User Experience Contract Job Trends in Leicester

UX
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring User Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Contract jobs citing User Experience 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 10.53% - 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.94% - 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.39%
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £600 - £350
% change year-on-year - - -11.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67 65 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 88.16% 85.53% 80.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 43 73
10th Percentile £194 £230 £201
25th Percentile £400 £275 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.63% +18.75%
75th Percentile £613 £614 £575
90th Percentile £625 £715 £665
Leicestershire median daily rate £425 £456 £375
% change year-on-year -6.85% +21.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £13.69 - £11.80
25th Percentile £14.88 £21.25 £11.88
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +66.67% -34.47%
75th Percentile £23.50 £23.75 £35.63
90th Percentile £25.38 - £47.85
Leicestershire median hourly rate £22.00 £26.25 £14.00
% change year-on-year -16.19% +87.50% -31.57%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

User Experience job vacancy trend in Leicester

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

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

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Leicester over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Leicester

User Experience
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

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

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

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 6 (75.00%) CMS
2 5 (62.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (62.50%) Headless CMS
2 5 (62.50%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (62.50%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Contentful
1 5 (62.50%) Kontent
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) C# Developer
2 5 (62.50%) CMS Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Full-Stack C# Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Full-Stack Developer
2 5 (62.50%) React Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce Product Owner
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
1 6 (75.00%) CSS
1 6 (75.00%) HTML
2 5 (62.50%) .NET Framework
2 5 (62.50%) AngularJS
2 5 (62.50%) ASP.NET
2 5 (62.50%) ASP.NET MVC
2 5 (62.50%) React
2 5 (62.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Mobile App
2 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (62.50%) AI
2 5 (62.50%) MVC
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Backlog Management
4 2 (25.00%) Mobile First
4 2 (25.00%) Product Backlog
4 2 (25.00%) Product Vision
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) User Stories
5 1 (12.50%) A/B Testing
5 1 (12.50%) API Development
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
5 1 (12.50%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C#
1 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Adobe
1 5 (62.50%) Sitecore