User Experience Manager Contracts

UX Manager
UK

The median UX Manager daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 594 707
Rank change year-on-year +65 +113 +142
Contract jobs requiring a User Experience Manager 1 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.014% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.015% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £474 £450
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -20.00% +5.93%
75th Percentile - £580 £762
90th Percentile - - £793
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £540 -
% change year-on-year -25.93% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 26,887 40,034 55,895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 92.76% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,565 26,064 39,048
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £740 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,046 2,665 1,566
10th Percentile £14.08 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.11
Median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +90.68%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% -4.76% +115.16%

User Experience Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured User Experience Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience Manager in the UK

User Experience Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Experience Manager.

Daily rate trend for User Experience Manager in the UK

User Experience Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Experience Manager.

Hourly rate trend for User Experience Manager in the UK

User Experience Manager
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +63 1 £400 -13.51% 3
UK excluding London +47 1 £400 -25.93% 2
Work from Home +42 1 £400 -20.00% 4
North West - 1 £400 -
North of England - 1 £400 -

User Experience Manager Skill Set
Top 12 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, User Experience Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring User Experience Manager in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security

User Experience Manager Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow