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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 67 84
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 -25
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,286 928 951
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.96% 3.70% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 4.04% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 598 635
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £592 £623
90th Percentile £680 £728 £716
UK median daily rate £494 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.89% -5.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 31 44
10th Percentile £16.00 £33.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.11 £35.25 £24.69
Median hourly rate £33.99 £52.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +75.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £67.84 £70.16 £68.60
90th Percentile £86.73 £85.50 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £53.00 £30.86
% change year-on-year -35.87% +71.77% +16.43%

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 37,051 22,942 31,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.33% 91.40% 85.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,408 14,828 20,735
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £416 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,328 1,099 2,362
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.76
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.48
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -28 651 £524 +4.80% 166
North of England -25 194 £450 +0.67% 108
Midlands 0 152 £475 +18.16% 53
South East -19 135 £500 +5.26% 121
North West -16 113 £435 -2.68% 63
West Midlands -2 109 £475 -9.52% 32
South West -17 73 £475 +26.67% 36
Yorkshire -38 51 £519 +29.61% 23
East Midlands +3 43 £550 +54.49% 21
East of England -6 36 £410 -13.68% 36
North East -19 30 £440 -8.33% 23
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 62 (4.82%) SharePoint
2 44 (3.42%) CMS
3 39 (3.03%) Confluence
4 26 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.78%) WordPress
6 7 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.39%) Drupal
7 5 (0.39%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) Camunda
8 4 (0.31%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.31%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.31%) Kentico
8 4 (0.31%) Mendix
9 3 (0.23%) nginx
9 3 (0.23%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.16%) Apache
10 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.16%) IIS
11 1 (0.078%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 24 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.56%) Photoshop
2 20 (1.56%) Sketch
3 18 (1.40%) Chatbot
4 16 (1.24%) Adobe Illustrator
5 14 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (1.01%) Adobe After Effects
7 12 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (0.86%) Adobe XD
9 10 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 10 (0.78%) MS Visio
10 4 (0.31%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.23%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.23%) UXPin
12 2 (0.16%) InVision
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.078%) Blender
13 1 (0.078%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.078%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.70%) Workday HCM
3 8 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.62%) Shopify
4 6 (0.47%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.31%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.16%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.078%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.078%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.078%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.078%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.078%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.078%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 205 (15.94%) Azure
2 173 (13.45%) Figma
3 111 (8.63%) Microsoft 365
4 106 (8.24%) AWS
5 90 (7.00%) Power Platform
6 57 (4.43%) Entra ID
7 48 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (3.58%) Microsoft Copilot
9 42 (3.27%) SaaS
10 37 (2.88%) GCP
11 36 (2.80%) PowerApps
12 35 (2.72%) GitHub
13 34 (2.64%) OneDrive
14 31 (2.41%) Power Automate
15 24 (1.87%) Copilot Studio
16 21 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (1.48%) Serverless
18 18 (1.40%) Google Workspace
19 15 (1.17%) Google Sheets
20 14 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.26%) DNS
2 27 (2.10%) DHCP
3 23 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 22 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (1.56%) Wireless
6 18 (1.40%) LAN
7 13 (1.01%) Internet
8 11 (0.86%) Intranet
8 11 (0.86%) WAN
9 10 (0.78%) Firewall
10 9 (0.70%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.62%) Cisco Wireless
11 8 (0.62%) VPN
12 7 (0.54%) 5G
12 7 (0.54%) Skype
12 7 (0.54%) WLAN
13 5 (0.39%) 802.11
13 5 (0.39%) HTTP
13 5 (0.39%) SMS
14 4 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (4.12%) Power BI
2 21 (1.63%) Metadata
3 20 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (1.56%) SQL Server
4 19 (1.48%) Relational Database
5 17 (1.32%) Power Query
6 15 (1.17%) NoSQL
7 12 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.86%) MySQL
9 9 (0.70%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.70%) Tableau
10 7 (0.54%) Redis
11 6 (0.47%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.47%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.47%) ZAP BI
12 5 (0.39%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.31%) EDRMS
13 4 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (0.31%) Pinecone
14 3 (0.23%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 80 (6.22%) JIRA
2 54 (4.20%) Git
3 21 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.40%) Cypress.io
4 18 (1.40%) GitLab
5 16 (1.24%) Vite
6 12 (0.93%) JUnit
7 10 (0.78%) fastlane
8 9 (0.70%) Android Studio
8 9 (0.70%) Browser DevTools
8 9 (0.70%) Gradle
8 9 (0.70%) Xcode
9 7 (0.54%) Postman
10 6 (0.47%) Selenium
10 6 (0.47%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.39%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.39%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.39%) Fiddler
11 5 (0.39%) REST Assured
General
1 389 (30.25%) Social Skills
2 236 (18.35%) Finance
3 154 (11.98%) Public Sector
4 120 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (8.24%) Banking
6 74 (5.75%) Retail
7 53 (4.12%) Marketing
8 37 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (2.41%) Legal
10 28 (2.18%) Automotive
11 27 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (1.94%) Publishing
13 19 (1.48%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (1.01%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.86%) Front Office
17 8 (0.62%) Local Government
18 7 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 276 (21.46%) Designer
2 185 (14.39%) Senior
3 166 (12.91%) Developer
4 120 (9.33%) UX Designer
5 102 (7.93%) Analyst
6 96 (7.47%) Lead
7 72 (5.60%) UI Designer
8 68 (5.29%) Consultant
9 56 (4.35%) Senior Designer
10 53 (4.12%) Product Designer
11 50 (3.89%) Architect
11 50 (3.89%) Content Designer
12 46 (3.58%) Business Analyst
13 44 (3.42%) User Experience Researcher
14 43 (3.34%) IT Support
15 42 (3.27%) UI/UX Designer
16 38 (2.95%) Product Manager
16 38 (2.95%) User Researcher
17 31 (2.41%) Support Engineer
18 30 (2.33%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (9.56%) React
2 97 (7.54%) CSS
3 84 (6.53%) HTML
4 75 (5.83%) REST
5 50 (3.89%) AngularJS
5 50 (3.89%) RESTful
6 47 (3.65%) .NET
7 40 (3.11%) Spring
8 39 (3.03%) Spring Boot
9 32 (2.49%) GraphQL
10 23 (1.79%) Next.js
11 22 (1.71%) JSON
11 22 (1.71%) Node.js
12 21 (1.63%) ASP.NET
12 21 (1.63%) HTML5
13 20 (1.56%) CSS3
13 20 (1.56%) Redux
14 19 (1.48%) OAuth
15 18 (1.40%) SOAP
16 17 (1.32%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 135 (10.50%) Product Ownership
2 61 (4.74%) Mobile App
3 60 (4.67%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.49%) Cloud Native
5 30 (2.33%) AI Agents
6 28 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.56%) Data Centre
11 19 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
12 18 (1.40%) Data Structures
13 17 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 16 (1.24%) Graphic Design
14 16 (1.24%) Taxonomies
15 14 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (1.09%) Social Media
16 13 (1.01%) Algorithms
16 13 (1.01%) Virtual Reality
17 12 (0.93%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 106 (8.24%) Windows
2 45 (3.50%) Apple iOS
3 40 (3.11%) Android
4 32 (2.49%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.71%) Mac OS
6 13 (1.01%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.93%) Linux
8 6 (0.47%) Unix
8 6 (0.47%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (31.96%) UX Design
2 383 (29.78%) Agile
3 216 (16.80%) AI
4 200 (15.55%) Problem-Solving
5 179 (13.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 168 (13.06%) Analytics
7 155 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 152 (11.82%) User Research
9 140 (10.89%) Roadmaps
10 139 (10.81%) CI/CD
11 135 (10.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 119 (9.25%) DevOps
13 116 (9.02%) Prototyping
14 115 (8.94%) Decision-Making
15 111 (8.63%) UX Research
16 98 (7.62%) Wireframes
17 95 (7.39%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 93 (7.23%) Service Design
19 90 (7.00%) Scrum
20 85 (6.61%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 124 (9.64%) JavaScript
2 95 (7.39%) Java
3 94 (7.31%) SQL
3 94 (7.31%) TypeScript
4 83 (6.45%) Python
5 49 (3.81%) PowerShell
6 45 (3.50%) C#
7 24 (1.87%) Kotlin
8 21 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (1.01%) Swift
10 10 (0.78%) Bash
11 8 (0.62%) Korn
12 6 (0.47%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.47%) Go
12 6 (0.47%) R
12 6 (0.47%) VBA
12 6 (0.47%) VBScript
13 5 (0.39%) VB
14 4 (0.31%) PHP
15 3 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 171 (13.30%) Security Cleared
2 131 (10.19%) SC Cleared
3 125 (9.72%) Degree
4 26 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 19 (1.48%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (0.54%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.54%) CCA
10 7 (0.54%) CCIE
10 7 (0.54%) CCNP
10 7 (0.54%) Citrix Certification
10 7 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 6 (0.47%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.47%) PMP
12 5 (0.39%) CISSP
12 5 (0.39%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (15.16%) Accessibility
2 90 (7.00%) QA
3 63 (4.90%) WCAG
4 41 (3.19%) Data Quality
5 24 (1.87%) GDPR
6 16 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 6 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.47%) PMO
9 5 (0.39%) SLA
10 3 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.16%) NCSC
11 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.16%) PSD2
12 1 (0.078%) COBIT
12 1 (0.078%) GMP
12 1 (0.078%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.078%) WAI
System Software
1 67 (5.21%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.95%) Docker
3 23 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.47%) Firmware
6 5 (0.39%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.16%) vSphere
9 2 (0.16%) XenApp
9 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.078%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 43 (3.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (3.19%) Kubernetes
3 37 (2.88%) Terraform
4 34 (2.64%) SCCM
5 16 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.17%) Grafana
7 13 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
8 10 (0.78%) Ansible
9 7 (0.54%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.31%) Clonezilla
11 3 (0.23%) Podman
11 3 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.23%) WSUS
12 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.16%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.16%) Packer
12 2 (0.16%) SCOM
12 2 (0.16%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.16%) vMotion
13 1 (0.078%) Argo
Vendors
1 216 (16.80%) Microsoft
2 69 (5.37%) Adobe
3 67 (5.21%) ServiceNow
4 45 (3.50%) Google
5 40 (3.11%) SAP
6 36 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 35 (2.72%) Oracle
8 19 (1.48%) Citrix
9 18 (1.40%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.32%) Apple
10 17 (1.32%) Workday
11 16 (1.24%) Cisco
12 14 (1.09%) Splunk
13 13 (1.01%) VMware
14 12 (0.93%) Aruba
14 12 (0.93%) Foundry
15 9 (0.70%) Zscaler
16 8 (0.62%) OpenAI
17 7 (0.54%) Databricks
17 7 (0.54%) Okta