User Experience Contracts in Scotland

UX
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 31 47
Rank change year-on-year -10 +16 -7
Contract jobs citing User Experience 110 204 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.87% 7.07% 4.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.50% 7.65% 5.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 164 127
10th Percentile £400 £364 £313
25th Percentile £434 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £447 £432
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% +3.41% +1.65%
75th Percentile £542 £495 £538
90th Percentile £676 £550 £572
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.75
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - +62.79% -
75th Percentile - - £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £36.25 £50.50
% change year-on-year -10.34% -28.22% +77.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,000 2,667 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.46% 92.48% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,225 1,923 2,374
10th Percentile £246 £264 £241
25th Percentile £400 £406 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £553 £545
90th Percentile £675 £650 £619
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 53
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -40.93% -28.57%
75th Percentile £46.24 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.28 £67.03 £55.46
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £35.90 £24.82
% change year-on-year -5.29% +44.64% -0.72%

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 17 April 2024.

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 17 April 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
Edinburgh +4 48 £465 +3.91% 19
Glasgow -13 36 £480 +7.44% 18
South Lanarkshire -18 9 £688 +58.50% 4
West Lothian - 2 £475 -
Perthshire +10 1 £500 -12.28%
Midlothian - 1 £425 - 2
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 15 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 14 (12.73%) Confluence
3 9 (8.18%) IIS
4 4 (3.64%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.82%) CMS
6 1 (0.91%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.91%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.91%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 9 (8.18%) Sketch
2 2 (1.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.91%) Adobe Captivate
3 1 (0.91%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.91%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.91%) Azure
2 18 (16.36%) AWS
3 17 (15.45%) Figma
4 15 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (12.73%) Amazon S3
5 14 (12.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (12.73%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (12.73%) Serverless
6 12 (10.91%) OpenShift
7 5 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (4.55%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.64%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.64%) Rekognition
8 4 (3.64%) SaaS
8 4 (3.64%) Textract
9 2 (1.82%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.91%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.18%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.64%) Amazon Aurora
1 15 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (10.91%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.64%) GIS
4 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.73%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.82%) Power BI
6 1 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.91%) Looker
6 1 (0.91%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.91%) MySQL
6 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (15.45%) JIRA
2 10 (9.09%) Git
3 9 (8.18%) Visual Studio Code
4 8 (7.27%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.64%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.73%) webpack
7 2 (1.82%) Capybara
7 2 (1.82%) Gradle
7 2 (1.82%) Maven
8 1 (0.91%) GitLab
General
1 54 (49.09%) Public Sector
2 18 (16.36%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.18%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (7.27%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (5.45%) Finance
6 6 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.82%) Legal
7 2 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.91%) Banking
8 1 (0.91%) Law
8 1 (0.91%) Marketing
8 1 (0.91%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.91%) Publishing
8 1 (0.91%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (39.09%) Developer
2 27 (24.55%) Designer
3 22 (20.00%) UX Designer
4 16 (14.55%) Senior
5 13 (11.82%) Analyst
6 12 (10.91%) PowerShell Developer
7 11 (10.00%) .NET Developer
7 11 (10.00%) SharePoint Developer
8 9 (8.18%) React Developer
8 9 (8.18%) Senior Developer
9 8 (7.27%) Senior .NET Developer
10 7 (6.36%) Business Analyst
10 7 (6.36%) Lead
10 7 (6.36%) Senior React Developer
11 6 (5.45%) Full Stack Developer
12 5 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
12 5 (4.55%) User Experience Manager
13 4 (3.64%) Consultant
13 4 (3.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 4 (3.64%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (32.73%) React
2 17 (15.45%) CSS
2 17 (15.45%) HTML
3 16 (14.55%) .NET
4 15 (13.64%) AWS CDK
5 10 (9.09%) REST
6 7 (6.36%) Node.js
6 7 (6.36%) Spring Boot
7 5 (4.55%) Spring
8 4 (3.64%) .NET Remoting
8 4 (3.64%) JSON
8 4 (3.64%) OAuth
8 4 (3.64%) OAuth2
8 4 (3.64%) RESTful
8 4 (3.64%) Spring Security
8 4 (3.64%) XML
9 3 (2.73%) CSS3
9 3 (2.73%) HTML5
9 3 (2.73%) Redux
9 3 (2.73%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.64%) Product Ownership
2 12 (10.91%) Legacy Applications
2 12 (10.91%) Wiki
3 7 (6.36%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.73%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.82%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.91%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.00%) Windows
1 11 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 10 (9.09%) Android
2 10 (9.09%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (51.82%) Agile
2 35 (31.82%) UX Design
3 30 (27.27%) DevOps
4 27 (24.55%) Code Quality
5 22 (20.00%) Service Design
6 18 (16.36%) User Research
6 18 (16.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 17 (15.45%) Roadmaps
7 17 (15.45%) User Stories
8 15 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (13.64%) Mentoring
8 15 (13.64%) Wireframes
9 14 (12.73%) Analytics
9 14 (12.73%) Coaching
9 14 (12.73%) Code Coverage
9 14 (12.73%) Scrum
10 13 (11.82%) Human-Centred Design
11 12 (10.91%) CI/CD
11 12 (10.91%) Community of Practice
11 12 (10.91%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.91%) Python
2 21 (19.09%) JavaScript
3 17 (15.45%) TypeScript
4 16 (14.55%) Java
5 12 (10.91%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.45%) SQL
7 4 (3.64%) Bash
8 3 (2.73%) C#
8 3 (2.73%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (7.27%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.73%) Degree
4 2 (1.82%) APMP
4 2 (1.82%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (27.27%) Accessibility
2 9 (8.18%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (2.73%) WCAG
4 2 (1.82%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (10.00%) Docker
2 9 (8.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (11.82%) Grafana
2 6 (5.45%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.82%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (3.64%) Cadence
1 4 (3.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.73%) Oracle
3 2 (1.82%) Adobe
3 2 (1.82%) Google
4 1 (0.91%) IFS
4 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow