User Experience Contract Job Trends in Manchester

UX
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring User Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 50 43
Rank change year-on-year +25 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing User Experience 82 38 58
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 7.04% 3.53% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.84% 3.93% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 22 47
10th Percentile £301 £269 £306
25th Percentile £318 £384 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -33.33%
75th Percentile £550 £497 £538
90th Percentile £638 £620 £591
North West median daily rate £404 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -10.25% - -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile £50.85 - £33.17
25th Percentile £53.75 - £57.65
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £63.50 - £79.69
90th Percentile £70.00 - £81.38
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £22.13 £75.00
% change year-on-year +148.53% -70.49% +66.67%

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 1,046 967 1,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.79% 89.70% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 581 978
10th Percentile £303 £294 £296
25th Percentile £373 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £585 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 39 48
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.98 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.52 £22.75 £17.37
Median hourly rate £22.82 £32.50 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.80% +31.31% -33.65%
75th Percentile £53.94 £44.38 £57.19
90th Percentile £64.13 £65.00 £76.10
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £32.01 £35.50
% change year-on-year +1.53% -9.83% +37.54%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

User Experience job vacancy trend in Manchester

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Manchester

User Experience
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 16 December 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 - 2 - - 4
User Experience
North West

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (7.32%) CMS
1 6 (7.32%) Confluence
2 1 (1.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (10.98%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (8.54%) Sketch
3 1 (1.22%) InVision
3 1 (1.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.83%) Azure
2 17 (20.73%) Figma
3 12 (14.63%) GCP
3 12 (14.63%) SaaS
4 11 (13.41%) Google Workspace
5 10 (12.20%) AWS
5 10 (12.20%) Google Tag Manager
5 10 (12.20%) Power Platform
6 9 (10.98%) Google Analytics
7 6 (7.32%) Miro
8 5 (6.10%) Entra ID
8 5 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (4.88%) GitHub
10 3 (3.66%) Serverless
11 2 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.44%) PowerApps
11 2 (2.44%) Slack
11 2 (2.44%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) DNS
2 1 (1.22%) DHCP
2 1 (1.22%) VPN
2 1 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.98%) Looker
2 8 (9.76%) Power BI
3 7 (8.54%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.22%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.22%) Mixpanel
4 1 (1.22%) MySQL
4 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (8.54%) GitLab
2 6 (7.32%) Gradle
2 6 (7.32%) JIRA
3 5 (6.10%) Git
4 4 (4.88%) IntelliJ
5 3 (3.66%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.44%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.44%) fastlane
6 2 (2.44%) Xcode
6 2 (2.44%) XCTest
7 1 (1.22%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.22%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (1.22%) Crashlytics
7 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.22%) Gatling
7 1 (1.22%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.22%) JUnit
7 1 (1.22%) Mocha
7 1 (1.22%) Storybook
General
1 28 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 24 (29.27%) Public Sector
3 12 (14.63%) Finance
4 5 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.10%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.66%) Banking
5 3 (3.66%) Games
5 3 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.66%) Military
6 1 (1.22%) Automotive
6 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Marketing
6 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Private Banking
6 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (18.29%) Analyst
1 15 (18.29%) Designer
2 14 (17.07%) Senior
3 12 (14.63%) Developer
4 8 (9.76%) UX Designer
5 7 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (8.54%) Performance Analyst
6 5 (6.10%) Business Analyst
6 5 (6.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 4 (4.88%) Senior Designer
8 3 (3.66%) Architect
8 3 (3.66%) Consultant
8 3 (3.66%) Digital Analyst
8 3 (3.66%) Digital Business Analyst
8 3 (3.66%) Games Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Java Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.98%) REST
2 8 (9.76%) React
3 7 (8.54%) GraphQL
4 6 (7.32%) Spring
4 6 (7.32%) Spring Boot
5 5 (6.10%) Jest
5 5 (6.10%) Next.js
5 5 (6.10%) Node.js
5 5 (6.10%) Playwright
6 4 (4.88%) Android Jetpack
6 4 (4.88%) Jetpack Compose
6 4 (4.88%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (4.88%) Redux
7 3 (3.66%) CSS
7 3 (3.66%) HTML
7 3 (3.66%) WebSockets
7 3 (3.66%) Zustand
8 2 (2.44%) CSS3
8 2 (2.44%) HTML5
8 2 (2.44%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (9.76%) Onboarding
3 7 (8.54%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.88%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.66%) Learning Management System
6 2 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.44%) Digital Signage
6 2 (2.44%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.44%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.22%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.22%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.54%) Windows
2 6 (7.32%) Android
2 6 (7.32%) Apple iOS
3 4 (4.88%) Mac OS
3 4 (4.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (35.37%) Agile
2 19 (23.17%) Analytics
3 18 (21.95%) UX Design
4 17 (20.73%) Validation
5 12 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (14.63%) Service Design
5 12 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (13.41%) Mobile Device Management
6 11 (13.41%) User Research
7 10 (12.20%) CI/CD
8 9 (10.98%) Actionable Insight
8 9 (10.98%) Benchmarking
9 8 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (9.76%) Data Analysis
9 8 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (9.76%) Interaction Design
10 7 (8.54%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 7 (8.54%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 7 (8.54%) Performance Measurement
10 7 (8.54%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.98%) Java
2 8 (9.76%) JavaScript
2 8 (9.76%) TypeScript
3 7 (8.54%) Kotlin
4 4 (4.88%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.66%) Bash
6 2 (2.44%) Objective-C
6 2 (2.44%) Python
6 2 (2.44%) Swift
7 1 (1.22%) C#
7 1 (1.22%) PHP
7 1 (1.22%) Scala
7 1 (1.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (20.73%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.66%) Degree
4 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.22%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.22%) ISEB
5 1 (1.22%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (37.80%) Accessibility
2 10 (12.20%) QA
3 8 (9.76%) Data Quality
4 6 (7.32%) GDPR
5 4 (4.88%) WCAG
6 3 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (2.44%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.66%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.22%) Docker
3 1 (1.22%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 9 (10.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (6.10%) Grafana
2 5 (6.10%) SCCM
3 4 (4.88%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.22%) AirWatch
4 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (29.27%) Google
2 23 (28.05%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.32%) Hopewiser
4 3 (3.66%) Citrix
4 3 (3.66%) VMware
5 2 (2.44%) Adobe
6 1 (1.22%) Apple
6 1 (1.22%) Samsung
6 1 (1.22%) SAP
6 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.22%) Splunk