User Experience Contracts in the UK excluding London

UX
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 79 83
Rank change year-on-year -20 +4 -22
Contract jobs citing User Experience 443 732 924
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.13% 3.02% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 3.37% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 548 686
10th Percentile £275 £350 £350
25th Percentile £387 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% -4.72% +14.71%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £550
90th Percentile £625 £600 £603
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 15 21
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.85 £20.25
25th Percentile - £17.18 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £26.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +15.94%
75th Percentile £72.27 £45.00 £67.80
90th Percentile £75.97 £61.96 -
UK median hourly rate £31.71 £35.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -9.40% -30.69% +62.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,628 21,692 27,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.82% 89.60% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,612 15,031 19,309
10th Percentile £246 £252 £231
25th Percentile £380 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,028 1,339 1,383
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.16 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.62 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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
North of England -16 104 £476 -7.22% 188
Scotland -13 103 £466 +4.61% 47
South East -28 102 £500 +5.26% 106
North West -22 59 £475 -7.99% 122
South West -4 55 £450 -5.66% 72
Midlands +23 52 £475 +5.56% 79
West Midlands +32 45 £500 +2.56% 49
Yorkshire -8 37 £488 +0.05% 49
East of England -13 13 £388 +3.33% 39
North East +13 8 £700 +16.67% 17
Wales +5 8 £412 -28.35% 15
Northern Ireland +9 7 £513 - 7
East Midlands -3 6 £400 -3.03% 30
User Experience
UK

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 23 (5.19%) CMS
2 21 (4.74%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.71%) Confluence
4 11 (2.48%) SAS
5 10 (2.26%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (1.35%) Apache
7 4 (0.90%) IIS
8 3 (0.68%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.68%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.23%) Jadu
10 1 (0.23%) Moodle
10 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 23 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (4.29%) Sketch
3 12 (2.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 11 (2.48%) Photoshop
5 9 (2.03%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (1.81%) InVision
7 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
8 5 (1.13%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.90%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.68%) MicroStation
11 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.45%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
12 1 (0.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (1.81%) Magento
2 3 (0.68%) Maximo
2 3 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (10.38%) Figma
2 40 (9.03%) Azure
3 26 (5.87%) AWS
4 24 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (4.06%) Power Platform
6 17 (3.84%) Serverless
7 16 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (3.39%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (2.93%) OpenShift
11 9 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (1.81%) SaaS
13 6 (1.35%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 6 (1.35%) Amazon SageMaker
13 6 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.35%) Power Automate
13 6 (1.35%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 5 (1.13%) Azure AKS
14 5 (1.13%) Azure App Service
14 5 (1.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.48%) VPN
2 7 (1.58%) Firewall
3 4 (0.90%) DNS
3 4 (0.90%) Intranet
4 3 (0.68%) HTTP
4 3 (0.68%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) 3G
5 1 (0.23%) 4G
5 1 (0.23%) 5G
5 1 (0.23%) LAN
5 1 (0.23%) NFC
5 1 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.23%) PPP
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
1 15 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.16%) MongoDB
2 14 (3.16%) Power BI
3 10 (2.26%) Crystal Reports
4 6 (1.35%) GIS
4 6 (1.35%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.13%) MySQL
6 4 (0.90%) Big Data
6 4 (0.90%) Data Mining
6 4 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.90%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.90%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.90%) Tableau
7 3 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.68%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.68%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.68%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 16 (3.61%) JIRA
2 12 (2.71%) Git
3 9 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.35%) GitLab
5 5 (1.13%) Axure RP
5 5 (1.13%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.13%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (1.13%) webpack
6 4 (0.90%) Gradle
7 3 (0.68%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.45%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.45%) Appium
8 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.45%) JMeter
8 2 (0.45%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.45%) Maven
8 2 (0.45%) Selenium
8 2 (0.45%) UI Automator
8 2 (0.45%) XCUITest
General
1 121 (27.31%) Social Skills
2 78 (17.61%) Public Sector
3 55 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.90%) Finance
5 27 (6.09%) Marketing
6 16 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (3.39%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.93%) Legal
8 13 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.71%) Retail
10 8 (1.81%) Banking
11 7 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.90%) Multimedia
14 3 (0.68%) Games
14 3 (0.68%) German Language
14 3 (0.68%) Law
14 3 (0.68%) Police
14 3 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 107 (24.15%) Developer
2 84 (18.96%) Designer
3 54 (12.19%) UX Designer
4 53 (11.96%) Senior
5 48 (10.84%) Analyst
6 27 (6.09%) Business Analyst
7 24 (5.42%) Architect
7 24 (5.42%) Lead
8 23 (5.19%) UI Designer
9 21 (4.74%) UI/UX Designer
10 19 (4.29%) User Researcher
11 16 (3.61%) React Developer
12 14 (3.16%) .NET Developer
13 13 (2.93%) Delivery Manager
13 13 (2.93%) Senior Developer
14 12 (2.71%) Consultant
14 12 (2.71%) IT Support
14 12 (2.71%) Senior Designer
15 11 (2.48%) Technical Leader
16 9 (2.03%) IT Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (11.74%) React
2 43 (9.71%) HTML
3 40 (9.03%) CSS
4 27 (6.09%) .NET
5 21 (4.74%) Node.js
6 18 (4.06%) RESTful
7 17 (3.84%) AngularJS
7 17 (3.84%) REST
8 15 (3.39%) AWS CDK
9 9 (2.03%) JSON
9 9 (2.03%) XML
10 7 (1.58%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.35%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (1.35%) OAuth
12 5 (1.13%) CSS3
12 5 (1.13%) HTML5
12 5 (1.13%) OAuth2
12 5 (1.13%) Redux
12 5 (1.13%) Spring
12 5 (1.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 65 (14.67%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.19%) Mobile App
3 12 (2.71%) Legacy Applications
3 12 (2.71%) Wiki
4 9 (2.03%) Management Information System
5 8 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (1.81%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.13%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.13%) Robotics
8 4 (0.90%) Digital Media
8 4 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.68%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.68%) Educational Technology
9 3 (0.68%) Lidar
9 3 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.68%) Social Media
9 3 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.32%) Android
2 24 (5.42%) Windows
3 23 (5.19%) Apple iOS
4 11 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.35%) Linux
6 2 (0.45%) Unix
6 2 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (34.09%) Agile
2 136 (30.70%) UX Design
3 66 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (14.22%) DevOps
5 60 (13.54%) Roadmaps
6 58 (13.09%) User Research
7 55 (12.42%) Analytics
8 47 (10.61%) Service Design
9 45 (10.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 42 (9.48%) Wireframes
11 37 (8.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (7.90%) User Stories
13 34 (7.67%) Scrum
13 34 (7.67%) UX Research
14 33 (7.45%) Mentoring
15 31 (7.00%) Code Quality
16 30 (6.77%) CI/CD
17 29 (6.55%) Microservices
18 28 (6.32%) ITIL
18 28 (6.32%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 49 (11.06%) Python
2 48 (10.84%) JavaScript
3 34 (7.67%) SQL
4 32 (7.22%) TypeScript
5 24 (5.42%) Java
6 18 (4.06%) C#
7 11 (2.48%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.81%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.35%) Bicep
10 5 (1.13%) PHP
11 4 (0.90%) Bash
11 4 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.68%) C++
12 3 (0.68%) Go
12 3 (0.68%) Ruby
12 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.68%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.45%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.45%) GLSL
13 2 (0.45%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 55 (12.42%) Degree
2 45 (10.16%) Security Cleared
3 22 (4.97%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.61%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 6 (1.35%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.35%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.90%) HNC
8 4 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.45%) APMP
9 2 (0.45%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.45%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.45%) IIBA
9 2 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.45%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (12.42%) Accessibility
2 30 (6.77%) QA
3 10 (2.26%) SLA
4 9 (2.03%) Actionable Recommendations
4 9 (2.03%) Disclosure Scotland
4 9 (2.03%) WCAG
5 7 (1.58%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.90%) PMO
7 3 (0.68%) GDPR
8 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.23%) HL7
9 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.23%) NCSC
9 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (2.71%) Docker
2 8 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Firmware
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (3.39%) Grafana
2 13 (2.93%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.13%) Terraform
4 4 (0.90%) Ansible
5 3 (0.68%) Kibana
5 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.23%) AppManager
6 1 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (7.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.97%) Adobe
3 15 (3.39%) Google
4 12 (2.71%) IFS
5 10 (2.26%) Sitecore
6 8 (1.81%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.81%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.58%) SAP
8 6 (1.35%) Apple
8 6 (1.35%) Cadence
8 6 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.13%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.13%) RedPrairie
10 3 (0.68%) Databricks
10 3 (0.68%) ESRI
10 3 (0.68%) Oracle
11 2 (0.45%) Virgin Media
11 2 (0.45%) VMware
12 1 (0.23%) Blackboard
12 1 (0.23%) Workday