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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 73 67
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 -7
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,145 902 1,108
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.60% 3.16% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.07% 3.57% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 760 527 767
10th Percentile £290 £300 £325
25th Percentile £371 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £568 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 23 27
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.26 £19.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £30.22 £31.48
Median hourly rate £35.60 £41.91 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -30.15% -4.00%
75th Percentile £60.50 £52.25 £73.32
90th Percentile £70.29 £70.25 £81.25
UK median hourly rate £35.55 £41.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.29% -31.67% -4.00%

All Process and 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 28,126 25,301 32,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.47% 88.70% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,892 15,616 22,141
10th Percentile £301 £311 £310
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,807 836 1,442
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.98 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%
75th Percentile £56.69 £64.79 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 -11 580 £479 -8.81% 737
North of England +22 211 £413 -8.33% 589
North West +24 141 £401 -10.89% 326
Midlands +9 116 £450 +6.51% 413
South East +1 112 £413 -10.81% 606
West Midlands +10 80 £435 -17.14% 217
South West +14 66 £538 -6.52% 255
Yorkshire -6 54 £500 +5.26% 222
East Midlands -1 36 £488 +36.94% 174
East of England -10 35 £460 -6.03% 337
North East +7 15 £410 - 42
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 54 (4.72%) Confluence
2 46 (4.02%) CMS
2 46 (4.02%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 13 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (1.05%) Headless CMS
6 9 (0.79%) Apache
6 9 (0.79%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.61%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.44%) SugarCRM
9 4 (0.35%) WordPress
10 3 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.17%) Appian
11 2 (0.17%) Drupal
12 1 (0.087%) Moodle
12 1 (0.087%) SharePoint 2010
12 1 (0.087%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 40 (3.49%) Sketch
2 22 (1.92%) Adobe XD
2 22 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.92%) MS Visio
3 21 (1.83%) Chatbot
4 15 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
5 12 (1.05%) Adobe Illustrator
5 12 (1.05%) InVision
5 12 (1.05%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.61%) Trello
8 5 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.35%) Camtasia
10 3 (0.26%) OmniGraffle
10 3 (0.26%) Snagit
10 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.17%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.17%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 19 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.26%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.26%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (0.26%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.17%) iTrent
4 2 (0.17%) Magento
4 2 (0.17%) Maximo
4 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.087%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.087%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.087%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.087%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.087%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.087%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.087%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (0.087%) Shopify
5 1 (0.087%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 192 (16.77%) Azure
2 123 (10.74%) AWS
3 121 (10.57%) Figma
4 86 (7.51%) SaaS
5 77 (6.72%) Power Platform
6 76 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (5.50%) GCP
8 50 (4.37%) Entra ID
9 37 (3.23%) GitHub
10 36 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (2.27%) Google Analytics
11 26 (2.27%) Google Workspace
12 25 (2.18%) Miro
13 23 (2.01%) Serverless
14 21 (1.83%) Sauce Labs
15 20 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (1.48%) Power Automate
16 17 (1.48%) PowerApps
17 15 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
17 15 (1.31%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.53%) DNS
1 29 (2.53%) Wireless
2 15 (1.31%) Internet
3 11 (0.96%) VPN
4 10 (0.87%) DHCP
5 9 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.61%) BGP
6 7 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (0.61%) Cisco Wireless
6 7 (0.61%) Firewall
6 7 (0.61%) HTTP
6 7 (0.61%) NX-OS
6 7 (0.61%) SSL
6 7 (0.61%) VXLAN
7 6 (0.52%) Unified Communications
8 5 (0.44%) Intranet
8 5 (0.44%) WAN
9 4 (0.35%) PPP
9 4 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (4.37%) Power BI
2 40 (3.49%) Relational Database
3 39 (3.41%) MySQL
4 30 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.27%) SQL Server
6 22 (1.92%) Tableau
7 21 (1.83%) NoSQL
8 16 (1.40%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (1.05%) Redis
11 11 (0.96%) BigQuery
11 11 (0.96%) Looker
12 8 (0.70%) Metadata
13 7 (0.61%) Mixpanel
13 7 (0.61%) SAP HANA
14 5 (0.44%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.35%) Big Data
16 3 (0.26%) Amazon Athena
16 3 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 3 (0.26%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 115 (10.04%) JIRA
2 74 (6.46%) Git
3 43 (3.76%) GitLab
4 34 (2.97%) Jenkins
5 33 (2.88%) Xcode
6 29 (2.53%) Android Studio
6 29 (2.53%) Eclipse
7 23 (2.01%) Browser DevTools
8 19 (1.66%) Cypress.io
9 18 (1.57%) Axure RP
10 17 (1.48%) Gradle
11 13 (1.14%) Postman
11 13 (1.14%) webpack
12 11 (0.96%) JUnit
13 10 (0.87%) Artifactory
13 10 (0.87%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.79%) Visual Website Optimizer
15 8 (0.70%) IntelliJ
15 8 (0.70%) Selenium
16 7 (0.61%) Cucumber
General
1 414 (36.16%) Social Skills
2 211 (18.43%) Finance
3 151 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (12.14%) Public Sector
5 83 (7.25%) Banking
6 78 (6.81%) Marketing
7 37 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (2.53%) Legal
9 25 (2.18%) Retail
