UX Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

User Experience Engineer
England > London

The median User Experience Engineer daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 372 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs requiring a UX Engineer 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% 0.007% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.007% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £450 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £550 £600 -
90th Percentile £580 - -
England median daily rate £208 £550 -
% change year-on-year -62.27% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 13,213 14,032 17,548
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 93.52% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,756 9,076 12,684
10th Percentile £344 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £757 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 154 209
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.65 £17.20
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.13 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% - -
75th Percentile £57.00 £54.69 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -24.86% -22.58% +39.11%

UX Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'UX Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

UX Engineer job vacancy trend in London

UX Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UX Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UX Engineer job vacancies in London

UX Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Engineer in London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Engineer in London

UX Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for UX Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for UX Engineer job vacancies in London

UX Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 21 December 2025, UX Engineer contract job roles required 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 London region featuring UX Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe XD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Figma
2 1 (50.00%) Focus Group
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) InVision
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Journey Map
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Next.js
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Sketch
2 1 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Research
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10

UX Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (50.00%) InVision
1 1 (50.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (50.00%) Focus Group
2 1 (50.00%) Journey Map
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Research
2 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe