User Experience Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

UX
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring User Experience skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Experience over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 60 60
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -6
Contract jobs citing User Experience 377 485 974
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.81% 3.16% 3.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.18% 3.60% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 346 737
10th Percentile £316 £363 £372
25th Percentile £400 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -1.72%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £707 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 9
10th Percentile £40.50 £19.70 -
25th Percentile £50.25 £23.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £56.75 £45.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.11% +69.81% -52.25%
75th Percentile £78.50 £66.62 £45.00
90th Percentile £97.11 £72.90 £45.90
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £31.71 £35.00
% change year-on-year +68.72% -9.40% -30.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

User Experience falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

User Experience
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

User Experience trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

User Experience
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing User Experience.

User Experience daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing User Experience over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

User Experience daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

User Experience
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing User Experience.

User Experience hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing User Experience over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

User Experience hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 25 (6.63%) Confluence
2 14 (3.71%) CMS
3 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.33%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.06%) Drupal
6 3 (0.80%) Apache
6 3 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (0.80%) JBoss
6 3 (0.80%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.53%) CICS
7 2 (0.53%) Mendix
8 1 (0.27%) Appian
8 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (3.18%) Trello
2 9 (2.39%) Sketch
3 6 (1.59%) Adobe XD
4 5 (1.33%) Siemens NX
5 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.80%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.53%) InVision
7 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.53%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.27%) MadCap Flare
8 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.27%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 5 (1.33%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.53%) Magento
3 2 (0.53%) Shopify
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.27%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.27%) SessionCam
4 1 (0.27%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 71 (18.83%) AWS
2 59 (15.65%) Azure
3 52 (13.79%) GCP
4 48 (12.73%) Figma
5 20 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (3.45%) Power Platform
7 13 (3.45%) Serverless
8 10 (2.65%) SaaS
9 8 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.86%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.59%) GitHub
12 5 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.33%) Snowflake
13 4 (1.06%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.06%) Firebase
13 4 (1.06%) Mimecast
13 4 (1.06%) Miro
13 4 (1.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.12%) Firewall
2 5 (1.33%) HTTP
2 5 (1.33%) Unified Communications
3 4 (1.06%) DNS
3 4 (1.06%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.06%) VPN
4 2 (0.53%) DKIM
4 2 (0.53%) DMARC
4 2 (0.53%) Intranet
4 2 (0.53%) POP3
4 2 (0.53%) SMTP
5 1 (0.27%) Extranet
5 1 (0.27%) Internet
5 1 (0.27%) VSAN
5 1 (0.27%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (2.39%) Relational Database
2 9 (2.39%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.12%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.12%) MySQL
3 8 (2.12%) NoSQL
4 7 (1.86%) DynamoDB
4 7 (1.86%) Power BI
5 5 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.06%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.06%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.80%) Looker
7 3 (0.80%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.53%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.53%) Redis
8 2 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (9.81%) JIRA
2 27 (7.16%) Git
3 9 (2.39%) Axure RP
3 9 (2.39%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.12%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.59%) NUnit
6 5 (1.33%) GitLab
6 5 (1.33%) Mocha
7 4 (1.06%) Postman
8 3 (0.80%) Android Studio
8 3 (0.80%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.80%) JUnit
8 3 (0.80%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.80%) Selenium
8 3 (0.80%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.80%) Vite
8 3 (0.80%) webpack
9 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 78 (20.69%) Finance
3 73 (19.36%) Public Sector
4 41 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (10.88%) Banking
5 35 (9.28%) Front Office
6 32 (8.49%) Marketing
7 23 (6.10%) Retail
8 11 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.39%) Legal
