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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 67 81
Rank change year-on-year -27 +14 -15
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,333 1,040 886
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.89% 3.75% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 4.12% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 784 666 520
10th Percentile £302 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £375 £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 £685 £686 £715
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 48 26
10th Percentile £17.14 £15.50 £27.63
25th Percentile £26.50 £25.15 £30.48
Median hourly rate £33.99 £36.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -21.08% -2.63%
75th Percentile £67.89 £55.44 £73.10
90th Percentile £77.00 £65.67 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £35.22 £36.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -3.51% -14.12% -10.53%

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 39,007 25,232 28,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.55% 90.97% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,733 16,031 17,231
10th Percentile £325 £295 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £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 2,853 1,544 1,222
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.85 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -1.16%

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 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 28 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 28 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 -29 685 £513 +3.54% 1,447
North of England -13 253 £425 - 341
Midlands -8 148 £475 +6.26% 197
North West -37 127 £400 -5.88% 197
West Midlands -4 117 £475 -5.00% 130
South East -51 94 £400 -10.81% 234
South West 0 79 £475 -5.00% 131
Yorkshire -12 78 £500 +25.00% 106
North East +1 47 £325 -32.29% 41
East of England -5 42 £410 -21.90% 105
East Midlands -17 31 £475 +18.16% 67
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 69 (5.18%) SharePoint
2 60 (4.50%) CMS
3 39 (2.93%) Confluence
4 28 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.13%) WordPress
6 9 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.53%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.53%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.45%) Apache
8 6 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.38%) Drupal
9 5 (0.38%) Traefik
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
Applications
1 25 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 18 (1.35%) Photoshop
4 17 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
5 16 (1.20%) Adobe Illustrator
6 14 (1.05%) Chatbot
6 14 (1.05%) Sketch
7 12 (0.90%) Adobe After Effects
8 10 (0.75%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.68%) Adobe XD
10 8 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 3 (0.23%) 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 7 (0.53%) Workday HCM
2 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
4 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.30%) Shopify
5 3 (0.23%) iTrent
5 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.075%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.075%) Magento
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.075%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.075%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 190 (14.25%) Azure
2 144 (10.80%) Figma
3 139 (10.43%) Microsoft 365
4 121 (9.08%) AWS
5 99 (7.43%) Power Platform
6 64 (4.80%) Entra ID
7 57 (4.28%) Microsoft Copilot
8 47 (3.53%) GitHub
9 46 (3.45%) SaaS
10 40 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (2.55%) GCP
12 32 (2.40%) PowerApps
13 31 (2.33%) OneDrive
14 28 (2.10%) Power Automate
15 27 (2.03%) Copilot Studio
16 17 (1.28%) Azure AI
16 17 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (1.13%) Serverless
18 13 (0.98%) Firebase
19 12 (0.90%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.45%) DNS
2 39 (2.93%) DHCP
3 37 (2.78%) TCP/IP
4 27 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
5 22 (1.65%) VPN
6 18 (1.35%) Firewall
6 18 (1.35%) Wireless
7 16 (1.20%) LAN
7 16 (1.20%) WAN
8 13 (0.98%) NetScaler
9 11 (0.83%) Network Security
10 8 (0.60%) Internet
11 7 (0.53%) Cisco Wireless
11 7 (0.53%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.53%) Skype
12 6 (0.45%) Intranet
13 5 (0.38%) SMS
13 5 (0.38%) SNMP
13 5 (0.38%) SSL
14 4 (0.30%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (4.05%) Power BI
2 24 (1.80%) Metadata
3 14 (1.05%) Power Query
3 14 (1.05%) SQL Server
4 13 (0.98%) Tableau
5 11 (0.83%) MySQL
5 11 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 10 (0.75%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.68%) Looker
8 8 (0.60%) Qlik Sense
9 7 (0.53%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.53%) Redis
9 7 (0.53%) Star Schema
10 6 (0.45%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.45%) QlikView
11 5 (0.38%) Flink
11 5 (0.38%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 73 (5.48%) JIRA
2 68 (5.10%) Git
3 27 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.50%) Storybook
5 19 (1.43%) Vite
6 17 (1.28%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.98%) GitLab
8 11 (0.83%) fastlane
9 9 (0.68%) Android Studio
9 9 (0.68%) Browser DevTools
10 8 (0.60%) Xcode
11 7 (0.53%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.45%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.45%) JMeter
12 6 (0.45%) Postman
13 5 (0.38%) Fiddler
13 5 (0.38%) Gradle
13 5 (0.38%) MSI
14 4 (0.30%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.30%) webpack
General
1 435 (32.63%) Social Skills
2 225 (16.88%) Finance
3 179 (13.43%) Public Sector
4 125 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (6.83%) Banking
6 78 (5.85%) Retail
7 75 (5.63%) Marketing
8 46 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
10 37 (2.78%) Legal
11 28 (2.10%) Automotive
12 27 (2.03%) Publishing
13 22 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (1.43%) Manufacturing
