User Experience Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

UX
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring User Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 30 26
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +10
Contract jobs citing User Experience 14 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 5.69% 1.70% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.22% 2.34% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £404 - -
25th Percentile £409 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.23%
75th Percentile £453 - -
90th Percentile £481 - -
North West median daily rate £401 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -10.81% - -12.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 225 171 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 91.46% 72.77% 87.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 83 79
10th Percentile £129 £149 £219
25th Percentile £151 £188 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year -34.52% -1.18% -10.53%
75th Percentile £500 £507 £563
90th Percentile £638 £634 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 14
10th Percentile £12.21 £13.28 £13.77
25th Percentile £15.18 £15.22 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.67 £20.19 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% +7.68% +6.78%
75th Percentile £49.50 £23.53 £26.71
90th Percentile £51.02 £26.02 £43.70
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

User Experience job vacancy trend in Merseyside

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 13 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
Liverpool +7 14 £425 - 8
User Experience
North West

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 7 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (7.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Figma
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Firebase
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
2 1 (7.14%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) BGP
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 7 (50.00%) DHCP
1 7 (50.00%) DNS
1 7 (50.00%) NX-OS
1 7 (50.00%) VXLAN
1 7 (50.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 8 (57.14%) Banking
2 7 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Automotive
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
1 7 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 7 (50.00%) RF Engineer
1 7 (50.00%) Wireless Engineer
1 7 (50.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Designer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Support
3 1 (7.14%) Lead Designer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead UX Designer
3 1 (7.14%) Qlik Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Qlik Sense Developer
3 1 (7.14%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 2 (14.29%) React
1 2 (14.29%) Streamlit
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) D3.js
2 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
2 1 (7.14%) Flask
2 1 (7.14%) Flutter
2 1 (7.14%) Gradio
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) LangChain
2 1 (7.14%) Material-UI
2 1 (7.14%) Next.js
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) React Native
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (21.43%) Low-Code
4 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Data Protection
1 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (28.57%) UX Design
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (21.43%) Prototyping
2 3 (21.43%) Rapid Prototyping
2 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
3 2 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 2 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 2 (14.29%) Data Security
3 2 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (14.29%) ETL
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Lisp
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) CCNP
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco
1 7 (50.00%) Ekahau
1 7 (50.00%) Remedy
1 7 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Netlify
2 1 (7.14%) OpenAI