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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 61 60
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,227 2,099 3,504
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.85% 3.61% 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 4.02% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 818 1,483 2,518
10th Percentile £306 £363 £375
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £598 £610 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £490
% change year-on-year +2.15% -5.10% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 32 54
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.85 £20.58
25th Percentile £23.75 £18.57 £24.81
Median hourly rate £31.71 £29.60 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.15% -46.43% +68.19%
75th Percentile £61.50 £45.94 £73.31
90th Percentile £73.51 £60.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £17.50 £67.80
% change year-on-year +42.86% -74.19% +185.83%

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 37,097 52,247 79,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.81% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,888 36,212 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,719 1,895
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.23 £15.58
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -17 990 £500 -4.76% 876
London -13 595 £500 -9.09% 371
Work from Home -3 485 £500 - 506
UK excluding London -15 431 £475 +2.15% 531
North of England -19 107 £475 -9.09% 207
South East -28 96 £500 +5.26% 92
Scotland -9 95 £464 +6.61% 40
North West -13 59 £463 -15.91% 136
Midlands +18 56 £500 +5.26% 91
West Midlands +17 50 £500 - 62
South West -10 50 £413 -15.38% 47
Yorkshire -9 36 £500 +2.56% 54
East of England -20 13 £388 +3.33% 40
North East +15 12 £450 -25.00% 18
Wales +11 8 £412 -25.09% 12
Northern Ireland +12 7 £513 - 4
East Midlands +9 5 £409 -9.11% 29

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 62 (5.05%) CMS
2 37 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.04%) Confluence
4 17 (1.39%) Apache
5 14 (1.14%) SAS
6 10 (0.81%) Sitecore CMS
7 8 (0.65%) Headless CMS
8 7 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.57%) Drupal
9 6 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.41%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 5 (0.41%) WordPress
11 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.33%) Tornado
12 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.24%) nginx
13 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
14 1 (0.081%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 63 (5.13%) Sketch
2 36 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (2.61%) Adobe XD
4 29 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 24 (1.96%) Photoshop
6 23 (1.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 21 (1.71%) InVision
8 19 (1.55%) Adobe Illustrator
9 9 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 8 (0.65%) Adobe Captivate
11 6 (0.49%) SPSS
12 5 (0.41%) MS Visio
12 5 (0.41%) UserZoom
13 4 (0.33%) InDesign
14 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
14 3 (0.24%) MicroStation
15 2 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
15 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
16 1 (0.081%) Adobe Premiere
16 1 (0.081%) Houdini
Business Applications
1 12 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
2 10 (0.81%) Magento
3 7 (0.57%) Shopify
4 6 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.33%) WebTrends
6 3 (0.24%) Maximo
6 3 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.081%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.081%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.081%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.081%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 148 (12.06%) Figma
2 130 (10.59%) Azure
3 127 (10.35%) AWS
4 51 (4.16%) Power Platform
5 36 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (2.44%) GCP
8 28 (2.28%) SaaS
8 28 (2.28%) Serverless
9 26 (2.12%) GitHub
10 19 (1.55%) Power Automate
11 18 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
12 17 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (1.39%) PowerApps
13 16 (1.30%) Google Analytics
14 15 (1.22%) Miro
15 12 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 12 (0.98%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.98%) Azure AKS
15 12 (0.98%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.61%) Intranet
2 22 (1.79%) VPN
3 12 (0.98%) Internet
4 10 (0.81%) Firewall
5 9 (0.73%) HTTP
6 7 (0.57%) DHCP
7 6 (0.49%) DNS
8 5 (0.41%) SSH
9 4 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.24%) LAN
11 2 (0.16%) NetScaler
11 2 (0.16%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.16%) WAN
12 1 (0.081%) Cisco IPT
12 1 (0.081%) NFC
12 1 (0.081%) OpenLDAP
12 1 (0.081%) PPP
12 1 (0.081%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.67%) Power BI
1 45 (3.67%) SQL Server
2 44 (3.59%) Apache Cassandra
3 26 (2.12%) MongoDB
3 26 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.79%) MySQL
5 21 (1.71%) NoSQL
6 18 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.06%) Big Data
9 11 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.81%) Crystal Reports
11 9 (0.73%) Tableau
12 8 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
13 7 (0.57%) Data Mining
13 7 (0.57%) Metadata
14 6 (0.49%) Apache Ignite
14 6 (0.49%) GIS
15 5 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 71 (5.79%) JIRA
2 53 (4.32%) Git
3 15 (1.22%) Axure RP
3 15 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.06%) webpack
5 12 (0.98%) Cypress.io
5 12 (0.98%) GitLab
5 12 (0.98%) Gradle
6 11 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
7 10 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.73%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.65%) git-flow
10 6 (0.49%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.41%) Babel
