User Experience Contract Job Trends in the South East

UX
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring User Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 69 90
Rank change year-on-year -12 +21 +15
Contract jobs citing User Experience 109 114 128
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.64% 2.78% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 3.23% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 78 94
10th Percentile £204 £203 £363
25th Percentile £248 £320 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £409 £488
Median % change year-on-year +16.14% -16.10% -7.14%
75th Percentile £550 £540 £569
90th Percentile £637 £650 £688
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile - - £21.16
25th Percentile £25.15 £51.25 £27.65
Median hourly rate £47.66 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +31.25% -38.46%
75th Percentile £70.16 £53.75 £54.08
90th Percentile - - £63.67
England median hourly rate £34.48 £41.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -15.90% -15.90% -22.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,607 3,525 4,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 87.23% 85.91% 89.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,285 2,159 3,050
10th Percentile £221 £253 £214
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £524
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.24% +2.29%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £619
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 162 246
10th Percentile £14.71 £16.48 £16.45
25th Percentile £16.83 £27.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £56.75 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.23% +7.07% +21.84%
75th Percentile £41.00 £70.00 £66.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.43 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.01% -21.27% +23.29%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

User Experience job vacancy trend in the South East

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing User Experience.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing User Experience

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the South East over the 6 months to 27 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the South East

User Experience
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing User Experience.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing User Experience

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience in the South East over the 6 months to 27 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in the South East

