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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 63 73
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 -9
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,216 864 1,032
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.20% 3.53% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 3.89% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 837 582 683
10th Percentile £304 £300 £292
25th Percentile £388 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £606
90th Percentile £653 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 21 45
10th Percentile £15.85 £25.26 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £41.91 £23.75
Median hourly rate £39.72 £49.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -19.76% +56.10% -29.53%
75th Percentile £62.94 £82.96 £64.53
90th Percentile £82.30 £95.50 £74.16
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £49.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -14.14% +56.10% -19.21%

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 32,791 22,195 32,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.18% 90.78% 86.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,993 14,632 21,603
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,006 863 2,155
10th Percentile £15.36 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.24 £15.97
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -1.52% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.86 £58.24
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% -10.34%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -17 623 £500 -3.85% 296
North of England +9 212 £450 - 176
North West +8 132 £420 -6.67% 94
South East -10 127 £488 -3.47% 122
Midlands -22 115 £505 +26.25% 93
West Midlands -29 73 £475 +9.51% 62
South West -14 68 £450 +20.00% 59
Yorkshire -23 56 £500 +25.00% 45
East Midlands -3 42 £550 +54.49% 31
East of England -21 29 £425 -10.53% 33
North East +3 23 £405 -4.71% 39
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 50 (4.11%) SharePoint
2 43 (3.54%) Confluence
3 37 (3.04%) CMS
4 20 (1.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 16 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.90%) Headless CMS
7 8 (0.66%) Apache
7 8 (0.66%) Sitecore CMS
8 7 (0.58%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.33%) Camunda
9 4 (0.33%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.33%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.25%) Drupal
10 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.16%) Appian
11 2 (0.16%) Mendix
12 1 (0.082%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.082%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 34 (2.80%) Sketch
2 27 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (2.06%) Adobe XD
4 24 (1.97%) Chatbot
5 20 (1.64%) MS Visio
6 15 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
7 11 (0.90%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.66%) InVision
9 7 (0.58%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 6 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.33%) UXPin
12 3 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.25%) Trello
12 3 (0.25%) UserZoom
13 2 (0.16%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.16%) Camtasia
13 2 (0.16%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 16 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.49%) Sage X3
4 6 (0.49%) Shopify
5 3 (0.25%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.25%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.16%) iTrent
6 2 (0.16%) Magento
6 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.16%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.16%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.082%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.082%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.082%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.082%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 205 (16.86%) Azure
2 161 (13.24%) Figma
3 119 (9.79%) AWS
4 92 (7.57%) Power Platform
5 81 (6.66%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (4.36%) GCP
8 48 (3.95%) Entra ID
9 45 (3.70%) SaaS
10 44 (3.62%) GitHub
11 34 (2.80%) PowerApps
12 28 (2.30%) Power Automate
13 27 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
14 25 (2.06%) Serverless
15 23 (1.89%) Google Workspace
16 22 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
17 21 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
18 19 (1.56%) Google Sheets
19 18 (1.48%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.40%) DNS
1 17 (1.40%) Wireless
2 14 (1.15%) Internet
3 12 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (0.90%) LAN
5 10 (0.82%) Intranet
5 10 (0.82%) VPN
6 9 (0.74%) DHCP
6 9 (0.74%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.66%) Firewall
7 8 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.66%) WAN
8 7 (0.58%) BGP
8 7 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (0.58%) Cisco Wireless
9 6 (0.49%) HTTP
9 6 (0.49%) SSL
10 5 (0.41%) NX-OS
10 5 (0.41%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.85%) Power BI
2 29 (2.38%) NoSQL
3 28 (2.30%) Relational Database
4 23 (1.89%) MySQL
5 21 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (1.73%) SQL Server
6 17 (1.40%) Tableau
7 14 (1.15%) Metadata
8 12 (0.99%) MongoDB
9 10 (0.82%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.66%) Looker
11 7 (0.58%) Pinecone
11 7 (0.58%) Power Query
12 6 (0.49%) Redis
12 6 (0.49%) ZAP BI
13 5 (0.41%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 3 (0.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 101 (8.31%) JIRA
2 75 (6.17%) Git
3 43 (3.54%) GitLab
4 29 (2.38%) Jenkins
5 24 (1.97%) Cypress.io
6 22 (1.81%) JUnit
7 15 (1.23%) Axure RP
7 15 (1.23%) Gradle
8 14 (1.15%) Android Studio
9 12 (0.99%) CircleCI
9 12 (0.99%) Xcode
10 11 (0.90%) Eclipse
11 10 (0.82%) Browser DevTools
12 9 (0.74%) Artifactory
12 9 (0.74%) Postman
12 9 (0.74%) Selenium
13 8 (0.66%) Mocha
14 7 (0.58%) Vite
15 6 (0.49%) Cucumber
16 5 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 405 (33.31%) Social Skills
2 241 (19.82%) Finance
3 156 (12.83%) Public Sector
4 152 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (8.22%) Banking
6 53 (4.36%) Marketing
7 41 (3.37%) Retail
8 29 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
9 28 (2.30%) Legal
