User Experience Contracts in Reading

UX
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 52 73
Rank change year-on-year +3 +21 +10
Contract jobs citing User Experience 11 39 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.84% 3.27% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 3.63% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 9
10th Percentile - £429 £345
25th Percentile £250 £491 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -23.11% +7.95% +5.56%
75th Percentile £420 £546 £588
90th Percentile £468 £596 £693
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in Reading

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in Reading

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Reading

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Experience in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in Reading

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Figma
2 2 (18.18%) Veeva
3 1 (9.09%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Internet
1 1 (9.09%) LAN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
1 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Vite
General
1 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
2 2 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (36.36%) React Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) E-Commerce Manager
5 1 (9.09%) E-Commerce Project Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (9.09%) HTML Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Implementation Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Implementation Project Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Project Implementation Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) UI/UX Developer
5 1 (9.09%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) CSS
1 6 (54.55%) HTML
2 4 (36.36%) Framer.js
2 4 (36.36%) React
3 1 (9.09%) Express.js
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Front End Development
1 5 (45.45%) UX Design
2 2 (18.18%) Analytics
2 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
2 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
2 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) Project Management
2 2 (18.18%) Wireframes
3 1 (9.09%) Agile
3 1 (9.09%) B2C
3 1 (9.09%) Contingency Planning
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Experience
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) RBAC
3 1 (9.09%) SEO
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) ABAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 1 (9.09%) SAP