15 18 (1.35%) Military
16 17 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (0.98%) Front Office
17 13 (0.98%) Investment Banking
18 8 (0.60%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 262 (19.65%) Designer
2 196 (14.70%) Developer
3 173 (12.98%) Senior
4 125 (9.38%) Lead
5 117 (8.78%) UX Designer
6 82 (6.15%) Analyst
7 65 (4.88%) UI Designer
8 60 (4.50%) Architect
9 54 (4.05%) Consultant
9 54 (4.05%) IT Support
10 53 (3.98%) User Researcher
11 52 (3.90%) Support Engineer
12 49 (3.68%) Senior Designer
13 47 (3.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 47 (3.53%) Product Manager
14 42 (3.15%) User Experience Researcher
15 40 (3.00%) Business Analyst
16 38 (2.85%) Content Designer
17 36 (2.70%) UI/UX Designer
18 35 (2.63%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (9.98%) React
2 96 (7.20%) CSS
3 84 (6.30%) HTML
4 81 (6.08%) REST
5 38 (2.85%) AngularJS
5 38 (2.85%) RESTful
6 37 (2.78%) GraphQL
7 36 (2.70%) HTML5
8 35 (2.63%) Terraform
9 32 (2.40%) .NET
9 32 (2.40%) CSS3
10 28 (2.10%) Next.js
11 27 (2.03%) OAuth
12 21 (1.58%) Node.js
12 21 (1.58%) OAuth2
12 21 (1.58%) Playwright
12 21 (1.58%) SOAP
12 21 (1.58%) Spring
12 21 (1.58%) Spring Boot
13 19 (1.43%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 134 (10.05%) Product Ownership
2 77 (5.78%) Mobile App
3 76 (5.70%) Onboarding
4 43 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 39 (2.93%) AI Agents
6 32 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 27 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
9 25 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 22 (1.65%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.50%) Social Media
12 18 (1.35%) Educational Technology
13 17 (1.28%) NHS
14 16 (1.20%) Graphic Design
15 15 (1.13%) Taxonomies
16 14 (1.05%) Data Structures
17 13 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
18 11 (0.83%) IoT
18 11 (0.83%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 149 (11.18%) Windows
2 58 (4.35%) Apple iOS
3 57 (4.28%) Android
4 55 (4.13%) Windows 10
5 35 (2.63%) Windows Server
6 32 (2.40%) Mac OS
7 16 (1.20%) Linux
8 13 (0.98%) Unix
9 9 (0.68%) 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
1 413 (30.98%) UX Design
2 381 (28.58%) Agile
3 248 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
4 246 (18.45%) AI
5 223 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
6 192 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 175 (13.13%) Analytics
8 164 (12.30%) User Research
9 160 (12.00%) CI/CD
10 149 (11.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 145 (10.88%) Roadmaps
12 142 (10.65%) Decision-Making
13 108 (8.10%) DevOps
14 103 (7.73%) Scrum
15 102 (7.65%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 101 (7.58%) Service Design
16 101 (7.58%) UX Research
17 100 (7.50%) Workshop Facilitation
18 98 (7.35%) Prototyping
18 98 (7.35%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 126 (9.45%) JavaScript
2 108 (8.10%) TypeScript
3 83 (6.23%) SQL
4 82 (6.15%) Java
5 77 (5.78%) Python
6 47 (3.53%) PowerShell
7 28 (2.10%) C#
8 27 (2.03%) Kotlin
9 19 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (1.20%) Swift
11 15 (1.13%) Bash
12 9 (0.68%) Go
13 7 (0.53%) PHP
13 7 (0.53%) VB
13 7 (0.53%) VBScript
14 6 (0.45%) Scala
14 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.38%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.38%) C++
16 4 (0.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 218 (16.35%) Security Cleared
2 164 (12.30%) SC Cleared
3 101 (7.58%) Degree
4 35 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.50%) DV Cleared
7 17 (1.28%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.20%) PMP
9 15 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.60%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.38%) CISSP
13 5 (0.38%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.38%) MCSE
14 4 (0.30%) CCA
14 4 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (15.23%) Accessibility
2 95 (7.13%) QA
3 71 (5.33%) WCAG
4 44 (3.30%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.43%) GDPR
6 16 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (0.75%) SLA
8 9 (0.68%) PMO
9 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.23%) GRC
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.15%) PSD2
13 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.075%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.075%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.075%) SEPA
14 1 (0.075%) WAI
System Software
1 106 (7.95%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.23%) Docker
3 23 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
3 23 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 10 (0.75%) XenApp
6 9 (0.68%) XenDesktop
7 7 (0.53%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.45%) vSphere
9 5 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.23%) UAG
11 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.075%) Firmware
13 1 (0.075%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 49 (3.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 29 (2.18%) SCCM
4 21 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (1.43%) Grafana
6 15 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
7 13 (0.98%) Ansible
8 11 (0.83%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.45%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.38%) Istio
10 5 (0.38%) SysTrack
11 4 (0.30%) Clonezilla
12 3 (0.23%) Podman
12 3 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.23%) WSUS
13 2 (0.15%) Argo
13 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.15%) Packer
13 2 (0.15%) SCOM
13 2 (0.15%) vMotion
Vendors
1 241 (18.08%) Microsoft
2 85 (6.38%) ServiceNow
3 61 (4.58%) Adobe
4 44 (3.30%) Oracle
5 42 (3.15%) Google
6 29 (2.18%) Salesforce
6 29 (2.18%) SAP
7 26 (1.95%) Citrix
7 26 (1.95%) VMware
8 24 (1.80%) Splunk
9 23 (1.73%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.20%) Apple
10 16 (1.20%) Zscaler
11 14 (1.05%) Cisco
11 14 (1.05%) Foundry
11 14 (1.05%) Workday
12 12 (0.90%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.68%) Okta
14 8 (0.60%) Aruba
15 7 (0.53%) IBM