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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 67 83
Rank change year-on-year -14 +16 -24
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,277 917 952
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.95% 3.67% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.46% 4.02% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 806 591 634
10th Percentile £314 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £623
90th Percentile £680 £738 £709
UK median daily rate £494 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.05% -5.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 29 44
10th Percentile £16.00 £32.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.89 £35.25 £24.69
Median hourly rate £33.98 £49.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.35% +65.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £67.84 £70.16 £68.60
90th Percentile £87.16 £87.50 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £51.00 £30.86
% change year-on-year -33.35% +65.29% +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 36,943 22,820 31,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 91.36% 85.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,357 14,745 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
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 2,312 1,098 2,392
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.13 £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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -26 652 £520 +2.97% 358
North of England -21 187 £450 +3.21% 119
Midlands +8 151 £475 +18.16% 55
South East -11 134 £495 +4.21% 131
North West -16 112 £430 -3.80% 73
West Midlands -5 108 £475 -9.52% 35
South West -2 74 £475 +26.67% 38
Yorkshire -33 50 £519 +31.50% 22
East Midlands +1 43 £550 +54.49% 20
East of England -8 35 £410 -13.68% 47
North East -24 25 £450 -6.25% 25
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 61 (4.78%) SharePoint
2 42 (3.29%) CMS
3 39 (3.05%) Confluence
4 25 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.70%) WordPress
6 8 (0.63%) 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 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.57%) Photoshop
2 20 (1.57%) Sketch
3 19 (1.49%) Chatbot
4 16 (1.25%) Adobe Illustrator
5 13 (1.02%) Adobe After Effects
5 13 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (0.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 11 (0.86%) Adobe XD
7 10 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.78%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.31%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.23%) UserZoom
9 3 (0.23%) UXPin
10 2 (0.16%) InVision
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.078%) Blender
11 1 (0.078%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.078%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.70%) Workday HCM
3 8 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.63%) 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 (15.97%) Azure
2 173 (13.55%) Figma
3 110 (8.61%) Microsoft 365
4 107 (8.38%) AWS
5 90 (7.05%) Power Platform
6 57 (4.46%) Entra ID
7 47 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (3.52%) Microsoft Copilot
9 42 (3.29%) SaaS
10 37 (2.90%) GCP
11 35 (2.74%) GitHub
11 35 (2.74%) PowerApps
12 33 (2.58%) OneDrive
13 31 (2.43%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.80%) Copilot Studio
15 21 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (1.57%) Serverless
17 18 (1.41%) Google Workspace
18 15 (1.17%) Google Sheets
19 14 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.27%) DNS
2 27 (2.11%) DHCP
3 22 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 22 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
4 20 (1.57%) Wireless
5 17 (1.33%) LAN
6 13 (1.02%) Internet
7 11 (0.86%) Intranet
8 10 (0.78%) WAN
9 9 (0.70%) Firewall
9 9 (0.70%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.63%) Cisco Wireless
10 8 (0.63%) VPN
11 7 (0.55%) 5G
11 7 (0.55%) Skype
11 7 (0.55%) 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 54 (4.23%) Power BI
2 20 (1.57%) Metadata
2 20 (1.57%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (1.41%) Relational Database
5 17 (1.33%) Power Query
6 15 (1.17%) NoSQL
7 12 (0.94%) 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%) Pinecone
11 5 (0.39%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.31%) EDRMS
12 4 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 3 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 80 (6.26%) JIRA
2 54 (4.23%) Git
3 20 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.41%) GitLab
5 17 (1.33%) Cypress.io
6 15 (1.17%) Vite
7 12 (0.94%) JUnit
8 10 (0.78%) fastlane
9 9 (0.70%) Android Studio
9 9 (0.70%) Browser DevTools
9 9 (0.70%) Gradle
9 9 (0.70%) Xcode
10 6 (0.47%) Postman
10 6 (0.47%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.39%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.39%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.39%) Fiddler
11 5 (0.39%) Selenium
12 4 (0.31%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.31%) MSI
General
1 384 (30.07%) Social Skills
2 235 (18.40%) Finance