9 9 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.59%) Advertising
10 6 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.59%) Local Government
10 6 (1.59%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.33%) Automotive
11 5 (1.33%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.06%) Law
12 4 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 138 (36.60%) Developer
2 53 (14.06%) Designer
3 50 (13.26%) React Developer
4 43 (11.41%) Software Engineer
5 36 (9.55%) Analyst
6 35 (9.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 33 (8.75%) Senior
8 32 (8.49%) UX Designer
9 28 (7.43%) Business Analyst
10 22 (5.84%) Architect
11 20 (5.31%) Consultant
11 20 (5.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 17 (4.51%) Lead
13 16 (4.24%) Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (4.24%) Senior Developer
14 15 (3.98%) .NET Developer
14 15 (3.98%) UI Developer
15 12 (3.18%) UI Designer
15 12 (3.18%) UI/UX Designer
16 11 (2.92%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (21.22%) React
2 54 (14.32%) Node.js
3 47 (12.47%) CSS
4 45 (11.94%) HTML
5 41 (10.88%) Redux
6 32 (8.49%) RESTful
7 27 (7.16%) AngularJS
8 21 (5.57%) .NET
9 20 (5.31%) REST
10 11 (2.92%) OAuth
10 11 (2.92%) XML
11 9 (2.39%) ASP.NET
11 9 (2.39%) HTML5
11 9 (2.39%) JSON
11 9 (2.39%) Vue
11 9 (2.39%) Web Services
12 8 (2.12%) .NET Core
12 8 (2.12%) Android SDK
12 8 (2.12%) Jest
12 8 (2.12%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 45 (11.94%) Product Ownership
2 35 (9.28%) Fixed Income
3 28 (7.43%) Mobile App
4 12 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.39%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.39%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.12%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.12%) Equities
7 7 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.86%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.33%) Animation
9 5 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.33%) Life Science
9 5 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.06%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.06%) Derivative
10 4 (1.06%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (1.06%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.77%) Android
2 13 (3.45%) Apple iOS
3 9 (2.39%) Windows
4 3 (0.80%) Unix
4 3 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.53%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.53%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.27%) Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.27%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (45.62%) Agile
2 140 (37.14%) UX Design
3 77 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (13.53%) Software Engineering
4 51 (13.53%) User Research
5 48 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 47 (12.47%) DevOps
7 45 (11.94%) CI/CD
8 40 (10.61%) Investment Management
8 40 (10.61%) Scrum
9 38 (10.08%) Wireframes
10 37 (9.81%) Analytics
11 36 (9.55%) Asset Management
11 36 (9.55%) Decision-Making
12 35 (9.28%) Fintech
12 35 (9.28%) Roadmaps
13 34 (9.02%) User Stories
14 30 (7.96%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 29 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (7.43%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 86 (22.81%) JavaScript
2 57 (15.12%) TypeScript
3 49 (13.00%) Python
4 30 (7.96%) SQL
5 25 (6.63%) Java
6 14 (3.71%) C#
7 13 (3.45%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.86%) Objective-C
8 7 (1.86%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.86%) Swift
9 5 (1.33%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.33%) Scala
10 4 (1.06%) Bash
11 3 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.53%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.53%) REXX
13 1 (0.27%) ABAP
13 1 (0.27%) COBOL
13 1 (0.27%) PHP
13 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (11.14%) Security Cleared
2 41 (10.88%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.90%) Degree
4 8 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.33%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.06%) CISSP
6 4 (1.06%) IIBA
7 2 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.53%) PhD
7 2 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.27%) APMG
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.27%) CSPO
8 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.27%) PMP
8 1 (0.27%) Siebel Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (16.71%) Accessibility
2 20 (5.31%) QA
3 16 (4.24%) WCAG
4 7 (1.86%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.53%) GRC
5 2 (0.53%) SLA
6 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.27%) GDPR
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.27%) NIST
6 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (6.10%) Docker
2 9 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.53%) RACF
5 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (5.31%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.92%) Terraform
3 5 (1.33%) Grafana
4 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.80%) SCCM
5 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 38 (10.08%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.45%) Google
2 13 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 12 (3.18%) ServiceNow
4 11 (2.92%) Adobe
5 8 (2.12%) SAP
6 6 (1.59%) Proofpoint
7 5 (1.33%) Cisco
7 5 (1.33%) Databricks
7 5 (1.33%) Oracle
8 3 (0.80%) CyberArk
8 3 (0.80%) Fujitsu
8 3 (0.80%) Optimizely
8 3 (0.80%) VMware
9 2 (0.53%) Apple
9 2 (0.53%) Genesys
9 2 (0.53%) IBM
9 2 (0.53%) Pega
9 2 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.53%) Splunk