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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 64 71
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,215 883 1,067
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.51% 3.42% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.02% 3.80% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 834 542 727
10th Percentile £311 £308 £304
25th Percentile £382 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £600
90th Percentile £659 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 21 40
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.26 £23.38
25th Percentile £17.69 £31.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £38.94 £42.50 £43.87
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% -3.11% -19.51%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £72.60
90th Percentile £73.41 £74.44 £81.25
UK median hourly rate £37.22 £42.50 £41.68
% change year-on-year -12.42% +1.98% -20.62%

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 30,243 23,214 32,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.45% 89.92% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,352 14,394 21,863
10th Percentile £311 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 1,888 728 2,002
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.32
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.04% - -
75th Percentile £60.61 £65.00 £61.04
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.33 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -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 18 February 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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -11 637 £500 -3.38% 291
North of England +18 215 £450 - 137
North West +26 146 £408 -9.44% 79
South East -6 120 £475 -5.00% 187
Midlands -14 107 £510 +27.50% 80
South West 0 68 £450 -13.54% 70
West Midlands -38 59 £456 -3.95% 51
Yorkshire -20 50 £513 +20.52% 39
East Midlands +9 48 £550 +54.49% 29
East of England -18 30 £432 -9.38% 38
North East -1 18 £388 -8.82% 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 51 (4.20%) Confluence
1 51 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.96%) CMS
3 22 (1.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 12 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.91%) Headless CMS
6 8 (0.66%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.58%) Apache
7 7 (0.58%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.41%) SugarCRM
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%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.16%) Appian
11 2 (0.16%) Drupal
11 2 (0.16%) WordPress
12 1 (0.082%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 38 (3.13%) Sketch
2 26 (2.14%) Adobe XD
3 21 (1.73%) MS Visio
4 20 (1.65%) Chatbot
5 19 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
6 18 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
7 10 (0.82%) Photoshop
8 9 (0.74%) Adobe Illustrator
9 8 (0.66%) InVision
10 6 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 6 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.33%) Trello
11 4 (0.33%) UXPin
12 3 (0.25%) UserZoom
13 2 (0.16%) Adobe Captivate
13 2 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.16%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.16%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 18 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.33%) Shopify
3 4 (0.33%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.25%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.25%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.16%) iTrent
5 2 (0.16%) Magento
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.16%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.082%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.082%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.082%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.082%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.082%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.082%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 207 (17.04%) Azure
2 162 (13.33%) Figma
3 127 (10.45%) AWS
4 90 (7.41%) Power Platform
5 77 (6.34%) SaaS
6 70 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (5.19%) GCP
8 50 (4.12%) Entra ID
9 49 (4.03%) GitHub
10 45 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (2.22%) PowerApps
13 25 (2.06%) Power Automate
14 24 (1.98%) Google Workspace
15 22 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
15 22 (1.81%) Google Analytics
15 22 (1.81%) Miro
15 22 (1.81%) Serverless
16 19 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
16 19 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.06%) DNS
2 22 (1.81%) Wireless
3 14 (1.15%) Internet
4 10 (0.82%) HTTP
4 10 (0.82%) VPN
4 10 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (0.74%) DHCP
5 9 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.66%) BGP
6 8 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (0.58%) Cisco Wireless
7 7 (0.58%) Firewall
7 7 (0.58%) Intranet
7 7 (0.58%) NX-OS
7 7 (0.58%) VXLAN
8 6 (0.49%) Unified Communications
8 6 (0.49%) WAN
9 5 (0.41%) SSL
10 4 (0.33%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.77%) Power BI
2 36 (2.96%) MySQL
3 35 (2.88%) Relational Database
4 26 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (2.06%) NoSQL
6 23 (1.89%) SQL Server
7 16 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.15%) Tableau
9 12 (0.99%) BigQuery
9 12 (0.99%) MongoDB
10 11 (0.91%) Looker
11 10 (0.82%) Metadata
12 7 (0.58%) Mixpanel
13 6 (0.49%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.49%) Pinecone
14 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.41%) Redis
15 4 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
15 4 (0.33%) Power Query
15 4 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 107 (8.81%) JIRA
2 77 (6.34%) Git
3 43 (3.54%) GitLab
4 29 (2.39%) Jenkins
5 24 (1.98%) Cypress.io
6 22 (1.81%) Android Studio
6 22 (1.81%) Eclipse
6 22 (1.81%) Xcode
7 21 (1.73%) JUnit
8 17 (1.40%) Axure RP
8 17 (1.40%) Browser DevTools
9 16 (1.32%) Gradle
10 12 (0.99%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.82%) Postman
12 8 (0.66%) Artifactory
12 8 (0.66%) Mocha
12 8 (0.66%) Selenium
12 8 (0.66%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 7 (0.58%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.58%) IntelliJ
General
1 420 (34.57%) Social Skills
2 225 (18.52%) Finance
3 151 (12.43%) Public Sector