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 November 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
Surrey +24 49 £363 -0.68% 14
Thames Valley -26 36 £550 +10.00% 60
Berkshire -30 23 £538 +8.59% 18
Hampshire -2 13 £447 +49.00% 23
Buckinghamshire -1 10 £575 -22.62% 18
Kent +6 6 £375 - 1
Oxfordshire -14 3 £517 +11.68% 28
East Sussex +1 2 £544 +20.83% 7
West Sussex -12 2 £431 - 6
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (2.75%) Confluence
2 2 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.92%) CMS
3 1 (0.92%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.92%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.92%) InVision
2 1 (0.92%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.92%) SAP CO
1 1 (0.92%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.92%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 22 (20.18%) SaaS
2 18 (16.51%) Sauce Labs
3 17 (15.60%) Azure
4 10 (9.17%) AWS
5 9 (8.26%) GitHub
5 9 (8.26%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (7.34%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (6.42%) Entra ID
7 7 (6.42%) GCP
8 6 (5.50%) Power Platform
8 6 (5.50%) Tricentis Tosca
9 4 (3.67%) Azure Functions
9 4 (3.67%) Figma
9 4 (3.67%) Serverless
10 3 (2.75%) Azure API Management
10 3 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.75%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.83%) Contentsquare
11 2 (1.83%) Google Play
11 2 (1.83%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 19 (17.43%) Wireless
2 8 (7.34%) NFC
2 8 (7.34%) PPP
3 3 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.83%) DNS
4 2 (1.83%) Network Security
4 2 (1.83%) SSL
5 1 (0.92%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.92%) 5G
5 1 (0.92%) HTTP
5 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.92%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.18%) MySQL
2 20 (18.35%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.75%) Power BI
3 3 (2.75%) Tableau
4 1 (0.92%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.92%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.92%) QlikView
4 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (23.85%) Eclipse
2 19 (17.43%) Browser DevTools
3 18 (16.51%) Android Studio
3 18 (16.51%) Xcode
4 12 (11.01%) JIRA
5 8 (7.34%) Jenkins
5 8 (7.34%) Valgrind
6 7 (6.42%) GitLab
7 6 (5.50%) Git
8 4 (3.67%) JUnit
9 3 (2.75%) Storybook
10 1 (0.92%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.92%) Postman
10 1 (0.92%) Selenium
10 1 (0.92%) SoapUI
General
1 54 (49.54%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.51%) Finance
3 10 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.34%) Marketing
5 7 (6.42%) Retail
6 5 (4.59%) Electronics
6 5 (4.59%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.59%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.75%) Legal
8 2 (1.83%) Automotive
8 2 (1.83%) Billing
9 1 (0.92%) Games
9 1 (0.92%) Law
9 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (19.27%) Support Engineer
2 20 (18.35%) UX Engineer
3 19 (17.43%) Technical Engineer
3 19 (17.43%) Technical Support
3 19 (17.43%) Technical Support Engineer
4 18 (16.51%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 17 (15.60%) Analyst
5 17 (15.60%) Senior
6 14 (12.84%) Developer
7 13 (11.93%) Lead
8 8 (7.34%) Business Analyst
8 8 (7.34%) C++ Software Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Development Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Linux Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Senior Development Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Senior Software Development Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Software Development Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (26.61%) CSS
1 29 (26.61%) React
2 22 (20.18%) GraphQL
3 21 (19.27%) AngularJS
4 19 (17.43%) Ajax
5 13 (11.93%) REST
6 10 (9.17%) HTML
7 9 (8.26%) JSON
7 9 (8.26%) XML
8 8 (7.34%) RESTful
8 8 (7.34%) Web Services
9 6 (5.50%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (4.59%) .NET
10 5 (4.59%) Spring
10 5 (4.59%) Spring Boot
11 3 (2.75%) ARM Templates
11 3 (2.75%) CSS3
11 3 (2.75%) Material Design
11 3 (2.75%) OAuth2
11 3 (2.75%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 28 (25.69%) Mobile App
2 8 (7.34%) Smartcard
3 6 (5.50%) Synthetic Data
4 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.75%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.75%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.83%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.92%) AS400
7 1 (0.92%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.92%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.92%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 27 (24.77%) Linux
1 27 (24.77%) Windows
2 25 (22.94%) Android
3 22 (20.18%) Unix
4 8 (7.34%) Ubuntu
5 7 (6.42%) Apple iOS
6 6 (5.50%) Windows 10
7 5 (4.59%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.28%) Agile
2 24 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (20.18%) Mobile Application Development
4 21 (19.27%) CI/CD
5 20 (18.35%) UX Design
6 18 (16.51%) Front End Development
6 18 (16.51%) OO
7 15 (13.76%) DevOps
8 14 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (11.93%) Acceptance Criteria
9 13 (11.93%) Test Automation
10 12 (11.01%) Analytics
10 12 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (10.09%) Roadmaps
11 11 (10.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 10 (9.17%) AI
13 9 (8.26%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 9 (8.26%) Software Engineering
14 8 (7.34%) Multithreaded Programming
14 8 (7.34%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 38 (34.86%) JavaScript
2 37 (33.94%) Java
3 33 (30.28%) Python
4 19 (17.43%) Perl
5 15 (13.76%) SQL
6 13 (11.93%) C#
7 8 (7.34%) C++
8 7 (6.42%) PowerShell
9 6 (5.50%) Bash
9 6 (5.50%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.67%) Kotlin
10 4 (3.67%) Swift
10 4 (3.67%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.75%) Objective-C
11 3 (2.75%) PHP
12 1 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 11 (10.09%) Degree
2 9 (8.26%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.50%) OCA
3 6 (5.50%) Oracle Certification
4 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (4.59%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.75%) Citrix Certification
5 3 (2.75%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.93%) GDPR
2 10 (9.17%) QA
3 4 (3.67%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.75%) SLA
5 2 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.83%) PMO
6 1 (0.92%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.92%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (7.34%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.83%) Docker
4 1 (0.92%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (6.42%) SCCM
2 3 (2.75%) Terraform
3 2 (1.83%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.92%) Kibana
4 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (29.36%) Microsoft
2 25 (22.94%) Oracle
2 25 (22.94%) ServiceNow
3 20 (18.35%) Splunk
4 6 (5.50%) Citrix
4 6 (5.50%) VMware
5 5 (4.59%) Apple
6 4 (3.67%) Google
6 4 (3.67%) SAP
7 3 (2.75%) Adobe
8 2 (1.83%) Dell
8 2 (1.83%) Okta
8 2 (1.83%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.92%) Ericsson
9 1 (0.92%) NetApp
9 1 (0.92%) Openreach
9 1 (0.92%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.92%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.92%) Zscaler