User Experience Contracts in England

UX
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for User Experience skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Experience over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 62 60
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing User Experience 966 1,749 2,776
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.66% 3.65% 3.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 4.05% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 1,241 2,027
10th Percentile £300 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £618
90th Percentile £700 £709 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -1.57% -3.24% +12.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 25 50
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.85 £22.30
25th Percentile £21.89 £17.50 £31.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £26.50 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% -52.04% +68.19%
75th Percentile £62.89 £49.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £74.13 £67.66 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.56 £32.69 £55.50
% change year-on-year -18.75% -41.10% +73.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

User Experience is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,336 43,140 63,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.24% 90.03% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,550 30,257 45,511
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 1,528 1,750
10th Percentile £12.88 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +7.00%

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 22 May 2024.

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 22 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 -13 580 £504 -8.32% 358
North of England -1 108 £475 -9.52% 201
South East -35 85 £500 +5.26% 88
North West -8 60 £469 -12.79% 136
Midlands +16 58 £500 +5.26% 92
West Midlands +23 52 £506 +1.25% 60
South West -12 51 £425 -13.04% 48
Yorkshire -11 36 £500 +2.56% 49
North East +10 12 £450 -27.27% 17
East of England -20 12 £350 -6.67% 34
East Midlands -3 5 £409 -9.11% 32
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 61 (6.31%) CMS
2 31 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.86%) Apache
4 16 (1.66%) Confluence
5 12 (1.24%) SAS
6 10 (1.04%) Sitecore CMS
7 9 (0.93%) Headless CMS
8 8 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.72%) Drupal
10 6 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.62%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 5 (0.52%) WordPress
12 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.31%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.21%) nginx
14 2 (0.21%) Umbraco
15 1 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
15 1 (0.10%) Jadu
15 1 (0.10%) Kentico
15 1 (0.10%) Moodle
Applications
1 41 (4.24%) Sketch
2 33 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 23 (2.38%) Adobe XD
5 22 (2.28%) Photoshop
6 20 (2.07%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 19 (1.97%) InVision
8 18 (1.86%) Adobe Illustrator
9 9 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 7 (0.72%) Adobe Captivate
11 5 (0.52%) UserZoom
12 4 (0.41%) InDesign
12 4 (0.41%) SPSS
13 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
13 3 (0.31%) MicroStation
13 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
14 1 (0.10%) Final Cut Pro
14 1 (0.10%) Marvel
14 1 (0.10%) OmniGraffle
14 1 (0.10%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 10 (1.04%) Magento
2 7 (0.72%) Shopify
3 6 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.41%) WebTrends
5 3 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.21%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.10%) Relativity
7 1 (0.10%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.10%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.10%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.10%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 113 (11.70%) AWS
2 110 (11.39%) Figma
3 88 (9.11%) Azure
4 42 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 33 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (3.21%) GCP
7 21 (2.17%) GitHub
8 20 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (1.97%) SaaS
10 18 (1.86%) Serverless
11 15 (1.55%) PowerApps
12 14 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (1.45%) Miro
13 13 (1.35%) Google Analytics
13 13 (1.35%) Power Automate
14 12 (1.24%) Entra ID
15 10 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
16 9 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 8 (0.83%) npm
18 7 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.38%) VPN
2 13 (1.35%) Intranet
3 10 (1.04%) Firewall
4 8 (0.83%) DHCP
4 8 (0.83%) DNS
4 8 (0.83%) HTTP
5 7 (0.72%) Internet
6 6 (0.62%) SSH
7 4 (0.41%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.31%) LAN
9 2 (0.21%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.21%) WAN
10 1 (0.10%) 5G
10 1 (0.10%) Cisco IPT
10 1 (0.10%) LTE
10 1 (0.10%) OpenLDAP
10 1 (0.10%) Radio Access Network
10 1 (0.10%) VoIP
10 1 (0.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
2 40 (4.14%) Power BI
3 30 (3.11%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.76%) MySQL
5 16 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.66%) NoSQL
6 15 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.24%) MongoDB
7 12 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.14%) Big Data
8 11 (1.14%) Crystal Reports
9 9 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.83%) Apache Ignite
10 8 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
11 7 (0.72%) Metadata
11 7 (0.72%) Tableau
12 5 (0.52%) Power Query
13 4 (0.41%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.41%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.41%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 49 (5.07%) Git
2 34 (3.52%) JIRA
3 14 (1.45%) Axure RP
4 10 (1.04%) git-flow
4 10 (1.04%) Gradle
4 10 (1.04%) webpack
5 9 (0.93%) Cypress.io
6 8 (0.83%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (0.62%) GitLab
8 6 (0.62%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.52%) Babel
9 5 (0.52%) Jenkins
9 5 (0.52%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 4 (0.41%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.31%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.31%) JMeter
11 3 (0.31%) Maven
12 2 (0.21%) Balsamiq
General
1 267 (27.64%) Social Skills
2 149 (15.42%) Finance
3 94 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (9.63%) Marketing
5 85 (8.80%) Public Sector
6 38 (3.93%) Retail
7 37 (3.83%) Banking
8 27 (2.80%) Legal
9 22 (2.28%) Telecoms
10 18 (1.86%) Front Office
10 18 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.86%) Local Government
11 16 (1.66%) Games
11 16 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (1.66%) Publishing
12 14 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (1.24%) Law
14 11 (1.14%) Health Technology
14 11 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 214 (22.15%) Developer
2 199 (20.60%) Designer
3 171 (17.70%) Senior
4 120 (12.42%) UX Designer
5 70 (7.25%) Software Engineer
6 61 (6.31%) Analyst
7 55 (5.69%) UI Designer
8 52 (5.38%) Architect
9 51 (5.28%) Lead
10 50 (5.18%) UI/UX Designer
11 49 (5.07%) React Developer
12 44 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 39 (4.04%) Senior Designer
14 38 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
15 35 (3.62%) Business Analyst
16 34 (3.52%) Consultant
17 31 (3.21%) Senior Developer
17 31 (3.21%) Senior UX Designer
17 31 (3.21%) UI Developer
18 29 (3.00%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (13.04%) React
2 122 (12.63%) CSS
3 119 (12.32%) HTML
4 57 (5.90%) AngularJS
5 52 (5.38%) Node.js
6 44 (4.55%) Kafka
7 43 (4.45%) RESTful
8 35 (3.62%) Redux
9 33 (3.42%) .NET
10 31 (3.21%) REST
11 24 (2.48%) HTML5
12 22 (2.28%) Sass
13 21 (2.17%) CSS3
14 20 (2.07%) Jest
15 18 (1.86%) WebSockets
16 15 (1.55%) jQuery
16 15 (1.55%) Material-UI
16 15 (1.55%) Tailwind CSS
17 14 (1.45%) Vue
18 13 (1.35%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 86 (8.90%) Product Ownership
2 65 (6.73%) Mobile App
3 32 (3.31%) Fixed Income
4 25 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 21 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 14 (1.45%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.35%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.14%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.14%) Graphic Design
10 11 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
11 10 (1.04%) Digital Media
12 9 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (0.93%) Public Cloud
12 9 (0.93%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.83%) Animation
13 8 (0.83%) Over-the-Top Content
14 7 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 46 (4.76%) Windows
2 42 (4.35%) Android
3 34 (3.52%) Apple iOS
4 16 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.04%) Linux
6 7 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.72%) Windows 7
7 5 (0.52%) Unix
8 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (40.99%) UX Design
2 293 (30.33%) Agile
3 151 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
4 136 (14.08%) User Research
5 114 (11.80%) Software Engineering
6 101 (10.46%) UX Research
7 94 (9.73%) Front End Development
8 85 (8.80%) Roadmaps
9 78 (8.07%) Analytics
9 78 (8.07%) DevOps
9 78 (8.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 76 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
11 72 (7.45%) Wireframes
12 66 (6.83%) Customer Experience
13 65 (6.73%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 61 (6.31%) Fintech
15 58 (6.00%) Computer Science
16 56 (5.80%) CI/CD
17 52 (5.38%) Scrum
17 52 (5.38%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 138 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 78 (8.07%) SQL
3 76 (7.87%) TypeScript
4 68 (7.04%) Python
5 60 (6.21%) Java
6 48 (4.97%) Go
7 41 (4.24%) C#
8 23 (2.38%) Kotlin
9 19 (1.97%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.76%) Swift
11 14 (1.45%) PHP
12 13 (1.35%) Objective-C
13 7 (0.72%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.72%) Bicep
13 7 (0.72%) C
14 5 (0.52%) C++
14 5 (0.52%) SOQL
15 4 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.31%) Dart
16 3 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 121 (12.53%) Degree
2 94 (9.73%) Security Cleared
3 60 (6.21%) SC Cleared
4 41 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.66%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (1.04%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.62%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.62%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.52%) Citrix Certification
12 4 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.41%) HNC
12 4 (0.41%) MCSA
13 3 (0.31%) CCA
13 3 (0.31%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (9.11%) Accessibility
2 49 (5.07%) QA
3 17 (1.76%) SLA
4 16 (1.66%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.66%) WCAG
5 9 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (0.83%) GDPR
7 5 (0.52%) PMO
8 4 (0.41%) GRC
9 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.31%) GxP
9 3 (0.31%) MiFID
9 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.21%) EMIR
10 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.10%) NCSC
11 1 (0.10%) NIST
System Software
1 53 (5.49%) Docker
2 20 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.21%) vSphere
4 2 (0.21%) XenApp
4 2 (0.21%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 60 (6.21%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (1.14%) Terraform
4 4 (0.41%) Ansible
4 4 (0.41%) SCCM
5 2 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (0.21%) Grafana
6 1 (0.10%) AppManager
6 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.10%) Kibana
6 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.10%) Nessus
Vendors
1 89 (9.21%) Microsoft
2 71 (7.35%) Adobe
3 35 (3.62%) Google
4 25 (2.59%) ServiceNow
5 23 (2.38%) SAP
6 22 (2.28%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.76%) Apple
8 16 (1.66%) Sitecore
9 12 (1.24%) IFS
9 12 (1.24%) Oracle
10 11 (1.14%) Citrix
11 9 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.72%) Optimizely
12 7 (0.72%) RedPrairie
12 7 (0.72%) VMware
13 5 (0.52%) CyberArk
13 5 (0.52%) MicroStrategy
13 5 (0.52%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.41%) Cognos
14 4 (0.41%) Pardot