4 146 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (6.83%) Banking
6 72 (5.93%) Marketing
7 36 (2.96%) Retail
8 32 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (2.14%) Legal
10 24 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (1.56%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.23%) Investment Banking
13 15 (1.23%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (0.99%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (0.82%) Front Office
18 9 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
19 8 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 209 (17.20%) Designer
2 188 (15.47%) Developer
3 178 (14.65%) Senior
4 119 (9.79%) UX Designer
5 115 (9.47%) Analyst
6 78 (6.42%) Lead
7 58 (4.77%) Product Designer
8 56 (4.61%) Senior Designer
9 51 (4.20%) Business Analyst
10 49 (4.03%) Consultant
11 42 (3.46%) Architect
12 37 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
12 37 (3.05%) UI Designer
13 36 (2.96%) Support Engineer
14 35 (2.88%) Software Engineer
15 34 (2.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 34 (2.80%) User Researcher
16 33 (2.72%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
16 33 (2.72%) Senior UX Designer
17 31 (2.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (13.25%) React
2 152 (12.51%) CSS
3 133 (10.95%) HTML
4 93 (7.65%) REST
5 87 (7.16%) AngularJS
6 74 (6.09%) RESTful
7 55 (4.53%) Spring
8 53 (4.36%) Node.js
8 53 (4.36%) Spring Boot
9 43 (3.54%) GraphQL
10 41 (3.37%) .NET
11 36 (2.96%) HTML5
12 30 (2.47%) CSS3
13 28 (2.30%) Jest
14 25 (2.06%) Next.js
14 25 (2.06%) Redux
15 22 (1.81%) Playwright
16 21 (1.73%) JSON
16 21 (1.73%) OAuth
16 21 (1.73%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 113 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 92 (7.57%) Mobile App
3 53 (4.36%) Onboarding
4 28 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 23 (1.89%) AI Agents
7 18 (1.48%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.23%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (1.23%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.15%) Low-Code
10 13 (1.07%) Cloud Native
10 13 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (0.99%) CMDB
11 12 (0.99%) e-Learning
11 12 (0.99%) NHS
12 11 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
14 8 (0.66%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 122 (10.04%) Windows
2 60 (4.94%) Android
3 42 (3.46%) Apple iOS
4 36 (2.96%) Windows 10
5 34 (2.80%) Linux
6 22 (1.81%) Mac OS
7 20 (1.65%) Unix
8 6 (0.49%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.16%) VMS
11 1 (0.082%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (33.33%) Agile
2 384 (31.60%) UX Design
3 211 (17.37%) Analytics
4 197 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
5 164 (13.50%) User Research
6 158 (13.00%) CI/CD
7 157 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 147 (12.10%) AI
9 144 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 142 (11.69%) DevOps
11 130 (10.70%) Roadmaps
12 125 (10.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 113 (9.30%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 105 (8.64%) Decision-Making
14 105 (8.64%) UX Research
15 102 (8.40%) Prototyping
16 100 (8.23%) Wireframes
17 98 (8.07%) Usability Testing
18 87 (7.16%) Service Design
19 82 (6.75%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 192 (15.80%) JavaScript
2 126 (10.37%) SQL
3 116 (9.55%) Java
4 108 (8.89%) TypeScript
5 105 (8.64%) Python
6 59 (4.86%) PowerShell
7 47 (3.87%) C#
8 33 (2.72%) Kotlin
9 21 (1.73%) Bash
10 20 (1.65%) Perl
11 15 (1.23%) Swift
12 14 (1.15%) PHP
13 10 (0.82%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.74%) Go
15 7 (0.58%) Lisp
16 6 (0.49%) C++
17 4 (0.33%) Korn
17 4 (0.33%) Objective-C
18 3 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 155 (12.76%) Security Cleared
2 114 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 110 (9.05%) Degree
4 23 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.07%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.99%) DV Cleared
8 11 (0.91%) MOS
9 10 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (0.74%) CCNP
10 9 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.66%) OCA
11 8 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
12 7 (0.58%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.33%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.16%) CCA
15 2 (0.16%) CISSP
15 2 (0.16%) Citrix Certification
15 2 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (16.71%) Accessibility
2 124 (10.21%) QA
3 64 (5.27%) WCAG
4 53 (4.36%) GDPR
5 42 (3.46%) Data Quality
6 26 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.73%) Actionable Recommendations
8 19 (1.56%) SLA
9 6 (0.49%) NCSC
9 6 (0.49%) PMO
10 5 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.33%) GxP
12 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.25%) NIST
12 3 (0.25%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.16%) COBIT
13 2 (0.16%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 67 (5.51%) Active Directory
2 56 (4.61%) Docker
3 22 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.16%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.082%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.082%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.082%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.082%) XenApp
7 1 (0.082%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (4.36%) Kubernetes
2 42 (3.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 36 (2.96%) SCCM
4 30 (2.47%) Terraform
5 20 (1.65%) Grafana
6 15 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.91%) Ansible
8 7 (0.58%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.49%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.33%) Argo
10 4 (0.33%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.25%) Nagios
11 3 (0.25%) Rancher
12 2 (0.16%) PingFederate
12 2 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
13 1 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.082%) Istio
13 1 (0.082%) Podman
Vendors
1 216 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 84 (6.91%) Google
3 75 (6.17%) Adobe
4 72 (5.93%) ServiceNow
5 46 (3.79%) SAP
6 45 (3.70%) Oracle
7 40 (3.29%) Salesforce
8 29 (2.39%) Splunk
9 23 (1.89%) VMware
10 19 (1.56%) Citrix
11 14 (1.15%) Cisco
12 12 (0.99%) Apple
13 11 (0.91%) Hotjar
13 11 (0.91%) Optimizely
13 11 (0.91%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.82%) Amplitude
14 10 (0.82%) Zscaler
15 8 (0.66%) Ekahau
15 8 (0.66%) OpenAI
15 8 (0.66%) Workday