10 24 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (1.92%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 17 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
13 17 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
14 14 (1.22%) Investment Banking
15 13 (1.14%) Automotive
15 13 (1.14%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.87%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.70%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 188 (16.42%) Designer
2 184 (16.07%) Developer
3 155 (13.54%) Senior
4 102 (8.91%) UX Designer
5 94 (8.21%) Analyst
6 89 (7.77%) Lead
7 51 (4.45%) Business Analyst
8 48 (4.19%) Consultant
9 41 (3.58%) Support Engineer
10 40 (3.49%) Senior Designer
11 39 (3.41%) Architect
12 35 (3.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 35 (3.06%) Product Designer
13 34 (2.97%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 34 (2.97%) Service Designer
14 31 (2.71%) Full-Stack Developer
15 30 (2.62%) UI Designer
16 27 (2.36%) Technical Support
16 27 (2.36%) UX Engineer
17 26 (2.27%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (13.89%) CSS
2 153 (13.36%) React
3 140 (12.23%) HTML
4 82 (7.16%) REST
5 81 (7.07%) AngularJS
6 74 (6.46%) RESTful
7 52 (4.54%) GraphQL
8 48 (4.19%) Node.js
9 47 (4.10%) HTML5
10 35 (3.06%) .NET
11 30 (2.62%) CSS3
12 29 (2.53%) Jest
13 28 (2.45%) Spring
14 25 (2.18%) Next.js
14 25 (2.18%) Spring Boot
15 24 (2.10%) Playwright
16 22 (1.92%) Ajax
17 21 (1.83%) Bootstrap
17 21 (1.83%) Redux
18 20 (1.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 108 (9.43%) Mobile App
2 96 (8.38%) Product Ownership
3 67 (5.85%) Onboarding
4 26 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (1.75%) e-Learning
7 19 (1.66%) Management Information System
8 17 (1.48%) Data Centre
9 16 (1.40%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (1.31%) Learning Management System
10 15 (1.31%) Low-Code
11 14 (1.22%) NHS
12 13 (1.14%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.14%) Cloud Native
12 13 (1.14%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.05%) CMDB
13 12 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (0.87%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 137 (11.97%) Windows
2 74 (6.46%) Android
3 59 (5.15%) Apple iOS
4 41 (3.58%) Linux
5 38 (3.32%) Windows 10
6 26 (2.27%) Mac OS
6 26 (2.27%) Unix
7 8 (0.70%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.17%) tvOS
9 2 (0.17%) VMS
10 1 (0.087%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.087%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (35.63%) Agile
2 357 (31.18%) UX Design
3 203 (17.73%) Analytics
3 203 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
4 141 (12.31%) CI/CD
5 134 (11.70%) User Research
6 133 (11.62%) Stakeholder Management
7 131 (11.44%) Roadmaps
8 130 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 127 (11.09%) AI
10 124 (10.83%) DevOps
11 118 (10.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 104 (9.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 99 (8.65%) Service Design
14 96 (8.38%) Front End Development
15 95 (8.30%) Decision-Making
16 79 (6.90%) User Stories
17 78 (6.81%) Test Automation
18 77 (6.72%) Usability Testing
19 76 (6.64%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 183 (15.98%) JavaScript
2 116 (10.13%) Python
3 106 (9.26%) Java
4 103 (9.00%) SQL
5 88 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 61 (5.33%) PowerShell
7 37 (3.23%) C#
8 35 (3.06%) Kotlin
9 28 (2.45%) Swift
10 26 (2.27%) Perl
11 23 (2.01%) Bash
12 14 (1.22%) PHP
13 13 (1.14%) Objective-C
14 11 (0.96%) C++
14 11 (0.96%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.79%) Go
16 7 (0.61%) Lisp
17 5 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.44%) Ruby
17 5 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 163 (14.24%) Security Cleared
2 114 (9.96%) SC Cleared
3 111 (9.69%) Degree
4 29 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (1.57%) DV Cleared
7 17 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.22%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (0.96%) MOS
11 9 (0.79%) OCA
11 9 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (0.70%) CCNP
12 8 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.70%) PMP
13 5 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.44%) MCP
14 4 (0.35%) Citrix Certification
15 3 (0.26%) CSPO
15 3 (0.26%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (16.33%) Accessibility
2 118 (10.31%) QA
3 63 (5.50%) GDPR
4 53 (4.63%) WCAG
5 34 (2.97%) Data Quality
6 28 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.83%) SLA
8 13 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.61%) GxP
10 6 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.52%) PMO
11 5 (0.44%) NCSC
11 5 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.26%) NIST
12 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.26%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.17%) FIPS 140-2
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 70 (6.11%) Active Directory
2 47 (4.10%) Docker
3 25 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.17%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.087%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.087%) Firmware
7 1 (0.087%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.087%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.087%) XenApp
7 1 (0.087%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 50 (4.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (3.84%) Kubernetes
3 40 (3.49%) SCCM
4 25 (2.18%) Terraform
5 16 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (1.22%) Ansible
6 14 (1.22%) Grafana
7 7 (0.61%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.52%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.35%) Argo
11 3 (0.26%) Nagios
11 3 (0.26%) Rancher
11 3 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.17%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.17%) PingFederate
12 2 (0.17%) SysTrack
13 1 (0.087%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.087%) Istio
13 1 (0.087%) Podman
Vendors
1 214 (18.69%) Microsoft
2 89 (7.77%) Google
3 74 (6.46%) Adobe
4 71 (6.20%) ServiceNow
5 57 (4.98%) Oracle
6 43 (3.76%) SAP
7 38 (3.32%) Salesforce
8 32 (2.79%) Splunk
9 27 (2.36%) VMware
10 21 (1.83%) Citrix
11 17 (1.48%) Apple
12 14 (1.22%) Cisco
13 12 (1.05%) Optimizely
13 12 (1.05%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.96%) Hotjar
14 11 (0.96%) Zscaler
15 10 (0.87%) Amplitude
16 9 (0.79%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.79%) OpenAI
16 9 (0.79%) Sitecore