User Experience Contracts in the Midlands

UX
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 54 81 96
Rank change year-on-year +27 +15 +4
Contract jobs citing User Experience 61 52 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.19% 1.89% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 2.29% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 38 53
10th Percentile £200 £341 £273
25th Percentile £322 £402 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £548
90th Percentile £588 £611 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £70.97 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £71.93 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - +219.69% +4.65%
75th Percentile - £72.90 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £53.50 £31.71 £33.85
% change year-on-year +68.72% -6.31% -32.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the Midlands

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the Midlands

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the Midlands

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the Midlands

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +16 48 £469 -6.25% 121
East Midlands +17 13 £358 -10.50% 44
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.92%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (3.28%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (3.28%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.84%) Azure
2 5 (8.20%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (8.20%) Figma
3 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.56%) Mimecast
3 4 (6.56%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.92%) SaaS
5 2 (3.28%) AWS
5 2 (3.28%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.28%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.64%) Akamai
6 1 (1.64%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.64%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.64%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (1.64%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.28%) Power BI
1 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Postman
2 4 (6.56%) Git
3 3 (4.92%) Plastic SCM
4 1 (1.64%) Axure RP
4 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (13.11%) Games
2 7 (11.48%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Finance
3 6 (9.84%) Retail
4 5 (8.20%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Polish Language
6 3 (4.92%) Marketing
6 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.28%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.64%) Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Billing
8 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Designer
2 10 (16.39%) Developer
3 5 (8.20%) Architect
3 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (8.20%) Games Designer
3 5 (8.20%) Lead
3 5 (8.20%) Senior
3 5 (8.20%) Technical Designer
3 5 (8.20%) UX Designer
4 4 (6.56%) Consultant
4 4 (6.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 4 (6.56%) Product Owner
4 4 (6.56%) Senior Designer
4 4 (6.56%) Senior Games Designer
5 3 (4.92%) Digital Product Owner
5 3 (4.92%) Games Developer
5 3 (4.92%) SAP Architect
5 3 (4.92%) Unified Communications Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.39%) CSS
2 9 (14.75%) HTML
3 7 (11.48%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 5 (8.20%) CSS3
4 5 (8.20%) HTML5
4 5 (8.20%) jQuery
4 5 (8.20%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (8.20%) SAPUI5
5 4 (6.56%) Unreal Engine
6 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.92%) RESTful
7 2 (3.28%) Hibernate
7 2 (3.28%) NgRx
7 2 (3.28%) RxJS
7 2 (3.28%) Spring
7 2 (3.28%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.64%) Android Jetpack
8 1 (1.64%) Django
8 1 (1.64%) Jetpack Compose
8 1 (1.64%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.20%) Mobile Games
2 5 (8.20%) Virtual Reality
3 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.28%) Animation
4 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.28%) Motion Graphics
4 2 (3.28%) Photography
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.64%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.64%) IVR
5 1 (1.64%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.64%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Windows
2 1 (1.64%) Android
2 1 (1.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (34.43%) Agile
2 15 (24.59%) Decision-Making
3 14 (22.95%) DevOps
4 10 (16.39%) UX Design
5 9 (14.75%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (14.75%) Workflow
6 8 (13.11%) Analytics
6 8 (13.11%) Software Engineering
7 7 (11.48%) Code Quality
7 7 (11.48%) Prototyping
7 7 (11.48%) Test Strategy
7 7 (11.48%) Validation
8 6 (9.84%) Change Management
8 6 (9.84%) CI/CD
8 6 (9.84%) Computer Science
8 6 (9.84%) Data Modelling
8 6 (9.84%) Scrum
9 5 (8.20%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.11%) JavaScript
1 8 (13.11%) TypeScript
2 5 (8.20%) ABAP
2 5 (8.20%) C#
2 5 (8.20%) COBOL
2 5 (8.20%) Python
3 2 (3.28%) Java
3 2 (3.28%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.28%) SQL
4 1 (1.64%) Bash
4 1 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.64%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.64%) R
4 1 (1.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (16.39%) Degree
2 6 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.92%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.64%) CEH
4 1 (1.64%) CISSP
4 1 (1.64%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.03%) QA
2 3 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) GDPR
3 1 (1.64%) GRC
3 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.28%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.64%) Ansible
2 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.48%) SAP
3 5 (8.20%) Cisco
4 4 (6.56%) Adobe
4 4 (6.56%) Proofpoint
5 2 (3.28%) Fujitsu
6 1 (1.64%) F5
6 1 (1.64%) Imperva
6 1 (1.64%) Meraki
6 1 (1.64%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.64%) SendGrid
6 1 (1.64%) Siemens