10 26 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (1.64%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (0.99%) Investment Banking
13 12 (0.99%) Publishing
14 11 (0.90%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.90%) Front Office
14 11 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (0.90%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 228 (18.75%) Designer
2 186 (15.30%) Senior
3 183 (15.05%) Developer
4 127 (10.44%) Analyst
5 118 (9.70%) UX Designer
6 62 (5.10%) Lead
7 57 (4.69%) Product Designer
8 55 (4.52%) Business Analyst
9 54 (4.44%) Consultant
10 52 (4.28%) Senior Designer
11 48 (3.95%) Architect
12 39 (3.21%) Support Engineer
12 39 (3.21%) UI Designer
13 36 (2.96%) Full-Stack Developer
13 36 (2.96%) IT Support
13 36 (2.96%) Senior Developer
13 36 (2.96%) User Researcher
14 35 (2.88%) Software Engineer
15 33 (2.71%) Service Designer
16 31 (2.55%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (12.91%) React
2 140 (11.51%) CSS
3 124 (10.20%) HTML
4 94 (7.73%) REST
5 82 (6.74%) AngularJS
6 74 (6.09%) RESTful
7 57 (4.69%) Spring
8 56 (4.61%) Spring Boot
9 48 (3.95%) Node.js
10 45 (3.70%) .NET
11 36 (2.96%) HTML5
12 33 (2.71%) CSS3
12 33 (2.71%) GraphQL
13 27 (2.22%) Redux
14 24 (1.97%) Jest
14 24 (1.97%) JSON
14 24 (1.97%) Next.js
15 23 (1.89%) Vue
16 21 (1.73%) Playwright
17 19 (1.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 113 (9.29%) Product Ownership
2 76 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 47 (3.87%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.22%) AI Agents
5 26 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 23 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 18 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.32%) Cloud Native
8 16 (1.32%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.07%) Data Centre
11 12 (0.99%) Algorithms
11 12 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (0.90%) NHS
13 10 (0.82%) CMDB
13 10 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (0.74%) Augmented Reality
14 9 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 118 (9.70%) Windows
2 43 (3.54%) Android
2 43 (3.54%) Windows 10
3 29 (2.38%) Apple iOS
4 24 (1.97%) Linux
5 17 (1.40%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.90%) Unix
7 6 (0.49%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.082%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.082%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (32.40%) Agile
2 380 (31.25%) UX Design
3 203 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
4 191 (15.71%) Analytics
5 175 (14.39%) AI
6 167 (13.73%) User Research
7 154 (12.66%) CI/CD
8 153 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 146 (12.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 143 (11.76%) DevOps
10 143 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 113 (9.29%) Roadmaps
12 110 (9.05%) Prototyping
13 109 (8.96%) Decision-Making
13 109 (8.96%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 106 (8.72%) Wireframes
15 102 (8.39%) UX Research
16 96 (7.89%) Service Design
17 88 (7.24%) Usability Testing
18 82 (6.74%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 174 (14.31%) JavaScript
2 124 (10.20%) SQL
3 112 (9.21%) Java
4 108 (8.88%) Python
5 97 (7.98%) TypeScript
6 59 (4.85%) PowerShell
7 49 (4.03%) C#
8 27 (2.22%) Kotlin
9 17 (1.40%) Bash
10 13 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (1.07%) Perl
11 9 (0.74%) Swift
12 7 (0.58%) PHP
13 6 (0.49%) Go
13 6 (0.49%) Korn
13 6 (0.49%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.49%) VBA
14 5 (0.41%) Lisp
15 4 (0.33%) C++
15 4 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 158 (12.99%) Security Cleared
2 114 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 108 (8.88%) Degree
4 27 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (1.56%) DV Cleared
7 17 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (0.82%) CCNP
10 9 (0.74%) Azure Certification
10 9 (0.74%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.66%) MOS
12 7 (0.58%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.49%) Citrix Certification
13 6 (0.49%) OCA
13 6 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.41%) CCA
15 4 (0.33%) CCIE
16 3 (0.25%) CESG Certified Professional
16 3 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (15.71%) Accessibility
2 114 (9.38%) QA
3 67 (5.51%) WCAG
4 44 (3.62%) Data Quality
5 35 (2.88%) GDPR
6 18 (1.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 15 (1.23%) SLA
8 14 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.58%) PMO
10 6 (0.49%) NCSC
11 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.25%) GMP
12 3 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.25%) GxP
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.25%) NIST
13 2 (0.16%) COBIT
13 2 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 69 (5.67%) Active Directory
2 56 (4.61%) Docker
3 19 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.41%) Firmware
6 4 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.16%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.082%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.082%) XenApp
8 1 (0.082%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 59 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 37 (3.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (3.04%) Terraform
3 27 (2.22%) SCCM
4 19 (1.56%) Grafana
5 13 (1.07%) Ansible
6 10 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.41%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.33%) Argo
9 4 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.25%) Nagios
10 3 (0.25%) Rancher
11 2 (0.16%) Podman
11 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
12 1 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.082%) Consul
12 1 (0.082%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.082%) WMI
Vendors
1 209 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 71 (5.84%) Adobe
3 68 (5.59%) Google
4 66 (5.43%) ServiceNow
5 41 (3.37%) Oracle
6 39 (3.21%) SAP
7 31 (2.55%) Salesforce
8 21 (1.73%) Citrix
9 20 (1.64%) VMware
10 18 (1.48%) Splunk
11 17 (1.40%) Cisco
12 14 (1.15%) Apple
13 13 (1.07%) Workday
14 12 (0.99%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.82%) Sitecore
16 9 (0.74%) Ekahau
16 9 (0.74%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.74%) Zscaler
17 7 (0.58%) Foundry
18 6 (0.49%) Aruba