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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 84 114
Rank change year-on-year -12 +30 -42
Contract jobs citing User Experience 134 75 92
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.16% 2.46% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 2.69% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 53 52
10th Percentile £203 £313 £209
25th Percentile £300 £406 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +11.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £573
90th Percentile £650 £675 £648
England median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 2
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.25 £73.64
25th Percentile £20.50 £33.38 £78.51
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.16 £86.63
Median % change year-on-year -53.68% -19.01% +395.03%
75th Percentile £35.22 £85.50 £94.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £89.50 £99.62
England median hourly rate £33.99 £51.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -33.36% +70.00% +15.38%

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 5,034 2,783 4,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.18% 91.25% 82.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,198 1,741 2,726
10th Percentile £280 £250 £263
25th Percentile £413 £396 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -
75th Percentile £610 £600 £634
90th Percentile £700 £663 £700
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 219 470
10th Percentile £15.09 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £15.06 £18.23
Median hourly rate £53.95 £24.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +124.79% -52.00% -4.03%
75th Percentile £82.25 £55.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.63
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -15 72 £509 +19.71% 18
Berkshire -7 48 £500 +17.65% 10
Surrey -20 22 £413 -13.16% 8
Hampshire -19 18 £438 +50.86% 12
Buckinghamshire -29 17 £560 +1.82% 6
West Sussex -8 13 £650 - 3
Oxfordshire -29 7 £210 -42.07% 3
Kent +4 5 £350 -44.44% 3
Home Counties - 2 - -
Sussex - 1 £650 - 1
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 17 (12.69%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.48%) CMS
3 3 (2.24%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.75%) Confluence
5 1 (0.75%) Kentico
5 1 (0.75%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.49%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.75%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (30.60%) Azure
2 30 (22.39%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (11.19%) AWS
4 14 (10.45%) Power Platform
5 12 (8.96%) OneDrive
6 9 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.97%) GCP
8 7 (5.22%) Figma
8 7 (5.22%) Power Automate
9 6 (4.48%) SaaS
10 5 (3.73%) Entra ID
10 5 (3.73%) PowerApps
10 5 (3.73%) Viva Engage
11 4 (2.99%) Google App Engine
12 3 (2.24%) GitHub
12 3 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.24%) Sauce Labs
13 2 (1.49%) Azure AI
13 2 (1.49%) Copilot Studio
13 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.70%) DHCP
1 13 (9.70%) DNS
2 11 (8.21%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.24%) Intranet
4 2 (1.49%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.75%) Firewall
5 1 (0.75%) Internet
5 1 (0.75%) LAN
5 1 (0.75%) Network Security
5 1 (0.75%) NFC
5 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.75%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.75%) SSL
5 1 (0.75%) VPN
5 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.22%) Power BI
2 5 (3.73%) Relational Database
2 5 (3.73%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.24%) MySQL
4 3 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.49%) Power Query
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.75%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.75%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.75%) Db2
6 1 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (5.97%) JIRA
2 5 (3.73%) Git
3 4 (2.99%) Android Studio
3 4 (2.99%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (2.99%) GitLab
3 4 (2.99%) Xcode
4 3 (2.24%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.24%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.24%) Postman
5 2 (1.49%) fastlane
5 2 (1.49%) Gradle
5 2 (1.49%) JUnit
5 2 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.75%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.75%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.75%) JMeter
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.75%) Storybook
General
1 46 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.66%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.70%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.22%) Finance
5 4 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.24%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.49%) French Language
7 2 (1.49%) Legal
