User Experience Contracts in the North West

UX
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for User Experience skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Experience over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 63 90
Rank change year-on-year -16 +27 -45
Contract jobs citing User Experience 57 111 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.06% 3.45% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 3.80% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 74 87
10th Percentile - £377 £298
25th Percentile £325 £438 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £572 £588 £549
90th Percentile £850 £621 £623
England median daily rate £500 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -2.68% -2.14% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 1
10th Percentile £21.35 - -
25th Percentile £35.38 £16.85 £20.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £21.43 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +180.05% +2.02% -38.24%
75th Percentile £71.88 £37.50 £21.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £45.00 -
England median hourly rate £31.71 £35.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -9.40% -30.69% +58.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

User Experience is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,393 2,921 3,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.30% 90.71% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,532 2,076 2,595
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £591 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 147 165
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.61 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.30 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +13.51%
75th Percentile £45.88 £48.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £59.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the North West

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the North West

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the North West

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the North West

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in the North West

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Manchester -10 46 £463 -14.83% 73
Lancashire +8 5 £800 +106.45% 5
Cheshire -7 3 £451 -22.99% 25
Merseyside +6 1 £450 -1.64% 17
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (5.26%) CMS
1 3 (5.26%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.75%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.26%) AWS
1 3 (5.26%) Contentstack
1 3 (5.26%) Figma
2 1 (1.75%) Azure
2 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.75%) Firebase
2 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.28%) Firewall
1 7 (12.28%) VPN
2 1 (1.75%) LAN
2 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) Big Data
2 1 (1.75%) Power BI
2 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Crashlytics
1 1 (1.75%) Git
1 1 (1.75%) GitLab
1 1 (1.75%) GoCD
1 1 (1.75%) Gradle
1 1 (1.75%) Selenium
1 1 (1.75%) TestCafe
General
1 8 (14.04%) Legal
1 8 (14.04%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (5.26%) Marketing
2 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.51%) Health Technology
3 2 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.75%) Finance
4 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (29.82%) Developer
2 8 (14.04%) Architect
2 8 (14.04%) Designer
2 8 (14.04%) Senior
3 7 (12.28%) Lead
3 7 (12.28%) Lead Architect
3 7 (12.28%) Technical Architect
3 7 (12.28%) Technical Leader
3 7 (12.28%) User Researcher
4 5 (8.77%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 5 (8.77%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (7.02%) Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Content Designer
6 3 (5.26%) Senior Designer
6 3 (5.26%) UX Designer
7 2 (3.51%) Senior UI Designer
7 2 (3.51%) Senior UI/UX Designer
7 2 (3.51%) Senior UX Designer
7 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow Developer
7 2 (3.51%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.04%) Node.js
2 4 (7.02%) React
3 2 (3.51%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.51%) Sass
4 1 (1.75%) .NET
4 1 (1.75%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.75%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.75%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (1.75%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (1.75%) CSS
4 1 (1.75%) CSS3
4 1 (1.75%) D3.js
4 1 (1.75%) Dagger
4 1 (1.75%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.75%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (1.75%) Redux
4 1 (1.75%) Vue
4 1 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Product Ownership
2 7 (12.28%) Public Cloud
3 6 (10.53%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.51%) Taxonomies
5 2 (3.51%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Android
2 8 (14.04%) Apple iOS
2 8 (14.04%) Windows
3 7 (12.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (45.61%) UX Design
2 24 (42.11%) Agile
3 15 (26.32%) Roadmaps
4 12 (21.05%) User Research
5 11 (19.30%) Front End Development
6 10 (17.54%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 9 (15.79%) DevOps
7 9 (15.79%) Product Roadmap
7 9 (15.79%) Service Design
8 8 (14.04%) CI/CD
8 8 (14.04%) Data Science
8 8 (14.04%) Design Patterns
8 8 (14.04%) Focus Group
8 8 (14.04%) Microservices
8 8 (14.04%) Product Strategy
8 8 (14.04%) Strategic Roadmap
9 7 (12.28%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 7 (12.28%) Quantitative Research
9 7 (12.28%) Threat Intelligence
9 7 (12.28%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.77%) TypeScript
2 3 (5.26%) Go
3 2 (3.51%) Java
3 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.51%) SQL
3 2 (3.51%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.75%) Bicep
4 1 (1.75%) C#
4 1 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.75%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.28%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.75%) Degree
3 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) Actionable Recommendations
2 5 (8.77%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.26%) PMO
4 2 (3.51%) GDPR
5 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) Grafana
2 1 (1.75%) Kibana
2 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (8.77%) Apple
1 5 (8.77%) Google
2 3 (5.26%) SAP
3 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft