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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 69 85
Rank change year-on-year -12 +16 -27
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,373 979 932
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.07% 3.60% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 3.97% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 633 623
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £381 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £623
90th Percentile £677 £725 £724
UK median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 33 39
10th Percentile £16.00 £22.78 £15.70
25th Percentile £23.00 £34.48 £25.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £49.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.63% +63.33% +13.21%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £86.30 £80.87 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £49.25 £31.71
% change year-on-year -30.98% +55.31% +19.66%

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 38,249 24,669 31,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.41% 90.67% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 15,837 20,183
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,307 2,114
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.26 £13.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £53.75 £63.67
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.33 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -24 694 £525 +5.00% 301
North of England -16 217 £447 -0.67% 112
Midlands +4 155 £475 +11.90% 48
South East -25 136 £475 - 122
West Midlands -3 116 £475 -5.00% 33
North West -25 115 £430 -4.44% 61
South West -9 82 £475 +18.75% 52
Yorkshire -21 58 £500 +11.11% 30
East of England +7 45 £410 -13.68% 44
North East -10 44 £394 -17.97% 21
East Midlands 0 39 £550 +54.49% 15
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 63 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 49 (3.57%) CMS
3 35 (2.55%) Confluence
4 25 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.87%) WordPress
6 8 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.44%) Drupal
8 5 (0.36%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.29%) Apache
9 4 (0.29%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.29%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.29%) Kentico
9 4 (0.29%) Mendix
10 3 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.15%) Camunda
11 2 (0.15%) IIS
11 2 (0.15%) Moodle
11 2 (0.15%) nginx
11 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 28 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.75%) Sketch
3 20 (1.46%) Photoshop
4 19 (1.38%) Chatbot
5 18 (1.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 16 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
7 15 (1.09%) Adobe Illustrator
8 13 (0.95%) Adobe After Effects
9 12 (0.87%) Adobe XD
10 11 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 9 (0.66%) MS Visio
12 4 (0.29%) Adobe Captivate
13 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
13 3 (0.22%) UserZoom
14 2 (0.15%) InVision
14 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
14 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
15 1 (0.073%) Blender
15 1 (0.073%) Camtasia
15 1 (0.073%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
1 11 (0.80%) Workday HCM
2 7 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.51%) Shopify
3 6 (0.44%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.29%) Oracle iProcurement
5 3 (0.22%) iTrent
5 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.073%) Magento
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.073%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.073%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.073%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 215 (15.66%) Azure
2 184 (13.40%) Figma
3 118 (8.59%) Microsoft 365
4 110 (8.01%) AWS
5 100 (7.28%) Power Platform
6 56 (4.08%) Entra ID
7 50 (3.64%) Microsoft Copilot
8 49 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (3.57%) SaaS
9 46 (3.35%) GitHub
10 43 (3.13%) GCP
11 39 (2.84%) PowerApps
12 30 (2.18%) OneDrive
12 30 (2.18%) Power Automate
13 28 (2.04%) Copilot Studio
14 21 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (1.46%) Azure AI
16 19 (1.38%) Serverless
17 13 (0.95%) Google Workspace
18 11 (0.80%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.77%) DNS
2 32 (2.33%) DHCP
3 28 (2.04%) TCP/IP
4 23 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (1.46%) Wireless
6 19 (1.38%) LAN
7 13 (0.95%) Internet
8 12 (0.87%) Firewall
8 12 (0.87%) VPN
8 12 (0.87%) WAN
9 10 (0.73%) Intranet
10 9 (0.66%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.58%) Cisco Wireless
12 7 (0.51%) Skype
13 6 (0.44%) 5G
13 6 (0.44%) Network Security
13 6 (0.44%) WLAN
14 5 (0.36%) HTTP
14 5 (0.36%) SMS
14 5 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.22%) Power BI
2 22 (1.60%) Metadata
3 19 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (1.31%) NoSQL
4 18 (1.31%) Power Query
4 18 (1.31%) Relational Database
5 13 (0.95%) SQL Server
6 12 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (0.73%) MongoDB
7 10 (0.73%) MySQL
7 10 (0.73%) Tableau
8 6 (0.44%) DynamoDB
8 6 (0.44%) Oracle Database
8 6 (0.44%) ZAP BI
9 5 (0.36%) Looker
9 5 (0.36%) Redis
9 5 (0.36%) Star Schema
10 4 (0.29%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.29%) EDRMS
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 80 (5.83%) JIRA
2 59 (4.30%) Git
3 23 (1.68%) Cypress.io
4 22 (1.60%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.31%) Vite
6 17 (1.24%) GitLab
7 12 (0.87%) JUnit
8 10 (0.73%) Android Studio
8 10 (0.73%) Browser DevTools
8 10 (0.73%) fastlane
8 10 (0.73%) Storybook
9 9 (0.66%) Xcode
10 8 (0.58%) Gradle
11 7 (0.51%) Postman
12 6 (0.44%) Selenium
13 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.36%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.36%) Fiddler
13 5 (0.36%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 432 (31.46%) Social Skills
2 259 (18.86%) Finance
3 176 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 140 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 113 (8.23%) Banking
6 81 (5.90%) Retail
7 67 (4.88%) Marketing
8 43 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 35 (2.55%) Legal
10 31 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (2.04%) Publishing
13 27 (1.97%) Automotive
14 22 (1.60%) Manufacturing
14 22 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
15 18 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (0.95%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.80%) Front Office
17 11 (0.80%) Military
18 9 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 297 (21.63%) Designer
2 190 (13.84%) Senior
3 180 (13.11%) Developer
4 129 (9.40%) UX Designer
5 110 (8.01%) Lead
6 108 (7.87%) Analyst
7 77 (5.61%) UI Designer
8 70 (5.10%) Consultant
9 55 (4.01%) Architect
10 54 (3.93%) Senior Designer
11 51 (3.71%) Business Analyst
11 51 (3.71%) Content Designer
12 49 (3.57%) Product Designer
13 48 (3.50%) Product Manager
14 46 (3.35%) UI/UX Designer
14 46 (3.35%) User Experience Researcher
14 46 (3.35%) User Researcher
15 45 (3.28%) IT Support
16 39 (2.84%) Support Engineer
17 33 (2.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (9.40%) React
2 102 (7.43%) CSS
3 90 (6.55%) REST
4 87 (6.34%) HTML
5 56 (4.08%) RESTful
6 50 (3.64%) AngularJS
7 42 (3.06%) .NET
8 37 (2.69%) Spring
9 36 (2.62%) GraphQL
9 36 (2.62%) Spring Boot
10 31 (2.26%) HTML5
11 30 (2.18%) CSS3
12 24 (1.75%) Next.js
13 23 (1.68%) Jest
13 23 (1.68%) Node.js
14 22 (1.60%) JSON
15 21 (1.53%) Redux
16 20 (1.46%) Kafka
16 20 (1.46%) Playwright
17 19 (1.38%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 141 (10.27%) Product Ownership
2 75 (5.46%) Mobile App
3 70 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 37 (2.69%) AI Agents
4 37 (2.69%) Cloud Native
5 31 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
8 24 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.53%) Data Centre
9 21 (1.53%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (1.38%) Social Media
11 17 (1.24%) Graphic Design
12 16 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 15 (1.09%) Algorithms
13 15 (1.09%) Taxonomies
14 14 (1.02%) Educational Technology
14 14 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (1.02%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 122 (8.89%) Windows
2 48 (3.50%) Android
2 48 (3.50%) Apple iOS
3 38 (2.77%) Windows 10
4 25 (1.82%) Mac OS
5 17 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 15 (1.09%) Linux
7 9 (0.66%) Unix
8 7 (0.51%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (32.34%) UX Design
2 405 (29.50%) Agile
3 254 (18.50%) AI
4 229 (16.68%) Problem-Solving
5 202 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 186 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 182 (13.26%) Analytics
8 173 (12.60%) User Research
9 163 (11.87%) CI/CD
10 155 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 148 (10.78%) Roadmaps
12 138 (10.05%) Decision-Making
13 125 (9.10%) Prototyping
14 123 (8.96%) DevOps
15 115 (8.38%) UX Research
16 108 (7.87%) Service Design
16 108 (7.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 107 (7.79%) Wireframes
18 98 (7.14%) Scrum
18 98 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 123 (8.96%) JavaScript
2 106 (7.72%) TypeScript
3 101 (7.36%) Java
4 97 (7.06%) SQL
5 89 (6.48%) Python
6 48 (3.50%) PowerShell
7 39 (2.84%) C#
8 29 (2.11%) Kotlin
9 25 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (1.02%) Swift
11 11 (0.80%) Bash
12 8 (0.58%) Korn
13 7 (0.51%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.51%) Go
13 7 (0.51%) R
14 6 (0.44%) VBA
14 6 (0.44%) VBScript
15 5 (0.36%) VB
16 4 (0.29%) PHP
16 4 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 199 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 150 (10.92%) SC Cleared
3 130 (9.47%) Degree
4 29 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 22 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
7 9 (0.66%) PMP
8 8 (0.58%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.51%) Citrix Certification
9 7 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (0.44%) CCA
10 6 (0.44%) CCIE
10 6 (0.44%) CCNP
10 6 (0.44%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (16.02%) Accessibility
2 91 (6.63%) QA
3 67 (4.88%) WCAG
4 46 (3.35%) Data Quality
5 25 (1.82%) GDPR
6 16 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.58%) PMO
8 7 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.44%) SLA
10 4 (0.29%) GRC
11 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.15%) PSD2
12 1 (0.073%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.073%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.073%) NIST
12 1 (0.073%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.073%) SEPA
System Software
1 74 (5.39%) Active Directory
2 39 (2.84%) Docker
3 25 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.44%) Firmware
5 6 (0.44%) vSphere
6 5 (0.36%) BitLocker
6 5 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.22%) Hyper-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 (0.073%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 43 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 43 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (2.99%) Terraform
3 34 (2.48%) SCCM
4 19 (1.38%) Grafana
5 16 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
7 12 (0.87%) Ansible
8 10 (0.73%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.36%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.29%) Clonezilla
11 3 (0.22%) 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 (0.073%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 241 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 74 (5.39%) Adobe
3 67 (4.88%) ServiceNow
4 52 (3.79%) Google
5 45 (3.28%) SAP
6 40 (2.91%) Oracle
7 34 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 22 (1.60%) Citrix
9 21 (1.53%) Workday
10 19 (1.38%) Dynatrace
11 18 (1.31%) Splunk
11 18 (1.31%) VMware
12 17 (1.24%) Apple
13 16 (1.17%) Cisco
13 16 (1.17%) Foundry
14 12 (0.87%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.87%) Zscaler
15 11 (0.80%) Aruba
16 9 (0.66%) Databricks
17 8 (0.58%) Solace
606 User Experience jobs in England