User Experience Contracts in Northern Ireland

UX
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 29 27
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing User Experience 7 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.07% 0.51% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.80% 0.67% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £375 - -
25th Percentile £441 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £544 - £488
90th Percentile £569 - £540
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +13.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 103 149 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 74.64% 76.02% 81.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 77 92
10th Percentile £212 £163 £145
25th Percentile £356 £270 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £425 £435
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -2.30% +5.45%
75th Percentile £625 £515 £500
90th Percentile £675 £629 £550
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 12
10th Percentile - £13.40 £10.22
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.91 £10.27
Median hourly rate £14.19 £15.25 £17.37
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -12.20% +28.67%
75th Percentile £23.54 £16.78 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £18.12 -
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in Northern Ireland

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Experience in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for User Experience in Northern Ireland

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Northern Ireland

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
County Antrim +12 7 £513 - 3
User Experience
UK

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe XD
1 2 (28.57%) InVision
1 2 (28.57%) Sketch
2 1 (14.29%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
1 2 (28.57%) Tableau
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Designer
1 2 (28.57%) User Researcher
1 2 (28.57%) UX Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Banking Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau Developer
2 1 (14.29%) User Experience Researcher
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) UX Design
2 5 (71.43%) UX Research
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Co-Creation
3 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) User Research
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 2 (28.57%) Prototyping
4 2 (28.57%) Quantitative Research
4 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Wireframes
5 1 (14.29%) Commercial Awareness
5 1 (14.29%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Master's Degree
3 2 (28.57%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
1 2 (28.57%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Qualtrics