5.85%) Onboarding
4 38 (2.85%) Cloud Native
5 35 (2.62%) AI Agents
6 29 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (1.65%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.50%) Social Media
12 19 (1.42%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.27%) Educational Technology
14 17 (1.27%) Graphic Design
15 16 (1.20%) Management Information System
16 14 (1.05%) Algorithms
16 14 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (1.05%) NHS
16 14 (1.05%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 128 (9.60%) Windows
2 51 (3.82%) Android
3 47 (3.52%) Apple iOS
4 46 (3.45%) Windows 10
5 24 (1.80%) Mac OS
6 19 (1.42%) Windows Server
7 16 (1.20%) Linux
8 10 (0.75%) Unix
9 9 (0.67%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (32.08%) UX Design
2 385 (28.86%) Agile
3 252 (18.89%) AI
4 222 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
5 202 (15.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 176 (13.19%) Analytics
7 175 (13.12%) User Research
8 173 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 157 (11.77%) CI/CD
10 148 (11.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 137 (10.27%) Roadmaps
12 125 (9.37%) Decision-Making
13 114 (8.55%) DevOps
14 110 (8.25%) Prototyping
15 108 (8.10%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 104 (7.80%) UX Research
16 104 (7.80%) Wireframes
17 102 (7.65%) Service Design
18 98 (7.35%) Workshop Facilitation
19 97 (7.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 114 (8.55%) JavaScript
2 90 (6.75%) Java
3 84 (6.30%) Python
3 84 (6.30%) TypeScript
4 81 (6.07%) SQL
5 51 (3.82%) PowerShell
6 32 (2.40%) Kotlin
7 30 (2.25%) C#
8 23 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (1.05%) Swift
10 13 (0.97%) Bash
11 8 (0.60%) Korn
12 7 (0.52%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.52%) Go
12 7 (0.52%) PHP
12 7 (0.52%) VBScript
13 6 (0.45%) Scala
13 6 (0.45%) VB
13 6 (0.45%) VBA
14 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 202 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 154 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 120 (9.00%) Degree
4 31 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (1.87%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (1.57%) Azure Certification
7 21 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (0.75%) PMP
9 8 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.60%) Citrix Certification
9 8 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 7 (0.52%) CCA
11 6 (0.45%) CCIE
11 6 (0.45%) CCNP
11 6 (0.45%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.45%) MCSE
12 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (16.12%) Accessibility
2 89 (6.67%) QA
3 70 (5.25%) WCAG
4 43 (3.22%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.42%) GDPR
6 12 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.60%) PMO
8 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 5 (0.37%) SLA
10 4 (0.30%) GRC
11 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.15%) PSD2
12 1 (0.075%) COBIT
12 1 (0.075%) GMP
12 1 (0.075%) GxP
12 1 (0.075%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.075%) WAI
System Software
1 82 (6.15%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.85%) Docker
3 27 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.45%) BitLocker
5 6 (0.45%) Firmware
5 6 (0.45%) vSphere
6 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.30%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.22%) UAG
8 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.15%) XenApp
9 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.075%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 42 (3.15%) Terraform
2 41 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 41 (3.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (2.32%) SCCM
4 22 (1.65%) Grafana
5 16 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.97%) Ansible
6 13 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
7 11 (0.82%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.30%) Clonezilla
9 4 (0.30%) Podman
10 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.22%) WSUS
11 2 (0.15%) Argo
11 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.15%) Packer
11 2 (0.15%) SCOM
11 2 (0.15%) vMotion
12 1 (0.075%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 226 (16.94%) Microsoft
2 74 (5.55%) Adobe
3 73 (5.47%) ServiceNow
4 47 (3.52%) Google
5 38 (2.85%) Oracle
5 38 (2.85%) SAP
6 30 (2.25%) Salesforce
7 24 (1.80%) Citrix
7 24 (1.80%) Splunk
8 22 (1.65%) Dynatrace
9 21 (1.57%) Workday
10 18 (1.35%) Cisco
11 16 (1.20%) Apple
11 16 (1.20%) VMware
12 15 (1.12%) Foundry
13 14 (1.05%) Zscaler
14 12 (0.90%) Aruba
15 11 (0.82%) OpenAI
16 9 (0.67%) Okta
17 8 (0.60%) Databricks