User Experience Contracts in Tyne and Wear

UX
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 25 26 41
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 -21
Contract jobs citing User Experience 12 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 4.92% 2.47% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.91% 2.88% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 6
10th Percentile £200 - £374
25th Percentile £294 - £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -35.36% +16.67% +21.21%
75th Percentile £490 - £633
90th Percentile £516 - £666
North East median daily rate £453 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -35.36% +16.67% +21.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 208 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.20% 85.60% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 98 255
10th Percentile £213 £297 £319
25th Percentile £350 £371 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £566 £589 £650
90th Percentile £626 £650 £736
North East median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 36 0
10th Percentile - £11.50 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
% change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in Tyne and Wear

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Experience in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for User Experience in Tyne and Wear

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Tyne and Wear

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Experience in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in Tyne and Wear

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -3 12 £453 -35.36% 23
User Experience
North East

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (8.33%) CMS
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Chatbot
1 1 (8.33%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (8.33%) Trello
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
1 4 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (25.00%) User Experience Researcher
3 2 (16.67%) Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Content Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Interaction Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Writer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Writer
4 1 (8.33%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) CSS
1 4 (33.33%) HTML
1 4 (33.33%) Jest
1 4 (33.33%) Node.js
1 4 (33.33%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) User Research
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (33.33%) TDD
2 4 (33.33%) UX Research
3 3 (25.00%) A/B Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (25.00%) Analytics
3 3 (25.00%) Design Thinking
3 3 (25.00%) Fintech
4 2 (16.67%) UX Design
5 1 (8.33%) Agile Project Management
5 1 (8.33%) Content Management
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
5 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
5 1 (8.33%) Natural Language Processing
5 1 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) WCAG