User Experience Consultant Contracts

UX Consultant
UK

The median UX Consultant daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 687 824
Rank change year-on-year +107 +137 -134
Contract jobs requiring a User Experience Consultant 6 6 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.010% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.011% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 22
10th Percentile - £439 £438
25th Percentile - £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +29.41%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £631
90th Percentile £510 £581 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,991 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,011 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,675 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

User Experience Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience Consultant in the UK

User Experience Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience Consultant in the UK

User Experience Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience Consultant in the UK

User Experience Consultant
Top 9 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 Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +92 6 £450 -3.74% 6
UK excluding London +72 4 £500 +5.26% 4
Work from Home +121 3 £450 -13.88% 2
North of England - 3 - - 3
North East - 2 - - 2
London +99 1 £450 -10.00% 2
Midlands - 1 £500 -
North West - 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 £500 -

User Experience Consultant Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, User Experience Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 3 (50.00%) Design Thinking
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) UX Design
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) Power BI
4 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (16.67%) Storyboarding
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) AngularJS

User Experience Consultant 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 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) Design Thinking
2 3 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 3 (50.00%) UX Design
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared