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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 34 52
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 +3
Contract jobs citing User Experience 9 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.34% 3.48% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 3.86% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 4
10th Percentile £356 £580 £398
25th Percentile £450 £671 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £743 £684
Median % change year-on-year -25.98% +8.64% +63.83%
75th Percentile £575 - £743
90th Percentile £655 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £538 £675 £619
% change year-on-year -20.37% +9.09% +34.88%

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 315 207 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 81.82% 90.00% 90.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 148 349
10th Percentile £226 £236 £280
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £600
90th Percentile £635 £650 £717
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £464 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.30% - +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 25
10th Percentile £15.58 £14.01 £15.91
25th Percentile - £17.03 £19.00
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.35 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% +10.95% +33.80%
75th Percentile £34.40 £36.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £37.40 £41.25
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year -30.14% +51.58% +41.79%

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 23 January 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 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) GCP
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) Canva
2 1 (11.11%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (33.33%) JUnit
1 3 (33.33%) Storybook
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Marketing
2 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
3 3 (33.33%) Electronics
3 3 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Manual Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Web Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Business Change Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Business Integration Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Change Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Communications Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Fibre Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) React
2 3 (33.33%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) RESTful
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 3 (33.33%) Vitest
3 1 (11.11%) Flutter
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Graphic Design
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
3 3 (33.33%) AI
3 3 (33.33%) API Development
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 3 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
1 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) PMO
2 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Adobe
3 1 (11.11%) BT
3 1 (11.11%) Openreach