User Experience Contract Job Trends in Essex

UX
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring User Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 +21
Contract jobs citing User Experience 4 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 3.42% 2.33% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 2.94% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile - £331 £493
25th Percentile £425 £351 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £384 £595
Median % change year-on-year +15.23% -35.46% +2.60%
75th Percentile £460 £417 £600
90th Percentile - £437 -
East of England median daily rate £460 £490 £524
% change year-on-year -6.03% -6.54% -10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £89.44
East of England median hourly rate £19.16 - £53.58
% change year-on-year - - -17.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83 68 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 70.94% 79.07% 83.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 36 102
10th Percentile £185 £180 £181
25th Percentile £300 £213 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £317 £450
Median % change year-on-year +34.28% -29.67% -
75th Percentile £508 £539 £566
90th Percentile £550 £600 £600
East of England median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.32% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 17
10th Percentile £13.36 £12.00 £16.75
25th Percentile - £13.33 £20.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £15.61 £40.31
Median % change year-on-year +20.88% -61.28% +61.24%
75th Percentile £23.58 £17.83 £55.50
90th Percentile £66.87 £19.13 £71.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year -30.00% +40.78% -3.14%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Experience relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

User Experience job vacancy trend in Essex

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing User Experience.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing User Experience

User Experience
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing User Experience.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing User Experience

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Witham - 4 £443 -
User Experience
East of England

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Contentful
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Designer
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) UI Designer
1 2 (50.00%) UI/UX Designer
1 2 (50.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Framer.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) UX Design
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 2 (50.00%) Interaction Design
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
2 2 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 2 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Wireframes
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Progress