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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 61 76
Rank change year-on-year -19 +15 -13
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,215 895 993
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.07% 3.65% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 4.01% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 826 593 668
10th Percentile £310 £300 £298
25th Percentile £395 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £499 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% -0.20% -2.91%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £611
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.56% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 20 46
10th Percentile £16.58 £25.21 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.29 £41.75 £24.06
Median hourly rate £44.50 £51.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +62.41% -9.40%
75th Percentile £65.67 £83.60 £64.88
90th Percentile £82.20 £95.60 £74.10
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £53.50 £32.11
% change year-on-year -6.54% +66.64% -8.27%

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 33,784 22,346 32,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.23% 91.09% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,591 14,669 21,080
10th Percentile £315 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,113 899 2,221
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.82 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.00 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.74% -9.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.10 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.00% -14.29% -6.67%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -20 630 £513 - 311
North of England -3 198 £449 -0.33% 400
Midlands -8 138 £500 +25.00% 120
North West +1 124 £423 -6.11% 320
South East -15 115 £488 +5.41% 127
West Midlands -20 93 £475 +2.70% 73
South West -23 63 £463 +23.33% 50
Yorkshire -26 50 £500 +24.84% 59
East Midlands -5 45 £550 +53.63% 47
East of England -22 26 £418 -12.11% 56
North East -9 22 £405 -10.50% 23
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 50 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.29%) Confluence
3 32 (2.63%) CMS
4 18 (1.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 18 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.49%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (0.41%) Apache
6 5 (0.41%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.41%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.33%) Camunda
7 4 (0.33%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.33%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.25%) Drupal
8 3 (0.25%) Mendix
8 3 (0.25%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) Appian
9 2 (0.16%) IIS
9 2 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (2.63%) Sketch
2 24 (1.98%) Adobe XD
3 23 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
4 20 (1.65%) Chatbot
5 17 (1.40%) MS Visio
6 13 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
7 11 (0.91%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.58%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.58%) InVision
9 6 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
9 6 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.33%) Trello
11 4 (0.33%) UserZoom
12 3 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.25%) UXPin
13 2 (0.16%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.16%) Camtasia
14 1 (0.082%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.66%) Shopify
3 8 (0.66%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.49%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.16%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.16%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.16%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.16%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.082%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.082%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.082%) iTrent
6 1 (0.082%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 195 (16.05%) Azure
2 169 (13.91%) Figma
3 100 (8.23%) AWS
4 90 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
5 88 (7.24%) Power Platform
6 54 (4.44%) Entra ID
7 53 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
8 48 (3.95%) GCP
9 44 (3.62%) GitHub
10 33 (2.72%) Microsoft Copilot
10 33 (2.72%) PowerApps
10 33 (2.72%) SaaS
11 29 (2.39%) Power Automate
12 26 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (1.98%) Serverless
14 23 (1.89%) Google Workspace
15 22 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
16 19 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
16 19 (1.56%) Google Sheets
17 18 (1.48%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.15%) DNS
2 12 (0.99%) LAN
2 12 (0.99%) Wireless
3 11 (0.91%) Internet
3 11 (0.91%) Intranet
4 10 (0.82%) DHCP
4 10 (0.82%) SD-WAN
4 10 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (0.66%) VPN
6 7 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.58%) WAN
7 6 (0.49%) Cisco Wireless
7 6 (0.49%) SSL
7 6 (0.49%) WLAN
8 5 (0.41%) 5G
8 5 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (0.41%) Firewall
8 5 (0.41%) SMS
9 4 (0.33%) BGP
9 4 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.77%) Power BI
2 22 (1.81%) NoSQL
2 22 (1.81%) SQL Server
3 20 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (1.65%) Relational Database
4 18 (1.48%) MySQL
5 17 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.32%) Tableau
7 13 (1.07%) Metadata
8 11 (0.91%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.74%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.66%) Power Query
11 7 (0.58%) Looker
11 7 (0.58%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 6 (0.49%) ZAP BI
13 5 (0.41%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.41%) Redis
14 4 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 94 (7.74%) JIRA
2 60 (4.94%) Git
3 37 (3.05%) GitLab
4 22 (1.81%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.73%) Cypress.io
5 21 (1.73%) JUnit
6 14 (1.15%) Axure RP
7 13 (1.07%) Gradle
8 11 (0.91%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.82%) Browser DevTools
10 9 (0.74%) Selenium
11 8 (0.66%) Android Studio
12 7 (0.58%) Vite
12 7 (0.58%) Xcode
13 6 (0.49%) Mocha
13 6 (0.49%) Postman
14 5 (0.41%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.41%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.41%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 395 (32.51%) Social Skills
