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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 80 113
Rank change year-on-year -17 +33 -35
Contract jobs citing User Experience 130 72 88
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.16% 2.41% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 2.63% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 51 46
10th Percentile £203 £310 £263
25th Percentile £300 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -4.52% +4.74%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £594
90th Percentile £650 £675 £669
England median daily rate £488 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +1.04% -3.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 4
10th Percentile - £13.25 -
25th Percentile £16.00 £23.31 £19.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £67.75 £45.45
Median % change year-on-year -52.03% +49.08% +159.69%
75th Percentile £33.75 £85.50 £78.51
90th Percentile £35.22 £90.50 £93.13
England median hourly rate £33.98 £53.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -36.49% +78.33% +13.21%

All Process & 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 4,867 2,734 4,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.79% 91.50% 82.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,096 1,746 2,744
10th Percentile £280 £250 £261
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.20% -0.79%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £660 £700
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 469 190 470
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.23 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £15.00 £18.32
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -47.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £82.25 £58.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.04
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%

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 10 June 2026.

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 10 June 2026.

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 10 June 2026. 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 -24 66 £519 +18.63% 27
Berkshire -16 41 £500 +17.65% 15
Surrey -11 22 £413 -13.16% 18
Hampshire -16 21 £364 +25.52% 13
Buckinghamshire -29 18 £555 +0.91% 9
West Sussex -13 11 £650 - 5
Oxfordshire -24 7 £210 -42.07% 5
Kent +3 6 £300 -47.83% 5
Home Counties - 2 - -
Sussex - 1 £650 - 3
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 16 (12.31%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.38%) CMS
3 3 (2.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (2.31%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.77%) Confluence
4 1 (0.77%) Kentico
4 1 (0.77%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.54%) UXPin
2 1 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.77%) InVision
2 1 (0.77%) OmniGraffle
2 1 (0.77%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.77%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.77%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (26.92%) Azure
2 29 (22.31%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (9.23%) Power Platform
4 11 (8.46%) AWS
4 11 (8.46%) OneDrive
5 9 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.62%) Figma
6 6 (4.62%) Power Automate
6 6 (4.62%) SaaS
7 5 (3.85%) GCP
7 5 (3.85%) Viva Engage
8 4 (3.08%) Google App Engine
8 4 (3.08%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.08%) Sauce Labs
9 3 (2.31%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.31%) GitHub
9 3 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.54%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.54%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.23%) DHCP
1 12 (9.23%) DNS
2 10 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.31%) Intranet
4 2 (1.54%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.77%) Firewall
5 1 (0.77%) Internet
5 1 (0.77%) LAN
5 1 (0.77%) Network Security
5 1 (0.77%) NFC
5 1 (0.77%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.77%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.77%) SSL
5 1 (0.77%) VPN
5 1 (0.77%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.62%) Power BI
1 6 (4.62%) Relational Database
2 5 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.08%) MySQL
3 4 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.77%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.77%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.77%) Db2
5 1 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.77%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.77%) Power Query
5 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.77%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (6.92%) JIRA
2 5 (3.85%) Android Studio
2 5 (3.85%) Browser DevTools
2 5 (3.85%) Git
2 5 (3.85%) Xcode
3 4 (3.08%) Eclipse
3 4 (3.08%) GitLab
4 3 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.31%) Postman
5 2 (1.54%) fastlane
5 2 (1.54%) Gradle
5 2 (1.54%) JUnit
5 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.77%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.77%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.77%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.77%) JMeter
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.77%) Storybook
General
1 47 (36.15%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (9.23%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.38%) Finance
5 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.54%) French Language
7 2 (1.54%) Legal
8 1 (0.77%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (19.23%) IT Support
2 19 (14.62%) Developer
3 14 (10.77%) Support Engineer
4 13 (10.00%) Senior
5 12 (9.23%) Consultant
6 10 (7.69%) Analyst
6 10 (7.69%) IT Engineer
6 10 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
7 9 (6.92%) Designer
7 9 (6.92%) Lead
8 6 (4.62%) ServiceNow Developer
9 5 (3.85%) Power Platform Consultant
9 5 (3.85%) Senior Developer
9 5 (3.85%) UI Designer
9 5 (3.85%) UI/UX Designer
9 5 (3.85%) User Researcher
9 5 (3.85%) UX Designer
10 4 (3.08%) Administrator
10 4 (3.08%) Technical Engineer
10 4 (3.08%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.54%) React
2 12 (9.23%) CSS
3 10 (7.69%) REST
4 8 (6.15%) .NET
4 8 (6.15%) HTML
5 7 (5.38%) AngularJS
5 7 (5.38%) SOAP
6 5 (3.85%) .NET Core
6 5 (3.85%) ASP.NET
6 5 (3.85%) JSON
6 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (3.08%) .NET Framework
7 4 (3.08%) Ajax
7 4 (3.08%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (3.08%) Entity Framework
7 4 (3.08%) GraphQL
7 4 (3.08%) OAuth
8 3 (2.31%) RESTful
8 3 (2.31%) Software Packaging
8 3 (2.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.85%) Product Ownership
2 13 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 9 (6.92%) Mobile App
3 9 (6.92%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.08%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.31%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.31%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.31%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.77%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.77%) Life Science
7 1 (0.77%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.77%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.77%) Robotics
7 1 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (23.85%) Windows
2 14 (10.77%) Apple iOS
3 13 (10.00%) Mac OS
4 10 (7.69%) Android
5 5 (3.85%) Linux
6 4 (3.08%) Unix
7 2 (1.54%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (27.69%) Agile
2 34 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (20.00%) UX Design
4 25 (19.23%) ITIL
5 24 (18.46%) ITSM
6 20 (15.38%) AI
7 19 (14.62%) Customer Service
8 17 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (12.31%) DevOps
10 15 (11.54%) Data Modelling
10 15 (11.54%) Scrum
10 15 (11.54%) Service Delivery
11 13 (10.00%) CI/CD
11 13 (10.00%) Data Protection
12 12 (9.23%) Time Management
13 11 (8.46%) Decision-Making
13 11 (8.46%) Mobile Device Management
13 11 (8.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 10 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
15 9 (6.92%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 10 (7.69%) Java
2 10 (7.69%) Python
3 9 (6.92%) C#
4 8 (6.15%) SQL
5 5 (3.85%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.08%) Kotlin
6 4 (3.08%) Perl
7 3 (2.31%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.77%) C++
9 1 (0.77%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.77%) Swift
9 1 (0.77%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (17.69%) SC Cleared
3 20 (15.38%) Degree
4 8 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.85%) CCA
5 5 (3.85%) Citrix Certification
5 5 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.31%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.54%) MCSA
7 2 (1.54%) MCSE
7 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.77%) CISSP
8 1 (0.77%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.00%) QA
2 11 (8.46%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.62%) WCAG
4 4 (3.08%) SLA
5 3 (2.31%) GDPR
6 2 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.77%) GRC
System Software
1 11 (8.46%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.54%) Docker
4 2 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (10.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (6.92%) Jamf Pro
3 7 (5.38%) SCCM
4 4 (3.08%) Clonezilla
5 2 (1.54%) SCOM
5 2 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.54%) vCenter Server
5 2 (1.54%) vMotion
Vendors
1 46 (35.38%) Microsoft
2 24 (18.46%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.92%) Citrix
4 5 (3.85%) Oracle
4 5 (3.85%) VMware
5 4 (3.08%) Splunk
6 3 (2.31%) Adobe
6 3 (2.31%) Virgin Media
7 2 (1.54%) Apple
7 2 (1.54%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.54%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.54%) Google
7 2 (1.54%) Remedy
7 2 (1.54%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.54%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.77%) Databricks
8 1 (0.77%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.77%) Okta
8 1 (0.77%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.77%) Solace