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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 63 89
Rank change year-on-year -28 +26 -28
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,346 1,062 836
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.93% 3.83% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 4.22% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 804 677 520
10th Percentile £288 £300 £305
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £614
90th Percentile £676 £690 £714
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 45 26
10th Percentile £16.73 £22.15 £15.82
25th Percentile £26.13 £33.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £43.50 £45.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.86% -5.10% +66.68%
75th Percentile £67.86 £63.75 £69.79
90th Percentile £77.00 £71.78 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £45.50 £41.68
% change year-on-year -25.30% +9.18% +51.55%

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 38,963 25,189 28,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.89% 90.78% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,049 16,044 18,122
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,587 1,471 1,456
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -34 681 £513 +2.50% 1,346
North of England -18 246 £425 +3.66% 241
Midlands -9 154 £475 +10.27% 110
West Midlands -4 124 £475 -6.77% 73
North West -36 123 £393 -7.53% 140
South East -54 104 £405 -9.40% 191
South West -9 80 £475 - 128
Yorkshire -20 74 £500 +25.00% 69
North East -4 48 £350 -27.08% 35
East of England 0 45 £410 -18.00% 77
East Midlands -12 30 £500 +39.66% 37
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 64 (4.75%) SharePoint
2 53 (3.94%) CMS
3 35 (2.60%) Confluence
4 29 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.11%) WordPress
6 9 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.52%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.45%) Apache
9 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.37%) Drupal
9 5 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.30%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.30%) Kentico
11 3 (0.22%) Mendix
12 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.15%) IIS
12 2 (0.15%) Moodle
12 2 (0.15%) nginx
12 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.074%) MTS
Applications
1 20 (1.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 20 (1.49%) Chatbot
1 20 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 20 (1.49%) Photoshop
2 19 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.34%) Sketch
4 16 (1.19%) Adobe Illustrator
5 12 (0.89%) Adobe After Effects
6 9 (0.67%) Adobe XD
6 9 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.67%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.15%) InVision
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.074%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.074%) Blender
8 1 (0.074%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Workday HCM
2 6 (0.45%) Shopify
3 5 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
4 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.22%) iTrent
5 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.15%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.074%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.074%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.074%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.074%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.074%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 197 (14.64%) Azure
2 158 (11.74%) Figma
3 142 (10.55%) Microsoft 365
4 113 (8.40%) AWS
5 97 (7.21%) Power Platform
6 60 (4.46%) Entra ID
7 55 (4.09%) Microsoft Copilot
8 46 (3.42%) GitHub
9 44 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
10 43 (3.19%) SaaS
11 36 (2.67%) GCP
12 32 (2.38%) OneDrive
13 30 (2.23%) PowerApps
14 24 (1.78%) Copilot Studio
14 24 (1.78%) Power Automate
15 19 (1.41%) Azure AI
16 16 (1.19%) Serverless
17 15 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
18 13 (0.97%) Firebase
19 12 (0.89%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.19%) DNS
2 37 (2.75%) DHCP
3 32 (2.38%) TCP/IP
4 30 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
5 22 (1.63%) Wireless
6 21 (1.56%) LAN
7 17 (1.26%) VPN
8 16 (1.19%) Firewall
8 16 (1.19%) WAN
9 13 (0.97%) Internet
10 11 (0.82%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.67%) Cisco Wireless
11 9 (0.67%) NetScaler
11 9 (0.67%) Skype
12 8 (0.59%) Intranet
12 8 (0.59%) Network Security
13 7 (0.52%) 5G
13 7 (0.52%) WLAN
14 6 (0.45%) SSL
15 5 (0.37%) 802.11
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.09%) Power BI
2 25 (1.86%) Metadata
3 15 (1.11%) Power Query
4 13 (0.97%) Tableau
5 12 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (0.89%) SQL Server
6 11 (0.82%) NoSQL
6 11 (0.82%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.67%) Looker
8 8 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.59%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.52%) MySQL
9 7 (0.52%) Redis
10 6 (0.45%) Qlik Sense
10 6 (0.45%) Star Schema
11 5 (0.37%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.37%) Flink
11 5 (0.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 77 (5.72%) JIRA
2 60 (4.46%) Git
3 24 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.56%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.26%) Vite
6 13 (0.97%) GitLab
7 12 (0.89%) fastlane
8 11 (0.82%) Storybook
9 10 (0.74%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.74%) Browser DevTools
10 9 (0.67%) Xcode
11 7 (0.52%) Gradle
11 7 (0.52%) Postman
12 5 (0.37%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.37%) Crashlytics
12 5 (0.37%) Fiddler
12 5 (0.37%) JMeter
12 5 (0.37%) MSI
12 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.37%) REST Assured
General
1 430 (31.95%) Social Skills
2 240 (17.83%) Finance
3 181 (13.45%) Public Sector
4 133 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (7.88%) Banking
6 79 (5.87%) Retail
7 65 (4.83%) Marketing
8 47 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
10 34 (2.53%) Legal
11 28 (2.08%) Automotive
12 27 (2.01%) Publishing
13 25 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
14 24 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
15 19 (1.41%) Manufacturing
16 13 (0.97%) Investment Banking
16 13 (0.97%) Military
17 9 (0.67%) Law
17 9 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 287 (21.32%) Designer
2 180 (13.37%) Developer
3 176 (13.08%) Senior
4 121 (8.99%) UX Designer
5 115 (8.54%) Lead
6 94 (6.98%) Analyst
7 68 (5.05%) UI Designer
8 67 (4.98%) Consultant
9 53 (3.94%) Architect
9 53 (3.94%) IT Support
9 53 (3.94%) Support Engineer
9 53 (3.94%) User Researcher
10 52 (3.86%) Senior Designer
11 51 (3.79%) Product Manager
12 46 (3.42%) Content Designer
13 45 (3.34%) Business Analyst
14 41 (3.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 40 (2.97%) User Experience Researcher
16 37 (2.75%) IT Engineer
16 37 (2.75%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (9.29%) React
2 102 (7.58%) CSS
3 89 (6.61%) HTML
4 78 (5.79%) REST
5 45 (3.34%) RESTful
6 43 (3.19%) AngularJS
7 38 (2.82%) Terraform
8 37 (2.75%) CSS3
8 37 (2.75%) GraphQL
8 37 (2.75%) HTML5
9 36 (2.67%) .NET
10 30 (2.23%) Next.js
11 22 (1.63%) Jest
11 22 (1.63%) Spring
12 21 (1.56%) Spring Boot
13 20 (1.49%) OAuth
14 19 (1.41%) Playwright
15 18 (1.34%) ASP.NET
15 18 (1.34%) Node.js
16 17 (1.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 121 (8.99%) Product Ownership
2 80 (5.94%) Onboarding
3 79 (5.87%) Mobile App
4 43 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 36 (2.67%) AI Agents
6 29 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 28 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 27 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.86%) Management Information System
10 24 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (1.49%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.49%) Social Media
12 19 (1.41%) NHS
13 18 (1.34%) Educational Technology
13 18 (1.34%) Graphic Design
14 15 (1.11%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.11%) Virtual Reality
15 14 (1.04%) Taxonomies
16 13 (0.97%) Algorithms
16 13 (0.97%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 146 (10.85%) Windows
2 57 (4.23%) Android
3 56 (4.16%) Apple iOS
3 56 (4.16%) Windows 10
4 31 (2.30%) Mac OS
5 30 (2.23%) Windows Server
6 18 (1.34%) Linux
7 11 (0.82%) 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
1 434 (32.24%) UX Design
2 385 (28.60%) Agile
3 253 (18.80%) AI
4 233 (17.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 228 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
6 189 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 184 (13.67%) Analytics
8 162 (12.04%) User Research
9 155 (11.52%) CI/CD
10 148 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 138 (10.25%) Roadmaps
12 136 (10.10%) Decision-Making
13 107 (7.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 106 (7.88%) Prototyping
15 105 (7.80%) DevOps
16 102 (7.58%) Scrum
16 102 (7.58%) Service Design
17 101 (7.50%) Workshop Facilitation
18 96 (7.13%) ITIL
19 95 (7.06%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 126 (9.36%) JavaScript
2 93 (6.91%) TypeScript
3 86 (6.39%) Python
4 82 (6.09%) Java
5 78 (5.79%) SQL
6 49 (3.64%) PowerShell
7 29 (2.15%) C#
8 26 (1.93%) Kotlin
9 20 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (1.19%) Bash
11 15 (1.11%) Swift
12 8 (0.59%) VBScript
13 7 (0.52%) Go
13 7 (0.52%) PHP
13 7 (0.52%) VB
14 6 (0.45%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.45%) Scala
14 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.37%) Korn
16 4 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 209 (15.53%) Security Cleared
2 156 (11.59%) SC Cleared
3 108 (8.02%) Degree
4 30 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 19 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (0.97%) PMP
10 10 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (0.59%) AWS Certification
11 8 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.45%) CCIE
13 6 (0.45%) CCNP
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (15.60%) Accessibility
2 87 (6.46%) QA
3 72 (5.35%) WCAG
4 41 (3.05%) Data Quality
5 20 (1.49%) GDPR
6 14 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.59%) SLA
8 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.45%) PMO
10 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.30%) GRC
12 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.15%) PSD2
13 1 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.074%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.074%) NIST
13 1 (0.074%) SEPA
13 1 (0.074%) WAI
13 1 (0.074%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 98 (7.28%) Active Directory
2 41 (3.05%) Docker
3 27 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
4 21 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.97%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.52%) BitLocker
6 7 (0.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 6 (0.45%) vSphere
7 6 (0.45%) XenApp
7 6 (0.45%) XenDesktop
8 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.22%) UAG
11 2 (0.15%) Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.074%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 45 (3.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (3.27%) Kubernetes
3 33 (2.45%) SCCM
4 21 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (1.41%) Grafana
6 15 (1.11%) 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 (0.074%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 233 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 81 (6.02%) ServiceNow
3 69 (5.13%) Adobe
4 44 (3.27%) Oracle
5 43 (3.19%) Google
6 31 (2.30%) SAP
7 29 (2.15%) Salesforce
8 26 (1.93%) Citrix
9 24 (1.78%) Dynatrace
9 24 (1.78%) VMware
10 21 (1.56%) Splunk
11 19 (1.41%) Apple
11 19 (1.41%) Cisco
12 18 (1.34%) Workday
13 15 (1.11%) Foundry
14 14 (1.04%) Zscaler
15 12 (0.89%) Aruba
15 12 (0.89%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.74%) Okta
17 8 (0.59%) Databricks