2 246 (20.25%) Finance
3 151 (12.43%) Public Sector
4 141 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (8.07%) Banking
6 53 (4.36%) Marketing
7 48 (3.95%) Retail
8 33 (2.72%) Legal
9 30 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (1.73%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.23%) Publishing
14 14 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (0.99%) Front Office
16 12 (0.99%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.91%) Automotive
17 11 (0.91%) Telecoms
18 10 (0.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 248 (20.41%) Designer
2 191 (15.72%) Senior
3 162 (13.33%) Developer
4 123 (10.12%) UX Designer
5 116 (9.55%) Analyst
6 62 (5.10%) Lead
7 57 (4.69%) Consultant
8 55 (4.53%) Business Analyst
8 55 (4.53%) Product Designer
9 52 (4.28%) Architect
10 51 (4.20%) Senior Designer
11 46 (3.79%) UI Designer
12 39 (3.21%) User Researcher
13 37 (3.05%) Content Designer
13 37 (3.05%) User Experience Researcher
14 36 (2.96%) IT Support
14 36 (2.96%) UI/UX Designer
15 35 (2.88%) Support Engineer
16 33 (2.72%) Service Designer
17 31 (2.55%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (11.44%) React
2 125 (10.29%) CSS
3 113 (9.30%) HTML
4 87 (7.16%) REST
5 70 (5.76%) AngularJS
6 63 (5.19%) RESTful
7 56 (4.61%) Spring
8 55 (4.53%) Spring Boot
9 46 (3.79%) .NET
10 35 (2.88%) Node.js
11 31 (2.55%) GraphQL
12 30 (2.47%) HTML5
13 28 (2.30%) CSS3
13 28 (2.30%) Redux
14 24 (1.98%) Next.js
15 22 (1.81%) JSON
15 22 (1.81%) Vue
16 20 (1.65%) Jest
16 20 (1.65%) Kafka
17 17 (1.40%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 112 (9.22%) Product Ownership
2 64 (5.27%) Mobile App
3 47 (3.87%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (2.22%) AI Agents
6 23 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 21 (1.73%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 17 (1.40%) Cloud Native
10 16 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.15%) Virtual Reality
12 13 (1.07%) Augmented Reality
12 13 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (0.91%) Algorithms
14 10 (0.82%) Management Information System
14 10 (0.82%) NHS
14 10 (0.82%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 97 (7.98%) Windows
2 39 (3.21%) Windows 10
3 34 (2.80%) Android
4 28 (2.30%) Apple iOS
5 20 (1.65%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.91%) Linux
7 8 (0.66%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.41%) Unix
9 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.082%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.082%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (31.77%) Agile
2 380 (31.28%) UX Design
3 194 (15.97%) Analytics
4 192 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
5 189 (15.56%) AI
6 170 (13.99%) User Research
7 153 (12.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 146 (12.02%) CI/CD
9 142 (11.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 140 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 136 (11.19%) DevOps
12 124 (10.21%) Roadmaps
13 116 (9.55%) UX Research
14 114 (9.38%) Prototyping
15 105 (8.64%) Wireframes
16 103 (8.48%) Decision-Making
17 102 (8.40%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 97 (7.98%) Service Design
19 89 (7.33%) Usability Testing
20 82 (6.75%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 159 (13.09%) JavaScript
2 113 (9.30%) SQL
3 110 (9.05%) Java
4 92 (7.57%) TypeScript
5 89 (7.33%) Python
6 48 (3.95%) C#
7 45 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 25 (2.06%) Kotlin
9 15 (1.23%) Bash
10 13 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.66%) Swift
12 7 (0.58%) Korn
13 6 (0.49%) Go
13 6 (0.49%) Perl
13 6 (0.49%) PHP
13 6 (0.49%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.49%) VBA
14 5 (0.41%) R
15 3 (0.25%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 146 (12.02%) Security Cleared
2 108 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 102 (8.40%) Degree
4 27 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.07%) Azure Certification
9 11 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.74%) CCNP
11 7 (0.58%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.58%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.49%) CCA
12 6 (0.49%) CCIE
12 6 (0.49%) Citrix Certification
12 6 (0.49%) OCA
12 6 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.33%) MOS
13 4 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (15.80%) Accessibility
2 113 (9.30%) QA
3 59 (4.86%) WCAG
4 42 (3.46%) Data Quality
5 38 (3.13%) GDPR
6 21 (1.73%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.82%) SLA
9 7 (0.58%) PMO
10 5 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.25%) GMP
12 3 (0.25%) GRC
12 3 (0.25%) GxP
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.25%) NCSC
13 2 (0.16%) COBIT
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 73 (6.01%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.54%) Docker
3 19 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 19 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.41%) Firmware
5 4 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.25%) XenApp
6 3 (0.25%) XenDesktop
7 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.082%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.082%) Varnish
8 1 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 53 (4.36%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.96%) Terraform
3 35 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (2.30%) SCCM
5 18 (1.48%) Grafana
6 14 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.74%) Ansible
8 6 (0.49%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.25%) Argo
10 3 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.25%) Nagios
10 3 (0.25%) Podman
10 3 (0.25%) Rancher
10 3 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.16%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.16%) WSUS
12 1 (0.082%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 196 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 72 (5.93%) Adobe
3 61 (5.02%) Google
4 53 (4.36%) ServiceNow
5 44 (3.62%) SAP
6 43 (3.54%) Oracle
7 34 (2.80%) Salesforce
8 25 (2.06%) Citrix
9 19 (1.56%) VMware
10 17 (1.40%) Workday
11 14 (1.15%) Cisco
12 13 (1.07%) Apple
13 12 (0.99%) Splunk
14 10 (0.82%) Sitecore
15 9 (0.74%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.74%) Zscaler
16 8 (0.66%) Aruba
16 8 (0.66%) Foundry
17 7 (0.58%) Ekahau
17 7 (0.58%) Red Hat