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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 64 81
Rank change year-on-year -28 +17 -17
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,340 1,043 885
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.91% 3.78% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 4.16% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 666 540
10th Percentile £292 £300 £313
25th Percentile £386 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £680 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 46 23
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.50 £30.00
25th Percentile £26.50 £30.31 £30.51
Median hourly rate £33.99 £36.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -27.72% +6.32%
75th Percentile £67.89 £54.69 £74.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £66.96 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £35.22 £36.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -3.51% -27.72% +6.32%

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 38,948 25,051 28,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.90% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,873 15,912 17,703
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £648
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,701 1,483 1,330
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.73 £66.58
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -32 679 £513 +2.50% 1,711
North of England -12 256 £435 +3.88% 272
Midlands -9 149 £475 +9.20% 136
North West -31 128 £420 -1.18% 162
West Midlands -6 118 £469 -6.14% 101
South East -43 100 £403 -12.97% 232
South West -8 81 £475 - 137
Yorkshire -7 77 £500 +25.00% 79
North East -5 50 £338 -27.42% 34
East of England -12 42 £418 -20.48% 111
East Midlands -17 31 £500 +39.66% 35
South Coast - 1 £450 -
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 68 (5.07%) SharePoint
2 53 (3.96%) CMS
3 35 (2.61%) Confluence
4 27 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.12%) WordPress
6 9 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.52%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.45%) Apache
8 6 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.37%) Drupal
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%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.075%) MTS
Applications
1 23 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 20 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.42%) Photoshop
4 18 (1.34%) Chatbot
5 16 (1.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 15 (1.12%) Sketch
7 12 (0.90%) Adobe After Effects
8 11 (0.82%) MS Visio
9 10 (0.75%) Adobe XD
10 9 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
13 1 (0.075%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.075%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.075%) Blender
13 1 (0.075%) Final Cut Pro
13 1 (0.075%) InVision
13 1 (0.075%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
1 6 (0.45%) Shopify
1 6 (0.45%) Workday HCM
2 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
3 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.22%) iTrent
4 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.15%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.075%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.075%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.075%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.075%) Magento
6 1 (0.075%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 194 (14.48%) Azure
2 149 (11.12%) Figma
3 139 (10.37%) Microsoft 365
4 114 (8.51%) AWS
5 95 (7.09%) Power Platform
6 60 (4.48%) Entra ID
7 57 (4.25%) Microsoft Copilot
8 48 (3.58%) GitHub
9 44 (3.28%) SaaS
10 42 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (2.69%) GCP
12 31 (2.31%) OneDrive
12 31 (2.31%) PowerApps
13 27 (2.01%) Copilot Studio
14 26 (1.94%) Power Automate
15 20 (1.49%) Azure AI
16 16 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
17 14 (1.04%) Serverless
18 13 (0.97%) Firebase
19 12 (0.90%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.28%) DNS
2 38 (2.84%) DHCP
3 33 (2.46%) TCP/IP
4 29 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (1.49%) Wireless
6 19 (1.42%) VPN
7 17 (1.27%) LAN
8 16 (1.19%) Firewall
9 15 (1.12%) WAN
10 11 (0.82%) NetScaler
11 9 (0.67%) Internet
12 8 (0.60%) Cisco Wireless
12 8 (0.60%) Network Security
12 8 (0.60%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.60%) Skype
13 6 (0.45%) Intranet
14 5 (0.37%) SMS
14 5 (0.37%) SNMP
14 5 (0.37%) SSL
14 5 (0.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.81%) Power BI
2 24 (1.79%) Metadata
3 13 (0.97%) Power Query
3 13 (0.97%) Tableau
4 11 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (0.82%) SQL Server
5 10 (0.75%) NoSQL
5 10 (0.75%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (0.67%) Looker
7 7 (0.52%) MongoDB
7 7 (0.52%) Qlik Sense
7 7 (0.52%) Redis
8 6 (0.45%) MySQL
8 6 (0.45%) Star Schema
9 5 (0.37%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.37%) Flink
9 5 (0.37%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.37%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 73 (5.45%) JIRA
2 65 (4.85%) Git
3 27 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.42%) Cypress.io
4 19 (1.42%) Vite
5 16 (1.19%) Storybook
6 14 (1.04%) GitLab
7 12 (0.90%) fastlane
8 10 (0.75%) Android Studio
9 9 (0.67%) Browser DevTools
9 9 (0.67%) Xcode
10 7 (0.52%) JMeter
10 7 (0.52%) Postman
10 7 (0.52%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.45%) Gradle
12 5 (0.37%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.37%) Crashlytics
12 5 (0.37%) Fiddler
12 5 (0.37%) MSI
12 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
General
1 434 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 230 (17.16%) Finance
3 180 (13.43%) Public Sector
4 132 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (7.54%) Banking
6 79 (5.90%) Retail
7 67 (5.00%) Marketing
8 48 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 38 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
10 36 (2.69%) Legal
11 28 (2.09%) Automotive
12 26 (1.94%) Publishing
