User Experience Contracts in England

UX
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring User Experience skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Experience over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 80 62
Rank change year-on-year +12 -18 -2
Contract jobs citing User Experience 856 966 1,749
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.59% 2.66% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 3.08% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 654 1,241
10th Percentile £307 £300 £355
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £709
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £508
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.57% -3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 43 25
10th Percentile £33.23 £16.25 £16.85
25th Percentile £46.25 £21.89 £17.50
Median hourly rate £58.00 £25.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +127.45% -3.77% -52.04%
75th Percentile £80.35 £62.89 £49.50
90th Percentile £94.50 £74.13 £67.66
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £26.56 £32.69
% change year-on-year +101.43% -18.75% -41.10%

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 21,762 31,336 43,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 86.24% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,222 20,550 30,257
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £412 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 2,253 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Experience in England.

Daily rate trend for User Experience in England

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in England

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Experience in England.

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in England

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience in England over the 6 months to 23 May 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 23 May 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 +14 534 £515 +2.13% 1,658
North of England +2 96 £447 -5.89% 1,658
South East +33 67 £438 -12.50% 1,997
North West +13 65 £447 -4.64% 824
Midlands +18 56 £402 -19.60% 1,298
South West +38 50 £375 -11.76% 791
West Midlands +5 43 £513 +1.23% 721
Yorkshire -3 18 £400 -19.95% 616
East of England +35 17 £475 +35.71% 1,020
East Midlands +19 13 £358 -12.47% 496
North East +1 13 £453 +0.56% 223
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 36 (4.21%) CMS
2 33 (3.86%) Confluence
3 24 (2.80%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.82%) Drupal
6 5 (0.58%) Apache
6 5 (0.58%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.58%) SharePoint 2010
7 4 (0.47%) IIS
8 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.35%) JBoss
8 3 (0.35%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) Mendix
10 1 (0.12%) Moodle
10 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 29 (3.39%) Sketch
2 22 (2.57%) Chatbot
3 18 (2.10%) Adobe XD
3 18 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (1.64%) Siemens NX
5 12 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (1.05%) Trello
7 8 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 8 (0.93%) InVision
7 8 (0.93%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.82%) Autodesk Smoke
9 6 (0.70%) Photoshop
10 5 (0.58%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.58%) InfoPath
11 3 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.35%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.35%) Zeplin
12 2 (0.23%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.23%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 15 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.64%) Teamcenter
3 9 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.58%) Shopify
5 3 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.23%) Magento
6 2 (0.23%) Maximo
6 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.12%) Endur
7 1 (0.12%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle iProcurement
7 1 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 130 (15.19%) Figma
2 111 (12.97%) Azure
3 101 (11.80%) AWS
4 59 (6.89%) GCP
5 49 (5.72%) Power Platform
6 46 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (3.50%) SaaS
8 25 (2.92%) Entra ID
9 21 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (1.99%) Serverless
12 16 (1.87%) GitHub
13 15 (1.75%) PowerApps
14 11 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (1.29%) Google Analytics
14 11 (1.29%) Power Automate
15 10 (1.17%) Amazon S3
16 8 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
16 8 (0.93%) Google Workspace
17 7 (0.82%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.29%) HTTP
2 9 (1.05%) VPN
3 8 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
4 7 (0.82%) Firewall
4 7 (0.82%) Unified Communications
5 6 (0.70%) Internet
6 5 (0.58%) DNS
6 5 (0.58%) Intranet
6 5 (0.58%) POP3
6 5 (0.58%) SMTP
7 3 (0.35%) DHCP
7 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.35%) Wireless
8 2 (0.23%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.23%) LAN
8 2 (0.23%) MPLS
8 2 (0.23%) WAN
8 2 (0.23%) WebEx
9 1 (0.12%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (3.86%) Power BI
3 20 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (1.99%) SQL Server
5 13 (1.52%) Tableau
6 12 (1.40%) MongoDB
6 12 (1.40%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.29%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.17%) Metadata
9 9 (1.05%) DynamoDB
10 8 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (0.70%) MySQL
12 5 (0.58%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.58%) Crystal Reports
12 5 (0.58%) Looker
12 5 (0.58%) Qlik Sense
13 4 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.47%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.47%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 64 (7.48%) JIRA
2 48 (5.61%) Git
3 21 (2.45%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.99%) Cypress.io
5 16 (1.87%) Axure RP
6 11 (1.29%) Postman
7 9 (1.05%) Mocha
8 8 (0.93%) REST Assured
8 8 (0.93%) Selenium
9 7 (0.82%) Jasmine
9 7 (0.82%) Subversion
9 7 (0.82%) TeamCity
9 7 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (0.82%) webpack
