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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 81 64
Rank change year-on-year +16 -17 -5
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,050 886 1,446
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.78% 2.69% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 3.13% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 535 1,025
10th Percentile £300 £308 £341
25th Percentile £375 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £696 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 23 30
10th Percentile £15.50 £30.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £27.58 £30.51 £17.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £50.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.72% +6.32% -22.76%
75th Percentile £54.38 £74.00 £69.74
90th Percentile £66.31 £74.44 £81.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £50.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -27.72% +6.32% -23.39%

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 25,260 28,349 37,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.90% 86.08% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,060 17,666 25,846
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £405 £420 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,499 1,306 1,419
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +48.28%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience 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 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +12 600 £500 -4.76% 744
North of England +24 173 £425 -10.53% 218
North West +26 119 £425 -8.11% 133
Midlands +20 102 £447 -12.78% 99
South East +20 90 £449 +19.60% 446
West Midlands +14 69 £500 -9.09% 61
Yorkshire +6 46 £400 -22.89% 56
South West +26 40 £488 -15.22% 90
East Midlands +14 33 £358 -14.35% 36
East of England +8 24 £525 - 77
North East -1 8 £450 +12.50% 31
User Experience
UK

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 55 (5.24%) Confluence
2 50 (4.76%) CMS
3 40 (3.81%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.57%) Apache
6 5 (0.48%) Drupal
6 5 (0.48%) SharePoint 2010
7 4 (0.38%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.38%) IIS
7 4 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.38%) SugarCRM
7 4 (0.38%) WordPress
8 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.19%) CICS
9 2 (0.19%) Moodle
9 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.095%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.095%) nginx
Applications
1 44 (4.19%) Sketch
2 27 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.00%) Chatbot
4 14 (1.33%) Adobe XD
5 13 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
5 13 (1.24%) Siemens NX
6 12 (1.14%) Photoshop
7 11 (1.05%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (0.95%) InVision
8 10 (0.95%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 9 (0.86%) Trello
10 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
11 5 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.48%) InfoPath
12 4 (0.38%) Camtasia
12 4 (0.38%) OmniGraffle
12 4 (0.38%) UXPin
13 3 (0.29%) Snagit
14 2 (0.19%) Autodesk Smoke
Business Applications
1 17 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.43%) Teamcenter
3 14 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.38%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.29%) Magento
5 3 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.29%) Shopify
6 2 (0.19%) Maximo
6 2 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.095%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 149 (14.19%) Azure
2 147 (14.00%) Figma
3 122 (11.62%) AWS
4 76 (7.24%) GCP
5 72 (6.86%) SaaS
6 68 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (6.00%) Power Platform
8 52 (4.95%) Entra ID
9 24 (2.29%) Google Workspace
10 23 (2.19%) GitHub
10 23 (2.19%) Serverless
11 22 (2.10%) Miro
12 21 (2.00%) Google Analytics
13 20 (1.90%) Power Automate
14 17 (1.62%) Firebase
15 16 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (1.43%) PowerApps
17 14 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
18 12 (1.14%) Amazon S3
19 11 (1.05%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.43%) Wireless
2 13 (1.24%) DNS
3 11 (1.05%) HTTP
3 11 (1.05%) Internet
4 8 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (0.67%) NFC
5 7 (0.67%) PPP
6 5 (0.48%) Network Security
7 4 (0.38%) Firewall
7 4 (0.38%) Unified Communications
7 4 (0.38%) VPN
7 4 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.29%) Bluetooth
8 3 (0.29%) DMARC
8 3 (0.29%) SMTP
8 3 (0.29%) SSL
9 2 (0.19%) DHCP
9 2 (0.19%) LAN
9 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (4.00%) Power BI
3 30 (2.86%) SQL Server
4 28 (2.67%) Relational Database
5 22 (2.10%) MySQL
5 22 (2.10%) Tableau
6 20 (1.90%) MongoDB
7 14 (1.33%) Redis
8 12 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (1.05%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.05%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.86%) Mixpanel
11 8 (0.76%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.76%) Looker
12 5 (0.48%) DB2
12 5 (0.48%) Metadata
12 5 (0.48%) SAP HANA
12 5 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.38%) Power Query
13 4 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 98 (9.33%) JIRA
2 67 (6.38%) Git
3 33 (3.14%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.38%) Xcode
5 24 (2.29%) Eclipse
6 21 (2.00%) Axure RP
7 19 (1.81%) GitLab
8 18 (1.71%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.71%) webpack
9 17 (1.62%) Android Studio
10 15 (1.43%) Browser DevTools
11 13 (1.24%) Gradle
12 12 (1.14%) Postman
13 10 (0.95%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.67%) CircleCI
14 7 (0.67%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.67%) Selenium
14 7 (0.67%) Valgrind
15 6 (0.57%) IntelliJ
15 6 (0.57%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 347 (33.05%) Social Skills
2 237 (22.57%) Finance
3 121 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
3 121 (11.52%) Banking
4 87 (8.29%) Public Sector
5 82 (7.81%) Marketing
6 37 (3.52%) Retail
7 33 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (3.05%) Front Office
9 30 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
10 29 (2.76%) Legal