11 5 (0.41%) Maven
11 5 (0.41%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 4 (0.33%) Selenium
12 4 (0.33%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.24%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.24%) JMeter
General
1 344 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 181 (14.75%) Finance
3 138 (11.25%) Public Sector
4 118 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (7.99%) Marketing
6 62 (5.05%) Banking
7 43 (3.50%) Retail
8 34 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
9 33 (2.69%) Legal
10 26 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (2.04%) Telecoms
12 20 (1.63%) Games
12 20 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.63%) Local Government
13 19 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
14 17 (1.39%) Front Office
15 16 (1.30%) Publishing
16 15 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
17 13 (1.06%) Law
18 11 (0.90%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 291 (23.72%) Developer
2 258 (21.03%) Designer
3 208 (16.95%) Senior
4 154 (12.55%) UX Designer
5 86 (7.01%) Analyst
6 72 (5.87%) Software Engineer
7 69 (5.62%) React Developer
8 61 (4.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 61 (4.97%) Lead
9 58 (4.73%) UI Designer
10 56 (4.56%) Architect
11 53 (4.32%) UI/UX Designer
12 50 (4.07%) Senior Developer
13 48 (3.91%) Business Analyst
13 48 (3.91%) Senior Designer
14 40 (3.26%) Senior Software Engineer
15 38 (3.10%) Consultant
16 37 (3.02%) .NET Developer
16 37 (3.02%) Senior UX Designer
17 36 (2.93%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (14.18%) React
2 167 (13.61%) CSS
3 161 (13.12%) HTML
4 69 (5.62%) .NET
5 64 (5.22%) Node.js
6 63 (5.13%) AngularJS
7 54 (4.40%) RESTful
8 51 (4.16%) Kafka
9 42 (3.42%) REST
10 36 (2.93%) Redux
11 29 (2.36%) HTML5
12 24 (1.96%) CSS3
13 23 (1.87%) jQuery
13 23 (1.87%) Vue
14 22 (1.79%) Sass
15 20 (1.63%) JSON
15 20 (1.63%) Spring Boot
15 20 (1.63%) WebSockets
16 19 (1.55%) Jest
17 18 (1.47%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 124 (10.11%) Product Ownership
2 78 (6.36%) Mobile App
3 29 (2.36%) Fixed Income
4 28 (2.28%) Management Information System
4 28 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (0.98%) Algorithms
9 12 (0.98%) Cloud Native
10 11 (0.90%) Digital Media
10 11 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
10 11 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
10 11 (0.90%) Video\Live Streaming
10 11 (0.90%) Wiki
11 10 (0.81%) Graphic Design
11 10 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (4.48%) Android
2 46 (3.75%) Apple iOS
2 46 (3.75%) Windows
3 14 (1.14%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.06%) Linux
5 9 (0.73%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.65%) Windows 7
7 5 (0.41%) Unix
8 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.081%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.081%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.081%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 493 (40.18%) UX Design
2 389 (31.70%) Agile
3 179 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
4 173 (14.10%) User Research
5 122 (9.94%) Software Engineering
6 121 (9.86%) UX Research
7 119 (9.70%) Front End Development
8 116 (9.45%) DevOps
9 113 (9.21%) Stakeholder Management
10 109 (8.88%) Analytics
11 108 (8.80%) Roadmaps
11 108 (8.80%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 105 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 96 (7.82%) Wireframes
14 81 (6.60%) Service Design
15 76 (6.19%) Scrum
16 73 (5.95%) CI/CD
16 73 (5.95%) Prototyping
17 68 (5.54%) Customer Experience
17 68 (5.54%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 201 (16.38%) JavaScript
2 108 (8.80%) Python
3 97 (7.91%) TypeScript
4 91 (7.42%) SQL
5 81 (6.60%) Java
6 61 (4.97%) C#
7 50 (4.07%) Go
8 24 (1.96%) Kotlin
9 19 (1.55%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.30%) Swift
11 14 (1.14%) PHP
12 12 (0.98%) Apex Code
12 12 (0.98%) Objective-C
13 11 (0.90%) Bicep
14 9 (0.73%) SOQL
15 7 (0.57%) C
15 7 (0.57%) C++
16 5 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.33%) Bash
17 4 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 142 (11.57%) Degree
2 110 (8.96%) Security Cleared
3 75 (6.11%) SC Cleared
4 45 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.55%) Master's Degree
6 17 (1.39%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 8 (0.65%) ISTQB
10 7 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.49%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.33%) HNC
12 4 (0.33%) Tableau Certification
13 3 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (11.33%) Accessibility
2 64 (5.22%) QA
3 24 (1.96%) SLA
4 22 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 22 (1.79%) WCAG
5 12 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
6 9 (0.73%) GDPR
7 6 (0.49%) PMO
8 4 (0.33%) GRC
8 4 (0.33%) GxP
9 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.24%) MiFID
10 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.081%) EMIR
11 1 (0.081%) HIPAA
System Software
1 65 (5.30%) Docker
2 20 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.24%) 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 71 (5.79%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (1.06%) Terraform
4 12 (0.98%) Grafana
5 5 (0.41%) SCCM
6 4 (0.33%) Ansible
7 3 (0.24%) Kibana
7 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.081%) AppManager
8 1 (0.081%) Failover Clustering
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 96 (7.82%) Microsoft
2 87 (7.09%) Adobe
3 45 (3.67%) Google
4 33 (2.69%) Salesforce
5 29 (2.36%) ServiceNow
6 26 (2.12%) SAP
7 18 (1.47%) Apple
8 17 (1.39%) Oracle
9 16 (1.30%) Sitecore
10 13 (1.06%) IFS
11 11 (0.90%) Atlassian
12 10 (0.81%) Citrix
12 10 (0.81%) RedPrairie
13 9 (0.73%) Cadence
14 8 (0.65%) Databricks
14 8 (0.65%) Pardot
15 7 (0.57%) Optimizely
16 5 (0.41%) Red Hat
16 5 (0.41%) VMware
16 5 (0.41%) Xamarin