User Experience Contracts in Manchester

UX
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring User Experience skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Experience over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 50 47
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +24
Contract jobs citing User Experience 36 46 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.89% 3.03% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.34% 3.48% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 32 53
10th Percentile £270 - £375
25th Percentile £375 £325 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £463 £543
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% -14.83% +15.84%
75th Percentile £519 £581 £588
90th Percentile £678 £850 £622
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - £21.35 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £35.38 £16.85
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +180.05% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £37.50
90th Percentile - £78.25 £45.00
North West median hourly rate £24.76 £60.00 £21.43
% change year-on-year -58.73% +180.05% +2.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in Manchester

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Experience in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for User Experience in Manchester

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Manchester

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Experience in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in Manchester

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bolton - 1 £300 - 5
User Experience
North West

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.78%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Maximo
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) AWS
1 4 (11.11%) Azure
2 3 (8.33%) Figma
2 3 (8.33%) Google Workspace
3 2 (5.56%) Apigee
3 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.78%) SaaS
4 1 (2.78%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (2.78%) GIS
1 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.78%) MySQL
1 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Jasmine
1 6 (16.67%) Mocha
2 4 (11.11%) Git
2 4 (11.11%) Grunt
2 4 (11.11%) gulp
2 4 (11.11%) Subversion
3 2 (5.56%) CircleCI
3 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
3 2 (5.56%) GitLab
3 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.56%) JIRA
3 2 (5.56%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.78%) Balsamiq
4 1 (2.78%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Finance
2 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.11%) Marketing
4 3 (8.33%) Legal
4 3 (8.33%) Retail
5 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Aviation
6 1 (2.78%) Military
6 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Developer
2 6 (16.67%) Senior
3 5 (13.89%) Designer
3 5 (13.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (13.89%) UX Designer
4 4 (11.11%) Architect
4 4 (11.11%) Content Designer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Product Manager
6 2 (5.56%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.78%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (30.56%) Node.js
2 6 (16.67%) CSS
2 6 (16.67%) HTML
3 5 (13.89%) HTML5
3 5 (13.89%) jQuery
3 5 (13.89%) Mustache
3 5 (13.89%) React
3 5 (13.89%) Sass
4 4 (11.11%) Playwright
5 3 (8.33%) RESTful
6 2 (5.56%) .NET
6 2 (5.56%) GraphQL
6 2 (5.56%) Puppeteer
7 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.78%) Jest
7 1 (2.78%) OAuth
7 1 (2.78%) REST
7 1 (2.78%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Onboarding
2 4 (11.11%) Social Media
3 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.56%) BYOD
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.78%) Blog
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Windows
2 4 (11.11%) Linux
3 3 (8.33%) Mac OS X
3 3 (8.33%) Unix
4 2 (5.56%) Mac OS
4 2 (5.56%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Agile
2 8 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 7 (19.44%) Front End Development
3 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
4 6 (16.67%) UX Design
4 6 (16.67%) Web Accessibility
5 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
5 5 (13.89%) Customer Service
5 5 (13.89%) TDD
5 5 (13.89%) Web Design
6 4 (11.11%) Application Packaging
6 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 4 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (11.11%) Technical Debt
7 3 (8.33%) Incident Management
7 3 (8.33%) Product Marketing
7 3 (8.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Java
1 9 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
3 2 (5.56%) Bash
3 2 (5.56%) Python
4 1 (2.78%) C#
4 1 (2.78%) PHP
4 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.78%) Accessibility
2 6 (16.67%) WCAG
3 3 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.56%) BitLocker
2 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) SCCM
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) Grafana
3 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Google
3 4 (11.11%) Tanium
4 2 (5.56%) CheckPoint
4 2 (5.56%) Citrix
4 2 (5.56%) CyberArk
4 2 (5.56%) PagerDuty
4 2 (5.56%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow