User Experience Contracts in the South East

UX
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for User Experience skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Experience over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 85 98
Rank change year-on-year -18 +13 -29
Contract jobs citing User Experience 100 157 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.81% 2.69% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 3.01% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 117 134
10th Percentile £263 £313 £338
25th Percentile £372 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +1.06% +25.33%
75th Percentile £580 £538 £562
90th Percentile £636 £680 £633
England median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - £61.40
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 - £67.80
75th Percentile £70.39 - -
90th Percentile £89.88 - £68.07
England median hourly rate £31.71 £33.85 £50.50
% change year-on-year -6.31% -32.98% +58.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

User Experience is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -20 65 £513 +7.95% 40
Berkshire +11 54 £525 +10.53% 14
Hampshire -2 17 £475 -13.64% 12
Surrey -1 12 £500 +42.86% 11
Oxfordshire +5 7 £275 -42.11% 19
Buckinghamshire -20 4 £531 +11.84% 7
Kent +4 2 £446 -12.93% 5
West Sussex +3 2 £425 -10.53% 5
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 10 (10.00%) SAS
2 7 (7.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.00%) CMS
4 3 (3.00%) Confluence
5 2 (2.00%) Apache
6 1 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (1.00%) Moodle
Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Sketch
2 2 (2.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.00%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.00%) InVision
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.00%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.00%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.00%) Figma
2 4 (4.00%) Azure
3 3 (3.00%) GitHub
4 2 (2.00%) AWS
4 2 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.00%) GCP
4 2 (2.00%) Google App Engine
4 2 (2.00%) npm
4 2 (2.00%) PaaS
4 2 (2.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.00%) SaaS
5 1 (1.00%) Azure API Management
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) HTTP
2 1 (1.00%) Intranet
2 1 (1.00%) NFC
2 1 (1.00%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (1.00%) PPP
2 1 (1.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (2.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (2.00%) MySQL
2 2 (2.00%) Power BI
3 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.00%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.00%) QlikView
3 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) JIRA
2 3 (3.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.00%) Git
4 1 (1.00%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.00%) GoogleTest
4 1 (1.00%) Gradle
4 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.00%) JUnit
4 1 (1.00%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.00%) rollup.js
4 1 (1.00%) TestRail
4 1 (1.00%) Valgrind
4 1 (1.00%) webpack
General
1 23 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.00%) Marketing
3 14 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.00%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.00%) Finance
6 6 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.00%) Electronics
7 3 (3.00%) Police
7 3 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.00%) Retail
8 2 (2.00%) Automotive
8 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Publishing
9 1 (1.00%) Advertising
9 1 (1.00%) Banking
9 1 (1.00%) Brand Awareness
9 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.00%) Military
9 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (24.00%) Developer
2 14 (14.00%) Designer
3 13 (13.00%) UX Designer
4 11 (11.00%) Analyst
4 11 (11.00%) Senior
5 10 (10.00%) Architect
6 8 (8.00%) UI Designer
6 8 (8.00%) UI/UX Designer
7 7 (7.00%) IFS Developer
8 6 (6.00%) Product Manager
9 5 (5.00%) Business Analyst
9 5 (5.00%) User Experience Architect
10 4 (4.00%) Digital Analyst
10 4 (4.00%) Digital Business Analyst
10 4 (4.00%) Lead
10 4 (4.00%) Product Designer
10 4 (4.00%) Project Manager
10 4 (4.00%) Report Developer
10 4 (4.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 4 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.00%) CSS
1 10 (10.00%) HTML
2 6 (6.00%) AngularJS
3 5 (5.00%) React
3 5 (5.00%) REST
4 4 (4.00%) RESTful
5 3 (3.00%) JSON
5 3 (3.00%) Node.js
5 3 (3.00%) XML
6 2 (2.00%) .NET
6 2 (2.00%) DirectX
6 2 (2.00%) HTML5
6 2 (2.00%) OpenGL
6 2 (2.00%) OpenGL ES
6 2 (2.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 2 (2.00%) Vue
6 2 (2.00%) Vulkan
6 2 (2.00%) Web Services
7 1 (1.00%) RxJS
7 1 (1.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.00%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.00%) Robotics
4 2 (2.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.00%) Animation
4 2 (2.00%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (2.00%) Graphic Design
4 2 (2.00%) Mixed Reality
4 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.00%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.00%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.00%) IoT
5 1 (1.00%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.00%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.00%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.00%) Android
2 3 (3.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.00%) Windows
3 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.00%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.00%) Unix
3 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.00%) UX Design
2 26 (26.00%) Agile
3 17 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (16.00%) Analytics
5 13 (13.00%) Data Security
6 12 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
6 12 (12.00%) Project Delivery
7 11 (11.00%) DevOps
7 11 (11.00%) Matrix Organization
8 10 (10.00%) Customer Experience
8 10 (10.00%) Data Analytics
8 10 (10.00%) Project Management
8 10 (10.00%) Roadmaps
8 10 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (9.00%) ITIL
9 9 (9.00%) Scrum
9 9 (9.00%) Wireframes
10 8 (8.00%) Prototyping
10 8 (8.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.00%) SQL
2 11 (11.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (7.00%) Python
4 6 (6.00%) Java
5 5 (5.00%) C#
6 4 (4.00%) Kotlin
6 4 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.00%) C++
8 2 (2.00%) GLSL
8 2 (2.00%) HLSL
8 2 (2.00%) PHP
9 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (16.00%) Degree
2 11 (11.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.00%) ISTQB
5 4 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (3.00%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.00%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.00%) CCNP
8 1 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.00%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.00%) MCSE
8 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.00%) QA
2 7 (7.00%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.00%) SLA
4 4 (4.00%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.00%) NCSC
5 1 (1.00%) NIST
5 1 (1.00%) PMO
5 1 (1.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.00%) AppManager
2 1 (1.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (10.00%) IFS
2 5 (5.00%) Adobe
3 4 (4.00%) Google
3 4 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.00%) Databricks
5 1 (1.00%) Blackboard
5 1 (1.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.00%) QinetiQ
5 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.00%) VMware