Lean UX Contract Job Trends

Lean UX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Lean UX skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 557 640
Rank change year-on-year -9 +83 +159
Contract jobs citing Lean UX 2 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.005% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.006% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £556 £385
25th Percentile £488 £566 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £421
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +45.40% -15.75%
75th Percentile £513 £647 £434
90th Percentile - £649 £500
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £418
% change year-on-year - - -2.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Lean UX 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,826 33,000 43,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.52% 85.68% 89.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,546 20,284 29,794
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,802 1,460 1,537
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% - +48.28%
75th Percentile £44.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.56 £43.00 £41.90
% change year-on-year -47.53% +2.63% +80.76%

Lean UX
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Lean UX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lean UX in the UK

Lean UX
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Lean UX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Lean UX

Lean UX
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lean UX within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 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
England +16 2 £500 -18.37% 3
London +21 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 £500 -
West Midlands - 1 £500 -
UK excluding London - 1 £500 - 2

Lean UX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience Researcher
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Design Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Ethnography
2 1 (50.00%) Iteration Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Iteration Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Journey Map
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) UX Research
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree