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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 26 31
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing User Experience 13 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 6.37% 2.13% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.26% 2.99% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £413 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £475 £575 -
90th Percentile £488 - -
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £481
% change year-on-year -5.56% -6.49% -8.33%

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 179 167 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 87.75% 71.06% 86.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 76 113
10th Percentile £129 £154 £223
25th Percentile £163 £211 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £423 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -8.65% -
75th Percentile £500 £500 £563
90th Percentile £650 £600 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 13
10th Percentile - £16.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £12.21 £20.19 £16.25
Median hourly rate £13.70 £22.88 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.13% +20.39% +8.39%
75th Percentile £15.18 £40.00 £29.00
90th Percentile £17.65 £54.00 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +41.19%

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 16 October 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 +9 13 £450 -18.18% 3
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 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) MS Visio
2 1 (7.69%) Chatbot
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Figma
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Firebase
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
3 1 (7.69%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) BGP
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco ISE
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Wireless
1 4 (30.77%) DHCP
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
1 4 (30.77%) NX-OS
1 4 (30.77%) VXLAN
1 4 (30.77%) Wireless
2 2 (15.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Browser DevTools
1 2 (15.38%) UI Automator
General
1 5 (38.46%) Banking
2 4 (30.77%) Investment Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
1 4 (30.77%) Network Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) RF Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Wireless Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Wireless Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Salesforce Developer
2 2 (15.38%) UI Developer
2 2 (15.38%) UI/UX Developer
2 2 (15.38%) UX Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Designer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support
3 1 (7.69%) Lead UX Designer
3 1 (7.69%) Qlik Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Qlik Sense Developer
3 1 (7.69%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) AngularJS
1 4 (30.77%) React
2 3 (23.08%) CSS
2 3 (23.08%) HTML
2 3 (23.08%) JSON
3 2 (15.38%) Ajax
3 2 (15.38%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (15.38%) Semantic HTML
3 2 (15.38%) Streamlit
3 2 (15.38%) Vue
3 2 (15.38%) XML
4 1 (7.69%) D3.js
4 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
4 1 (7.69%) Flutter
4 1 (7.69%) Gradio
4 1 (7.69%) LangChain
4 1 (7.69%) Material-UI
4 1 (7.69%) Next.js
4 1 (7.69%) Node.js
4 1 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
1 4 (30.77%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (23.08%) Low-Code
3 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Android
1 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (30.77%) Data Protection
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) UX Design
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Prototyping
3 3 (23.08%) Rapid Prototyping
3 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
4 2 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (15.38%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (15.38%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (15.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) Design Thinking
4 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Lisp
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) CCNP
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) WCAG
2 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco
1 4 (30.77%) Ekahau
1 4 (30.77%) Remedy
1 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
2 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Netlify
3 1 (7.69%) OpenAI