User Experience Contracts in the North East

UX
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 26 30 46
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 -24
Contract jobs citing User Experience 12 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.75% 2.37% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 2.96% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 6
10th Percentile £200 - £374
25th Percentile £294 - £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -35.36% +16.67% +21.21%
75th Percentile £490 - £633
90th Percentile £516 - £666
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - - £49.00
75th Percentile - - £49.50
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
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the North East

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the North East

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the North East

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the North East

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear +1 12 £453 -35.36% 29
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (8.33%) CMS
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Chatbot
1 1 (8.33%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (8.33%) Trello
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
1 4 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (25.00%) User Experience Researcher
3 2 (16.67%) Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Content Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Interaction Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Writer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Writer
4 1 (8.33%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) CSS
1 4 (33.33%) HTML
1 4 (33.33%) Jest
1 4 (33.33%) Node.js
1 4 (33.33%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) User Research
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (33.33%) TDD
2 4 (33.33%) UX Research
3 3 (25.00%) A/B Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (25.00%) Analytics
3 3 (25.00%) Design Thinking
3 3 (25.00%) Fintech
4 2 (16.67%) UX Design
5 1 (8.33%) Agile Project Management
5 1 (8.33%) Content Management
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
5 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
5 1 (8.33%) Natural Language Processing
5 1 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) WCAG