User Experience Contracts in the North of England

UX
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 75 88 70
Rank change year-on-year +13 -18 -2
Contract jobs citing User Experience 97 103 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.94% 2.16% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 2.52% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 60 121
10th Percentile £200 £306 £375
25th Percentile £366 £325 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% -8.61% +4.00%
75th Percentile £500 £581 £588
90th Percentile £600 £850 £625
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 9
10th Percentile £21.45 £12.75 -
25th Percentile £24.76 - £16.85
Median hourly rate £41.00 £13.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +203.70% -48.08% -32.03%
75th Percentile £72.50 £49.31 £45.00
90th Percentile £88.13 £71.88 £45.90
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 of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the North of England

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the North of England

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the North of England

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the North of England

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in the North of England

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +22 64 £450 -5.26% 225
Yorkshire -9 20 £400 -17.94% 85
North East +4 12 £453 -35.36% 36
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (6.19%) Confluence
2 3 (3.09%) CMS
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.03%) Mendix
3 1 (1.03%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (11.34%) Siemens NX
2 5 (5.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.06%) InVision
3 2 (2.06%) UserZoom
4 1 (1.03%) Adobe XD
4 1 (1.03%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.03%) Trello
4 1 (1.03%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 11 (11.34%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.03%) Maximo
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.28%) Azure
2 7 (7.22%) AWS
2 7 (7.22%) Figma
3 6 (6.19%) Google Workspace
4 5 (5.15%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.09%) Apigee
6 3 (3.09%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.06%) GCP
7 2 (2.06%) SaaS
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.03%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.03%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (1.03%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.03%) Serverless
8 1 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) VPN
2 2 (2.06%) Intranet
3 1 (1.03%) DKIM
3 1 (1.03%) DMARC
3 1 (1.03%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.09%) Power BI
2 2 (2.06%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.06%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.03%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.03%) GIS
3 1 (1.03%) MySQL
3 1 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) JIRA
2 8 (8.25%) Git
3 6 (6.19%) Jasmine
3 6 (6.19%) Mocha
4 4 (4.12%) Grunt
4 4 (4.12%) gulp
4 4 (4.12%) Subversion
5 2 (2.06%) Axure RP
5 2 (2.06%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.06%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.06%) GitLab
5 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.06%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.03%) Babel
6 1 (1.03%) Balsamiq
6 1 (1.03%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.03%) webpack
General
1 21 (21.65%) Public Sector
1 21 (21.65%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.53%) Finance
3 13 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.15%) Legal
4 5 (5.15%) Marketing
5 4 (4.12%) Banking
5 4 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.12%) Retail
6 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Military
6 2 (2.06%) Publishing
7 1 (1.03%) Aviation
7 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.03%) Local Government
7 1 (1.03%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (18.56%) Developer
2 14 (14.43%) Designer
3 10 (10.31%) Applications Engineer
3 10 (10.31%) Configuration Engineer
3 10 (10.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 9 (9.28%) Senior
5 8 (8.25%) UX Designer
6 7 (7.22%) Analyst
6 7 (7.22%) Architect
7 6 (6.19%) Content Designer
8 5 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) User Experience Researcher
9 4 (4.12%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.12%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.09%) SAP Developer
10 3 (3.09%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.09%) Systems Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.62%) Node.js
2 19 (19.59%) CSS
2 19 (19.59%) HTML
3 14 (14.43%) XML
4 9 (9.28%) Sass
5 8 (8.25%) HTML5
5 8 (8.25%) React
6 5 (5.15%) Jest
6 5 (5.15%) jQuery
6 5 (5.15%) Mustache
6 5 (5.15%) RESTful
7 4 (4.12%) Playwright
8 3 (3.09%) .NET
8 3 (3.09%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (3.09%) SAPUI5
9 2 (2.06%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.06%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.06%) OAuth
9 2 (2.06%) Spring
9 2 (2.06%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.25%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (8.25%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.22%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.12%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.12%) Social Media
4 3 (3.09%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.06%) BYOD
5 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.03%) Blog
6 1 (1.03%) iPhone
6 1 (1.03%) IVR
6 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.40%) Windows
2 6 (6.19%) Windows 10
3 5 (5.15%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.12%) Android
4 4 (4.12%) Apple iOS
4 4 (4.12%) Linux
5 3 (3.09%) Mac OS X
5 3 (3.09%) Unix
6 2 (2.06%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (28.87%) Agile
2 20 (20.62%) UX Design
3 17 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (14.43%) User Research
5 13 (13.40%) Front End Development
6 11 (11.34%) CAD
6 11 (11.34%) Data Governance
6 11 (11.34%) PLM
6 11 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (11.34%) TDD
7 9 (9.28%) Analytics
7 9 (9.28%) Test Automation
7 9 (9.28%) UX Research
8 8 (8.25%) Artificial Intelligence
8 8 (8.25%) CI/CD
8 8 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (8.25%) Decision-Making
8 8 (8.25%) User Stories
8 8 (8.25%) Wireframes
9 7 (7.22%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 21 (21.65%) JavaScript
2 11 (11.34%) Java
3 6 (6.19%) TypeScript
4 3 (3.09%) Bash
4 3 (3.09%) Python
4 3 (3.09%) SQL
5 2 (2.06%) C#
6 1 (1.03%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.03%) PHP
6 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (23.71%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.56%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.56%) Accessibility
2 11 (11.34%) Data Quality
3 10 (10.31%) WCAG
4 5 (5.15%) QA
System Software
1 11 (11.34%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.12%) BitLocker
2 4 (4.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.15%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (4.12%) SCCM
3 4 (4.12%) Terraform
4 2 (2.06%) Grafana
4 2 (2.06%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.03%) HP Data Protector
5 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.03%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.28%) Google
3 5 (5.15%) CyberArk
3 5 (5.15%) SAP
4 4 (4.12%) CheckPoint
4 4 (4.12%) Citrix
4 4 (4.12%) Tanium
4 4 (4.12%) Zscaler
5 3 (3.09%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.06%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.06%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.03%) Adobe
7 1 (1.03%) Ariba
7 1 (1.03%) Avaya
7 1 (1.03%) Dell
7 1 (1.03%) Genesys
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle
7 1 (1.03%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.03%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.03%) Veritas