10 6 (0.70%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.70%) Gradle
10 6 (0.70%) Xcode
11 5 (0.58%) Babel
11 5 (0.58%) GitLab
11 5 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 260 (30.37%) Social Skills
2 191 (22.31%) Finance
3 99 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (10.75%) Banking
5 69 (8.06%) Marketing
6 68 (7.94%) Public Sector
7 40 (4.67%) Retail
8 39 (4.56%) Front Office
9 35 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (3.04%) Legal
12 22 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
13 17 (1.99%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.75%) Games
15 13 (1.52%) Retail Banking
16 12 (1.40%) Manufacturing
17 9 (1.05%) Electronics
17 9 (1.05%) Financial Institution
17 9 (1.05%) Investment Banking
17 9 (1.05%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 229 (26.75%) Developer
2 160 (18.69%) Designer
3 114 (13.32%) Senior
4 74 (8.64%) Analyst
5 73 (8.53%) UX Designer
6 67 (7.83%) React Developer
7 50 (5.84%) Software Engineer
8 39 (4.56%) Architect
9 38 (4.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 36 (4.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 35 (4.09%) Product Designer
12 34 (3.97%) Business Analyst
13 33 (3.86%) Lead
13 33 (3.86%) Senior Designer
14 32 (3.74%) Consultant
14 32 (3.74%) UI Designer
15 26 (3.04%) UI/UX Designer
16 24 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
16 24 (2.80%) User Experience Researcher
17 23 (2.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (14.84%) HTML
2 121 (14.14%) CSS
3 116 (13.55%) React
4 77 (9.00%) Node.js
5 56 (6.54%) Redux
6 52 (6.07%) RESTful
7 45 (5.26%) AngularJS
8 40 (4.67%) .NET
9 39 (4.56%) HTML5
10 31 (3.62%) jQuery
11 29 (3.39%) REST
12 28 (3.27%) XML
13 25 (2.92%) GraphQL
14 22 (2.57%) CSS3
15 16 (1.87%) JSON
16 15 (1.75%) Jest
16 15 (1.75%) Next.js
16 15 (1.75%) Web Services
17 13 (1.52%) OAuth
17 13 (1.52%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 81 (9.46%) Product Ownership
2 61 (7.13%) Mobile App
3 36 (4.21%) Fixed Income
4 34 (3.97%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (1.75%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.52%) Algorithms
7 13 (1.52%) Cloud Native
7 13 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (1.52%) Social Media
8 12 (1.40%) e-Learning
8 12 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.29%) Learning Management System
9 11 (1.29%) Life Science
10 10 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.05%) Animation
11 9 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.05%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.96%) Windows
2 41 (4.79%) Apple iOS
3 40 (4.67%) Android
4 16 (1.87%) Windows 10
5 14 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.93%) Linux
7 5 (0.58%) Mac OS X
7 5 (0.58%) Unix
7 5 (0.58%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (33.88%) UX Design
2 279 (32.59%) Agile
3 166 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
4 106 (12.38%) User Research
5 91 (10.63%) Software Engineering
6 89 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 89 (10.40%) Wireframes
7 87 (10.16%) Roadmaps
8 85 (9.93%) CI/CD
9 80 (9.35%) Analytics
10 79 (9.23%) DevOps
11 76 (8.88%) Front End Development
12 75 (8.76%) Prototyping
13 73 (8.53%) Artificial Intelligence
13 73 (8.53%) Project Management
14 70 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 65 (7.59%) UX Research
16 63 (7.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 60 (7.01%) User Stories
18 57 (6.66%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 174 (20.33%) JavaScript
2 90 (10.51%) TypeScript
3 82 (9.58%) Python
4 76 (8.88%) SQL
5 46 (5.37%) Java
6 45 (5.26%) C#
7 22 (2.57%) Kotlin
8 13 (1.52%) PowerShell
8 13 (1.52%) Swift
9 10 (1.17%) Objective-C
10 7 (0.82%) ABAP
11 6 (0.70%) COBOL
11 6 (0.70%) Scala
12 5 (0.58%) Bash
12 5 (0.58%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.47%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.47%) C++
13 4 (0.47%) PHP
13 4 (0.47%) R
14 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 90 (10.51%) Security Cleared
2 85 (9.93%) Degree
3 72 (8.41%) SC Cleared
4 33 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.17%) Azure Certification
5 10 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (1.17%) Master's Degree
6 7 (0.82%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.58%) CBAP
7 5 (0.58%) CISSP
7 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.47%) A+ Certification
8 4 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (0.47%) PhD
9 3 (0.35%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.35%) PMP
10 2 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.23%) CISM
10 2 (0.23%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (11.57%) Accessibility
2 48 (5.61%) QA
3 31 (3.62%) WCAG
4 23 (2.69%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.17%) GDPR
6 9 (1.05%) SLA
7 4 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.35%) GRC
9 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.12%) MiFID
10 1 (0.12%) NIST
10 1 (0.12%) PMO
10 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (5.61%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.87%) Docker
3 8 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.47%) BitLocker
4 4 (0.47%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.12%) vSphere
6 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (1.75%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (1.52%) Terraform
4 9 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.70%) Grafana
6 5 (0.58%) SCCM
6 5 (0.58%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.23%) Ansible
7 2 (0.23%) Kibana
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.12%) HP Data Protector
8 1 (0.12%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 116 (13.55%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.07%) Adobe
3 45 (5.26%) SAP
4 41 (4.79%) ServiceNow
5 33 (3.86%) Google
6 29 (3.39%) Salesforce
7 14 (1.64%) OutSystems
8 12 (1.40%) Oracle
8 12 (1.40%) Workday
9 10 (1.17%) Cisco
10 9 (1.05%) Databricks
11 8 (0.93%) Genesys
11 8 (0.93%) VMware
12 7 (0.82%) Citrix
12 7 (0.82%) Zscaler
13 6 (0.70%) CheckPoint
13 6 (0.70%) IBM
13 6 (0.70%) Optimizely
13 6 (0.70%) Sitecore
14 5 (0.58%) CyberArk