User Experience Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

UX
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring User Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	61	42	39
Rank change year-on-year	-19	-3	+31
Contract jobs citing User Experience	13	13	9
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire	1.42%	2.58%	1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.73%	2.80%	1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted	8	11	4
10^th Percentile	£406	£363	-
25^th Percentile	£444	£413	£406
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£488	£525	£413
Median % change year-on-year	-7.14%	+27.27%	+3.13%
75^th Percentile	£551	£588	£473
90^th Percentile	£552	£613	£572
East of England median daily rate	£410	£500	£450
% change year-on-year	-18.00%	+11.11%	-10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	750	465	453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire	81.70%	92.45%	84.36%
Number of daily rates quoted	263	212	166
10^th Percentile	£193	£195	£240
25^th Percentile	£400	£400	£314
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£530	£444
Median % change year-on-year	-0.85%	+19.32%	-19.32%
75^th Percentile	£675	£588	£575
90^th Percentile	£788	£699	£644
East of England median daily rate	£500	£500	£450
% change year-on-year	-	+11.11%	-10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	271	139	113
10^th Percentile	£17.00	£16.45	£15.10
25^th Percentile	£35.44	£18.40	£35.00
Median hourly rate	£65.00	£43.00	£60.00
Median % change year-on-year	+51.16%	-28.33%	-7.69%
75^th Percentile	£70.00	£65.13	£65.00
90^th Percentile	£80.00	£73.75	£70.00
East of England median hourly rate	£47.50	£21.00	£28.42
% change year-on-year	+126.19%	-26.11%	+42.10%

User Experience Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

User Experience Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

User Experience Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 18 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Hertfordshire

User Experience Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

User Experience Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 18 October 2026. 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
Hatfield	+7	6	£551	+11.59%	3
Watford	-	4	£450	-	4
Welwyn Garden City	+1	1	-	-	3
Hemel Hempstead	-11	1	£525	-	8
Stevenage	-	1	-	-	3
User Experience East of England

User Experience Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing User Experience also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hertfordshire region with a requirement for User Experience.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Roadmaps	61.5%	8
2	Performance Optimisation	53.8%	7
3	Agile	46.2%	6
3	AIOps	46.2%	6
3	AWS	46.2%	6
3	Azure	46.2%	6
3	Change Management	46.2%	6
3	Cribl.io	46.2%	6
3	Dashboard Development	46.2%	6
3	DevOps	46.2%	6
3	Dynatrace	46.2%	6
3	Grafana	46.2%	6
3	ITSM	46.2%	6
3	Observability	46.2%	6
3	OpenTelemetry	46.2%	6
3	Root Cause Analysis	46.2%	6
3	Security Cleared	46.2%	6
3	Splunk	46.2%	6
19	Anomaly Detection	38.5%	5
19	Ansible	38.5%	5
19	Azure Monitor	38.5%	5
19	Bash	38.5%	5
19	Continuous Improvement	38.5%	5
19	Data Pipeline	38.5%	5
19	eBPF	38.5%	5
19	Performance Engineering	38.5%	5
19	Platform Engineering	38.5%	5
19	Prometheus	38.5%	5
19	Python	38.5%	5
19	SC Cleared	38.5%	5

User Experience Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Roadmaps	61.5%	8
2	Performance Optimisation	53.8%	7
3	Agile	46.2%	6
3	AIOps	46.2%	6
3	Change Management	46.2%	6
3	Dashboard Development	46.2%	6
3	DevOps	46.2%	6
3	ITSM	46.2%	6
3	Observability	46.2%	6
3	Root Cause Analysis	46.2%	6
11	Anomaly Detection	38.5%	5
11	Continuous Improvement	38.5%	5
11	Data Pipeline	38.5%	5
11	Performance Engineering	38.5%	5
11	Platform Engineering	38.5%	5
11	SIEM	38.5%	5
11	Site Reliability Engineering	38.5%	5
11	Use Case	38.5%	5
19	CI/CD	30.8%	4
19	Full-Stack Development	30.8%	4