11 23 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (1.52%) Automotive
12 16 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.33%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.33%) Retail Banking
14 13 (1.24%) Back Office
14 13 (1.24%) Games
14 13 (1.24%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 221 (21.05%) Developer
2 191 (18.19%) Designer
3 125 (11.90%) Senior
4 92 (8.76%) UX Designer
5 79 (7.52%) Lead
6 71 (6.76%) Analyst
7 62 (5.90%) React Developer
8 49 (4.67%) Software Engineer
9 44 (4.19%) Business Analyst
10 39 (3.71%) Consultant
11 38 (3.62%) Product Designer
12 33 (3.14%) UI Designer
13 31 (2.95%) Senior Designer
14 30 (2.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 29 (2.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 29 (2.76%) User Experience Researcher
16 27 (2.57%) UI/UX Designer
17 25 (2.38%) Architect
17 25 (2.38%) Product Owner
18 23 (2.19%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (13.62%) React
2 134 (12.76%) CSS
3 130 (12.38%) HTML
4 76 (7.24%) Node.js
5 61 (5.81%) RESTful
6 58 (5.52%) Redux
7 55 (5.24%) REST
8 51 (4.86%) AngularJS
9 48 (4.57%) GraphQL
10 45 (4.29%) HTML5
11 28 (2.67%) .NET
11 28 (2.67%) Jest
12 27 (2.57%) CSS3
13 24 (2.29%) Web Services
13 24 (2.29%) XML
14 22 (2.10%) React Native
15 20 (1.90%) Bootstrap
15 20 (1.90%) jQuery
15 20 (1.90%) Next.js
15 20 (1.90%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 103 (9.81%) Mobile App
2 98 (9.33%) Product Ownership
3 57 (5.43%) Onboarding
4 29 (2.76%) Fixed Income
5 25 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (1.90%) Cloud Native
6 20 (1.90%) Management Information System
7 18 (1.71%) Learning Management System
8 17 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 15 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.33%) e-Learning
11 14 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.24%) Low-Code
13 11 (1.05%) Equities
13 11 (1.05%) Social Media
14 10 (0.95%) Mobile Banking
15 9 (0.86%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 81 (7.71%) Android
2 73 (6.95%) Windows
3 70 (6.67%) Apple iOS
4 25 (2.38%) Linux
5 18 (1.71%) Mac OS
6 13 (1.24%) Unix
7 12 (1.14%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.86%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.67%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.19%) tvOS
10 2 (0.19%) VMS
11 1 (0.095%) watchOS
11 1 (0.095%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (34.76%) Agile
2 349 (33.24%) UX Design
3 195 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
4 139 (13.24%) Analytics
5 132 (12.57%) Roadmaps
6 117 (11.14%) CI/CD
7 109 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 108 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 107 (10.19%) User Research
10 103 (9.81%) Front End Development
11 102 (9.71%) DevOps
12 91 (8.67%) Artificial Intelligence
13 83 (7.90%) Prototyping
13 83 (7.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 79 (7.52%) Software Engineering
15 78 (7.43%) UX Research
16 76 (7.24%) Wireframes
17 73 (6.95%) Decision-Making
17 73 (6.95%) Service Design
17 73 (6.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 180 (17.14%) JavaScript
2 115 (10.95%) Python
3 102 (9.71%) TypeScript
4 87 (8.29%) Java
5 79 (7.52%) SQL
6 40 (3.81%) Kotlin
7 35 (3.33%) C#
8 29 (2.76%) PowerShell
8 29 (2.76%) Swift
9 19 (1.81%) Objective-C
10 17 (1.62%) Bash
10 17 (1.62%) C++
11 12 (1.14%) Perl
12 9 (0.86%) C
12 9 (0.86%) Scala
13 8 (0.76%) Ruby
14 7 (0.67%) Go
14 7 (0.67%) PHP
14 7 (0.67%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 122 (11.62%) Security Cleared
2 106 (10.10%) Degree
3 80 (7.62%) SC Cleared
4 32 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.81%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.33%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.05%) PMI Certification
9 10 (0.95%) PMP
10 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 3 (0.29%) CISM
13 3 (0.29%) CISSP
13 3 (0.29%) Citrix Certification
13 3 (0.29%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.29%) MOS
13 3 (0.29%) OCA
13 3 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (14.76%) Accessibility
2 77 (7.33%) QA
3 53 (5.05%) GDPR
4 33 (3.14%) Data Quality
5 31 (2.95%) WCAG
6 18 (1.71%) SLA
7 15 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.48%) GxP
11 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.19%) FIPS 140-2
12 2 (0.19%) GRC
12 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.19%) PERC
12 2 (0.19%) PSD2
12 2 (0.19%) Section 508
12 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.095%) NIST
System Software
1 64 (6.10%) Active Directory
2 22 (2.10%) Docker
3 17 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.38%) OpenAM
6 3 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.095%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.095%) Firmware
7 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.095%) vSphere
7 1 (0.095%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 33 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (2.19%) SCCM
3 19 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
3 19 (1.81%) Terraform
4 18 (1.71%) Kubernetes
5 13 (1.24%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.57%) Grafana
6 6 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (0.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 5 (0.48%) Ansible
8 2 (0.19%) Kibana
8 2 (0.19%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.19%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.095%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.095%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.095%) HP Data Protector
9 1 (0.095%) Istio
9 1 (0.095%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.095%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.095%) Puppet
Vendors
1 161 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 77 (7.33%) Google
3 54 (5.14%) Adobe
4 42 (4.00%) Oracle
5 37 (3.52%) SAP
6 34 (3.24%) ServiceNow
7 33 (3.14%) Salesforce
8 18 (1.71%) Splunk
8 18 (1.71%) VMware
9 16 (1.52%) Apple
9 16 (1.52%) Citrix
10 12 (1.14%) Hotjar
10 12 (1.14%) Optimizely
11 9 (0.86%) Workday
12 8 (0.76%) Genesys
13 7 (0.67%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.57%) Hopewiser
14 6 (0.57%) OneTrust
14 6 (0.57%) OutSystems
15 5 (0.48%) Cisco