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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 66 79
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 -19
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,298 892 958
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.09% 3.70% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 4.05% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 577 642
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £389 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% -2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £711
UK median daily rate £490 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +2.08% -4.00% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 24 45
10th Percentile £16.00 £33.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.12 £42.94 £23.75
Median hourly rate £33.99 £53.50 £26.56
Median % change year-on-year -36.47% +101.43% +0.23%
75th Percentile £61.25 £75.12 £61.25
90th Percentile £82.20 £92.50 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £53.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -36.47% +68.72% +7.15%

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 35,679 21,999 31,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.05% 91.35% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,608 14,249 20,517
10th Percentile £325 £304 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,238 979 2,317
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.76 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.60 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.93 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -22 649 £513 - 508
North of England -7 204 £450 +5.88% 167
Midlands +10 167 £475 +18.16% 74
South East -15 130 £475 +4.63% 156
North West +2 128 £425 -4.92% 111
West Midlands -7 116 £475 -7.32% 52
South West -4 74 £475 +26.67% 42
Yorkshire -19 56 £525 +34.96% 38
East Midlands +3 51 £550 +55.81% 22
East of England -14 31 £410 -14.14% 58
North East -22 20 £450 -6.25% 20
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 56 (4.31%) SharePoint
2 41 (3.16%) Confluence
3 40 (3.08%) CMS
4 22 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.54%) WordPress
7 5 (0.39%) Apache
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
9 3 (0.23%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.23%) Mendix
9 3 (0.23%) nginx
9 3 (0.23%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (1.93%) Sketch
2 23 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.77%) Photoshop
3 19 (1.46%) Chatbot
4 18 (1.39%) Adobe Illustrator
5 16 (1.23%) Adobe XD
6 14 (1.08%) Adobe After Effects
6 14 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
7 11 (0.85%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 8 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 4 (0.31%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.23%) InVision
11 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.23%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.23%) UXPin
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.15%) Trello
13 1 (0.077%) Blender
13 1 (0.077%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 11 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.69%) Workday HCM
3 8 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.62%) Shopify
4 6 (0.46%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.077%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.077%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.077%) Magento
7 1 (0.077%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.077%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.077%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.077%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 201 (15.49%) Azure
2 178 (13.71%) Figma
3 109 (8.40%) AWS
3 109 (8.40%) Microsoft 365
4 91 (7.01%) Power Platform
5 56 (4.31%) Entra ID
6 44 (3.39%) Microsoft Copilot
7 43 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (3.08%) GCP
9 38 (2.93%) GitHub
9 38 (2.93%) SaaS
10 34 (2.62%) PowerApps
11 28 (2.16%) Power Automate
12 27 (2.08%) OneDrive
13 25 (1.93%) Google Workspace
14 23 (1.77%) Copilot Studio
14 23 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (1.69%) Serverless
16 20 (1.54%) Google Sheets
17 19 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.69%) DNS
2 20 (1.54%) DHCP
3 19 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
4 17 (1.31%) Wireless
5 14 (1.08%) LAN
5 14 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.00%) Internet
6 13 (1.00%) Intranet
7 9 (0.69%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.62%) Cisco Wireless
9 7 (0.54%) 5G
9 7 (0.54%) Skype
9 7 (0.54%) VPN
9 7 (0.54%) WAN
9 7 (0.54%) WLAN
10 6 (0.46%) Firewall
11 5 (0.39%) 802.11
11 5 (0.39%) HTTP
11 5 (0.39%) SMS
12 4 (0.31%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.24%) Power BI
2 22 (1.69%) Metadata
3 20 (1.54%) Relational Database
4 19 (1.46%) SQL Server
5 17 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.23%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.08%) MySQL
7 14 (1.08%) Power Query
8 10 (0.77%) Tableau
9 9 (0.69%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.54%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.46%) Pinecone
11 6 (0.46%) ZAP BI
12 5 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 5 (0.39%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.39%) Redis
12 5 (0.39%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.31%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.31%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 81 (6.24%) JIRA
2 62 (4.78%) Git
3 29 (2.23%) GitLab
4 21 (1.62%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.31%) Jenkins
6 15 (1.16%) Gradle
6 15 (1.16%) JUnit
7 12 (0.92%) Android Studio
8 11 (0.85%) Browser DevTools
8 11 (0.85%) Vite
9 10 (0.77%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.77%) Xcode
10 9 (0.69%) fastlane
11 6 (0.46%) Axure RP
11 6 (0.46%) Mocha
11 6 (0.46%) Postman
12 5 (0.39%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.39%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.39%) Selenium
12 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 397 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 233 (17.95%) Finance
3 157 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 125 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (7.47%) Banking
6 67 (5.16%) Retail
