User Experience Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

UX
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring User Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 22 42
Rank change year-on-year -29 +20 -14
Contract jobs citing User Experience 14 10 2
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.95% 5.95% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 6.41% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 2
10th Percentile £356 £475 £466
25th Percentile £450 £531 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £709 £538
Median % change year-on-year -24.19% +31.91% +13.16%
75th Percentile £596 £743 £591
90th Percentile £607 - £619
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £538 £550 £531
% change year-on-year -2.27% +3.53% +11.84%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 557 156 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 77.47% 92.86% 85.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 121 245
10th Percentile £313 £286 £277
25th Percentile £414 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -
75th Percentile £592 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 20
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.68 £15.85
25th Percentile £15.80 £14.69 £17.64
Median hourly rate £16.35 £17.25 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -25.69% +68.84%
75th Percentile £18.32 £28.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £43.78 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £14.20 £25.00
% change year-on-year +15.14% -43.20% +81.82%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

User Experience job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing User Experience

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Milton Keynes

User Experience
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing User Experience

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) GCP
2 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) Google App Engine
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Canva
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.14%) Viva Engage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) JUnit
2 1 (7.14%) Storybook
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Citrix Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Manual Tester
3 2 (14.29%) Product Owner
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Citrix Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Tester
3 2 (14.29%) Web Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Business Change Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Business Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Change Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Citrix Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Communications Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) React
1 3 (21.43%) REST
1 3 (21.43%) SOAP
2 2 (14.29%) Flutter
2 2 (14.29%) JSON
2 2 (14.29%) OAuth
2 2 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (7.14%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.14%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
2 5 (35.71%) Scrum
3 4 (28.57%) ITSM
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) High Availability
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Service Management
4 3 (21.43%) UX Design
5 2 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
5 2 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 2 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) Kotlin
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) CCA
2 3 (21.43%) CESG Certified Professional
2 3 (21.43%) Citrix Certification
2 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
1 3 (21.43%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) ServiceNow
2 3 (21.43%) Citrix
3 1 (7.14%) Adobe
3 1 (7.14%) Computacenter