User Experience Contracts in Glasgow

UX
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 50 35
Rank change year-on-year -1 -15 +16
Contract jobs citing User Experience 28 32 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.51% 3.65% 5.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 3.97% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 44
10th Percentile £365 - £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £435
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +9.20% +3.88%
75th Percentile £545 £506 £469
90th Percentile £588 £586 £550
Scotland median daily rate £450 £465 £438
% change year-on-year -3.28% +6.34% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Scotland median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - +62.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in Glasgow

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in Glasgow

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Glasgow

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 5 (17.86%) CMS
2 4 (14.29%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Sketch
2 2 (7.14%) Adobe XD
3 1 (3.57%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) Figma
3 5 (17.86%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.14%) AWS
4 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) DB2
2 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.57%) MySQL
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Xcode
2 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) webpack
3 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Financial Institution
5 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Analyst
1 7 (25.00%) Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Designer
3 5 (17.86%) Consultant
3 5 (17.86%) UX Designer
4 4 (14.29%) Mainframe Consultant
4 4 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Mobile Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Service Designer
6 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Database Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Designer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Service Designer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior UX Designer
6 2 (7.14%) UX Service Designer
7 1 (3.57%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Middleware
2 5 (17.86%) Node.js
2 5 (17.86%) React
3 3 (10.71%) CSS
3 3 (10.71%) HTML
3 3 (10.71%) RESTful
3 3 (10.71%) SwiftUI
3 3 (10.71%) UIKit
4 2 (7.14%) CSS3
4 2 (7.14%) HTML5
4 2 (7.14%) Kafka
4 2 (7.14%) Redux
4 2 (7.14%) REST
4 2 (7.14%) SOAP
4 2 (7.14%) Spring
4 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 2 (7.14%) Vue
5 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Mainframe
2 4 (14.29%) VSAM
3 3 (10.71%) Credit Risk
3 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (10.71%) iPad
3 3 (10.71%) iPhone
3 3 (10.71%) Mobile App
3 3 (10.71%) Virtual Team
4 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Android
1 5 (17.86%) Apple iOS
2 4 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) UX Design
2 8 (28.57%) Agile
2 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.00%) Service Design
3 7 (25.00%) Wireframes
4 6 (21.43%) Decision-Making
4 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (21.43%) Prototyping
4 6 (21.43%) Usability Testing
4 6 (21.43%) User Research
4 6 (21.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 5 (17.86%) Capacity Management
5 5 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (17.86%) Design Patterns
5 5 (17.86%) Microservices
5 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Information Security
6 4 (14.29%) Process Improvement
6 4 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 4 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Python
1 5 (17.86%) REXX
2 3 (10.71%) Java
2 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
2 3 (10.71%) Objective-C
2 3 (10.71%) Swift
3 2 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) Accessibility
2 4 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (10.71%) WCAG
4 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) RACF
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) CyberArk
2 2 (7.14%) Adobe
2 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow