UX Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South East

User Experience Engineer
England > South East

The median User Experience Engineer daily rate in the South East is £208, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a UX Engineer 22 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.51% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 21 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £204 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 - -
75th Percentile £211 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £208 £550 -
% change year-on-year -62.27% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 3,903 3,498 4,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 92.93% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,526 2,178 3,116
10th Percentile £220 £236 £206
25th Percentile £400 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £610
90th Percentile £675 £687 £680
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 141 236
10th Percentile £13.75 £18.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £24.18 £24.32
Median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £52.20
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% -13.79% +49.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £66.06
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £26.40 £36.08 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.83% -19.82% +38.46%

UX Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'UX Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

UX Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

UX Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UX Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UX Engineer job vacancies in the South East

UX Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Engineer in the South East

UX Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for UX Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for UX Engineer job vacancies in the South East

UX Engineer
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 UX Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. 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
Surrey - 21 £208 - 1
Thames Valley - 1 £500 -
Berkshire - 1 £500 -
UX Engineer
England

UX Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, UX Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring UX Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) User Experience
2 21 (95.45%) Ajax
2 21 (95.45%) AngularJS
2 21 (95.45%) Browser DevTools
2 21 (95.45%) CSS
2 21 (95.45%) GraphQL
2 21 (95.45%) Java
2 21 (95.45%) JavaScript
2 21 (95.45%) Linux
2 21 (95.45%) Microsoft
2 21 (95.45%) Mobile Application Development
2 21 (95.45%) MySQL
2 21 (95.45%) Oracle
2 21 (95.45%) Perl
2 21 (95.45%) Python
2 21 (95.45%) React
2 21 (95.45%) Relational Database
2 21 (95.45%) SaaS
2 21 (95.45%) Unix
2 21 (95.45%) Windows
3 20 (90.91%) Android
3 20 (90.91%) Android Studio
3 20 (90.91%) Eclipse
3 20 (90.91%) OO
3 20 (90.91%) Sauce Labs
3 20 (90.91%) Splunk
3 20 (90.91%) Xcode
4 19 (86.36%) ServiceNow
5 18 (81.82%) Wireless
6 2 (9.09%) Backlog Management

UX Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (95.45%) SaaS
2 20 (90.91%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 18 (81.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (95.45%) MySQL
1 21 (95.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (95.45%) Browser DevTools
2 20 (90.91%) Android Studio
2 20 (90.91%) Eclipse
2 20 (90.91%) Xcode
General
1 22 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (95.45%) Ajax
1 21 (95.45%) AngularJS
1 21 (95.45%) CSS
1 21 (95.45%) GraphQL
1 21 (95.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (95.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 21 (95.45%) Linux
1 21 (95.45%) Unix
1 21 (95.45%) Windows
2 20 (90.91%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) User Experience
2 21 (95.45%) Mobile Application Development
3 20 (90.91%) OO
4 2 (9.09%) Backlog Management
4 2 (9.09%) Customer Service
5 1 (4.55%) Case Management
5 1 (4.55%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (4.55%) Task Automation
5 1 (4.55%) UX Design
5 1 (4.55%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 21 (95.45%) Java
1 21 (95.45%) JavaScript
1 21 (95.45%) Perl
1 21 (95.45%) Python
Vendors
1 21 (95.45%) Microsoft
1 21 (95.45%) Oracle
2 20 (90.91%) Splunk
3 19 (86.36%) ServiceNow