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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 62 75
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 -12
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,234 891 996
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.07% 3.64% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 4.00% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 842 587 674
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £489 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +0.57% -2.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 20 48
10th Percentile £16.00 £25.21 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.09 £41.75 £23.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +62.41% -6.31%
75th Percentile £64.58 £83.60 £64.65
90th Percentile £82.10 £95.60 £73.96
UK median hourly rate £47.25 £53.50 £32.11
% change year-on-year -11.68% +66.64% -8.27%

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 34,120 22,289 31,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 91.13% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,809 14,625 20,976
10th Percentile £318 £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 £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,143 919 2,227
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.74 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.50% -13.00% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £29.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.08% -16.71% -6.27%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -18 637 £513 -1.44% 345
North of England +5 197 £451 +0.11% 376
Midlands -8 145 £500 +24.69% 114
North West +13 121 £425 -5.56% 305
South East -25 114 £485 +5.84% 154
West Midlands -19 96 £475 +1.33% 65
South West -23 65 £469 +25.00% 50
Yorkshire -31 51 £513 +27.97% 51
East Midlands -5 49 £550 +53.63% 49
East of England -18 30 £418 -12.11% 59
North East -8 23 £410 -9.39% 22
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 48 (3.89%) SharePoint
2 43 (3.48%) Confluence
3 35 (2.84%) CMS
4 18 (1.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 16 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.49%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (0.49%) WordPress
7 5 (0.41%) Apache
7 5 (0.41%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.32%) Camunda
8 4 (0.32%) Drupal
8 4 (0.32%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.32%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.32%) Mendix
9 3 (0.24%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) Appian
10 2 (0.16%) Kentico
Applications
1 28 (2.27%) Sketch
2 23 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.70%) Adobe XD
3 21 (1.70%) Chatbot
4 15 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.81%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.65%) Adobe After Effects
8 6 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.49%) InVision
8 6 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.32%) Trello
10 4 (0.32%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.24%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.24%) UXPin
12 2 (0.16%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.73%) Shopify
4 8 (0.65%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.49%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
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 CO
6 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.16%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.16%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.081%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.081%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.081%) iTrent
7 1 (0.081%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 197 (15.96%) Azure
2 170 (13.78%) Figma
3 102 (8.27%) AWS
4 91 (7.37%) Power Platform
5 89 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (4.21%) Entra ID
7 49 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (3.73%) GCP
9 43 (3.48%) GitHub
10 36 (2.92%) Microsoft Copilot
11 33 (2.67%) PowerApps
11 33 (2.67%) SaaS
12 30 (2.43%) Power Automate
13 25 (2.03%) Serverless
14 24 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (1.86%) Google Workspace
16 21 (1.70%) Copilot Studio
17 19 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
17 19 (1.54%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.13%) DNS
2 12 (0.97%) LAN
2 12 (0.97%) Wireless
3 11 (0.89%) Internet
3 11 (0.89%) Intranet
3 11 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (0.81%) DHCP
4 10 (0.81%) SD-WAN
5 8 (0.65%) VPN
6 7 (0.57%) Cisco Wireless
6 7 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.57%) WAN
7 6 (0.49%) SSL
7 6 (0.49%) WLAN
8 5 (0.41%) 5G
8 5 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (0.41%) Firewall
8 5 (0.41%) HTTP
8 5 (0.41%) SMS
9 4 (0.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.70%) Power BI
2 22 (1.78%) NoSQL
3 21 (1.70%) SQL Server
4 20 (1.62%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.30%) MySQL
7 12 (0.97%) Metadata
7 12 (0.97%) Tableau
8 11 (0.89%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.73%) Power Query
10 8 (0.65%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 7 (0.57%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.49%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.49%) Looker
12 6 (0.49%) ZAP BI
13 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.41%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 93 (7.54%) JIRA
2 62 (5.02%) Git
3 35 (2.84%) GitLab
4 23 (1.86%) Cypress.io
5 21 (1.70%) Jenkins
6 20 (1.62%) JUnit
7 13 (1.05%) Gradle
8 11 (0.89%) Axure RP
8 11 (0.89%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.81%) Browser DevTools
10 9 (0.73%) Selenium
11 8 (0.65%) Android Studio
12 7 (0.57%) Xcode
13 6 (0.49%) Mocha
13 6 (0.49%) Postman
13 6 (0.49%) Vite
14 5 (0.41%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.41%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.41%) TestRail
14 5 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 395 (32.01%) Social Skills
2 247 (20.02%) Finance
3 152 (12.32%) Public Sector
4 137 (11.10%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (7.86%) Banking
6 54 (4.38%) Marketing
7 51 (4.13%) Retail
8 34 (2.76%) Legal
9 30 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
11 18 (1.46%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.30%) Publishing
13 15 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (1.05%) Automotive
15 12 (0.97%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.89%) Front Office
17 10 (0.81%) Local Government
17 10 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 254 (20.58%) Designer
2 192 (15.56%) Senior
3 161 (13.05%) Developer
4 122 (9.89%) UX Designer
5 116 (9.40%) Analyst
6 66 (5.35%) Lead
7 65 (5.27%) Consultant
8 58 (4.70%) Architect
8 58 (4.70%) Product Designer
9 56 (4.54%) Business Analyst
10 52 (4.21%) Senior Designer
11 50 (4.05%) UI Designer
12 41 (3.32%) Content Designer
13 40 (3.24%) User Researcher
14 39 (3.16%) User Experience Researcher
15 37 (3.00%) UI/UX Designer
16 35 (2.84%) IT Support
17 34 (2.76%) Service Designer
17 34 (2.76%) Support Engineer
18 30 (2.43%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (11.26%) React
2 123 (9.97%) CSS
3 111 (9.00%) HTML
4 87 (7.05%) REST
5 67 (5.43%) AngularJS
6 59 (4.78%) RESTful
7 54 (4.38%) Spring
8 53 (4.29%) Spring Boot
9 44 (3.57%) .NET
10 35 (2.84%) Node.js
11 31 (2.51%) GraphQL
12 29 (2.35%) HTML5
13 28 (2.27%) Redux
14 27 (2.19%) CSS3
15 24 (1.94%) Next.js
16 22 (1.78%) JSON
17 20 (1.62%) Jest
18 19 (1.54%) Kafka
18 19 (1.54%) Vue
19 18 (1.46%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 111 (9.00%) Product Ownership
2 63 (5.11%) Mobile App
3 50 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.59%) AI Agents
5 31 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (1.78%) Cloud Native
7 21 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 21 (1.70%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.22%) Virtual Reality
11 14 (1.13%) Augmented Reality
11 14 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (0.89%) Algorithms
13 11 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (0.89%) Management Information System
14 10 (0.81%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.81%) NHS
14 10 (0.81%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 93 (7.54%) Windows
2 38 (3.08%) Windows 10
3 32 (2.59%) Android
4 26 (2.11%) Apple iOS
5 19 (1.54%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.89%) Linux
7 8 (0.65%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.41%) Unix
9 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.081%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (31.28%) UX Design
2 384 (31.12%) Agile
3 196 (15.88%) AI
4 194 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
5 191 (15.48%) Analytics
6 170 (13.78%) User Research
7 157 (12.72%) Stakeholder Management
8 146 (11.83%) CI/CD
9 145 (11.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 143 (11.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 136 (11.02%) DevOps
12 133 (10.78%) Roadmaps
13 119 (9.64%) UX Research
14 116 (9.40%) Prototyping
15 107 (8.67%) Wireframes
16 101 (8.18%) Decision-Making
17 97 (7.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 96 (7.78%) Service Design
19 91 (7.37%) Workshop Facilitation
20 89 (7.21%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 153 (12.40%) JavaScript
2 112 (9.08%) Java
3 107 (8.67%) SQL
4 93 (7.54%) Python
4 93 (7.54%) TypeScript
5 45 (3.65%) C#
6 44 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 24 (1.94%) Kotlin
8 19 (1.54%) Bash
9 14 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.65%) Swift
11 7 (0.57%) Korn
11 7 (0.57%) PHP
12 6 (0.49%) Go
12 6 (0.49%) VBA
13 5 (0.41%) Perl
13 5 (0.41%) R
14 4 (0.32%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.24%) Lisp
15 3 (0.24%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 153 (12.40%) Security Cleared
2 116 (9.40%) SC Cleared
3 107 (8.67%) Degree
4 29 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (1.62%) DV Cleared
7 19 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 12 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.73%) CCNP
11 7 (0.57%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.57%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.49%) CCA
12 6 (0.49%) CCIE
12 6 (0.49%) Citrix Certification
13 4 (0.32%) CCNA
13 4 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.32%) OCA
13 4 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (15.64%) Accessibility
2 113 (9.16%) QA
3 61 (4.94%) WCAG
4 44 (3.57%) Data Quality
5 37 (3.00%) GDPR
6 21 (1.70%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.73%) SLA
9 7 (0.57%) PMO
10 6 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.24%) GMP
12 3 (0.24%) GRC
12 3 (0.24%) GxP
12 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.24%) NCSC
13 2 (0.16%) COBIT
13 2 (0.16%) NIST
13 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (5.67%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.48%) Docker
3 19 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
3 19 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.49%) Firmware
5 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.24%) XenApp
6 3 (0.24%) XenDesktop
7 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.081%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.081%) Varnish
8 1 (0.081%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 54 (4.38%) Kubernetes
2 41 (3.32%) Terraform
3 32 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (2.27%) SCCM
5 22 (1.78%) Grafana
6 15 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.13%) Ansible
8 10 (0.81%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.32%) Podman
10 3 (0.24%) Argo
10 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.24%) Nagios
10 3 (0.24%) Rancher
10 3 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.16%) WSUS
12 1 (0.081%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 195 (15.80%) Microsoft
2 72 (5.83%) Adobe
3 62 (5.02%) Google
4 49 (3.97%) ServiceNow
5 46 (3.73%) SAP
6 45 (3.65%) Oracle
7 40 (3.24%) Salesforce
8 24 (1.94%) Citrix
9 19 (1.54%) VMware
10 17 (1.38%) Workday
11 16 (1.30%) Splunk
12 15 (1.22%) Cisco
13 13 (1.05%) Apple
14 10 (0.81%) Sitecore
15 9 (0.73%) Aruba
15 9 (0.73%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.65%) Foundry
17 7 (0.57%) Dynatrace
17 7 (0.57%) Ekahau
17 7 (0.57%) Zscaler