User Experience Contracts in the South East

UX
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 87 109 82
Rank change year-on-year +22 -27 +20
Contract jobs citing User Experience 73 98 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.43% 1.76% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 2.08% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 50 118
10th Percentile £250 £263 £313
25th Percentile £402 £366 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £569 £588 £538
90th Percentile £701 £643 £679
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £61.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.25 £19.25 -
Median hourly rate £82.00 £32.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +152.31% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.39 -
90th Percentile £92.50 £89.88 -
England median hourly rate £53.50 £31.71 £33.85
% change year-on-year +68.72% -6.31% -32.98%

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 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the South East

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the South East.

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the South East

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the South East

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the South East

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 1 May 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 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
Thames Valley +22 43 £454 -11.46% 75
Berkshire +7 30 £425 -19.05% 33
Surrey +19 14 £500 - 28
Buckinghamshire +23 11 £675 +27.06% 20
Hampshire +22 11 £290 -29.70% 51
West Sussex +13 3 - - 12
Oxfordshire 0 2 £375 +36.36% 28
Kent +7 1 £520 +16.53% 14
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (4.11%) Confluence
1 3 (4.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Adobe Captivate
1 2 (2.74%) Chatbot
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.74%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (27.40%) Azure
2 8 (10.96%) Figma
3 7 (9.59%) AWS
3 7 (9.59%) SaaS
4 5 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (6.85%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.74%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (2.74%) Azure Stack
6 2 (2.74%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 2 (2.74%) Veeva
7 1 (1.37%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) Internet
1 2 (2.74%) LAN
1 2 (2.74%) WAN
1 2 (2.74%) Wireless
2 1 (1.37%) Firewall
2 1 (1.37%) Intranet
2 1 (1.37%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.37%) IP Telephony
2 1 (1.37%) MPLS
2 1 (1.37%) NAS
2 1 (1.37%) NetScaler
2 1 (1.37%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.37%) SAN
2 1 (1.37%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.37%) Skype
2 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.37%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.85%) Power BI
2 3 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.37%) DataStage
3 1 (1.37%) Metadata
3 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.37%) Power Query
3 1 (1.37%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.37%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (8.22%) Git
2 5 (6.85%) JIRA
3 4 (5.48%) Cypress.io
3 4 (5.48%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (5.48%) Vite
4 2 (2.74%) Balsamiq
4 2 (2.74%) JMeter
4 2 (2.74%) Moq
4 2 (2.74%) Selenium
4 2 (2.74%) SpecFlow
4 2 (2.74%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.37%) Axure RP
5 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.37%) Maven
General
1 25 (34.25%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.33%) Finance
3 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.59%) Marketing
5 5 (6.85%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.11%) Retail
8 2 (2.74%) Law
8 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.37%) Automotive
9 1 (1.37%) Electronics
9 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.37%) Local Government
9 1 (1.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 22 (30.14%) Developer
2 10 (13.70%) Analyst
2 10 (13.70%) React Developer
3 8 (10.96%) Architect
3 8 (10.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 8 (10.96%) Senior
4 5 (6.85%) Principal Architect
4 5 (6.85%) Senior Developer
5 4 (5.48%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (5.48%) Product Owner
6 3 (4.11%) Consultant
6 3 (4.11%) Lead
6 3 (4.11%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.11%) Trainer
7 2 (2.74%) .NET Developer
7 2 (2.74%) Business Analyst
7 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (2.74%) Software Engineer
7 2 (2.74%) Support Analyst
7 2 (2.74%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.81%) CSS
1 13 (17.81%) HTML
1 13 (17.81%) React
2 6 (8.22%) Redux
2 6 (8.22%) RESTful
3 5 (6.85%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.48%) .NET
4 4 (5.48%) .NET Core
4 4 (5.48%) Framer.js
4 4 (5.48%) YAML
5 3 (4.11%) Node.js
6 2 (2.74%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.74%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.74%) Bootstrap
6 2 (2.74%) Ember.js
6 2 (2.74%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.74%) JSON
6 2 (2.74%) Parceljs
6 2 (2.74%) Vue
6 2 (2.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.70%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.85%) e-Learning
2 5 (6.85%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.48%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.11%) Driving Licence
4 3 (4.11%) Smartphone
5 2 (2.74%) Learning Management System
5 2 (2.74%) Life Science
5 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.74%) SCORM
6 1 (1.37%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.37%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.37%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.59%) Windows
2 4 (5.48%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.74%) Android
3 2 (2.74%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.74%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.62%) UX Design
2 25 (34.25%) Agile
3 17 (23.29%) Wireframes
4 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (17.81%) CI/CD
6 12 (16.44%) ITIL
7 11 (15.07%) Scrum
8 10 (13.70%) Front End Development
9 9 (12.33%) DevOps
9 9 (12.33%) Roadmaps
10 8 (10.96%) Design Patterns
10 8 (10.96%) Test Automation
10 8 (10.96%) User Stories
11 7 (9.59%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (9.59%) Project Management
11 7 (9.59%) Sprint Planning
11 7 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (8.22%) Insurtech
12 6 (8.22%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.81%) JavaScript
2 11 (15.07%) TypeScript
3 10 (13.70%) C#
4 8 (10.96%) SQL
5 2 (2.74%) Python
6 1 (1.37%) ABAP
6 1 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.37%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.33%) Degree
4 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (5.48%) CCNP
5 4 (5.48%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.48%) MCSE
6 2 (2.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.37%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.37%) CISSP
7 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.37%) MBA
7 1 (1.37%) MCP
7 1 (1.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.59%) QA
2 4 (5.48%) NCSC
2 4 (5.48%) NIST
3 3 (4.11%) SLA
4 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.74%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (1.37%) GDPR
5 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.37%) vSphere
3 1 (1.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (4.11%) SCCM
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.96%) VMware
3 5 (6.85%) SAP
4 4 (5.48%) Adobe
5 3 (4.11%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.74%) Capita
6 2 (2.74%) Cisco
6 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.74%) Workday
6 2 (2.74%) Xamarin
7 1 (1.37%) Apple
7 1 (1.37%) BMC
7 1 (1.37%) Citrix
7 1 (1.37%) Databricks
7 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.37%) Google
7 1 (1.37%) IBM
7 1 (1.37%) Okta
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle
7 1 (1.37%) Palo Alto