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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 63 60
Rank change year-on-year -15 -3 -5
Contract jobs citing User Experience 992 1,792 2,800
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.69% 3.58% 3.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.11% 3.97% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 1,269 2,062
10th Percentile £300 £350 £369
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £622
90th Percentile £700 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 26 44
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.85 £20.37
25th Percentile £23.75 £17.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £29.14 £29.60 £50.56
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -41.46% +53.90%
75th Percentile £61.63 £47.81 £62.00
90th Percentile £73.67 £65.13 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £31.71 £32.69 £50.56
% change year-on-year -3.00% -35.34% +53.90%

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 31,926 45,112 64,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,947 31,664 45,849
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,598 1,761
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -9 596 £500 -9.09% 374
North of England -12 106 £475 -7.32% 193
South East -22 97 £500 +5.26% 93
North West -18 57 £475 -10.59% 127
Midlands +12 54 £488 +8.33% 87
South West -6 51 £425 -11.87% 66
West Midlands +21 47 £500 - 58
Yorkshire -8 38 £500 +3.90% 46
East of England -18 13 £388 +3.33% 41
North East +17 11 £575 +14.43% 21
East Midlands +8 6 £400 -5.88% 29
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 58 (5.85%) CMS
2 31 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.51%) Confluence
4 14 (1.41%) Apache
5 12 (1.21%) SAS
6 10 (1.01%) Sitecore CMS
7 8 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.71%) Drupal
8 7 (0.71%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.50%) WordPress
10 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.40%) Tornado
11 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.30%) nginx
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
13 1 (0.10%) Jadu
13 1 (0.10%) Moodle
Applications
1 41 (4.13%) Sketch
2 35 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 23 (2.32%) Photoshop
5 22 (2.22%) Adobe XD
6 21 (2.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 18 (1.81%) Adobe Illustrator
7 18 (1.81%) InVision
8 9 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 7 (0.71%) Adobe Captivate
10 4 (0.40%) InDesign
10 4 (0.40%) SPSS
10 4 (0.40%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.30%) MicroStation
11 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.10%) Houdini
13 1 (0.10%) Marvel
13 1 (0.10%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 10 (1.01%) Magento
2 7 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
2 7 (0.71%) Shopify
3 5 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.40%) WebTrends
5 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.10%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.10%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 111 (11.19%) Figma
2 105 (10.58%) AWS
3 84 (8.47%) Azure
4 46 (4.64%) Power Platform
5 34 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (2.02%) PowerApps
7 19 (1.92%) GCP
7 19 (1.92%) GitHub
8 18 (1.81%) Power Automate
8 18 (1.81%) Serverless
9 15 (1.51%) SaaS
10 13 (1.31%) Miro
11 12 (1.21%) Google Analytics
12 11 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (0.91%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 9 (0.91%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (0.81%) Entra ID
14 8 (0.81%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.22%) VPN
2 11 (1.11%) Intranet
3 10 (1.01%) Firewall
4 8 (0.81%) HTTP
4 8 (0.81%) Internet
5 7 (0.71%) DHCP
6 6 (0.60%) DNS
7 4 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.30%) LAN
9 2 (0.20%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.20%) SSH
9 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.20%) WAN
10 1 (0.10%) Cisco IPT
10 1 (0.10%) NFC
10 1 (0.10%) OpenLDAP
10 1 (0.10%) PPP
10 1 (0.10%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (4.64%) Apache Cassandra
2 43 (4.33%) Power BI
3 29 (2.92%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (1.71%) NoSQL
5 13 (1.31%) Big Data
6 11 (1.11%) MongoDB
6 11 (1.11%) MySQL
6 11 (1.11%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.01%) Crystal Reports
7 10 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
9 7 (0.71%) Metadata
9 7 (0.71%) Tableau
10 6 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.50%) Apache Ignite
11 5 (0.50%) Data Mining
11 5 (0.50%) Power Query
12 4 (0.40%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (4.13%) Git
2 33 (3.33%) JIRA
3 14 (1.41%) Axure RP
4 10 (1.01%) Cypress.io
4 10 (1.01%) Gradle
4 10 (1.01%) webpack
5 9 (0.91%) TeamCity
6 7 (0.71%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.71%) git-flow
6 7 (0.71%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (0.60%) GitLab
7 6 (0.60%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.50%) Babel
8 5 (0.50%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 4 (0.40%) Selenium
9 4 (0.40%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.30%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.30%) JMeter
10 3 (0.30%) Maven
General
1 280 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 142 (14.31%) Finance
3 96 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (8.97%) Marketing
5 85 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.03%) Retail
7 38 (3.83%) Banking
8 25 (2.52%) Legal
9 22 (2.22%) Local Government
10 21 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.92%) Telecoms
12 18 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (1.71%) Games
13 17 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.61%) Front Office
14 16 (1.61%) Publishing
15 13 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (1.21%) Law
16 12 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (1.11%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 215 (21.67%) Developer
2 204 (20.56%) Designer
3 183 (18.45%) Senior
4 127 (12.80%) UX Designer
5 72 (7.26%) Software Engineer
6 64 (6.45%) Analyst
7 57 (5.75%) Lead
8 56 (5.65%) UI Designer
9 51 (5.14%) Architect
9 51 (5.14%) UI/UX Designer
10 44 (4.44%) React Developer
11 43 (4.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 42 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
13 41 (4.13%) Senior Designer
14 37 (3.73%) Senior Developer
15 33 (3.33%) Business Analyst
15 33 (3.33%) Senior UX Designer
16 29 (2.92%) UI Developer
17 27 (2.72%) Product Manager
18 26 (2.62%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (11.39%) CSS
2 111 (11.19%) React
3 109 (10.99%) HTML
4 53 (5.34%) Kafka
5 52 (5.24%) Node.js
6 48 (4.84%) AngularJS
7 37 (3.73%) .NET
7 37 (3.73%) RESTful
8 32 (3.23%) REST
9 30 (3.02%) Redux
10 20 (2.02%) HTML5
10 20 (2.02%) Sass
11 19 (1.92%) WebSockets
12 18 (1.81%) CSS3
13 17 (1.71%) Jest
13 17 (1.71%) JSON
14 15 (1.51%) Vue
15 14 (1.41%) jQuery
15 14 (1.41%) Tailwind CSS
16 13 (1.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 91 (9.17%) Product Ownership
2 66 (6.65%) Mobile App
3 27 (2.72%) Fixed Income
4 26 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.31%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (1.21%) Graphic Design
10 11 (1.11%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.11%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
11 10 (1.01%) Digital Media
12 9 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (0.91%) Public Cloud
13 8 (0.81%) Animation
13 8 (0.81%) Augmented Reality
13 8 (0.81%) Over-the-Top Content
13 8 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.23%) Windows
2 40 (4.03%) Android
3 31 (3.13%) Apple iOS
4 14 (1.41%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.81%) Linux
5 8 (0.81%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.81%) Windows 7
6 4 (0.40%) Unix
6 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (40.83%) UX Design
2 309 (31.15%) Agile
3 159 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
4 141 (14.21%) User Research
5 116 (11.69%) Software Engineering
6 106 (10.69%) UX Research
7 96 (9.68%) Front End Development
8 91 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 88 (8.87%) Roadmaps
10 86 (8.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 81 (8.17%) DevOps
12 76 (7.66%) Analytics
13 72 (7.26%) Wireframes
14 68 (6.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 62 (6.25%) Customer Experience
15 62 (6.25%) Fintech
16 59 (5.95%) Computer Science
17 57 (5.75%) CI/CD
17 57 (5.75%) Scrum
18 55 (5.54%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 137 (13.81%) JavaScript
2 79 (7.96%) SQL
3 73 (7.36%) Python
4 72 (7.26%) TypeScript
5 58 (5.85%) Java
6 51 (5.14%) Go
7 43 (4.33%) C#
8 23 (2.32%) Kotlin
9 18 (1.81%) PowerShell
10 15 (1.51%) Swift
11 14 (1.41%) PHP
12 12 (1.21%) Objective-C
13 7 (0.71%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.71%) Bicep
13 7 (0.71%) C
14 6 (0.60%) C++
15 5 (0.50%) SOQL
16 4 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.30%) Dart
17 3 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 127 (12.80%) Degree
2 92 (9.27%) Security Cleared
3 58 (5.85%) SC Cleared
4 41 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.71%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.51%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.81%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.60%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.40%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.40%) HNC
12 3 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.30%) ISEB
12 3 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (8.97%) Accessibility
2 53 (5.34%) QA
3 22 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 21 (2.12%) SLA
5 13 (1.31%) WCAG
6 10 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.91%) GDPR
8 6 (0.60%) PMO
9 4 (0.40%) GRC
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.30%) MiFID
11 2 (0.20%) GxP
11 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.10%) NCSC
12 1 (0.10%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (5.54%) Docker
2 16 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.20%) vSphere
5 1 (0.10%) Firmware
5 1 (0.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 63 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (1.01%) Terraform
3 5 (0.50%) SCCM
4 4 (0.40%) Ansible
5 2 (0.20%) Grafana
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.10%) AppManager
6 1 (0.10%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.10%) Kibana
6 1 (0.10%) Nessus
6 1 (0.10%) Oozie
6 1 (0.10%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 85 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 74 (7.46%) Adobe
3 34 (3.43%) Google
4 25 (2.52%) Salesforce
5 24 (2.42%) ServiceNow
6 22 (2.22%) SAP
7 17 (1.71%) Apple
8 16 (1.61%) Sitecore
9 12 (1.21%) IFS
10 10 (1.01%) Citrix
11 9 (0.91%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.81%) Databricks
13 7 (0.71%) Optimizely
13 7 (0.71%) Oracle
14 6 (0.60%) RedPrairie
15 5 (0.50%) Blue Prism
15 5 (0.50%) MicroStrategy
15 5 (0.50%) Pardot
15 5 (0.50%) Red Hat
15 5 (0.50%) VMware