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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 51 64
Rank change year-on-year +9 +13 -4
Contract jobs citing User Experience 12 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 2.63% 1.15% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 1.34% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 6
10th Percentile £326 - £229
25th Percentile £414 £406 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £388
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% +6.45% -22.50%
75th Percentile £588 £419 £494
90th Percentile £620 - £538
East of England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.42%

All Process and 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 420 522 669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 91.90% 85.86% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 159 366
10th Percentile £244 £237 £260
25th Percentile £422 £306 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +32.63% -27.27% +7.68%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £675
90th Percentile £688 £628 £769
East of England median daily rate £500 £442 £500
% change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 186 146
10th Percentile £16.51 £15.51 £17.77
25th Percentile £23.13 £43.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -23.08% +16.07%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £74.25 £69.38 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year -37.13% +101.92% -2.17%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in Hertfordshire

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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 17 September 2025.

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.

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 17 September 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
Welwyn Garden City +1 3 £563 - 1
Hemel Hempstead - 3 £525 - 3
Letchworth - 2 £325 -
Hatfield - 1 - - 1
User Experience
East of England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Chatbot
1 1 (8.33%) Marvel
1 1 (8.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Figma
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (8.33%) Miro
3 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Einstein
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Tableau
2 1 (8.33%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Axure RP
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Designer
1 3 (25.00%) Lead
1 3 (25.00%) UX Designer
2 1 (8.33%) Administrator
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
2 1 (8.33%) IT Support
2 1 (8.33%) PMO Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior PMO
2 1 (8.33%) Support Officer
2 1 (8.33%) Tableau Administrator
2 1 (8.33%) UI Designer
2 1 (8.33%) UI/UX Designer
2 1 (8.33%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Agile
1 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (25.00%) UX Design
2 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (16.67%) Change Management
2 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (16.67%) Data Science
2 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (16.67%) Project Governance
2 2 (16.67%) Usability Testing
2 2 (16.67%) UX Research
2 2 (16.67%) Wireframes
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing Automation
3 1 (8.33%) Minimum Viable Product
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) PMO
2 1 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 2 (16.67%) Workday
3 1 (8.33%) Genesys
3 1 (8.33%) Planview
3 1 (8.33%) SAP