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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 66 86
Rank change year-on-year -21 +20 -25
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,328 1,027 832
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.92% 3.69% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 4.07% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 806 646 533
10th Percentile £308 £300 £300
25th Percentile £390 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £623
90th Percentile £688 £725 £718
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 42 32
10th Percentile £16.51 £25.02 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.38 £33.37 £29.14
Median hourly rate £33.99 £45.50 £41.68
Median % change year-on-year -25.30% +9.18% +57.26%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.75 £71.29
90th Percentile £76.53 £72.45 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £47.50 £41.68
% change year-on-year -28.44% +13.98% +54.35%

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 38,771 25,264 28,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.78% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,101 16,147 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
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 £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.05 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -3.67%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -29 673 £525 +5.00% 779
North of England -11 222 £440 -2.22% 170
Midlands -10 143 £475 +10.27% 82
South East -49 119 £444 -6.53% 154
West Midlands -11 112 £475 -7.32% 65
North West -28 105 £425 -5.56% 93
South West -21 75 £475 +18.75% 71
Yorkshire -23 66 £500 +25.00% 50
East of England +12 50 £410 -16.33% 55
North East -4 50 £350 -27.08% 27
East Midlands -1 31 £468 +31.69% 17
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 61 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 52 (3.92%) CMS
3 32 (2.41%) Confluence
4 25 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.13%) WordPress
6 8 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.53%) Apache
8 6 (0.45%) Drupal
8 6 (0.45%) Skype for Business
9 5 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.30%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.30%) Kentico
10 4 (0.30%) Mendix
10 4 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
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 (0.075%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 25 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.66%) Sketch
3 20 (1.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 19 (1.43%) Chatbot
4 19 (1.43%) Photoshop
5 16 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
6 15 (1.13%) Adobe Illustrator
7 12 (0.90%) Adobe After Effects
7 12 (0.90%) Adobe XD
8 9 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 6 (0.45%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.23%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.15%) InVision
11 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.075%) Blender
12 1 (0.075%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.075%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.68%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.45%) Shopify
4 5 (0.38%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.30%) Oracle iProcurement
5 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.23%) iTrent
6 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.075%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.075%) Magento
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.075%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.075%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 203 (15.29%) Azure
2 165 (12.42%) Figma
3 133 (10.02%) Microsoft 365
4 113 (8.51%) AWS
5 99 (7.45%) Power Platform
6 62 (4.67%) Entra ID
7 51 (3.84%) Microsoft Copilot
8 45 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (3.24%) GitHub
10 41 (3.09%) GCP
10 41 (3.09%) SaaS
11 32 (2.41%) PowerApps
12 29 (2.18%) OneDrive
13 26 (1.96%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.73%) Copilot Studio
15 19 (1.43%) Azure AI
16 18 (1.36%) Serverless
17 14 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
18 11 (0.83%) Firebase
19 10 (0.75%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 41 (3.09%) DNS
2 35 (2.64%) DHCP
3 30 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
4 29 (2.18%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.58%) Wireless
6 20 (1.51%) LAN
7 15 (1.13%) Firewall
7 15 (1.13%) VPN
7 15 (1.13%) WAN
8 12 (0.90%) Internet
9 11 (0.83%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.75%) Intranet
11 8 (0.60%) Cisco Wireless
11 8 (0.60%) Skype
12 7 (0.53%) 5G
12 7 (0.53%) Network Security
13 6 (0.45%) WLAN
14 5 (0.38%) SMS
14 5 (0.38%) SNMP
14 5 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.29%) Power BI
2 25 (1.88%) Metadata
3 16 (1.20%) Power Query
4 13 (0.98%) Relational Database
4 13 (0.98%) Tableau
5 12 (0.90%) NoSQL
6 11 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.68%) Looker
7 9 (0.68%) SQL Server
8 8 (0.60%) MySQL
9 7 (0.53%) Star Schema
10 6 (0.45%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.45%) Qlik Sense
11 5 (0.38%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.38%) Flink
11 5 (0.38%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.38%) Redis
11 5 (0.38%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 73 (5.50%) JIRA
2 53 (3.99%) Git
3 22 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.58%) Cypress.io
5 17 (1.28%) Vite
6 16 (1.20%) GitLab
7 10 (0.75%) Android Studio
7 10 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
7 10 (0.75%) fastlane
7 10 (0.75%) Storybook
8 9 (0.68%) Xcode
9 8 (0.60%) Gradle
10 6 (0.45%) Postman
11 5 (0.38%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.38%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.38%) Fiddler
11 5 (0.38%) JUnit
11 5 (0.38%) Selenium
12 4 (0.30%) MSI
12 4 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
General
1 419 (31.55%) Social Skills
2 243 (18.30%) Finance
3 173 (13.03%) Public Sector
4 130 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
5 107 (8.06%) Banking
6 77 (5.80%) Retail