7 57 (4.39%) Marketing
8 33 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (2.16%) Automotive
11 28 (2.16%) Legal
12 23 (1.77%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.62%) Publishing
14 16 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.92%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.92%) Local Government
17 9 (0.69%) Front Office
18 7 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 281 (21.65%) Designer
2 193 (14.87%) Senior
3 170 (13.10%) Developer
4 126 (9.71%) UX Designer
5 105 (8.09%) Analyst
6 88 (6.78%) Lead
7 70 (5.39%) UI Designer
8 63 (4.85%) Consultant
9 56 (4.31%) Senior Designer
10 55 (4.24%) Product Designer
11 50 (3.85%) Architect
12 49 (3.78%) Content Designer
13 46 (3.54%) Business Analyst
13 46 (3.54%) User Experience Researcher
14 44 (3.39%) IT Support
15 43 (3.31%) UI/UX Designer
16 40 (3.08%) Product Manager
17 35 (2.70%) User Researcher
18 32 (2.47%) Support Engineer
19 30 (2.31%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (10.79%) React
2 120 (9.24%) CSS
3 105 (8.09%) HTML
4 86 (6.63%) REST
5 68 (5.24%) AngularJS
6 57 (4.39%) RESTful
7 49 (3.78%) Spring
8 48 (3.70%) Spring Boot
9 43 (3.31%) .NET
10 34 (2.62%) GraphQL
11 29 (2.23%) Node.js
12 28 (2.16%) HTML5
13 27 (2.08%) CSS3
14 26 (2.00%) JSON
15 23 (1.77%) Redux
16 21 (1.62%) SOAP
17 20 (1.54%) Jest
17 20 (1.54%) Next.js
18 19 (1.46%) ASP.NET
18 19 (1.46%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 124 (9.55%) Product Ownership
2 62 (4.78%) Mobile App
3 55 (4.24%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.08%) AI Agents
5 26 (2.00%) Cloud Native
6 25 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.39%) Data Structures
10 17 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 17 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.23%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.16%) Graphic Design
13 14 (1.08%) Social Media
13 14 (1.08%) Taxonomies
13 14 (1.08%) Virtual Reality
14 13 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.00%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.92%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 106 (8.17%) Windows
2 42 (3.24%) Android
3 40 (3.08%) Apple iOS
4 35 (2.70%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.77%) Mac OS
6 13 (1.00%) Linux
7 10 (0.77%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.46%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.39%) Unix
10 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (32.97%) UX Design
2 387 (29.82%) Agile
3 200 (15.41%) AI
3 200 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
4 180 (13.87%) Analytics
5 172 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 164 (12.63%) User Research
7 162 (12.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 145 (11.17%) CI/CD
9 143 (11.02%) Roadmaps
10 138 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 120 (9.24%) DevOps
12 118 (9.09%) Prototyping
13 115 (8.86%) UX Research
14 113 (8.71%) Decision-Making
15 105 (8.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 105 (8.09%) Wireframes
16 97 (7.47%) Service Design
17 91 (7.01%) Usability Testing
18 85 (6.55%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 147 (11.33%) JavaScript
2 105 (8.09%) Java
3 94 (7.24%) TypeScript
4 92 (7.09%) SQL
5 87 (6.70%) Python
6 52 (4.01%) PowerShell
7 41 (3.16%) C#
8 31 (2.39%) Kotlin
9 19 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 15 (1.16%) Bash
11 13 (1.00%) Swift
12 8 (0.62%) Korn
13 6 (0.46%) VBA
13 6 (0.46%) VBScript
14 5 (0.39%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.39%) Perl
14 5 (0.39%) R
14 5 (0.39%) VB
15 3 (0.23%) PHP
15 3 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 161 (12.40%) Security Cleared
2 126 (9.71%) Degree
3 117 (9.01%) SC Cleared
4 27 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (1.69%) DV Cleared
5 22 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (1.16%) Azure Certification
7 10 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (0.62%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.54%) CCA
9 7 (0.54%) CCIE
9 7 (0.54%) CCNP
9 7 (0.54%) Citrix Certification
9 7 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (0.46%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.39%) MCSE
11 5 (0.39%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (15.95%) Accessibility
2 94 (7.24%) QA
3 71 (5.47%) WCAG
4 42 (3.24%) Data Quality
5 29 (2.23%) GDPR
6 17 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (0.46%) SLA
10 4 (0.31%) PMO
11 3 (0.23%) GMP
11 3 (0.23%) GxP
12 2 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.15%) GRC
12 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.15%) NCSC
12 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.077%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.077%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 66 (5.08%) Active Directory
2 40 (3.08%) Docker
3 22 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.46%) 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 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.15%) vSphere
9 2 (0.15%) XenApp
9 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.077%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.077%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 49 (3.78%) Kubernetes
2 42 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (3.08%) Terraform
4 36 (2.77%) SCCM
5 18 (1.39%) Grafana
6 17 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.00%) Ansible
8 10 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (0.54%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.31%) Podman
11 3 (0.23%) Clonezilla
11 3 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.23%) WSUS
12 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.15%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.15%) Packer
12 2 (0.15%) SCOM
12 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.15%) vMotion
13 1 (0.077%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 214 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 78 (6.01%) Adobe
3 63 (4.85%) ServiceNow
4 58 (4.47%) Google
5 38 (2.93%) Salesforce
6 35 (2.70%) SAP
7 34 (2.62%) Oracle
8 24 (1.85%) Citrix
9 18 (1.39%) VMware
10 17 (1.31%) Workday
11 16 (1.23%) Cisco
12 15 (1.16%) Dynatrace
12 15 (1.16%) Splunk
13 14 (1.08%) Apple
14 12 (0.92%) Aruba
15 10 (0.77%) Foundry
16 9 (0.69%) MuleSoft
17 7 (0.54%) Databricks
17 7 (0.54%) OpenAI
17 7 (0.54%) Zscaler