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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 65 82
Rank change year-on-year -30 +17 -21
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,340 1,058 882
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.89% 3.81% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 4.19% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 788 675 535
10th Percentile £295 £300 £311
25th Percentile £390 £373 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £576 £588 £600
90th Percentile £691 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 48 24
10th Percentile £20.31 £15.50 £27.59
25th Percentile £26.75 £28.79 £30.33
Median hourly rate £33.99 £36.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -27.36% +5.79%
75th Percentile £67.89 £55.44 £74.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £65.67 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £35.22 £36.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -3.51% -27.36% +5.79%

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 39,208 25,244 28,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.66% 90.88% 86.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,936 16,028 17,611
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £645
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 2,812 1,512 1,298
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.77 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.41 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.61% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.56 £66.50
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% -1.91%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -32 684 £520 +4.00% 1,731
North of England -14 256 £425 - 328
Midlands -14 151 £475 +6.26% 168
North West -34 126 £400 -5.88% 211
West Midlands -8 119 £469 -6.14% 121
South East -53 95 £400 -10.81% 264
Yorkshire -14 79 £500 +25.00% 78
South West -3 78 £475 -2.56% 121
North East -4 50 £338 -25.00% 41
East of England -10 42 £410 -21.90% 98
East Midlands -18 32 £500 +39.66% 47
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 67 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 61 (4.55%) CMS
3 35 (2.61%) Confluence
4 28 (2.09%) 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%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.37%) Drupal
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%) Traefik
11 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 23 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 19 (1.42%) Photoshop
4 18 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
5 17 (1.27%) Chatbot
6 16 (1.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 15 (1.12%) Sketch
8 12 (0.90%) Adobe After Effects
9 10 (0.75%) Adobe XD
10 9 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 8 (0.60%) MS Visio
12 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
13 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
14 1 (0.075%) Adobe Captivate
14 1 (0.075%) Blender
14 1 (0.075%) Final Cut Pro
14 1 (0.075%) InVision
14 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
14 1 (0.075%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
1 6 (0.45%) Workday HCM
2 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.37%) Shopify
3 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
3 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 3 (0.22%) iTrent
4 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
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%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.075%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 191 (14.25%) Azure
2 146 (10.90%) Figma
3 140 (10.45%) Microsoft 365
4 118 (8.81%) AWS
5 97 (7.24%) Power Platform
6 63 (4.70%) Entra ID
7 58 (4.33%) Microsoft Copilot
8 47 (3.51%) GitHub
9 45 (3.36%) SaaS
10 38 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (2.69%) GCP
12 31 (2.31%) OneDrive
12 31 (2.31%) PowerApps
13 27 (2.01%) Copilot Studio
13 27 (2.01%) Power Automate
14 20 (1.49%) Azure AI
15 16 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (1.04%) Serverless
17 12 (0.90%) Firebase
17 12 (0.90%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.36%) DNS
2 38 (2.84%) DHCP
3 36 (2.69%) TCP/IP
4 28 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (1.57%) VPN
6 19 (1.42%) Wireless
7 18 (1.34%) Firewall
8 17 (1.27%) LAN
9 16 (1.19%) WAN
10 12 (0.90%) NetScaler
11 11 (0.82%) Network Security
12 9 (0.67%) Internet
13 8 (0.60%) Cisco Wireless
13 8 (0.60%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.60%) Skype
14 6 (0.45%) Intranet
15 5 (0.37%) 5G
15 5 (0.37%) SMS
15 5 (0.37%) SNMP
15 5 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.81%) Power BI
2 25 (1.87%) Metadata
3 13 (0.97%) Power Query
3 13 (0.97%) Tableau
4 12 (0.90%) SQL Server
5 11 (0.82%) NoSQL
5 11 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (0.67%) Looker
6 9 (0.67%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.60%) Qlik Sense
8 7 (0.52%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.52%) MySQL
8 7 (0.52%) Redis
8 7 (0.52%) Star Schema
9 6 (0.45%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.45%) QlikView
10 5 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.37%) Flink
10 5 (0.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 71 (5.30%) Git
2 69 (5.15%) JIRA
3 28 (2.09%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.42%) Storybook
4 19 (1.42%) Vite
5 18 (1.34%) Cypress.io
6 14 (1.04%) GitLab
7 10 (0.75%) fastlane
8 9 (0.67%) Android Studio
8 9 (0.67%) Browser DevTools
9 8 (0.60%) Xcode
10 7 (0.52%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.45%) JMeter
11 6 (0.45%) Postman
12 5 (0.37%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.37%) Fiddler
12 5 (0.37%) Gradle
12 5 (0.37%) MSI
13 4 (0.30%) Crashlytics
13 4 (0.30%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 435 (32.46%) Social Skills
2 228 (17.01%) Finance
3 179 (13.36%) Public Sector
4 129 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (7.31%) Banking
6 78 (5.82%) Retail
7 73 (5.45%) Marketing
8 46 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 41 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
