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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 42 69
Rank change year-on-year -16 +27 -18
Contract jobs citing User Experience 9 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.07% 1.49% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.64% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 3
10th Percentile £408 £381 £282
25th Percentile £419 £438 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £475 £300
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +58.33% -
75th Percentile £551 £513 £369
90th Percentile £566 £573 £410
East of England median daily rate £410 £475 £350
% change year-on-year -13.68% +35.71% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.73 - -
Median hourly rate £16.95 - -
75th Percentile £17.18 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £16.95 - -

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 663 304 732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 78.46% 90.75% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 154 257
10th Percentile £200 £382 £234
25th Percentile £406 £450 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +29.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £600
90th Percentile £750 £675 £705
East of England median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 80 314
10th Percentile £16.35 £20.34 £38.12
25th Percentile £18.50 £41.25 £40.13
Median hourly rate £41.50 £63.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.13% +26.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile £68.75 £81.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £77.00
East of England median hourly rate £23.83 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -40.44% - +81.82%

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 job vacancy trend 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 May 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.

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 May 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 - 4 £550 - 1
Stevenage - 3 £427 - 2
Hemel Hempstead -12 1 £575 +58.62% 1
Watford - 1 - -
User Experience
East of England

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) SNMP
2 1 (11.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
3 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) Designer
1 3 (33.33%) Product Designer
2 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) ITSM Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Product Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) eBPF
1 4 (44.44%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (44.44%) AIOps
2 4 (44.44%) Anomaly Detection
2 4 (44.44%) Dashboard Development
2 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) ITSM
2 4 (44.44%) Observability
2 4 (44.44%) Performance Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (44.44%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
2 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (44.44%) SIEM
2 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Use Case
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Ideation Sessions
3 3 (33.33%) Journey Map
3 3 (33.33%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GMP
1 2 (22.22%) GxP
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
1 4 (44.44%) Grafana
1 4 (44.44%) Prometheus
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cribl.io
1 4 (44.44%) Dynatrace
1 4 (44.44%) Splunk
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) New Relic
3 1 (11.11%) Workday