User Experience Contracts in the South West

UX
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring User Experience skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Experience over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 106 94
Rank change year-on-year +45 -12 -1
Contract jobs citing User Experience 50 51 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.98% 1.59% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 1.92% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 31 67
10th Percentile £176 £208 £378
25th Percentile £319 £235 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £477
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -10.90% -2.15%
75th Percentile £500 £523 £550
90th Percentile £575 £638 £666
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 0
10th Percentile £31.03 - -
25th Percentile £39.68 - -
Median hourly rate £55.04 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +120.17% - -
75th Percentile £69.47 £68.00 -
90th Percentile £77.56 £74.44 -
England median hourly rate £53.50 £31.71 £33.85
% change year-on-year +68.72% -6.31% -32.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the South West

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the South West.

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the South West

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the South West

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the South West

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in the South West

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bristol +30 30 £370 -17.78% 48
Wiltshire +23 7 £475 +102.13% 4
Dorset +8 5 £475 -24.00% 12
Gloucestershire +15 2 £294 -48.88% 33
Devon +14 2 £500 - 19
Somerset -5 1 - - 17
Cornwall - 1 £525 - 1
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Adobe XD
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (6.00%) Sketch
2 1 (2.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.00%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.00%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.00%) AWS
3 8 (16.00%) GCP
4 6 (12.00%) Figma
5 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.00%) Dialogflow
7 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.00%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.00%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Extranet
1 1 (2.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.00%) Metadata
2 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.00%) MySQL
2 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) Ant
2 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.00%) GitLab
2 1 (2.00%) MSI
2 1 (2.00%) Storybook
2 1 (2.00%) Vite
2 1 (2.00%) webpack
General
1 25 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.00%) Finance
3 9 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (16.00%) Manufacturing
4 8 (16.00%) Marketing
4 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
5 7 (14.00%) Electronics
5 7 (14.00%) Telecoms
6 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (6.00%) Banking
8 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (4.00%) Retail
9 1 (2.00%) Advertising
9 1 (2.00%) Billing
9 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.00%) Local Government
9 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.00%) Private Banking
9 1 (2.00%) Public Speaking
9 1 (2.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) Developer
2 8 (16.00%) Applications Developer
2 8 (16.00%) Applications Support
2 8 (16.00%) Designer
2 8 (16.00%) Support Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Applications Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) UX Designer
4 6 (12.00%) Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Azure Developer
4 6 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) C# Application Developer
4 6 (12.00%) C# Developer
4 6 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) iOS Developer
5 5 (10.00%) Senior
6 4 (8.00%) UI Designer
6 4 (8.00%) UI/UX Designer
7 3 (6.00%) Service Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (36.00%) CSS
1 18 (36.00%) HTML
2 9 (18.00%) RESTful
3 8 (16.00%) .NET
4 5 (10.00%) Cocoa
4 5 (10.00%) Cocoa Touch
5 4 (8.00%) AngularJS
5 4 (8.00%) jQuery
6 3 (6.00%) REST
7 2 (4.00%) Android Jetpack
7 2 (4.00%) Android SDK
7 2 (4.00%) Flutter
7 2 (4.00%) iOS SDK
8 1 (2.00%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (2.00%) CSS3
8 1 (2.00%) Laravel
8 1 (2.00%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (2.00%) React
8 1 (2.00%) Redux
8 1 (2.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 4 (8.00%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.00%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.00%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.00%) Photography
5 1 (2.00%) Social Media
5 1 (2.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Apple iOS
2 5 (10.00%) Windows
3 3 (6.00%) Android
4 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.00%) CI/CD
1 15 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
1 15 (30.00%) UX Design
2 14 (28.00%) Software Engineering
3 13 (26.00%) Agile
3 13 (26.00%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (22.00%) Service Management
4 11 (22.00%) Web Development
5 10 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 9 (18.00%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (18.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 9 (18.00%) Test Automation
7 8 (16.00%) Service Delivery
7 8 (16.00%) Software Delivery
7 8 (16.00%) TDD
8 7 (14.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (14.00%) Digital Marketing
8 7 (14.00%) Programme Management
9 6 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (12.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (16.00%) C#
3 5 (10.00%) Objective-C
3 5 (10.00%) Swift
4 3 (6.00%) SQL
5 2 (4.00%) Dart
5 2 (4.00%) Kotlin
5 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.00%) Python
6 1 (2.00%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (20.00%) Degree
2 8 (16.00%) Azure Certification
3 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.00%) CISSP
6 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.00%) QA
2 4 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.00%) WCAG
4 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.00%) Ansible
2 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) SCCM
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) SAP
2 9 (18.00%) Google
2 9 (18.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.00%) Adobe
4 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.00%) Ariba
5 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.00%) Hotjar
5 1 (2.00%) Pardot
5 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.00%) Salesforce