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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 71 88
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 -30
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,357 989 873
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.01% 3.60% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 3.97% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 631 576
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £623
90th Percentile £680 £725 £722
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 36 31
10th Percentile £16.00 £26.57 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.08 £35.06 £25.78
Median hourly rate £33.99 £49.25 £41.68
Median % change year-on-year -30.98% +18.18% +57.26%
75th Percentile £67.84 £65.35 £69.20
90th Percentile £77.45 £77.73 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £49.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -31.33% +23.75% +45.45%

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 38,425 24,898 29,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.75% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,067 15,953 19,300
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £424 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £521 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,362 1,833
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.21 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.46 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -24 687 £525 +2.74% 401
North of England -11 221 £439 -2.44% 126
Midlands 0 144 £475 +11.24% 62
South East -33 129 £490 +3.16% 129
West Midlands -5 116 £475 -5.00% 50
North West -28 114 £425 -5.56% 60
South West -5 81 £475 +26.67% 64
Yorkshire -26 59 £500 +25.00% 40
East of England +9 49 £410 -14.14% 54
North East -8 48 £381 -20.57% 26
East Midlands -7 28 £468 +31.32% 12
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 62 (4.57%) SharePoint
2 52 (3.83%) CMS
3 35 (2.58%) Confluence
4 25 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.03%) WordPress
6 8 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.44%) Drupal
7 6 (0.44%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.37%) Apache
9 4 (0.29%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.29%) Kentico
9 4 (0.29%) Mendix
10 3 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.15%) IIS
11 2 (0.15%) Moodle
11 2 (0.15%) nginx
11 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.074%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 28 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.84%) Sketch
3 20 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 20 (1.47%) Chatbot
3 20 (1.47%) Photoshop
4 17 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.11%) Adobe Illustrator
6 13 (0.96%) Adobe After Effects
6 13 (0.96%) Adobe XD
7 10 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.59%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.29%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.15%) InVision
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.074%) Blender
11 1 (0.074%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
1 11 (0.81%) Workday HCM
2 7 (0.52%) Shopify
3 6 (0.44%) Sage X3
4 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.29%) Oracle iProcurement
6 3 (0.22%) iTrent
6 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.074%) Magento
8 1 (0.074%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.074%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.074%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 211 (15.55%) Azure
2 184 (13.56%) Figma
3 125 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
4 111 (8.18%) AWS
5 97 (7.15%) Power Platform
6 58 (4.27%) Entra ID
7 49 (3.61%) Microsoft Copilot
8 48 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (3.24%) GCP
9 44 (3.24%) SaaS
10 43 (3.17%) GitHub
11 35 (2.58%) PowerApps
12 30 (2.21%) OneDrive
13 26 (1.92%) Copilot Studio
13 26 (1.92%) Power Automate
14 19 (1.40%) Azure AI
14 19 (1.40%) Serverless
15 15 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (0.81%) Firebase
17 10 (0.74%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.87%) DNS
2 33 (2.43%) DHCP
3 28 (2.06%) TCP/IP
4 24 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (1.47%) Wireless
6 19 (1.40%) LAN
7 12 (0.88%) Firewall
7 12 (0.88%) Internet
7 12 (0.88%) VPN
7 12 (0.88%) WAN
8 10 (0.74%) Intranet
9 9 (0.66%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.59%) Cisco Wireless
10 8 (0.59%) Skype
11 6 (0.44%) 5G
11 6 (0.44%) Network Security
11 6 (0.44%) WLAN
12 5 (0.37%) SMS
12 5 (0.37%) SNMP
12 5 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.05%) Power BI
2 23 (1.69%) Metadata
3 17 (1.25%) Power Query
3 17 (1.25%) Relational Database
4 16 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 13 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.88%) SQL Server
7 12 (0.88%) Tableau
8 10 (0.74%) MySQL
9 6 (0.44%) DynamoDB
9 6 (0.44%) Looker
9 6 (0.44%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.44%) Redis
9 6 (0.44%) Star Schema
9 6 (0.44%) ZAP BI
10 5 (0.37%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.29%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.29%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 74 (5.45%) JIRA
2 51 (3.76%) Git
3 22 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.55%) Cypress.io
5 18 (1.33%) Vite
6 15 (1.11%) GitLab
7 10 (0.74%) Android Studio
7 10 (0.74%) Browser DevTools
7 10 (0.74%) fastlane
7 10 (0.74%) Storybook
8 9 (0.66%) Xcode
9 8 (0.59%) Gradle
10 6 (0.44%) Selenium
11 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.37%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.37%) Fiddler
11 5 (0.37%) JUnit
11 5 (0.37%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.37%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 433 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 252 (18.57%) Finance
3 174 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 133 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
5 111 (8.18%) Banking
6 81 (5.97%) Retail
7 67 (4.94%) Marketing
8 45 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (2.51%) Legal
10 33 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (2.14%) Publishing
12 27 (1.99%) Automotive
13 22 (1.62%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
15 18 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (0.96%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.81%) Front Office
17 11 (0.81%) Military
18 8 (0.59%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 300 (22.11%) Designer
2 184 (13.56%) Senior
3 171 (12.60%) Developer
4 127 (9.36%) UX Designer
5 109 (8.03%) Lead
6 104 (7.66%) Analyst
7 76 (5.60%) UI Designer
8 70 (5.16%) Consultant
9 52 (3.83%) Architect
9 52 (3.83%) Senior Designer
10 51 (3.76%) Content Designer
11 50 (3.68%) Business Analyst
11 50 (3.68%) User Researcher
12 47 (3.46%) Product Designer
13 45 (3.32%) Product Manager
14 44 (3.24%) IT Support
14 44 (3.24%) User Experience Researcher
15 43 (3.17%) UI/UX Designer
16 41 (3.02%) Support Engineer
17 32 (2.36%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (8.55%) React
2 97 (7.15%) CSS
3 84 (6.19%) REST
4 83 (6.12%) HTML
5 49 (3.61%) RESTful
6 44 (3.24%) AngularJS
7 37 (2.73%) GraphQL
8 36 (2.65%) .NET
9 31 (2.28%) HTML5
10 30 (2.21%) CSS3
11 27 (1.99%) Spring
12 26 (1.92%) Spring Boot
13 21 (1.55%) JSON
13 21 (1.55%) Next.js
13 21 (1.55%) Node.js
14 20 (1.47%) Jest
15 19 (1.40%) OAuth
15 19 (1.40%) Redux
16 18 (1.33%) ASP.NET
16 18 (1.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 133 (9.80%) Product Ownership
2 78 (5.75%) Mobile App
3 75 (5.53%) Onboarding
4 37 (2.73%) Cloud Native
5 36 (2.65%) AI Agents
6 30 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 21 (1.55%) Data Structures
10 20 (1.47%) Social Media
11 19 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 17 (1.25%) Graphic Design
13 16 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 15 (1.11%) Educational Technology
15 14 (1.03%) Algorithms
15 14 (1.03%) Management Information System
15 14 (1.03%) Taxonomies
16 13 (0.96%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 128 (9.43%) Windows
2 49 (3.61%) Android
2 49 (3.61%) Apple iOS
3 43 (3.17%) Windows 10
4 26 (1.92%) Mac OS
5 18 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.18%) Linux
7 9 (0.66%) Unix
7 9 (0.66%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (32.06%) UX Design
2 392 (28.89%) Agile
3 254 (18.72%) AI
4 225 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
5 204 (15.03%) Stakeholder Management
6 184 (13.56%) Analytics
7 183 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 176 (12.97%) User Research
9 156 (11.50%) CI/CD
10 149 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 145 (10.69%) Roadmaps
12 133 (9.80%) Decision-Making
13 119 (8.77%) DevOps
14 117 (8.62%) Prototyping
15 113 (8.33%) UX Research
16 110 (8.11%) Wireframes
17 109 (8.03%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 104 (7.66%) Service Design
19 98 (7.22%) Workshop Facilitation
20 95 (7.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 116 (8.55%) JavaScript
2 93 (6.85%) Java
3 91 (6.71%) Python
4 89 (6.56%) TypeScript
5 87 (6.41%) SQL
6 50 (3.68%) PowerShell
7 32 (2.36%) C#
8 30 (2.21%) Kotlin
9 24 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (1.03%) Swift
11 13 (0.96%) Bash
12 8 (0.59%) Korn
13 7 (0.52%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.52%) Go
13 7 (0.52%) R
13 7 (0.52%) VBScript
14 6 (0.44%) PHP
14 6 (0.44%) VB
14 6 (0.44%) VBA
15 5 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 206 (15.18%) Security Cleared
2 156 (11.50%) SC Cleared
3 123 (9.06%) Degree
4 30 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (1.84%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 21 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (0.74%) PMP
9 9 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.59%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.59%) Citrix Certification
10 8 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (0.52%) CCA
12 6 (0.44%) CCIE
12 6 (0.44%) CCNP
12 6 (0.44%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.44%) MCSE
13 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (16.36%) Accessibility
2 91 (6.71%) QA
3 68 (5.01%) WCAG
4 44 (3.24%) Data Quality
5 22 (1.62%) GDPR
6 14 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.59%) PMO
8 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (0.44%) SLA
10 4 (0.29%) GRC
11 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.15%) PSD2
12 1 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.074%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.074%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.074%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.074%) SEPA
System Software
1 80 (5.90%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.80%) Docker
3 29 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.44%) BitLocker
5 6 (0.44%) Firmware
5 6 (0.44%) vSphere
6 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.22%) UAG
8 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.15%) XenApp
9 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.074%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 44 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (3.10%) Kubernetes
3 41 (3.02%) Terraform
4 35 (2.58%) SCCM
5 22 (1.62%) Grafana
6 16 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.96%) Ansible
7 13 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (0.81%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.29%) Clonezilla
10 4 (0.29%) Podman
11 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.22%) WSUS
12 2 (0.15%) Argo
12 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.15%) Packer
12 2 (0.15%) SCOM
12 2 (0.15%) vMotion
13 1 (0.074%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 237 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 76 (5.60%) Adobe
3 73 (5.38%) ServiceNow
4 46 (3.39%) Google
5 41 (3.02%) SAP
6 37 (2.73%) Oracle
7 31 (2.28%) Salesforce
8 26 (1.92%) Citrix
9 21 (1.55%) Dynatrace
9 21 (1.55%) Splunk
9 21 (1.55%) Workday
10 19 (1.40%) VMware
11 17 (1.25%) Cisco
12 16 (1.18%) Apple
13 15 (1.11%) Foundry
14 13 (0.96%) Zscaler
15 12 (0.88%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.81%) Aruba
17 9 (0.66%) Databricks
18 8 (0.59%) Solace