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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 68 83
Rank change year-on-year -13 +15 -24
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,286 918 950
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.96% 3.67% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 4.01% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 590 635
10th Percentile £313 £299 £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 £594 £623
90th Percentile £680 £735 £716
UK median daily rate £494 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.89% -5.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 30 44
10th Percentile £16.00 £32.99 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £35.25 £24.69
Median hourly rate £33.99 £51.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.36% +70.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £67.84 £70.16 £68.60
90th Percentile £86.94 £86.50 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £52.50 £30.86
% change year-on-year -35.26% +70.15% +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 22,887 31,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.28% 91.38% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,430 14,787 20,644
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £415 £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 £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,322 1,108 2,367
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.78
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -27 654 £522 +2.35% 178
North of England -26 193 £450 +3.21% 111
Midlands +6 152 £475 +18.16% 53
South East -12 134 £495 +4.21% 124
North West -21 113 £435 -2.68% 66
West Midlands -4 109 £475 -9.52% 32
South West -2 73 £475 +26.67% 37
Yorkshire -35 50 £519 +29.69% 24
East Midlands +3 43 £550 +54.49% 21
East of England -6 36 £410 -13.68% 38
North East -19 30 £440 -8.33% 22
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 43 (3.34%) CMS
3 40 (3.11%) Confluence
4 26 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.78%) WordPress
6 8 (0.62%) 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%) Traefik
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 11 (0.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 11 (0.86%) Adobe XD
8 10 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 10 (0.78%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.31%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.23%) UserZoom
10 3 (0.23%) UXPin
11 2 (0.16%) InVision
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.078%) Blender
12 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
12 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%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.078%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.078%) Magento
7 1 (0.078%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.078%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.078%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 204 (15.86%) Azure
2 172 (13.37%) Figma
3 111 (8.63%) Microsoft 365
4 107 (8.32%) AWS
5 89 (6.92%) Power Platform
6 57 (4.43%) Entra ID
7 47 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (3.50%) Microsoft Copilot
9 42 (3.27%) SaaS
10 37 (2.88%) GCP
11 35 (2.72%) GitHub
11 35 (2.72%) PowerApps
12 34 (2.64%) OneDrive
13 31 (2.41%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.79%) Copilot Studio
15 21 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (1.48%) Serverless
17 18 (1.40%) Google Workspace
18 15 (1.17%) Google Sheets
19 14 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.26%) DNS
2 27 (2.10%) DHCP
3 22 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 22 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
4 20 (1.56%) Wireless
5 17 (1.32%) LAN
6 13 (1.01%) Internet
7 11 (0.86%) Intranet
8 10 (0.78%) WAN
9 9 (0.70%) Firewall
9 9 (0.70%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.62%) Cisco Wireless
10 8 (0.62%) VPN
11 7 (0.54%) 5G
11 7 (0.54%) Skype
11 7 (0.54%) WLAN
12 5 (0.39%) 802.11
12 5 (0.39%) HTTP
12 5 (0.39%) SMS
13 4 (0.31%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (4.12%) Power BI
2 20 (1.56%) Metadata
2 20 (1.56%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (1.40%) 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 6 (0.47%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.47%) Redis
10 6 (0.47%) ZAP BI
11 5 (0.39%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.39%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.31%) EDRMS
12 4 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.31%) Pinecone
