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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 69 71
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,202 871 1,059
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.44% 3.43% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 3.81% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 827 549 713
10th Percentile £313 £312 £301
25th Percentile £382 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 21 41
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.26 £19.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £31.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £35.72 £42.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.95% +30.77% -38.10%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £73.83 £74.44 £81.25
UK median hourly rate £37.22 £42.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -12.42% +17.24% -28.57%

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 30,532 22,872 32,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.28% 90.11% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,556 14,324 21,897
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £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 1,892 747 2,040
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.48 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - -
75th Percentile £63.40 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.18 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £33.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -21.91% -2.94% -2.86%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -12 629 £500 -4.76% 283
North of England +12 210 £450 - 124
North West +20 140 £405 -10.00% 69
South East -9 119 £475 -5.47% 181
Midlands -13 109 £500 +25.00% 85
South West -3 67 £450 -5.26% 55
West Midlands -42 60 £450 -4.00% 51
Yorkshire -22 50 £525 +31.09% 38
East Midlands +6 49 £548 +53.79% 34
East of England -14 30 £426 -10.32% 34
North East -2 19 £375 -11.76% 18
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 52 (4.33%) SharePoint
2 48 (3.99%) Confluence
3 35 (2.91%) CMS
4 22 (1.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 13 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.92%) Headless CMS
7 8 (0.67%) Apache
7 8 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
8 7 (0.58%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.42%) SugarCRM
10 4 (0.33%) Camunda
10 4 (0.33%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.33%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.17%) Appian
12 2 (0.17%) Drupal
12 2 (0.17%) WordPress
13 1 (0.083%) LiveCycle
Applications
1 38 (3.16%) Sketch
2 27 (2.25%) Adobe XD
3 21 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.75%) MS Visio
4 19 (1.58%) Chatbot
4 19 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.83%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.67%) InVision
8 6 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 6 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.33%) Trello
9 4 (0.33%) UXPin
10 3 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.25%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.17%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.17%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.17%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 19 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.33%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.33%) Shopify
5 3 (0.25%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.25%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.17%) iTrent
6 2 (0.17%) Magento
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.083%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.083%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.083%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.083%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.083%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.083%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.083%) SAP Travel Management
7 1 (0.083%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 205 (17.05%) Azure
2 159 (13.23%) Figma
3 126 (10.48%) AWS
4 92 (7.65%) Power Platform
5 71 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
5 71 (5.91%) SaaS
6 64 (5.32%) GCP
7 51 (4.24%) Entra ID
8 46 (3.83%) GitHub
9 45 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (2.41%) PowerApps
11 28 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (2.25%) Power Automate
13 23 (1.91%) Google Workspace
13 23 (1.91%) Serverless
14 22 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
14 22 (1.83%) Google Analytics
14 22 (1.83%) Miro
15 21 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
16 20 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.16%) DNS
2 20 (1.66%) Wireless
3 14 (1.16%) Internet
4 11 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.83%) DHCP
5 10 (0.83%) VPN
6 9 (0.75%) HTTP
6 9 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.67%) BGP
7 8 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (0.58%) Cisco Wireless
8 7 (0.58%) Firewall
8 7 (0.58%) Intranet
8 7 (0.58%) NX-OS
8 7 (0.58%) VXLAN
9 6 (0.50%) Unified Communications
9 6 (0.50%) WAN
10 5 (0.42%) SSL
11 4 (0.33%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (4.99%) Power BI
2 34 (2.83%) MySQL
3 30 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 25 (2.08%) NoSQL
5 24 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (1.66%) SQL Server
7 17 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (1.25%) Tableau
9 12 (1.00%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.00%) Looker
10 11 (0.92%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.83%) Metadata
12 7 (0.58%) Mixpanel
13 6 (0.50%) Pinecone
14 5 (0.42%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.42%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.42%) Power Query
14 5 (0.42%) Redis
15 4 (0.33%) SAP HANA
15 4 (0.33%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 101 (8.40%) JIRA
2 71 (5.91%) Git
3 44 (3.66%) GitLab
4 28 (2.33%) Jenkins
5 23 (1.91%) Cypress.io
6 21 (1.75%) Android Studio
6 21 (1.75%) JUnit
7 20 (1.66%) Xcode
8 17 (1.41%) Eclipse
9 16 (1.33%) Axure RP
10 15 (1.25%) Browser DevTools
10 15 (1.25%) Gradle
11 12 (1.00%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.75%) Artifactory
12 9 (0.75%) Postman
13 8 (0.67%) Mocha
14 7 (0.58%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.58%) Selenium
14 7 (0.58%) Visual Website Optimizer
15 6 (0.50%) IntelliJ
General