3 151 (11.82%) Public Sector
4 121 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (8.22%) Banking
6 73 (5.72%) Retail
7 52 (4.07%) Marketing
8 37 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (2.35%) Legal
10 29 (2.27%) Automotive
11 28 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (1.88%) Publishing
13 19 (1.49%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.02%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.86%) Front Office
17 8 (0.63%) Local Government
18 7 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 270 (21.14%) Designer
2 185 (14.49%) Senior
3 168 (13.16%) Developer
4 117 (9.16%) UX Designer
5 100 (7.83%) Analyst
6 92 (7.20%) Lead
7 71 (5.56%) UI Designer
8 67 (5.25%) Consultant
9 55 (4.31%) Senior Designer
10 53 (4.15%) Product Designer
11 50 (3.92%) Architect
12 48 (3.76%) Content Designer
13 45 (3.52%) Business Analyst
13 45 (3.52%) User Experience Researcher
14 43 (3.37%) IT Support
15 42 (3.29%) UI/UX Designer
16 39 (3.05%) Product Manager
17 36 (2.82%) User Researcher
18 30 (2.35%) Product Owner
18 30 (2.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (9.79%) React
2 99 (7.75%) CSS
3 86 (6.73%) HTML
4 74 (5.79%) REST
5 53 (4.15%) AngularJS
6 51 (3.99%) RESTful
7 45 (3.52%) .NET
8 40 (3.13%) Spring
9 39 (3.05%) Spring Boot
10 32 (2.51%) GraphQL
11 23 (1.80%) JSON
12 22 (1.72%) Node.js
13 21 (1.64%) HTML5
13 21 (1.64%) Next.js
14 20 (1.57%) ASP.NET
14 20 (1.57%) CSS3
14 20 (1.57%) OAuth
14 20 (1.57%) Redux
15 18 (1.41%) SOAP
16 17 (1.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 132 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 62 (4.86%) Mobile App
3 60 (4.70%) Onboarding
4 30 (2.35%) AI Agents
4 30 (2.35%) Cloud Native
5 28 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (1.49%) Data Centre
10 18 (1.41%) Data Structures
11 16 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 16 (1.25%) Taxonomies
12 15 (1.17%) Graphic Design
13 14 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.10%) Social Media
14 13 (1.02%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.02%) Virtual Reality
15 12 (0.94%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 104 (8.14%) Windows
2 45 (3.52%) Apple iOS
3 40 (3.13%) Android
4 31 (2.43%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.72%) Mac OS
6 12 (0.94%) Linux
6 12 (0.94%) 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
1 407 (31.87%) UX Design
2 381 (29.84%) Agile
3 215 (16.84%) AI
4 199 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
5 176 (13.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 172 (13.47%) Analytics
7 153 (11.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 150 (11.75%) User Research
9 142 (11.12%) Roadmaps
10 138 (10.81%) CI/CD
11 135 (10.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 117 (9.16%) DevOps
13 116 (9.08%) Prototyping
14 113 (8.85%) Decision-Making
15 110 (8.61%) UX Research
16 99 (7.75%) Wireframes
17 94 (7.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 92 (7.20%) Service Design
19 89 (6.97%) Scrum
20 83 (6.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 127 (9.95%) JavaScript
2 94 (7.36%) TypeScript
3 93 (7.28%) Java
4 91 (7.13%) SQL
5 84 (6.58%) Python
6 49 (3.84%) PowerShell
7 43 (3.37%) C#
8 24 (1.88%) Kotlin
9 21 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (1.02%) Swift
11 10 (0.78%) Bash
12 8 (0.63%) 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%) Perl
Qualifications
1 166 (13.00%) Security Cleared
2 127 (9.95%) SC Cleared
3 124 (9.71%) Degree
4 26 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 19 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (0.55%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.55%) CCA
10 7 (0.55%) CCIE
10 7 (0.55%) CCNP
10 7 (0.55%) Citrix Certification
10 7 (0.55%) 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
1 193 (15.11%) Accessibility
2 89 (6.97%) QA
3 63 (4.93%) WCAG
4 42 (3.29%) Data Quality
5 25 (1.96%) GDPR
6 17 (1.33%) 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%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.078%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.078%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.078%) NIST
System Software
1 66 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.90%) Docker
3 23 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (1.02%) 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 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (3.21%) Kubernetes
3 37 (2.90%) Terraform
4 33 (2.58%) SCCM
5 17 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.17%) Grafana
7 13 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
8 10 (0.78%) Ansible
9 7 (0.55%) 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
1 213 (16.68%) Microsoft
2 69 (5.40%) Adobe
3 67 (5.25%) ServiceNow
4 45 (3.52%) Google
5 39 (3.05%) SAP
6 37 (2.90%) Salesforce
7 34 (2.66%) Oracle
8 19 (1.49%) Citrix
9 18 (1.41%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.33%) Apple
10 17 (1.33%) Workday
11 16 (1.25%) Cisco
12 13 (1.02%) Splunk
12 13 (1.02%) VMware
13 12 (0.94%) Aruba
14 11 (0.86%) Foundry
15 8 (0.63%) OpenAI
15 8 (0.63%) Zscaler
16 7 (0.55%) Databricks
16 7 (0.55%) Okta