13 3 (0.23%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 81 (6.30%) 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%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.39%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.39%) Fiddler
11 5 (0.39%) REST Assured
General
1 386 (30.02%) Social Skills
2 237 (18.43%) Finance
3 153 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 121 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (8.24%) Banking
6 73 (5.68%) Retail
7 52 (4.04%) Marketing
8 37 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (2.33%) Legal
10 28 (2.18%) Automotive
10 28 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
10 28 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (1.94%) Publishing
12 19 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.09%) Documentation 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
1 273 (21.23%) Designer
2 188 (14.62%) Senior
3 167 (12.99%) Developer
4 118 (9.18%) UX Designer
5 102 (7.93%) Analyst
6 94 (7.31%) Lead
7 71 (5.52%) UI Designer
8 67 (5.21%) Consultant
9 56 (4.35%) Senior Designer
10 53 (4.12%) Product Designer
11 50 (3.89%) Architect
12 49 (3.81%) Content Designer
13 46 (3.58%) Business Analyst
13 46 (3.58%) User Experience Researcher
14 43 (3.34%) IT Support
15 42 (3.27%) UI/UX Designer
16 39 (3.03%) Product Manager
17 38 (2.95%) User Researcher
18 31 (2.41%) Support Engineer
19 30 (2.33%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (9.72%) React
2 98 (7.62%) CSS
3 85 (6.61%) HTML
4 75 (5.83%) REST
5 52 (4.04%) AngularJS
6 51 (3.97%) RESTful
7 46 (3.58%) .NET
8 40 (3.11%) Spring
9 39 (3.03%) Spring Boot
10 32 (2.49%) GraphQL
11 23 (1.79%) JSON
12 22 (1.71%) HTML5
12 22 (1.71%) Next.js
12 22 (1.71%) Node.js
13 21 (1.63%) CSS3
13 21 (1.63%) Redux
14 20 (1.56%) ASP.NET
15 19 (1.48%) OAuth
16 18 (1.40%) SOAP
17 17 (1.32%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 134 (10.42%) Product Ownership
2 62 (4.82%) Mobile App
3 60 (4.67%) Onboarding
4 31 (2.41%) 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 20 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (1.48%) Data Centre
11 18 (1.40%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 16 (1.24%) Taxonomies
14 15 (1.17%) Graphic Design
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
1 105 (8.16%) 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 12 (0.93%) Linux
6 12 (0.93%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.47%) Windows 7
8 5 (0.39%) Unix
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
1 410 (31.88%) UX Design
2 384 (29.86%) Agile
3 215 (16.72%) AI
4 201 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
5 177 (13.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 171 (13.30%) Analytics
7 154 (11.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 153 (11.90%) User Research
9 141 (10.96%) Roadmaps
10 138 (10.73%) CI/CD
11 135 (10.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 117 (9.10%) DevOps
13 115 (8.94%) Decision-Making
13 115 (8.94%) Prototyping
14 113 (8.79%) UX Research
15 98 (7.62%) Wireframes
16 95 (7.39%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 93 (7.23%) Service Design
18 90 (7.00%) Scrum
19 85 (6.61%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 126 (9.80%) JavaScript
2 95 (7.39%) Java
3 94 (7.31%) TypeScript
4 92 (7.15%) SQL
5 83 (6.45%) Python
6 49 (3.81%) PowerShell
7 44 (3.42%) C#
8 24 (1.87%) Kotlin
9 21 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (1.01%) Swift
11 10 (0.78%) Bash
12 8 (0.62%) Korn
13 6 (0.47%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.47%) Go
13 6 (0.47%) R
13 6 (0.47%) VBA
13 6 (0.47%) VBScript
14 5 (0.39%) VB
15 4 (0.31%) PHP
16 3 (0.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 170 (13.22%) Security Cleared
2 130 (10.11%) 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%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (15.01%) Accessibility
2 90 (7.00%) QA
3 63 (4.90%) WCAG
4 41 (3.19%) Data Quality
5 24 (1.87%) GDPR
6 17 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 6 (0.47%) PMO
8 5 (0.39%) SLA
9 3 (0.23%) GRC
10 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.16%) NCSC
10 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.16%) PSD2
11 1 (0.078%) GMP
11 1 (0.078%) GxP
11 1 (0.078%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.078%) WAI
System Software
1 67 (5.21%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.88%) 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
1 214 (16.64%) 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 34 (2.64%) 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 13 (1.01%) Splunk
12 13 (1.01%) VMware
13 12 (0.93%) Aruba
14 11 (0.86%) Foundry
15 8 (0.62%) OpenAI
15 8 (0.62%) Zscaler
16 7 (0.54%) Databricks
16 7 (0.54%) Okta