User Experience Contracts

UX
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 61 59
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,238 2,116 3,600
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.86% 3.54% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 3.93% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 830 1,485 2,593
10th Percentile £305 £363 £375
25th Percentile £400 £420 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £698 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £483
% change year-on-year +2.26% -3.73% +13.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 31 49
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.85 £20.31
25th Percentile £24.06 £23.13 £23.75
Median hourly rate £32.11 £35.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.27% -30.69% +62.90%
75th Percentile £63.84 £45.00 £62.75
90th Percentile £73.82 £60.00 £67.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £24.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% +5.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Top 17 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England -12 996 £500 -2.91% 836
London -7 605 £500 -9.09% 355
Work from Home -2 483 £500 - 440
UK excluding London -16 432 £475 +2.26% 502
North of England -18 102 £475 -7.99% 187
Scotland -13 101 £465 +5.74% 35
South East -18 100 £500 +5.26% 91
North West -22 57 £475 -9.52% 119
South West -3 52 £425 -11.87% 59
Midlands +5 50 £475 +5.56% 86
West Midlands +24 44 £500 - 57
Yorkshire -12 37 £488 +0.05% 49
East of England -11 13 £388 +3.33% 39
North East +15 8 £700 +16.67% 20
Wales +6 8 £412 -28.35% 11
Northern Ireland +12 7 £513 - 2
East Midlands +3 5 £400 -3.03% 28

User Experience
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:

