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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 41 35
Rank change year-on-year -10 -6 +16
Contract jobs citing User Experience 66 94 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.04% 4.47% 6.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 5.08% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 67 146
10th Percentile £392 £370 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £446
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +4.20% -3.83%
75th Percentile £494 £500 £500
90th Percentile £549 £588 £550
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £508
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.57% -3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £15.09 - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £26.56 £32.69
% change year-on-year +101.43% -18.75% -41.10%

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 1,532 1,849 2,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.76% 87.96% 92.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 1,142 1,741
10th Percentile £263 £219 £260
25th Percentile £375 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - +0.95%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 92 55
10th Percentile £15.95 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.18 £15.92 £11.25
Median hourly rate £19.90 £19.50 £15.99
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +21.95% -57.28%
75th Percentile £24.78 £42.71 £50.74
90th Percentile £50.06 £60.75 £67.13
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

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 22 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 22 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 +5 40 £455 -0.55% 34
Glasgow -15 23 £450 - 21
West Lothian +2 1 - - 2
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 1 (1.52%) GeoServer
1 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Sketch
2 2 (3.03%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.52%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.21%) Azure
2 12 (18.18%) AWS
3 10 (15.15%) Serverless
4 9 (13.64%) Amazon S3
4 9 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (13.64%) Figma
5 8 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
6 6 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (7.58%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.06%) Amazon Cognito
8 4 (6.06%) GitHub
8 4 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.06%) SaaS
9 3 (4.55%) Firebase
10 2 (3.03%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (3.03%) CloudFront
10 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (7.58%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.03%) Power BI
5 1 (1.52%) GIS
5 1 (1.52%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.52%) MySQL
5 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (12.12%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.58%) Cypress.io
2 5 (7.58%) Storybook
3 4 (6.06%) Xcode
4 3 (4.55%) JIRA
4 3 (4.55%) webpack
5 2 (3.03%) GitLab
6 1 (1.52%) Appium
6 1 (1.52%) Git
General
1 32 (48.48%) Public Sector
2 17 (25.76%) Social Skills
3 12 (18.18%) Finance
4 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Marketing
6 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (28.79%) Developer
2 16 (24.24%) Analyst
3 13 (19.70%) Designer
3 13 (19.70%) Senior
4 8 (12.12%) Business Analyst
4 8 (12.12%) React Developer
4 8 (12.12%) UX Designer
5 6 (9.09%) .NET Developer
6 5 (7.58%) Service Designer
7 4 (6.06%) Architect
7 4 (6.06%) Mobile Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Senior Designer
7 4 (6.06%) Senior UX Designer
7 4 (6.06%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (4.55%) Product Owner
8 3 (4.55%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.76%) React
2 9 (13.64%) AWS CDK
3 8 (12.12%) CSS
4 7 (10.61%) .NET
4 7 (10.61%) Node.js
4 7 (10.61%) RESTful
5 5 (7.58%) Jest
6 4 (6.06%) HTML
6 4 (6.06%) SwiftUI
6 4 (6.06%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (6.06%) UIKit
7 3 (4.55%) AWS Amplify
7 3 (4.55%) CSS3
7 3 (4.55%) GraphQL
7 3 (4.55%) HTML5
7 3 (4.55%) Playwright
7 3 (4.55%) PostGIS
7 3 (4.55%) Redux
8 2 (3.03%) REST
8 2 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.21%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (9.09%) Wiki
3 5 (7.58%) Mobile App
4 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.06%) Credit Risk
4 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (6.06%) iPad
4 4 (6.06%) iPhone
4 4 (6.06%) Virtual Team
5 3 (4.55%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.52%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.09%) Android
1 6 (9.09%) Apple iOS
2 4 (6.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (45.45%) UX Design
2 28 (42.42%) Agile
3 18 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 18 (27.27%) User Research
4 15 (22.73%) Service Design
5 12 (18.18%) DevOps
5 12 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 12 (18.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 12 (18.18%) Wireframes
6 11 (16.67%) Code Quality
6 11 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (15.15%) Microservices
7 10 (15.15%) Usability Testing
8 9 (13.64%) Prototyping
8 9 (13.64%) Scrum
9 8 (12.12%) Analytics
9 8 (12.12%) TDD
9 8 (12.12%) Test Automation
9 8 (12.12%) User Stories
10 7 (10.61%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.15%) TypeScript
2 9 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 8 (12.12%) Python
4 4 (6.06%) Objective-C
4 4 (6.06%) SQL
4 4 (6.06%) Swift
5 3 (4.55%) Java
6 2 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.52%) Bash
7 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (9.09%) IIBA
2 2 (3.03%) Degree
3 1 (1.52%) HNC
3 1 (1.52%) HND
3 1 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.21%) Accessibility
2 11 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (7.58%) WCAG
4 2 (3.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (6.06%) RACF
2 3 (4.55%) Docker
3 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.55%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (6.06%) CyberArk
2 3 (4.55%) Adobe
3 2 (3.03%) Genesys
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow