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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 82 99
Rank change year-on-year -21 +17 -19
Contract jobs citing User Experience 112 74 97
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.91% 2.47% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.69% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 48 51
10th Percentile £203 £250 £263
25th Percentile £295 £405 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £588
90th Percentile £638 £701 £638
England median daily rate £488 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -2.30% -0.20% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £18.00 £61.00 -
25th Percentile £21.00 £72.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £82.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.07% +152.31% +85.71%
75th Percentile £55.00 £88.00 £70.39
90th Percentile £71.20 £92.50 £89.88
England median hourly rate £44.50 £53.50 £29.14
% change year-on-year -16.82% +83.63% -1.55%

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 4,759 2,747 4,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.21% 91.54% 84.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,102 1,755 2,737
10th Percentile £280 £254 £250
25th Percentile £408 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.48%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £623
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 173 434
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.85 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.79 £15.25 £18.20
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -41.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £81.76 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -36 51 £500 +8.11% 44
Surrey -1 29 £450 -10.00% 108
Berkshire -32 27 £500 +17.65% 18
Hampshire -19 17 £364 +25.52% 21
Buckinghamshire -29 17 £538 -2.27% 21
West Sussex -13 7 £650 - 2
Oxfordshire -18 7 £210 -44.00% 5
Kent -5 5 £300 -42.31% 49
Home Counties - 2 - -
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 9 (8.04%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.68%) CMS
3 1 (0.89%) Apache
3 1 (0.89%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.79%) UXPin
2 1 (0.89%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.89%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.89%) InVision
2 1 (0.89%) OmniGraffle
2 1 (0.89%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.89%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.89%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.96%) Azure
2 18 (16.07%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (10.71%) Power Platform
4 8 (7.14%) SaaS
5 6 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.36%) Figma
5 6 (5.36%) Power Automate
5 6 (5.36%) Sauce Labs
5 6 (5.36%) Viva Engage
6 4 (3.57%) PowerApps
6 4 (3.57%) Tricentis Tosca
7 3 (2.68%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.68%) GCP
7 3 (2.68%) GitHub
7 3 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.79%) Azure AI
8 2 (1.79%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.79%) OCI
8 2 (1.79%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) Intranet
2 2 (1.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.89%) DHCP
3 1 (0.89%) DNS
3 1 (0.89%) Firewall
3 1 (0.89%) Internet
3 1 (0.89%) LAN
3 1 (0.89%) Network Security
3 1 (0.89%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.89%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.89%) SSL
3 1 (0.89%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.89%) VoIP
3 1 (0.89%) VPN
3 1 (0.89%) WAN
3 1 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 6 (5.36%) MySQL
2 6 (5.36%) Power BI
3 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.89%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.89%) DB2
4 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.89%) Power Query
4 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (10.71%) JIRA
2 7 (6.25%) Android Studio
2 7 (6.25%) Browser DevTools
2 7 (6.25%) GitLab
2 7 (6.25%) Xcode
3 6 (5.36%) Eclipse
4 5 (4.46%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.68%) Git
5 3 (2.68%) Postman
6 2 (1.79%) fastlane
6 2 (1.79%) Gradle
6 2 (1.79%) JUnit
6 2 (1.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.89%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.89%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.89%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.89%) Storybook
General
1 34 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.25%) Finance
5 4 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.79%) French Language
7 2 (1.79%) Legal
8 1 (0.89%) Law
8 1 (0.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (13.39%) Senior
2 14 (12.50%) Developer
2 14 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 13 (11.61%) Consultant
4 11 (9.82%) IT Support
5 9 (8.04%) IT Engineer
5 9 (8.04%) Lead
6 8 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Analyst
7 7 (6.25%) Designer
7 7 (6.25%) UX Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Technical Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Technical Support
8 6 (5.36%) Technical Support Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Power Platform Consultant
9 5 (4.46%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.46%) User Researcher
10 4 (3.57%) QA Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Senior IT Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.50%) React
2 10 (8.93%) CSS
3 7 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 7 (6.25%) REST
4 6 (5.36%) Ajax
4 6 (5.36%) GraphQL
5 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (3.57%) .NET
6 4 (3.57%) HTML
6 4 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (2.68%) Flutter
7 3 (2.68%) JSON
7 3 (2.68%) RESTful
7 3 (2.68%) SOAP
7 3 (2.68%) Software Packaging
7 3 (2.68%) XML
8 2 (1.79%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.79%) Node.js
8 2 (1.79%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.79%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.61%) Product Ownership
2 12 (10.71%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.57%) Synthetic Data
4 3 (2.68%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.68%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.79%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.89%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.89%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.89%) Life Science
6 1 (0.89%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.89%) Robotics
6 1 (0.89%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.89%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.89%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.96%) Windows
2 12 (10.71%) Android
3 7 (6.25%) Linux
4 6 (5.36%) Unix
5 5 (4.46%) Apple iOS
6 4 (3.57%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.79%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (28.57%) Agile
2 25 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (19.64%) UX Design
4 16 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 16 (14.29%) DevOps
5 15 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (11.61%) ITIL
6 13 (11.61%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 11 (9.82%) Customer Service
7 11 (9.82%) Service Delivery
7 11 (9.82%) Test Automation
8 10 (8.93%) Acceptance Criteria
8 10 (8.93%) Data Modelling
8 10 (8.93%) ITSM
8 10 (8.93%) Scrum
8 10 (8.93%) Validation
9 9 (8.04%) AI
9 9 (8.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (8.04%) Workflow
10 8 (7.14%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 17 (15.18%) JavaScript
2 12 (10.71%) Java
3 11 (9.82%) SQL
4 10 (8.93%) Python
5 6 (5.36%) C#
5 6 (5.36%) Perl
6 5 (4.46%) Kotlin
7 4 (3.57%) PL/SQL
7 4 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.68%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.79%) Swift
10 1 (0.89%) C++
10 1 (0.89%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.89%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.71%) Degree
4 7 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.57%) OCA
5 4 (3.57%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (2.68%) CCA
6 3 (2.68%) CESG Certified Professional
6 3 (2.68%) Citrix Certification
6 3 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.29%) QA
2 10 (8.93%) Accessibility
3 8 (7.14%) GDPR
4 4 (3.57%) SLA
4 4 (3.57%) WCAG
5 3 (2.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.89%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.89%) GRC
6 1 (0.89%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.89%) Docker
4 1 (0.89%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (5.36%) SCCM
2 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.89%) Ansible
4 1 (0.89%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (29.46%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.71%) ServiceNow
3 11 (9.82%) Oracle
4 8 (7.14%) Citrix
5 6 (5.36%) Splunk
6 5 (4.46%) VMware
7 4 (3.57%) Adobe
8 2 (1.79%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.79%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.79%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.79%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.89%) Apple
9 1 (0.89%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.89%) Foundry
9 1 (0.89%) NetApp
9 1 (0.89%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.89%) SAP
9 1 (0.89%) Solace
9 1 (0.89%) UiPath
9 1 (0.89%) Zscaler