Application Platforms
1 59 (4.77%) CMS
2 41 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 29 (2.34%) Confluence
4 14 (1.13%) Apache
4 14 (1.13%) SAS
5 10 (0.81%) Sitecore CMS
6 8 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.57%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.48%) Drupal
9 5 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.40%) WordPress
10 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.32%) Tornado
11 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.24%) nginx
12 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.16%) IIS
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (5.49%) Sketch
2 36 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (2.83%) Adobe XD
4 30 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
5 28 (2.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 24 (1.94%) Photoshop
7 22 (1.78%) InVision
8 19 (1.53%) Adobe Illustrator
9 9 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 8 (0.65%) Adobe Captivate
11 6 (0.48%) MS Visio
11 6 (0.48%) SPSS
12 5 (0.40%) UserZoom
13 4 (0.32%) InDesign
14 3 (0.24%) MicroStation
15 2 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
15 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
15 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
16 1 (0.081%) Marvel
16 1 (0.081%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 14 (1.13%) Salesforce CRM
2 10 (0.81%) Magento
3 7 (0.57%) Shopify
4 4 (0.32%) WebTrends
5 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.24%) Maximo
5 3 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.081%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.081%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 160 (12.92%) Figma
2 132 (10.66%) AWS
3 120 (9.69%) Azure
4 52 (4.20%) Power Platform
5 38 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (2.58%) Serverless
8 28 (2.26%) GitHub
9 24 (1.94%) GCP
10 23 (1.86%) Power Automate
11 21 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (1.53%) PowerApps
12 19 (1.53%) SaaS
13 16 (1.29%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.29%) Google Analytics
13 16 (1.29%) Miro
14 14 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (1.05%) OpenShift
16 12 (0.97%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.18%) Intranet
2 22 (1.78%) VPN
3 12 (0.97%) Internet
4 10 (0.81%) Firewall
5 9 (0.73%) HTTP
6 8 (0.65%) DNS
7 7 (0.57%) DHCP
8 4 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.24%) LAN
10 2 (0.16%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.16%) SSH
10 2 (0.16%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.16%) WAN
11 1 (0.081%) 4G
11 1 (0.081%) Cisco IPT
11 1 (0.081%) NFC
11 1 (0.081%) OpenLDAP
11 1 (0.081%) PPP
11 1 (0.081%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (3.72%) Apache Cassandra
1 46 (3.72%) Power BI
2 33 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 25 (2.02%) MongoDB
3 25 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.62%) NoSQL
5 18 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.37%) MySQL
7 15 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
8 14 (1.13%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.05%) Big Data
10 10 (0.81%) Crystal Reports
11 9 (0.73%) Tableau
12 8 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
13 7 (0.57%) Data Mining
14 6 (0.48%) GIS
14 6 (0.48%) Metadata
15 5 (0.40%) Apache Ignite
15 5 (0.40%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 71 (5.74%) JIRA
2 50 (4.04%) Git
3 18 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.37%) Axure RP
5 16 (1.29%) Cypress.io
6 13 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (1.05%) webpack
7 12 (0.97%) GitLab
7 12 (0.97%) Gradle
8 10 (0.81%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.73%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.57%) git-flow
11 6 (0.48%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.40%) Babel
12 5 (0.40%) Maven
12 5 (0.40%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 4 (0.32%) Selenium
13 4 (0.32%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.24%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.24%) JMeter
General
1 346 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 169 (13.65%) Finance
3 134 (10.82%) Public Sector
4 128 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (7.84%) Marketing
6 60 (4.85%) Banking
7 43 (3.47%) Retail
8 35 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (2.10%) Legal
11 23 (1.86%) Telecoms
12 22 (1.78%) Local Government
13 21 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 19 (1.53%) Games
15 17 (1.37%) Front Office
15 17 (1.37%) Publishing
16 15 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (1.05%) Law
18 11 (0.89%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 291 (23.51%) Developer
2 265 (21.41%) Designer
3 214 (17.29%) Senior
4 160 (12.92%) UX Designer
5 87 (7.03%) Analyst
6 73 (5.90%) Software Engineer
7 66 (5.33%) Lead
8 63 (5.09%) React Developer
9 60 (4.85%) UI Designer
10 59 (4.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 58 (4.68%) Architect
12 55 (4.44%) UI/UX Designer
13 51 (4.12%) Senior Designer
14 50 (4.04%) Senior Developer
15 47 (3.80%) Business Analyst
16 42 (3.39%) Senior Software Engineer
17 40 (3.23%) Senior UX Designer
18 35 (2.83%) Full Stack Developer
19 33 (2.67%) UI Developer
20 32 (2.58%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (13.49%) CSS
2 166 (13.41%) React
3 159 (12.84%) HTML
4 64 (5.17%) Node.js
5 62 (5.01%) .NET
6 59 (4.77%) AngularJS
7 53 (4.28%) Kafka
8 48 (3.88%) RESTful
9 43 (3.47%) REST
10 35 (2.83%) Redux
11 27 (2.18%) HTML5
12 23 (1.86%) CSS3
13 22 (1.78%) JSON
13 22 (1.78%) Spring Boot
13 22 (1.78%) Vue
14 21 (1.70%) jQuery
14 21 (1.70%) Sass
15 19 (1.53%) WebSockets
16 18 (1.45%) Jest
17 17 (1.37%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 123 (9.94%) Product Ownership
2 81 (6.54%) Mobile App
3 30 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (2.26%) Fixed Income
4 28 (2.26%) Management Information System
5 21 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (1.53%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.13%) Graphic Design
8 12 (0.97%) Cloud Native
8 12 (0.97%) Data Structures
8 12 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
8 12 (0.97%) Wiki
9 11 (0.89%) Digital Media
9 11 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (0.89%) Video\Live Streaming
10 10 (0.81%) Algorithms
11 9 (0.73%) Public Cloud
11 9 (0.73%) Social Media
11 9 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (4.28%) Android
2 46 (3.72%) Windows
3 45 (3.63%) Apple iOS
4 16 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.89%) Linux
6 9 (0.73%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.65%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.32%) Unix
8 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.081%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.081%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.081%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (39.90%) UX Design
2 398 (32.15%) Agile
3 191 (15.43%) User Research
4 181 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
5 131 (10.58%) UX Research
6 123 (9.94%) Software Engineering
7 118 (9.53%) Front End Development
7 118 (9.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 116 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 114 (9.21%) DevOps
9 114 (9.21%) Roadmaps
10 110 (8.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 105 (8.48%) Analytics
12 102 (8.24%) Wireframes
13 84 (6.79%) Service Design
14 79 (6.38%) Scrum
15 76 (6.14%) Prototyping
16 69 (5.57%) CI/CD
17 68 (5.49%) Customer Experience
17 68 (5.49%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 201 (16.24%) JavaScript
2 105 (8.48%) Python
3 97 (7.84%) TypeScript
4 88 (7.11%) SQL
5 80 (6.46%) Java
6 54 (4.36%) C#
7 50 (4.04%) Go
8 23 (1.86%) Kotlin
9 21 (1.70%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.13%) PHP
10 14 (1.13%) Swift
11 13 (1.05%) Apex Code
12 11 (0.89%) Objective-C
13 9 (0.73%) SOQL
14 7 (0.57%) C++
15 6 (0.48%) Bicep
15 6 (0.48%) C
16 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.32%) Bash
17 4 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 145 (11.71%) Degree
2 112 (9.05%) Security Cleared
3 78 (6.30%) SC Cleared
4 44 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (1.45%) DV Cleared
5 18 (1.45%) Master's Degree
6 12 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 10 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (0.65%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.48%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.32%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.32%) HNC
10 4 (0.32%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (11.95%) Accessibility
2 62 (5.01%) QA
3 24 (1.94%) SLA
4 22 (1.78%) Data Quality
5 21 (1.70%) WCAG
6 13 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
7 9 (0.73%) GDPR
8 7 (0.57%) PMO
9 4 (0.32%) GRC
10 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.24%) GxP
10 3 (0.24%) MiFID
11 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.16%) NCSC
11 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.081%) NIST
System Software
1 66 (5.33%) Docker
2 17 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.16%) vSphere
5 1 (0.081%) Firmware
5 1 (0.081%) HDFS
5 1 (0.081%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 72 (5.82%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.37%) Grafana
3 16 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.81%) Terraform
5 5 (0.40%) SCCM
6 4 (0.32%) Ansible
7 3 (0.24%) Kibana
7 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.081%) AppManager
8 1 (0.081%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.081%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.081%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.081%) Nessus
8 1 (0.081%) Oozie
8 1 (0.081%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 94 (7.59%) Adobe
2 90 (7.27%) Microsoft
3 45 (3.63%) Google
4 36 (2.91%) Salesforce
5 25 (2.02%) ServiceNow
6 24 (1.94%) SAP
7 18 (1.45%) Apple
8 16 (1.29%) Sitecore
9 13 (1.05%) IFS
10 11 (0.89%) Atlassian
10 11 (0.89%) Oracle
11 9 (0.73%) Cadence
11 9 (0.73%) Citrix
11 9 (0.73%) RedPrairie
12 8 (0.65%) Databricks
12 8 (0.65%) Pardot
13 7 (0.57%) Optimizely
14 6 (0.48%) Blue Prism
14 6 (0.48%) UiPath
14 6 (0.48%) VMware