UX Engineer Contracts in England

User Experience Engineer
UK > England

The median User Experience Engineer daily rate in England is £208, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 541 619
Rank change year-on-year +43 +78 +171
Contract jobs requiring a UX Engineer 4 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.015% 0.022% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.024% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £204 - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £700 £410
Median % change year-on-year -70.36% +70.73% -18.00%
75th Percentile £211 - £415
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £208 £700 £410
% change year-on-year -70.36% +70.73% -18.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 25,199 33,243 44,363
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 92.98% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,389 21,876 31,340
10th Percentile £290 £300 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,249 2,255 1,389
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.38 £41.27 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.66% -6.22% +76.00%
75th Percentile £56.44 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +67.45%

UX Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured UX Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for UX Engineer in England

UX Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UX Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for UX Engineer in England

UX Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UX Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for UX Engineer in England

UX Engineer
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 UX Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
South East - 3 £208 - 3
London +31 1 - -
UX Engineer
UK

UX Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 July 2025, UX Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring UX Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (75.00%) Sauce Labs
2 3 (75.00%) SaaS
2 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (75.00%) Android Studio
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (75.00%) Android
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Eclipse
2 3 (75.00%) Xcode
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) Unix
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) OO
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft

UX Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
1 3 (75.00%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Android Studio
1 3 (75.00%) Browser DevTools
1 3 (75.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (75.00%) Xcode
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Ajax
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (75.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Android
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 3 (75.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) SAP