7 2 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (17.91%) IT Support
2 21 (15.67%) Developer
3 14 (10.45%) Senior
4 13 (9.70%) Support Engineer
5 10 (7.46%) Analyst
5 10 (7.46%) Consultant
5 10 (7.46%) IT Engineer
5 10 (7.46%) IT Support Engineer
6 9 (6.72%) Designer
6 9 (6.72%) Lead
7 7 (5.22%) Product Owner
8 6 (4.48%) ServiceNow Developer
9 5 (3.73%) Architect
9 5 (3.73%) Power Platform Consultant
9 5 (3.73%) Senior Developer
9 5 (3.73%) User Researcher
10 4 (2.99%) Administrator
10 4 (2.99%) Senior Support Engineer
10 4 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.99%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.70%) React
2 11 (8.21%) CSS
3 10 (7.46%) REST
4 8 (5.97%) .NET
4 8 (5.97%) HTML
5 7 (5.22%) SOAP
6 6 (4.48%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.73%) .NET Core
7 5 (3.73%) ASP.NET
7 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (3.73%) OAuth
8 4 (2.99%) .NET Framework
8 4 (2.99%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (2.99%) Entity Framework
8 4 (2.99%) JSON
9 3 (2.24%) Ajax
9 3 (2.24%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.24%) RESTful
9 3 (2.24%) SAML
9 3 (2.24%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.67%) Product Ownership
2 14 (10.45%) Data Centre
3 9 (6.72%) Onboarding
4 8 (5.97%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.73%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.99%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.24%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.24%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.24%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.75%) Life Science
9 1 (0.75%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.75%) PKI
9 1 (0.75%) Robotics
9 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (23.13%) Windows
2 16 (11.94%) Apple iOS
3 15 (11.19%) Mac OS
4 10 (7.46%) Android
5 4 (2.99%) Linux
6 3 (2.24%) Unix
7 2 (1.49%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (29.10%) Agile
2 36 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (23.13%) ITIL
4 25 (18.66%) ITSM
4 25 (18.66%) UX Design
5 21 (15.67%) AI
6 20 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (14.18%) Customer Service
8 18 (13.43%) Scrum
9 16 (11.94%) DevOps
10 15 (11.19%) Data Modelling
11 14 (10.45%) Data Protection
12 13 (9.70%) CI/CD
12 13 (9.70%) Service Delivery
12 13 (9.70%) Time Management
12 13 (9.70%) Translating Business Requirements
13 12 (8.96%) Computer Science
13 12 (8.96%) Decision-Making
13 12 (8.96%) Mobile Device Management
13 12 (8.96%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (14.18%) JavaScript
2 12 (8.96%) Python
3 11 (8.21%) SQL
4 9 (6.72%) C#
4 9 (6.72%) Java
5 5 (3.73%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.99%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.24%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.24%) Perl
8 1 (0.75%) C++
8 1 (0.75%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.75%) Swift
8 1 (0.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (22.39%) Security Cleared
2 27 (20.15%) SC Cleared
3 26 (19.40%) Degree
4 12 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.73%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.73%) CCA
5 5 (3.73%) CISSP
5 5 (3.73%) Citrix Certification
5 5 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.24%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.24%) CESG Certified Professional
6 3 (2.24%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.49%) CSPO
7 2 (1.49%) MCSA
7 2 (1.49%) MCSE
7 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.96%) QA
2 11 (8.21%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.48%) WCAG
4 4 (2.99%) SLA
5 3 (2.24%) GDPR
6 2 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.49%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.75%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (7.46%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.97%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (3.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.49%) Docker
4 2 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (11.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (7.46%) Jamf Pro
3 8 (5.97%) SCCM
4 4 (2.99%) Clonezilla
5 2 (1.49%) SCOM
5 2 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.49%) vCenter Server
5 2 (1.49%) vMotion
Vendors
1 48 (35.82%) Microsoft
2 26 (19.40%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.72%) Citrix
4 5 (3.73%) VMware
5 4 (2.99%) Oracle
6 3 (2.24%) Apple
6 3 (2.24%) Google
6 3 (2.24%) Splunk
6 3 (2.24%) Virgin Media
7 2 (1.49%) Adobe
7 2 (1.49%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.49%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.49%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.49%) Okta
7 2 (1.49%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.49%) Remedy
7 2 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.49%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.75%) Foundry
8 1 (0.75%) SAP