13 23 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (1.34%) Manufacturing
17 16 (1.19%) Military
18 14 (1.04%) Investment Banking
19 12 (0.90%) Front Office
20 9 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 274 (20.45%) Designer
2 186 (13.88%) Developer
3 178 (13.28%) Senior
4 119 (8.88%) Lead
5 116 (8.66%) UX Designer
6 88 (6.57%) Analyst
7 68 (5.07%) UI Designer
8 62 (4.63%) Consultant
9 55 (4.10%) Architect
9 55 (4.10%) IT Support
10 53 (3.96%) Support Engineer
11 51 (3.81%) Product Manager
11 51 (3.81%) User Researcher
12 49 (3.66%) Senior Designer
13 44 (3.28%) Business Analyst
14 42 (3.13%) Content Designer
14 42 (3.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 39 (2.91%) User Experience Researcher
16 37 (2.76%) IT Support Engineer
16 37 (2.76%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (9.78%) React
2 99 (7.39%) CSS
3 87 (6.49%) HTML
4 78 (5.82%) REST
5 42 (3.13%) RESTful
6 40 (2.99%) AngularJS
7 39 (2.91%) GraphQL
7 39 (2.91%) Terraform
8 38 (2.84%) HTML5
9 36 (2.69%) CSS3
10 35 (2.61%) .NET
11 30 (2.24%) Next.js
12 23 (1.72%) OAuth
12 23 (1.72%) Spring
13 22 (1.64%) Spring Boot
14 21 (1.57%) Jest
14 21 (1.57%) Playwright
15 19 (1.42%) Node.js
16 18 (1.34%) Redux
17 17 (1.27%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 125 (9.33%) Product Ownership
2 80 (5.97%) Onboarding
3 74 (5.52%) Mobile App
4 42 (3.13%) AI Agents
4 42 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 30 (2.24%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.49%) NHS
11 20 (1.49%) Social Media
12 18 (1.34%) Educational Technology
13 16 (1.19%) Data Structures
13 16 (1.19%) Graphic Design
14 13 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (0.97%) Taxonomies
14 13 (0.97%) Virtual Reality
15 12 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 147 (10.97%) Windows
2 58 (4.33%) Apple iOS
3 57 (4.25%) Android
4 56 (4.18%) Windows 10
5 33 (2.46%) Windows Server
6 32 (2.39%) Mac OS
7 18 (1.34%) Linux
8 12 (0.90%) Unix
9 9 (0.67%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (32.16%) UX Design
2 377 (28.13%) Agile
3 257 (19.18%) AI
4 243 (18.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 231 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
6 192 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 183 (13.66%) Analytics
8 158 (11.79%) CI/CD
8 158 (11.79%) User Research
9 145 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 138 (10.30%) Roadmaps
11 136 (10.15%) Decision-Making
12 107 (7.99%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 105 (7.84%) DevOps
14 103 (7.69%) Scrum
15 101 (7.54%) Workshop Facilitation
16 100 (7.46%) ITIL
16 100 (7.46%) Service Design
17 99 (7.39%) Prototyping
18 96 (7.16%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 128 (9.55%) JavaScript
2 102 (7.61%) TypeScript
3 85 (6.34%) Python
4 83 (6.19%) Java
5 80 (5.97%) SQL
6 48 (3.58%) PowerShell
7 31 (2.31%) C#
8 26 (1.94%) Kotlin
9 18 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (1.19%) Bash
11 15 (1.12%) Swift
12 8 (0.60%) Go
12 8 (0.60%) VBScript
13 7 (0.52%) PHP
13 7 (0.52%) VB
14 6 (0.45%) Scala
14 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.37%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.37%) Korn
16 4 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 207 (15.45%) Security Cleared
2 159 (11.87%) SC Cleared
3 104 (7.76%) Degree
4 31 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.57%) Azure Certification
8 20 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.04%) PMP
10 9 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (0.60%) AWS Certification
11 8 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.45%) MCSE
14 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.37%) CISSP
14 5 (0.37%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.30%) CCA
15 4 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (15.15%) Accessibility
2 83 (6.19%) QA
3 73 (5.45%) WCAG
4 43 (3.21%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.42%) GDPR
6 13 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.67%) SLA
8 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 7 (0.52%) PMO
9 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.22%) GRC
12 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.15%) PSD2
13 1 (0.075%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.075%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.075%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.075%) NIST
13 1 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.075%) WAI
System Software
1 101 (7.54%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.99%) Docker
3 26 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.12%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 8 (0.60%) XenApp
7 8 (0.60%) XenDesktop
8 7 (0.52%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.45%) vSphere
10 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.22%) UAG
13 2 (0.15%) Firmware
13 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
13 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.075%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 46 (3.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (3.06%) Kubernetes
3 31 (2.31%) SCCM
4 21 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (1.49%) Grafana
6 16 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
7 13 (0.97%) Ansible
8 11 (0.82%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.37%) SysTrack
9 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.30%) Clonezilla
10 4 (0.30%) Podman
11 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.22%) 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 (0.075%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 239 (17.84%) Microsoft
2 82 (6.12%) ServiceNow
3 68 (5.07%) Adobe
4 43 (3.21%) Google
5 42 (3.13%) Oracle
6 31 (2.31%) SAP
7 29 (2.16%) Salesforce
8 25 (1.87%) Citrix
8 25 (1.87%) Dynatrace
8 25 (1.87%) VMware
9 23 (1.72%) Splunk
10 18 (1.34%) Apple
11 17 (1.27%) Cisco
12 16 (1.19%) Foundry
13 15 (1.12%) Workday
14 14 (1.04%) Zscaler
15 13 (0.97%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.75%) Aruba
16 10 (0.75%) Okta
17 8 (0.60%) Databricks