User Experience Contract Job Trends in Preston

UX
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring User Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 13 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing User Experience 9 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 4.33% 7.25% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.33% 7.81% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £235 - -
25th Percentile £287 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £447 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.77% - -
75th Percentile £310 - -
90th Percentile £420 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £300 £449 £276
% change year-on-year -33.11% +62.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.16 -
Lancashire median hourly rate - £70.16 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 169 64 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 81.25% 92.75% 82.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 43 19
10th Percentile £310 £341 £200
25th Percentile £446 £415 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £567
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.82% +33.41%
75th Percentile £601 £648 £607
90th Percentile £670 £680 £628
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 6
10th Percentile £37.25 £23.32 £24.48
25th Percentile £60.00 £39.01 £28.23
Median hourly rate £70.00 £44.53 £44.13
Median % change year-on-year +57.20% +0.92% -4.45%
75th Percentile £80.00 £56.26 £63.59
90th Percentile - £70.72 £67.84
Lancashire median hourly rate £40.00 £47.12 £40.33
% change year-on-year -15.11% +16.85% -12.68%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

User Experience job vacancy trend in Preston

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Preston over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Preston

User Experience
Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing User Experience.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing User Experience

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 1 (11.11%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) NetScaler
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Citrix Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) SAP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
1 8 (88.89%) Windows Server
2 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) ITIL
2 8 (88.89%) Customer Service
2 8 (88.89%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (66.67%) Defect Management
4 4 (44.44%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (44.44%) Proactive Management
4 4 (44.44%) Service Management
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Analytics
6 2 (22.22%) Customer Engagement
7 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (11.11%) DevOps
7 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (11.11%) Product Management
7 1 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
7 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
7 1 (11.11%) SDLC
7 1 (11.11%) Servant Leadership
7 1 (11.11%) Technical Debt
7 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
1 8 (88.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
1 8 (88.89%) Hyper-V
1 8 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (44.44%) XenApp
2 4 (44.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Citrix
1 8 (88.89%) VMware
2 6 (66.67%) Nexthink
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) SAP
4 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow