User Experience Contracts in the Thames Valley

UX
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 58 101
Rank change year-on-year -17 +43 -49
Contract jobs citing User Experience 66 97 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.44% 3.31% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 3.60% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 68 54
10th Percentile £263 £396 £316
25th Percentile £363 £401 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% +5.56% +38.46%
75th Percentile £601 £513 £497
90th Percentile £688 £588 £600
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £470
% change year-on-year +5.26% +1.06% +25.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £58.22
25th Percentile - - £59.86
Median hourly rate £70.39 - £62.71
75th Percentile - - £65.53
90th Percentile - - £67.16
South East median hourly rate £32.50 - £67.80
% change year-on-year - - +140.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,359 2,692 3,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.31% 91.91% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,870 2,083
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £363 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 62 86
10th Percentile £15.52 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.86 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.55
90th Percentile £85.61 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the Thames Valley

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the Thames Valley

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the Thames Valley

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the Thames Valley

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 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
Berkshire +5 55 £525 +10.53% 18
Oxfordshire +8 7 £275 -42.11% 21
Buckinghamshire -19 4 £531 +11.84% 6
User Experience
South East

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (15.15%) SAS
2 4 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.52%) Apache
3 1 (1.52%) CMS
3 1 (1.52%) Moodle
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.52%) Sketch
1 1 (1.52%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.64%) Figma
2 4 (6.06%) Azure
3 2 (3.03%) AWS
3 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.03%) PaaS
3 2 (3.03%) SaaS
4 1 (1.52%) Azure API Management
4 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.52%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.52%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.52%) npm
4 1 (1.52%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.15%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.52%) MySQL
2 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.52%) Power BI
2 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.03%) JIRA
1 2 (3.03%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.52%) rollup.js
2 1 (1.52%) webpack
General
1 14 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.70%) Telecoms
3 12 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (15.15%) Marketing
5 6 (9.09%) Finance
5 6 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.03%) Police
6 2 (3.03%) Retail
7 1 (1.52%) Automotive
7 1 (1.52%) Brand Awareness
7 1 (1.52%) Military
7 1 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (27.27%) Developer
2 10 (15.15%) Analyst
3 9 (13.64%) Designer
4 8 (12.12%) UX Designer
5 7 (10.61%) IFS Developer
5 7 (10.61%) UI Designer
5 7 (10.61%) UI/UX Designer
6 6 (9.09%) Product Manager
6 6 (9.09%) Senior
7 4 (6.06%) Business Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Digital Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Digital Business Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Lead
7 4 (6.06%) Product Designer
7 4 (6.06%) Report Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Configuration Specialist
8 3 (4.55%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Project Leader
8 3 (4.55%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 2 (3.03%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) CSS
1 5 (7.58%) HTML
1 5 (7.58%) React
2 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.03%) .NET
3 2 (3.03%) JSON
3 2 (3.03%) REST
3 2 (3.03%) Vue
3 2 (3.03%) XML
4 1 (1.52%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.52%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.52%) Enzyme
4 1 (1.52%) Jest
4 1 (1.52%) jQuery
4 1 (1.52%) Next.js
4 1 (1.52%) Node.js
4 1 (1.52%) OAuth
4 1 (1.52%) OpenID
4 1 (1.52%) PySpark
4 1 (1.52%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.58%) Robotics
3 3 (4.55%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.52%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (1.52%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.52%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.52%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.52%) IoT
4 1 (1.52%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.52%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.03%) Windows
2 1 (1.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (28.79%) Agile
2 15 (22.73%) UX Design
3 14 (21.21%) Analytics
4 12 (18.18%) Project Delivery
5 11 (16.67%) Data Security
5 11 (16.67%) DevOps
5 11 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
5 11 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (15.15%) Collaborative Working
6 10 (15.15%) Data Analytics
7 9 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (12.12%) Customer Experience
8 8 (12.12%) ITIL
8 8 (12.12%) Project Management
8 8 (12.12%) User Stories
9 7 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (10.61%) Roadmaps
9 7 (10.61%) Scrum
9 7 (10.61%) Service Delivery
10 6 (9.09%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.67%) SQL
2 5 (7.58%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.55%) Java
4 2 (3.03%) C#
4 2 (3.03%) Python
4 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.52%) PHP
5 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (13.64%) Degree
2 5 (7.58%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.52%) CCNP
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.52%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.52%) MCSE
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) SLA
2 3 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.03%) QA
4 1 (1.52%) NCSC
4 1 (1.52%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) IFS
2 4 (6.06%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.55%) Databricks
3 3 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.03%) Adobe
5 1 (1.52%) Blackboard
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.52%) VMware