User Experience Contracts in Scotland

UX
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 53 42 31
Rank change year-on-year -11 -11 +15
Contract jobs citing User Experience 67 101 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.12% 4.56% 7.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 5.15% 7.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 72 164
10th Percentile £359 £400 £364
25th Percentile £402 £431 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £438
Median % change year-on-year -3.28% +6.34% -2.78%
75th Percentile £499 £506 £495
90th Percentile £575 £588 £550
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £31.71 £35.00
% change year-on-year +68.72% -9.40% -30.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in Scotland

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in Scotland

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Scotland

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in Scotland

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh -7 36 £438 -5.91% 25
Glasgow -1 28 £450 -5.26% 19
West Lothian +12 1 - - 1
Stirling - 1 - -
User Experience
UK

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (7.46%) CMS
2 4 (5.97%) CICS
3 1 (1.49%) GeoServer
Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Sketch
2 2 (2.99%) Adobe XD
2 2 (2.99%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.49%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.90%) Azure
2 13 (19.40%) Figma
3 10 (14.93%) AWS
4 8 (11.94%) Serverless
5 7 (10.45%) Amazon S3
5 7 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (8.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (8.96%) SaaS
7 5 (7.46%) Entra ID
8 4 (5.97%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (2.99%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.99%) GitHub
9 2 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.99%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.49%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (1.49%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.97%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.99%) Power BI
3 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.49%) DB2
4 1 (1.49%) GIS
4 1 (1.49%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.49%) MySQL
4 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) JIRA
2 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.48%) Cypress.io
3 3 (4.48%) Storybook
3 3 (4.48%) Xcode
4 2 (2.99%) GitLab
4 2 (2.99%) webpack
5 1 (1.49%) Appium
5 1 (1.49%) Git
General
1 27 (40.30%) Public Sector
2 14 (20.90%) Social Skills
3 13 (19.40%) Finance
4 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Marketing
6 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 18 (26.87%) Developer
2 16 (23.88%) Analyst
3 15 (22.39%) Designer
4 10 (14.93%) UX Designer
5 8 (11.94%) Business Analyst
5 8 (11.94%) Senior
6 6 (8.96%) .NET Developer
6 6 (8.96%) React Developer
7 5 (7.46%) Consultant
7 5 (7.46%) Service Designer
8 4 (5.97%) Mainframe Consultant
8 4 (5.97%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) Architect
9 3 (4.48%) Content Designer
9 3 (4.48%) Senior .NET Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Senior React Developer
9 3 (4.48%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.90%) React
2 7 (10.45%) .NET
2 7 (10.45%) AWS CDK
3 6 (8.96%) Middleware
3 6 (8.96%) Node.js
4 5 (7.46%) CSS
5 4 (5.97%) REST
5 4 (5.97%) RESTful
5 4 (5.97%) Spring Boot
6 3 (4.48%) HTML
6 3 (4.48%) Jest
6 3 (4.48%) PostGIS
6 3 (4.48%) Spring
6 3 (4.48%) SwiftUI
6 3 (4.48%) UIKit
7 2 (2.99%) HTML5
7 2 (2.99%) Playwright
7 2 (2.99%) SOAP
7 2 (2.99%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (2.99%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.90%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.96%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (8.96%) Wiki
3 5 (7.46%) Mainframe
4 4 (5.97%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.97%) VSAM
5 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.48%) Credit Risk
5 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (4.48%) iPad
5 3 (4.48%) iPhone
5 3 (4.48%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.49%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.46%) Android
1 5 (7.46%) Apple iOS
2 4 (5.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.30%) UX Design
2 26 (38.81%) Agile
3 15 (22.39%) User Research
4 14 (20.90%) CI/CD
5 13 (19.40%) Wireframes
6 12 (17.91%) Roadmaps
7 11 (16.42%) Code Quality
7 11 (16.42%) DevOps
7 11 (16.42%) Service Design
8 8 (11.94%) Microservices
8 8 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (11.94%) Prototyping
8 8 (11.94%) Scrum
8 8 (11.94%) User Stories
8 8 (11.94%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 7 (10.45%) Requirements Analysis
9 7 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (10.45%) TDD
9 7 (10.45%) Test Automation
9 7 (10.45%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.94%) Python
2 7 (10.45%) JavaScript
2 7 (10.45%) TypeScript
3 5 (7.46%) Java
3 5 (7.46%) REXX
4 3 (4.48%) Objective-C
4 3 (4.48%) SQL
4 3 (4.48%) Swift
5 2 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.49%) Bash
6 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (8.96%) IIBA
2 1 (1.49%) Degree
2 1 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.40%) Accessibility
2 8 (11.94%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (5.97%) WCAG
4 2 (2.99%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.97%) RACF
2 3 (4.48%) Docker
3 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (5.97%) CyberArk
2 3 (4.48%) Adobe
2 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.99%) Genesys
4 1 (1.49%) Salesforce