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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 82 72
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 -14
Contract jobs citing User Experience 96 108 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.92% 2.34% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 2.75% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 62 108
10th Percentile £225 £307 £406
25th Percentile £375 £327 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £490 £600 £588
90th Percentile £575 £694 £639
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £49.90 £12.75 -
25th Percentile £56.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £13.50 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +418.52% -19.88% -77.53%
75th Percentile £85.53 £49.31 £30.50
90th Percentile £93.34 £71.88 £40.80
England median hourly rate £53.50 £25.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +109.80% -3.77% -52.04%

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 2,955 3,922 5,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.84% 85.13% 90.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,898 2,403 3,468
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 364 203
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.94 £12.50 £15.36
Median hourly rate £27.50 £17.72 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +55.19% -36.03% +45.79%
75th Percentile £57.93 £45.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £59.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +17 65 £447 -4.64% 318
Yorkshire -9 18 £400 -19.95% 122
North East +4 13 £453 +0.56% 73
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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.04%) CICS
3 1 (1.04%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (14.58%) Siemens NX
2 6 (6.25%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.08%) InVision
3 2 (2.08%) UserZoom
4 1 (1.04%) Adobe XD
4 1 (1.04%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.04%) Trello
4 1 (1.04%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 14 (14.58%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.04%) Maximo
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.04%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.42%) Figma
2 9 (9.38%) Azure
3 8 (8.33%) AWS
4 6 (6.25%) Google Workspace
5 5 (5.21%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.17%) Apigee
6 4 (4.17%) SaaS
7 3 (3.13%) GCP
7 3 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.04%) Bloomreach
8 1 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.04%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (1.04%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.04%) npm
8 1 (1.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.17%) VPN
2 2 (2.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
1 3 (3.13%) NoSQL
1 3 (3.13%) Power BI
2 1 (1.04%) DB2
2 1 (1.04%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (1.04%) GIS
2 1 (1.04%) MySQL
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (12.50%) Git
2 10 (10.42%) JIRA
3 7 (7.29%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.21%) Jasmine
4 5 (5.21%) Mocha
5 4 (4.17%) Subversion
6 3 (3.13%) CircleCI
6 3 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.13%) GitLab
6 3 (3.13%) Gradle
6 3 (3.13%) Grunt
6 3 (3.13%) gulp
6 3 (3.13%) REST Assured
6 3 (3.13%) Xcode
7 2 (2.08%) Axure RP
7 2 (2.08%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (2.08%) UI Automator
8 1 (1.04%) Balsamiq
8 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.04%) SpecFlow
General
1 19 (19.79%) Public Sector
2 18 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 16 (16.67%) Finance
4 11 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.33%) Banking
6 6 (6.25%) Legal
7 5 (5.21%) Marketing
8 4 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.08%) Military
9 2 (2.08%) Retail
10 1 (1.04%) Aviation
10 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (21.88%) Developer
2 15 (15.63%) Designer
3 13 (13.54%) Applications Engineer
3 13 (13.54%) Configuration Engineer
4 9 (9.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 9 (9.38%) Senior
5 7 (7.29%) UX Designer
6 6 (6.25%) Analyst
6 6 (6.25%) Architect
6 6 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Content Designer
7 5 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) User Experience Researcher
8 3 (3.13%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.13%) iOS Developer
8 3 (3.13%) SAPUI5 Developer
8 3 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.13%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.13%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.96%) CSS
1 23 (23.96%) HTML
2 20 (20.83%) Node.js
3 19 (19.79%) XML
4 11 (11.46%) React
5 8 (8.33%) Sass
6 7 (7.29%) HTML5
6 7 (7.29%) RESTful
7 5 (5.21%) Jest
7 5 (5.21%) Playwright
8 4 (4.17%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.17%) jQuery
8 4 (4.17%) Mustache
9 3 (3.13%) GraphQL
9 3 (3.13%) JSON
9 3 (3.13%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (3.13%) OAuth
9 3 (3.13%) Puppeteer
9 3 (3.13%) SAP Fiori
9 3 (3.13%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.33%) Mobile App
1 8 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.21%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.17%) Social Media
5 3 (3.13%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.08%) BYOD
6 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.04%) Blog
7 1 (1.04%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.04%) iPhone
7 1 (1.04%) IVR
7 1 (1.04%) Learning Management System
7 1 (1.04%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.04%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.38%) Windows
2 8 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 7 (7.29%) Android
4 6 (6.25%) Windows 10
5 5 (5.21%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.17%) Linux
7 3 (3.13%) Mac OS X
7 3 (3.13%) Unix
8 2 (2.08%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.21%) Agile
2 23 (23.96%) UX Design
3 18 (18.75%) Front End Development
4 14 (14.58%) CAD
4 14 (14.58%) Data Governance
4 14 (14.58%) PLM
4 14 (14.58%) TDD
5 13 (13.54%) User Research
6 12 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (10.42%) CI/CD
8 10 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (10.42%) Test Automation
9 9 (9.38%) Analytics
9 9 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (9.38%) Roadmaps
9 9 (9.38%) UX Research
10 8 (8.33%) Decision-Making
10 8 (8.33%) User Stories
10 8 (8.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.04%) JavaScript
2 15 (15.63%) Java
3 7 (7.29%) Python
3 7 (7.29%) TypeScript
4 5 (5.21%) SQL
5 4 (4.17%) Bash
5 4 (4.17%) Swift
6 3 (3.13%) C
6 3 (3.13%) C++
6 3 (3.13%) Kotlin
6 3 (3.13%) Objective-C
6 3 (3.13%) Ruby
6 3 (3.13%) Scala
7 2 (2.08%) C#
8 1 (1.04%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.04%) COBOL
8 1 (1.04%) JCL
8 1 (1.04%) PHP
8 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.71%) Accessibility
2 14 (14.58%) Data Quality
3 11 (11.46%) WCAG
4 4 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 7 (7.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.21%) Docker
3 4 (4.17%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.21%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (5.21%) Terraform
3 3 (3.13%) Grafana
3 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.08%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.04%) HP Data Protector
5 1 (1.04%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 10 (10.42%) Google
2 9 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.21%) CyberArk
4 4 (4.17%) CheckPoint
4 4 (4.17%) Citrix
4 4 (4.17%) Zscaler
5 3 (3.13%) PagerDuty
5 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.13%) SAP
5 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.08%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.08%) Genesys
6 2 (2.08%) Oracle
7 1 (1.04%) Adobe
7 1 (1.04%) Avaya
7 1 (1.04%) Dell
7 1 (1.04%) Veritas