10 39 (2.91%) Legal
11 28 (2.09%) Automotive
12 27 (2.01%) Publishing
13 22 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
14 19 (1.42%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.19%) Military
16 13 (0.97%) Front Office
16 13 (0.97%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 269 (20.07%) Designer
2 191 (14.25%) Developer
3 176 (13.13%) Senior
4 122 (9.10%) Lead
5 116 (8.66%) UX Designer
6 83 (6.19%) Analyst
7 66 (4.93%) UI Designer
8 60 (4.48%) Architect
9 57 (4.25%) Consultant
10 53 (3.96%) IT Support
11 52 (3.88%) Support Engineer
11 52 (3.88%) User Researcher
12 49 (3.66%) Senior Designer
13 48 (3.58%) Product Manager
14 46 (3.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 42 (3.13%) Content Designer
16 41 (3.06%) User Experience Researcher
17 40 (2.99%) Business Analyst
18 37 (2.76%) UI/UX Designer
19 35 (2.61%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (9.85%) React
2 98 (7.31%) CSS
3 86 (6.42%) HTML
4 78 (5.82%) REST
5 40 (2.99%) AngularJS
6 39 (2.91%) RESTful
6 39 (2.91%) Terraform
7 38 (2.84%) GraphQL
7 38 (2.84%) HTML5
8 34 (2.54%) .NET
8 34 (2.54%) CSS3
9 29 (2.16%) Next.js
10 27 (2.01%) OAuth
11 22 (1.64%) Spring
12 21 (1.57%) Node.js
12 21 (1.57%) OAuth2
12 21 (1.57%) Playwright
12 21 (1.57%) Spring Boot
13 20 (1.49%) Jest
14 19 (1.42%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 132 (9.85%) Product Ownership
2 75 (5.60%) Mobile App
2 75 (5.60%) Onboarding
3 44 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 41 (3.06%) AI Agents
5 29 (2.16%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.64%) Data Centre
9 20 (1.49%) NHS
9 20 (1.49%) Social Media
10 18 (1.34%) Educational Technology
11 16 (1.19%) Graphic Design
12 15 (1.12%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.04%) Taxonomies
14 13 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.82%) Virtual Reality
15 11 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 150 (11.19%) Windows
2 57 (4.25%) Android
2 57 (4.25%) Apple iOS
3 56 (4.18%) Windows 10
4 35 (2.61%) Windows Server
5 32 (2.39%) Mac OS
6 17 (1.27%) Linux
7 13 (0.97%) Unix
8 9 (0.67%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (31.87%) UX Design
2 380 (28.36%) Agile
3 250 (18.66%) AI
4 246 (18.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 228 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
6 191 (14.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 177 (13.21%) Analytics
8 160 (11.94%) CI/CD
9 159 (11.87%) User Research
10 144 (10.75%) Roadmaps
11 143 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 137 (10.22%) Decision-Making
13 104 (7.76%) DevOps
14 102 (7.61%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 101 (7.54%) Scrum
16 100 (7.46%) Prototyping
17 99 (7.39%) ITIL
17 99 (7.39%) Service Design
17 99 (7.39%) UX Research
18 97 (7.24%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 126 (9.40%) JavaScript
2 108 (8.06%) TypeScript
3 84 (6.27%) Python
4 80 (5.97%) Java
4 80 (5.97%) SQL
5 48 (3.58%) PowerShell
6 29 (2.16%) C#
7 26 (1.94%) Kotlin
8 19 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (1.19%) Bash
10 15 (1.12%) Swift
11 9 (0.67%) Go
12 7 (0.52%) PHP
12 7 (0.52%) VB
12 7 (0.52%) VBScript
13 6 (0.45%) Scala
13 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.37%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.37%) C++
15 4 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 215 (16.04%) Security Cleared
2 161 (12.01%) SC Cleared
3 102 (7.61%) Degree
4 34 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 18 (1.34%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.12%) PMP
10 8 (0.60%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.45%) MCSE
13 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.37%) CISSP
13 5 (0.37%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.30%) CCA
14 4 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (15.37%) Accessibility
2 90 (6.72%) QA
3 73 (5.45%) WCAG
4 45 (3.36%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.34%) GDPR
6 13 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (0.75%) SLA
8 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 7 (0.52%) PMO
9 6 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.22%) GRC
11 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.15%) PSD2
11 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.075%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.075%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.075%) NIST
12 1 (0.075%) WAI
System Software
1 103 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 44 (3.28%) Docker
3 24 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 23 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.12%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 9 (0.67%) 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
12 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
13 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.075%) Firmware
14 1 (0.075%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 48 (3.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (3.21%) Kubernetes
3 30 (2.24%) SCCM
4 21 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (1.42%) Grafana
6 15 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
7 14 (1.04%) Ansible
8 11 (0.82%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.45%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.37%) SysTrack
11 4 (0.30%) Clonezilla
11 4 (0.30%) Podman
12 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.22%) WSUS
13 2 (0.15%) Argo
13 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.15%) Istio
13 2 (0.15%) Packer
13 2 (0.15%) SCOM
13 2 (0.15%) vMotion
Vendors
1 243 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 83 (6.19%) ServiceNow
3 66 (4.93%) Adobe
4 43 (3.21%) Google
5 39 (2.91%) Oracle
6 31 (2.31%) Salesforce
7 29 (2.16%) SAP
8 26 (1.94%) VMware
9 25 (1.87%) Citrix
10 24 (1.79%) Splunk
11 23 (1.72%) Dynatrace
12 17 (1.27%) Apple
13 16 (1.19%) Cisco
13 16 (1.19%) Foundry
13 16 (1.19%) Zscaler
14 13 (0.97%) OpenAI
14 13 (0.97%) Workday
15 9 (0.67%) Aruba
15 9 (0.67%) Databricks
15 9 (0.67%) Okta