7 67 (5.05%) Marketing
8 47 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (2.26%) Legal
11 28 (2.11%) Publishing
12 27 (2.03%) Automotive
13 26 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
14 24 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
15 23 (1.73%) Manufacturing
16 17 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (0.98%) Investment Banking
18 11 (0.83%) Front Office
18 11 (0.83%) Military
19 9 (0.68%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 289 (21.76%) Designer
2 181 (13.63%) Senior
3 171 (12.88%) Developer
4 123 (9.26%) UX Designer
5 106 (7.98%) Lead
6 91 (6.85%) Analyst
7 74 (5.57%) Consultant
8 72 (5.42%) UI Designer
9 56 (4.22%) User Researcher
10 51 (3.84%) Architect
11 50 (3.77%) Content Designer
11 50 (3.77%) IT Support
11 50 (3.77%) Senior Designer
12 49 (3.69%) Support Engineer
13 46 (3.46%) Business Analyst
14 43 (3.24%) Product Manager
15 42 (3.16%) UI/UX Designer
15 42 (3.16%) User Experience Researcher
16 34 (2.56%) IT Engineer
16 34 (2.56%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (8.28%) React
2 92 (6.93%) CSS
3 82 (6.17%) REST
4 78 (5.87%) HTML
5 44 (3.31%) RESTful
6 42 (3.16%) AngularJS
7 37 (2.79%) GraphQL
8 35 (2.64%) .NET
9 32 (2.41%) HTML5
10 31 (2.33%) CSS3
11 22 (1.66%) Next.js
12 21 (1.58%) Jest
13 20 (1.51%) Spring
14 19 (1.43%) JSON
14 19 (1.43%) Node.js
14 19 (1.43%) OAuth
14 19 (1.43%) SOAP
14 19 (1.43%) Spring Boot
15 18 (1.36%) ASP.NET
15 18 (1.36%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 120 (9.04%) Product Ownership
2 81 (6.10%) Onboarding
3 79 (5.95%) Mobile App
4 38 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 33 (2.48%) AI Agents
6 29 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (1.66%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.51%) Social Media
12 19 (1.43%) Management Information System
13 18 (1.36%) Educational Technology
14 17 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.28%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.28%) Graphic Design
15 16 (1.20%) NHS
16 14 (1.05%) Taxonomies
17 13 (0.98%) Virtual Reality
18 12 (0.90%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 134 (10.09%) Windows
2 53 (3.99%) Android
3 48 (3.61%) Apple iOS
3 48 (3.61%) Windows 10
4 27 (2.03%) Mac OS
5 21 (1.58%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.20%) Linux
7 10 (0.75%) Unix
8 9 (0.68%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (31.63%) UX Design
2 376 (28.31%) Agile
3 251 (18.90%) AI
4 225 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
5 206 (15.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 178 (13.40%) Analytics
7 175 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 174 (13.10%) User Research
9 152 (11.45%) CI/CD
10 146 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 136 (10.24%) Roadmaps
12 128 (9.64%) Decision-Making
13 109 (8.21%) DevOps
14 108 (8.13%) Prototyping
15 105 (7.91%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 101 (7.61%) Service Design
17 98 (7.38%) UX Research
17 98 (7.38%) Wireframes
17 98 (7.38%) Workshop Facilitation
18 97 (7.30%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 114 (8.58%) JavaScript
2 87 (6.55%) Python
3 83 (6.25%) Java
3 83 (6.25%) TypeScript
4 80 (6.02%) SQL
5 53 (3.99%) PowerShell
6 30 (2.26%) C#
6 30 (2.26%) Kotlin
7 22 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 15 (1.13%) Bash
9 14 (1.05%) Swift
10 7 (0.53%) Apex Code
10 7 (0.53%) Go
10 7 (0.53%) PHP
10 7 (0.53%) VBScript
11 6 (0.45%) Scala
11 6 (0.45%) VB
12 5 (0.38%) Korn
12 5 (0.38%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 202 (15.21%) Security Cleared
2 154 (11.60%) SC Cleared
3 119 (8.96%) Degree
4 31 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (1.81%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (1.58%) Azure Certification
7 21 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (0.75%) PMP
9 8 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.60%) Citrix Certification
9 8 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 7 (0.53%) CCA
11 6 (0.45%) CCIE
11 6 (0.45%) CCNP
11 6 (0.45%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.45%) MCSE
12 5 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (15.81%) Accessibility
2 86 (6.48%) QA
3 69 (5.20%) WCAG
4 45 (3.39%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.43%) GDPR
6 12 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.60%) PMO
8 7 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 5 (0.38%) SLA
10 4 (0.30%) GRC
11 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.15%) PSD2
12 1 (0.075%) COBIT
12 1 (0.075%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.075%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.075%) SEPA
12 1 (0.075%) WAI
System Software
1 88 (6.63%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.86%) Docker
3 27 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.45%) BitLocker
5 6 (0.45%) Firmware
5 6 (0.45%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.45%) vSphere
6 5 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.23%) UAG
9 2 (0.15%) 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 (0.075%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 45 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (3.16%) Terraform
3 41 (3.09%) Kubernetes
4 31 (2.33%) SCCM
5 20 (1.51%) Grafana
6 19 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
8 13 (0.98%) Ansible
9 12 (0.90%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.38%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.30%) Clonezilla
11 4 (0.30%) Podman
12 3 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.23%) WSUS
13 2 (0.15%) Argo
13 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.15%) Packer
13 2 (0.15%) SCOM
13 2 (0.15%) vMotion
14 1 (0.075%) Kibana
Vendors
1 230 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 76 (5.72%) ServiceNow
3 74 (5.57%) Adobe
4 46 (3.46%) Google
5 40 (3.01%) Oracle
6 36 (2.71%) SAP
7 31 (2.33%) Salesforce
8 24 (1.81%) Citrix
9 22 (1.66%) Dynatrace
10 21 (1.58%) Splunk
11 19 (1.43%) Workday
12 18 (1.36%) Apple
12 18 (1.36%) Cisco
13 16 (1.20%) VMware
14 15 (1.13%) Foundry
15 14 (1.05%) Zscaler
16 12 (0.90%) Aruba
17 11 (0.83%) OpenAI
18 10 (0.75%) Okta
19 8 (0.60%) Databricks