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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 62 61
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -7
Contract jobs citing User Experience 373 482 970
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.77% 3.16% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.13% 3.60% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 344 737
10th Percentile £321 £375 £371
25th Percentile £400 £425 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £721 £696 £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% -30.77%

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 13,390 22,975
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.90% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,194 8,954 16,256
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% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 577 528
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.19 £25.00 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.02 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.38 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

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 4 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 4 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 (6.70%) Confluence
2 14 (3.75%) CMS
3 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.07%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.80%) Apache
5 3 (0.80%) Drupal
5 3 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (0.80%) JBoss
5 3 (0.80%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.54%) CICS
6 2 (0.54%) Mendix
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (3.22%) Trello
2 9 (2.41%) Sketch
3 6 (1.61%) Adobe XD
4 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.34%) Siemens NX
5 4 (1.07%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.54%) InVision
7 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.54%) 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 (1.34%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.54%) Magento
3 2 (0.54%) 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 73 (19.57%) AWS
2 59 (15.82%) Azure
3 55 (14.75%) GCP
4 48 (12.87%) Figma
5 20 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (3.75%) Serverless
8 13 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (3.49%) Power Platform
9 10 (2.68%) SaaS
10 9 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.14%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.61%) GitHub
13 5 (1.34%) Firebase
13 5 (1.34%) Snowflake
14 4 (1.07%) Amazon Cognito
14 4 (1.07%) Mimecast
14 4 (1.07%) Miro
14 4 (1.07%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.14%) Firewall
2 5 (1.34%) HTTP
2 5 (1.34%) Unified Communications
3 4 (1.07%) DNS
3 4 (1.07%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.07%) VPN
4 2 (0.54%) DKIM
4 2 (0.54%) DMARC
4 2 (0.54%) Intranet
4 2 (0.54%) POP3
4 2 (0.54%) 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 40 (10.72%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (2.68%) Relational Database
3 9 (2.41%) MongoDB
3 9 (2.41%) NoSQL
3 9 (2.41%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.14%) MySQL
5 7 (1.88%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.88%) Power BI
6 4 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.07%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.07%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.07%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.80%) Looker
7 3 (0.80%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.54%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 38 (10.19%) JIRA
2 26 (6.97%) Git
3 11 (2.95%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.68%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.41%) Axure RP
6 6 (1.61%) GitLab
6 6 (1.61%) NUnit
7 5 (1.34%) Mocha
8 4 (1.07%) Postman
9 3 (0.80%) Android Studio
9 3 (0.80%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.80%) JUnit
9 3 (0.80%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.80%) Selenium
9 3 (0.80%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.80%) Vite
9 3 (0.80%) webpack
10 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (23.32%) Social Skills
2 78 (20.91%) Finance
3 71 (19.03%) Public Sector
4 42 (11.26%) Banking
5 40 (10.72%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (9.92%) Front Office
7 31 (8.31%) Marketing
8 21 (5.63%) Retail
9 11 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.14%) Legal
12 6 (1.61%) Advertising
12 6 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.61%) Local Government
12 6 (1.61%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.34%) Automotive
14 4 (1.07%) Retail Banking
14 4 (1.07%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 139 (37.27%) Developer
2 53 (14.21%) Designer
2 53 (14.21%) React Developer
3 46 (12.33%) Software Engineer
4 37 (9.92%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 35 (9.38%) Analyst
6 34 (9.12%) Senior
7 32 (8.58%) UX Designer
8 28 (7.51%) Business Analyst
9 23 (6.17%) Architect
10 20 (5.36%) Consultant
10 20 (5.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 17 (4.56%) Lead
12 16 (4.29%) Senior Developer
13 15 (4.02%) Full-Stack Developer
14 14 (3.75%) .NET Developer
14 14 (3.75%) UI Developer
15 12 (3.22%) UI Designer
15 12 (3.22%) UI/UX Designer
16 11 (2.95%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (22.25%) React
2 57 (15.28%) Node.js
3 46 (12.33%) CSS
4 44 (11.80%) HTML
5 43 (11.53%) Redux
6 32 (8.58%) RESTful
7 26 (6.97%) AngularJS
8 20 (5.36%) REST
9 19 (5.09%) .NET
10 12 (3.22%) OAuth
11 11 (2.95%) XML
12 9 (2.41%) ASP.NET
12 9 (2.41%) HTML5
12 9 (2.41%) Jest
12 9 (2.41%) JSON
12 9 (2.41%) Playwright
12 9 (2.41%) Vue
12 9 (2.41%) Web Services
13 8 (2.14%) AWS CDK
13 8 (2.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 45 (12.06%) Product Ownership
2 37 (9.92%) Fixed Income
3 28 (7.51%) Mobile App
4 12 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.95%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.41%) Equities
6 9 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.14%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.88%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.34%) Animation
9 5 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.34%) Life Science
9 5 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.07%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.07%) Derivative
10 4 (1.07%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.83%) Android
2 13 (3.49%) Apple iOS
3 9 (2.41%) Windows
4 3 (0.80%) Unix
4 3 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.54%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.54%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.27%) Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.27%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (46.11%) Agile
2 137 (36.73%) UX Design
3 76 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (14.48%) Software Engineering
5 50 (13.40%) User Research
6 48 (12.87%) DevOps
7 47 (12.60%) CI/CD
8 46 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 42 (11.26%) Investment Management
10 40 (10.72%) Scrum
11 38 (10.19%) Asset Management
11 38 (10.19%) Wireframes
12 37 (9.92%) Fintech
13 36 (9.65%) Analytics
14 35 (9.38%) Roadmaps
15 34 (9.12%) Decision-Making
15 34 (9.12%) User Stories
16 29 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (7.77%) Front End Development
16 29 (7.77%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 88 (23.59%) JavaScript
2 59 (15.82%) TypeScript
3 52 (13.94%) Python
4 31 (8.31%) SQL
5 26 (6.97%) Java
6 13 (3.49%) C#
6 13 (3.49%) Kotlin
7 7 (1.88%) Objective-C
7 7 (1.88%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.88%) Swift
8 5 (1.34%) Bash
8 5 (1.34%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.34%) Scala
9 3 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.54%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.54%) REXX
11 1 (0.27%) ABAP
11 1 (0.27%) COBOL
11 1 (0.27%) PHP
11 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (10.72%) Security Cleared
2 39 (10.46%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.97%) Degree
4 8 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.34%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.07%) CISSP
6 4 (1.07%) IIBA
7 2 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.54%) PhD
7 2 (0.54%) 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 (16.89%) Accessibility
2 20 (5.36%) QA
3 16 (4.29%) WCAG
4 7 (1.88%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.54%) GRC
5 2 (0.54%) 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 (6.17%) Docker
2 9 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.54%) RACF
5 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.22%) Terraform
3 6 (1.61%) Grafana
4 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.07%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.80%) SCCM
5 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 37 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.75%) Google
3 13 (3.49%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.22%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.95%) Adobe
6 8 (2.14%) SAP
7 6 (1.61%) Proofpoint
8 5 (1.34%) Cisco
8 5 (1.34%) Databricks
9 4 (1.07%) Oracle
10 3 (0.80%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.80%) Fujitsu
10 3 (0.80%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.80%) VMware
11 2 (0.54%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.54%) New Relic
11 2 (0.54%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.54%) Pega
11 2 (0.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.54%) Workday