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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 65 83
Rank change year-on-year -28 +18 -17
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,355 1,044 888
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.91% 3.75% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 4.12% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 667 522
10th Percentile £300 £300 £307
25th Percentile £400 £373 £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 £682 £688 £711
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 48 27
10th Percentile £17.25 £15.50 £26.04
25th Percentile £26.75 £25.15 £30.22
Median hourly rate £33.99 £36.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -14.12% -
75th Percentile £67.89 £55.44 £72.20
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 39,385 25,311 28,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,009 16,087 17,408
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -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 2,837 1,536 1,254
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.22 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -28 695 £513 +3.02% 1,797
North of England -6 260 £430 +1.18% 384
Midlands -12 151 £475 +6.26% 214
North West -33 129 £400 -5.88% 224
West Midlands -1 119 £475 -5.00% 146
South East -62 94 £400 -10.51% 298
Yorkshire -6 81 £500 +25.00% 118
South West -2 80 £475 -2.56% 142
North East -3 49 £338 -27.42% 45
East of England -18 42 £410 -18.00% 108
East Midlands -11 32 £500 +31.58% 68
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 (5.09%) SharePoint
2 61 (4.50%) CMS
3 39 (2.88%) Confluence
4 28 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.11%) WordPress
6 9 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.52%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.52%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.44%) Apache
8 6 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.37%) Drupal
9 5 (0.37%) 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 23 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 18 (1.33%) Photoshop
4 17 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
5 16 (1.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 15 (1.11%) Sketch
7 14 (1.03%) Chatbot
8 12 (0.89%) Adobe After Effects
9 10 (0.74%) Adobe XD
10 9 (0.66%) MS Visio
11 8 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
13 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
14 1 (0.074%) Adobe Captivate
14 1 (0.074%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.074%) Blender
14 1 (0.074%) Final Cut Pro
14 1 (0.074%) InVision
14 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.52%) Workday HCM
2 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.37%) Shopify
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
4 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.22%) iTrent
5 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.074%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.074%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.074%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.074%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 197 (14.54%) Azure
2 148 (10.92%) Figma
3 139 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
4 123 (9.08%) AWS
5 103 (7.60%) Power Platform
6 64 (4.72%) Entra ID
7 59 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
8 49 (3.62%) GitHub
9 46 (3.39%) SaaS
10 40 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
11 37 (2.73%) GCP
12 33 (2.44%) PowerApps
13 31 (2.29%) OneDrive
14 28 (2.07%) Copilot Studio
14 28 (2.07%) Power Automate
15 19 (1.40%) Azure AI
16 17 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (1.11%) Serverless
18 13 (0.96%) Firebase
19 12 (0.89%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.39%) DNS
2 39 (2.88%) DHCP
3 37 (2.73%) TCP/IP
4 28 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (1.55%) VPN
6 19 (1.40%) Wireless
7 18 (1.33%) Firewall
8 16 (1.18%) LAN
8 16 (1.18%) WAN
9 13 (0.96%) NetScaler
10 11 (0.81%) Network Security
11 8 (0.59%) Cisco Wireless
11 8 (0.59%) Internet
11 8 (0.59%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.52%) Skype
13 6 (0.44%) Intranet
14 5 (0.37%) 5G
14 5 (0.37%) SMS
14 5 (0.37%) SNMP
14 5 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.06%) Power BI
2 26 (1.92%) Metadata
3 15 (1.11%) SQL Server
4 14 (1.03%) Power Query
4 14 (1.03%) Tableau
5 11 (0.81%) MySQL
5 11 (0.81%) NoSQL
5 11 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (0.74%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.66%) Looker
8 8 (0.59%) Qlik Sense
9 7 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.52%) Redis
9 7 (0.52%) Star Schema
10 6 (0.44%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.44%) QlikView
11 5 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.37%) Flink
11 5 (0.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 74 (5.46%) JIRA
2 70 (5.17%) Git
3 28 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.48%) Storybook
5 19 (1.40%) Vite
6 17 (1.25%) Cypress.io
7 14 (1.03%) GitLab
8 11 (0.81%) fastlane
9 9 (0.66%) Android Studio
9 9 (0.66%) Browser DevTools
10 8 (0.59%) Xcode
11 7 (0.52%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.44%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.44%) JMeter
12 6 (0.44%) Postman
13 5 (0.37%) Fiddler
13 5 (0.37%) Gradle
13 5 (0.37%) MSI
14 4 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
14 4 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 444 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 231 (17.05%) Finance
3 181 (13.36%) Public Sector
4 126 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (7.08%) Banking
6 79 (5.83%) Retail
7 73 (5.39%) Marketing
8 46 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
10 41 (3.03%) Legal
11 28 (2.07%) Automotive
12 27 (1.99%) Publishing
