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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 77 89
Rank change year-on-year -64 +12 +2
Contract jobs citing User Experience 96 92 91
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.46% 2.55% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 2.87% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 71 64
10th Percentile £204 £204 £201
25th Percentile £295 £300 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £386
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +23.22% -22.90%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £638 £634
England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 0
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £25.00 £16.23 -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £58.91 -
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.16 -
England median hourly rate £37.61 £35.60 £38.02
% change year-on-year +5.65% -6.37% -19.96%

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 5,352 3,211 3,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.21% 88.87% 83.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,088 2,015 2,165
10th Percentile £275 £213 £259
25th Percentile £417 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £620 £588 £625
90th Percentile £713 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 703 330 181
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.33 £16.17 £30.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £20.79 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +116.45% -64.46% +7.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £69.65 £75.00
England median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -32 45 £500 - 83
Berkshire -9 34 £325 -41.44% 42
Hampshire -19 18 £300 -41.69% 35
West Sussex -10 17 £405 -37.69% 21
Surrey -40 13 £355 +18.33% 25
Buckinghamshire -29 8 £600 +26.32% 22
Oxfordshire -26 3 £350 -3.45% 19
Kent -6 2 £400 +6.67% 14
Sussex - 1 £650 - 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 13 (13.54%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.17%) CMS
3 2 (2.08%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.04%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) Kentico
4 1 (1.04%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (32.29%) Azure
2 19 (19.79%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (14.58%) AWS
4 12 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 10 (10.42%) OneDrive
6 7 (7.29%) GCP
7 5 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.21%) SaaS
8 4 (4.17%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.17%) Figma
8 4 (4.17%) GitHub
8 4 (4.17%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.13%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.13%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (2.08%) Azure AI
10 2 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.08%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (2.08%) Google App Engine
10 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.54%) DNS
2 12 (12.50%) DHCP
3 10 (10.42%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.13%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.04%) Network Security
5 1 (1.04%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.25%) Power BI
2 4 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.13%) MySQL
4 2 (2.08%) Redis
4 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.04%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.04%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.04%) Db2
5 1 (1.04%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.04%) Power Query
5 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Android Studio
1 3 (3.13%) Browser DevTools
1 3 (3.13%) CircleCI
1 3 (3.13%) Eclipse
1 3 (3.13%) Git
1 3 (3.13%) Xcode
2 2 (2.08%) GitLab
2 2 (2.08%) JIRA
2 2 (2.08%) XCTest
2 2 (2.08%) XCUITest
3 1 (1.04%) JMeter
3 1 (1.04%) JUnit
3 1 (1.04%) Postman
General
1 38 (39.58%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.58%) Finance
3 12 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.46%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.25%) Aerospace
5 6 (6.25%) Legal
6 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Billing
7 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Marketing
7 1 (1.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (17.71%) IT Support
2 8 (8.33%) Consultant
2 8 (8.33%) Designer
2 8 (8.33%) Developer
3 7 (7.29%) Analyst
3 7 (7.29%) Lead
3 7 (7.29%) Product Owner
4 6 (6.25%) Senior
4 6 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 4 (4.17%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 4 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (3.13%) 1st/2nd Line Desktop Support
6 3 (3.13%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
6 3 (3.13%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 3 (3.13%) IT Analyst
6 3 (3.13%) IT Engineer
6 3 (3.13%) Power Platform Consultant
6 3 (3.13%) Service Designer
6 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow Developer
6 3 (3.13%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.46%) REST
2 10 (10.42%) CSS
3 8 (8.33%) React
4 7 (7.29%) HTML
5 5 (5.21%) .NET
5 5 (5.21%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.17%) .NET Core
6 4 (4.17%) .NET Framework
6 4 (4.17%) ASP.NET
6 4 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (4.17%) Entity Framework
6 4 (4.17%) SOAP
7 3 (3.13%) Ajax
7 3 (3.13%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.13%) JSON
7 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (3.13%) OAuth
7 3 (3.13%) RAML
8 2 (2.08%) OpenID
8 2 (2.08%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 12 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 9 (9.38%) Mobile App
3 9 (9.38%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.17%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.13%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.13%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.13%) Legacy Code
5 3 (3.13%) Smartphone
6 2 (2.08%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.04%) NHS
7 1 (1.04%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.04%) PKI
7 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (29.17%) Windows
2 18 (18.75%) Apple iOS
3 11 (11.46%) macOS
4 10 (10.42%) Android
5 5 (5.21%) Windows 10
6 3 (3.13%) Linux
6 3 (3.13%) Unix
6 3 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (29.17%) ITIL
2 24 (25.00%) Agile
3 23 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (22.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (21.88%) AI
5 21 (21.88%) ITSM
6 17 (17.71%) UX Design
7 15 (15.63%) Customer Service
8 14 (14.58%) Data Protection
9 13 (13.54%) Computer Science
9 13 (13.54%) Decision-Making
9 13 (13.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (12.50%) Roadmaps
10 12 (12.50%) Time Management
11 11 (11.46%) Requirements Gathering
11 11 (11.46%) Scrum
11 11 (11.46%) Service Management
12 10 (10.42%) Mobile Device Management
12 10 (10.42%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.46%) JavaScript
1 11 (11.46%) Python
2 9 (9.38%) SQL
3 4 (4.17%) C#
3 4 (4.17%) Java
3 4 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.13%) Perl
5 2 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.08%) Objective-C
5 2 (2.08%) Swift
5 2 (2.08%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.04%) Bash
6 1 (1.04%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 26 (27.08%) Degree
2 23 (23.96%) Security Cleared
3 22 (22.92%) SC Cleared
4 13 (13.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.21%) CISSP
6 4 (4.17%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.13%) CCA
7 3 (3.13%) Citrix Certification
7 3 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (2.08%) CSPO
8 2 (2.08%) MCSA
8 2 (2.08%) MCSE
8 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.04%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.42%) QA
2 4 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (4.17%) PMO
3 3 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.13%) WCAG
4 2 (2.08%) SLA
5 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.08%) Docker
3 2 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.08%) vSphere
4 1 (1.04%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.04%) XenApp
4 1 (1.04%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (13.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (10.42%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (4.17%) Clonezilla
4 3 (3.13%) SCCM
5 2 (2.08%) SCOM
5 2 (2.08%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.08%) vMotion
6 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (35.42%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.71%) ServiceNow
3 5 (5.21%) Citrix
4 4 (4.17%) Google
4 4 (4.17%) VMware
5 3 (3.13%) Oracle
5 3 (3.13%) Splunk
5 3 (3.13%) Virgin Media
6 2 (2.08%) Apple
6 2 (2.08%) ForgeRock
6 2 (2.08%) Okta
6 2 (2.08%) Ping Identity
6 2 (2.08%) Remedy
6 2 (2.08%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.04%) Adobe
7 1 (1.04%) Databricks
7 1 (1.04%) Foundry
7 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.04%) Solace