User Experience Contract Job Trends in Northampton

UX
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring User Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 -21
Contract jobs citing User Experience 16 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 5.86% 4.92% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.02% 5.36% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 1
10th Percentile £336 £341 -
25th Percentile £348 £344 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £356 £325
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% +9.54% -23.53%
75th Percentile £476 - £338
90th Percentile £491 £428 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £358 £356 £325
% change year-on-year +0.56% +9.54% -23.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 266 168 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 97.44% 91.80% 93.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 135 76
10th Percentile £291 £340 £209
25th Percentile £348 £358 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £461
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -7.71% +3.48%
75th Percentile £447 £525 £513
90th Percentile £500 £598 £551
Northamptonshire median daily rate £400 £425 £478
% change year-on-year -5.88% -10.99% -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.39 - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £24.20 £51.00
% change year-on-year -11.61% -52.55% +56.92%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Experience relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

User Experience job vacancy trend in Northampton

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing User Experience.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing User Experience

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Northampton over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Northampton

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (12.50%) CICS
1 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 5 (31.25%) Entra ID
3 5 (31.25%) GCP
4 3 (18.75%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) DB2
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 2 (12.50%) Eclipse
2 2 (12.50%) Grunt
2 2 (12.50%) gulp
2 2 (12.50%) IntelliJ
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Maven
2 2 (12.50%) REST Assured
2 2 (12.50%) Selenium
2 2 (12.50%) webpack
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Analyst
1 3 (18.75%) Business Analyst
1 3 (18.75%) Product Owner
1 3 (18.75%) Programme Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Angular Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Automation Tester
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Digital Product Owner
2 2 (12.50%) Salesforce Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Salesforce Business Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Tester
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (6.25%) ETL Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Tester
3 1 (6.25%) Programme Director
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Product Owner
3 1 (6.25%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 2 (12.50%) Bootstrap
1 2 (12.50%) CSS
1 2 (12.50%) CSS3
1 2 (12.50%) HTML
1 2 (12.50%) HTML5
1 2 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Mac OS
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Continuous Improvement
1 11 (68.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (43.75%) Roadmaps
3 6 (37.50%) Acceptance Criteria
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (37.50%) Thought Leadership
3 6 (37.50%) User Stories
3 6 (37.50%) UX Design
4 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
4 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
4 5 (31.25%) Zero Trust
5 4 (25.00%) Budgeting
5 4 (25.00%) Business Strategy
5 4 (25.00%) Business Transformation
5 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
5 4 (25.00%) Scrum
5 4 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Bash
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) COBOL
2 2 (12.50%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (12.50%) JCL
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) GDPR
2 6 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) SCCM
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) Citrix
2 6 (37.50%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) DocuSign
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) Salesforce