13 22 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (1.40%) Manufacturing
16 18 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (1.25%) Military
18 13 (0.96%) Investment Banking
19 12 (0.89%) Front Office
20 9 (0.66%) Law
Job Titles
1 269 (19.85%) Designer
2 198 (14.61%) Developer
3 177 (13.06%) Senior
4 127 (9.37%) Lead
5 119 (8.78%) UX Designer
6 81 (5.98%) Analyst
7 66 (4.87%) UI Designer
8 62 (4.58%) Architect
9 56 (4.13%) Consultant
10 54 (3.99%) User Researcher
11 52 (3.84%) IT Support
12 51 (3.76%) Support Engineer
13 50 (3.69%) Senior Designer
14 47 (3.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 47 (3.47%) Product Manager
15 43 (3.17%) User Experience Researcher
16 40 (2.95%) Content Designer
17 38 (2.80%) Business Analyst
18 37 (2.73%) UI/UX Designer
19 34 (2.51%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (9.82%) React
2 99 (7.31%) CSS
3 87 (6.42%) HTML
4 82 (6.05%) REST
5 38 (2.80%) AngularJS
5 38 (2.80%) GraphQL
5 38 (2.80%) HTML5
5 38 (2.80%) RESTful
5 38 (2.80%) Terraform
6 34 (2.51%) .NET
7 33 (2.44%) CSS3
8 28 (2.07%) Next.js
9 27 (1.99%) OAuth
10 21 (1.55%) Node.js
10 21 (1.55%) OAuth2
10 21 (1.55%) Playwright
10 21 (1.55%) SOAP
10 21 (1.55%) Spring
10 21 (1.55%) Spring Boot
11 19 (1.40%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 136 (10.04%) Product Ownership
2 77 (5.68%) Mobile App
3 76 (5.61%) Onboarding
4 44 (3.25%) Cloud Native
5 41 (3.03%) AI Agents
6 31 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 27 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (1.62%) Data Centre
10 20 (1.48%) Social Media
11 18 (1.33%) Educational Technology
11 18 (1.33%) NHS
12 16 (1.18%) Graphic Design
13 15 (1.11%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.11%) Taxonomies
14 13 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.81%) IoT
15 11 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 148 (10.92%) Windows
2 58 (4.28%) Apple iOS
3 57 (4.21%) Android
4 54 (3.99%) Windows 10
5 36 (2.66%) Windows Server
6 32 (2.36%) Mac OS
7 17 (1.25%) Linux
8 13 (0.96%) Unix
9 9 (0.66%) 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
1 426 (31.44%) UX Design
2 388 (28.63%) Agile
3 254 (18.75%) AI
4 253 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 226 (16.68%) Problem-Solving
6 195 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 180 (13.28%) Analytics
8 166 (12.25%) User Research
9 163 (12.03%) CI/CD
10 152 (11.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 148 (10.92%) Roadmaps
12 142 (10.48%) Decision-Making
13 109 (8.04%) DevOps
14 105 (7.75%) Service Design
14 105 (7.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 104 (7.68%) Scrum
16 102 (7.53%) Prototyping
16 102 (7.53%) UX Research
17 101 (7.45%) Service Management
17 101 (7.45%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 129 (9.52%) JavaScript
2 108 (7.97%) TypeScript
3 86 (6.35%) SQL
4 83 (6.13%) Java
5 80 (5.90%) Python
6 48 (3.54%) PowerShell
7 29 (2.14%) C#
8 27 (1.99%) Kotlin
9 20 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (1.18%) Bash
10 16 (1.18%) Swift
11 9 (0.66%) Go
12 7 (0.52%) PHP
12 7 (0.52%) VB
12 7 (0.52%) VBScript
13 6 (0.44%) Scala
13 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.37%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.37%) C++
15 4 (0.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 226 (16.68%) Security Cleared
2 172 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 101 (7.45%) Degree
4 36 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (1.62%) DV Cleared
7 18 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.18%) PMP
10 8 (0.59%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.44%) 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%) RHCA
14 4 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (15.20%) Accessibility
2 95 (7.01%) QA
3 73 (5.39%) WCAG
4 46 (3.39%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.33%) GDPR
6 16 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (0.74%) SLA
8 9 (0.66%) PMO
9 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.22%) GRC
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.15%) PSD2
12 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.074%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.074%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.074%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.074%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 104 (7.68%) Active Directory
2 46 (3.39%) Docker
3 24 (1.77%) Virtual Desktop
3 24 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.74%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 10 (0.74%) XenApp
6 9 (0.66%) XenDesktop
7 7 (0.52%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.44%) vSphere
9 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.22%) UAG
11 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.074%) Firmware
13 1 (0.074%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 49 (3.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 46 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 29 (2.14%) SCCM
4 21 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (1.40%) Grafana
6 15 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
7 14 (1.03%) Ansible
8 11 (0.81%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.44%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.37%) Istio
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%) Packer
13 2 (0.15%) SCOM
13 2 (0.15%) vMotion
Vendors
1 244 (18.01%) Microsoft
2 85 (6.27%) ServiceNow
3 64 (4.72%) Adobe
4 44 (3.25%) Oracle
5 42 (3.10%) Google
6 31 (2.29%) Salesforce
6 31 (2.29%) SAP
7 27 (1.99%) VMware
8 26 (1.92%) Citrix
9 24 (1.77%) Splunk
10 23 (1.70%) Dynatrace
11 16 (1.18%) Apple
11 16 (1.18%) Cisco
11 16 (1.18%) Foundry
11 16 (1.18%) Zscaler
12 14 (1.03%) Workday
13 12 (0.89%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.66%) Aruba
14 9 (0.66%) Okta
15 7 (0.52%) Databricks