1 416 (34.61%) Social Skills
2 227 (18.89%) Finance
3 150 (12.48%) Public Sector
4 143 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (6.91%) Banking
6 70 (5.82%) Marketing
7 36 (3.00%) Retail
8 31 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (2.16%) Legal
9 26 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (1.75%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.25%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.16%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (0.92%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.75%) Front Office
17 9 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 210 (17.47%) Designer
2 187 (15.56%) Developer
3 180 (14.98%) Senior
4 120 (9.98%) UX Designer
5 114 (9.48%) Analyst
6 75 (6.24%) Lead
7 59 (4.91%) Product Designer
8 53 (4.41%) Senior Designer
9 49 (4.08%) Consultant
10 48 (3.99%) Business Analyst
11 41 (3.41%) Architect
12 37 (3.08%) UI Designer
13 35 (2.91%) Full-Stack Developer
13 35 (2.91%) Software Engineer
13 35 (2.91%) Support Engineer
14 34 (2.83%) User Researcher
15 33 (2.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 32 (2.66%) Senior Developer
16 32 (2.66%) Senior UX Designer
17 31 (2.58%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (12.98%) React
2 145 (12.06%) CSS
3 126 (10.48%) HTML
4 90 (7.49%) REST
5 82 (6.82%) AngularJS
6 73 (6.07%) RESTful
7 53 (4.41%) Node.js
8 52 (4.33%) Spring
8 52 (4.33%) Spring Boot
9 41 (3.41%) .NET
10 40 (3.33%) GraphQL
11 36 (3.00%) HTML5
12 30 (2.50%) CSS3
13 26 (2.16%) Jest
14 24 (2.00%) Redux
15 23 (1.91%) Next.js
16 21 (1.75%) JSON
16 21 (1.75%) OAuth
16 21 (1.75%) Playwright
16 21 (1.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 115 (9.57%) Product Ownership
2 88 (7.32%) Mobile App
3 53 (4.41%) Onboarding
4 28 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.00%) AI Agents
5 24 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (1.58%) Data Structures
7 15 (1.25%) Data Centre
7 15 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.25%) Virtual Team
8 14 (1.16%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.08%) Low-Code
10 12 (1.00%) CMDB
10 12 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (0.92%) e-Learning
11 11 (0.92%) NHS
12 9 (0.75%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 122 (10.15%) Windows
2 55 (4.58%) Android
3 39 (3.24%) Apple iOS
4 37 (3.08%) Windows 10
5 30 (2.50%) Linux
6 22 (1.83%) Mac OS
7 18 (1.50%) Unix
8 5 (0.42%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.17%) VMS
11 1 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.083%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (33.53%) Agile
2 380 (31.61%) UX Design
3 213 (17.72%) Analytics
4 191 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
5 172 (14.31%) User Research
6 155 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 153 (12.73%) CI/CD
8 146 (12.15%) AI
9 141 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 140 (11.65%) DevOps
11 130 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 127 (10.57%) Roadmaps
13 110 (9.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 105 (8.74%) Prototyping
14 105 (8.74%) UX Research
15 103 (8.57%) Decision-Making
16 100 (8.32%) Usability Testing
16 100 (8.32%) Wireframes
17 90 (7.49%) Service Design
18 83 (6.91%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 184 (15.31%) JavaScript
2 121 (10.07%) SQL
3 109 (9.07%) Java
4 106 (8.82%) Python
5 102 (8.49%) TypeScript
6 60 (4.99%) PowerShell
7 46 (3.83%) C#
8 32 (2.66%) Kotlin
9 21 (1.75%) Bash
10 18 (1.50%) Perl
11 15 (1.25%) Swift
12 14 (1.16%) PHP
13 10 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.75%) Go
15 7 (0.58%) Lisp
15 7 (0.58%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.50%) C++
17 4 (0.33%) Korn
17 4 (0.33%) Objective-C
17 4 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 157 (13.06%) Security Cleared
2 115 (9.57%) SC Cleared
3 106 (8.82%) Degree
4 23 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.33%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.00%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.92%) MOS
9 9 (0.75%) CCNP
9 9 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.58%) OCA
10 7 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (0.58%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.33%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.33%) CCA
11 4 (0.33%) Citrix Certification
12 3 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.17%) CISM
13 2 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (16.39%) Accessibility
2 122 (10.15%) QA
3 62 (5.16%) WCAG
4 47 (3.91%) GDPR
5 42 (3.49%) Data Quality
6 25 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
8 19 (1.58%) SLA
9 6 (0.50%) NCSC
9 6 (0.50%) PMO
10 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.33%) GxP
11 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
11 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.25%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.17%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.17%) GMP
12 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 70 (5.82%) Active Directory
2 55 (4.58%) Docker
3 22 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.17%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.083%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.083%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.083%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.083%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.083%) XenApp
7 1 (0.083%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 43 (3.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 37 (3.08%) SCCM
4 32 (2.66%) Terraform
5 20 (1.66%) Grafana
6 15 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.00%) Ansible
8 7 (0.58%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.50%) 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 (0.17%) PingFederate
12 2 (0.17%) SysTrack
13 1 (0.083%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.083%) Consul
13 1 (0.083%) Istio
13 1 (0.083%) Podman
Vendors
1 217 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 82 (6.82%) Google
3 76 (6.32%) Adobe
4 74 (6.16%) ServiceNow
5 46 (3.83%) SAP
6 39 (3.24%) Oracle
6 39 (3.24%) Salesforce
7 26 (2.16%) Splunk
8 23 (1.91%) VMware
9 21 (1.75%) Citrix
10 14 (1.16%) Cisco
11 12 (1.00%) Apple
11 12 (1.00%) Red Hat
12 11 (0.92%) Amplitude
12 11 (0.92%) Hotjar
13 10 (0.83%) Zscaler
14 9 (0.75%) Optimizely
14 9 (0.75%) Workday
15 8 (0.67%) Ekahau
15 8 (0.67%) MuleSoft