User Experience Contracts in England

UX
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 62 60
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing User Experience 995 1,777 2,775
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.70% 3.62% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 4.02% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 672 1,262 2,048
10th Percentile £300 £350 £364
25th Percentile £413 £428 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £601 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £706 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 39
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.85 £20.31
25th Percentile £23.75 £17.34 £24.00
Median hourly rate £26.56 £26.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -47.52% +53.73%
75th Percentile £61.75 £48.94 £61.60
90th Percentile £73.82 £67.18 £67.89
UK median hourly rate £31.71 £26.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +19.66% -47.52% +53.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,821 44,233 63,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.48% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,850 31,044 45,163
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,250 1,565 1,721
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.68 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in England

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in England

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in England

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in England

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in England

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London -14 596 £500 -9.09% 344
North of England -15 108 £475 -8.65% 209
South East -22 97 £500 +5.26% 95
North West -18 59 £463 -13.95% 140
Midlands +22 56 £500 +5.26% 86
South West -7 52 £438 -9.28% 56
West Midlands +21 50 £500 - 61
Yorkshire -9 37 £500 +3.90% 51
East of England -20 13 £388 +3.33% 38
North East +13 12 £450 -25.00% 19
East Midlands +11 5 £409 -9.11% 25
User Experience
UK

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 58 (5.83%) CMS
2 32 (3.22%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.71%) Apache
3 17 (1.71%) Confluence
4 12 (1.21%) SAS
5 10 (1.01%) Sitecore CMS
6 7 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.70%) Drupal
6 7 (0.70%) Headless CMS
7 6 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.50%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 5 (0.50%) WordPress
9 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.40%) Tornado
10 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.30%) nginx
11 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.10%) Jadu
12 1 (0.10%) Moodle
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 41 (4.12%) Sketch
2 35 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 23 (2.31%) Photoshop
5 21 (2.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 21 (2.11%) Adobe XD
6 18 (1.81%) Adobe Illustrator
6 18 (1.81%) InVision
7 9 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.70%) Adobe Captivate
9 4 (0.40%) InDesign
9 4 (0.40%) SPSS
9 4 (0.40%) UserZoom
10 3 (0.30%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.30%) MicroStation
10 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
11 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.10%) Houdini
12 1 (0.10%) Maya
Business Applications
1 10 (1.01%) Magento
2 7 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
2 7 (0.70%) Shopify
3 6 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.40%) WebTrends
5 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.10%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.10%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.10%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 108 (10.85%) Figma
2 107 (10.75%) AWS
3 87 (8.74%) Azure
4 45 (4.52%) Power Platform
5 34 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (2.41%) GCP
7 20 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (1.91%) GitHub
8 19 (1.91%) PowerApps
9 18 (1.81%) Serverless
10 17 (1.71%) Power Automate
10 17 (1.71%) SaaS
11 13 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (1.31%) Miro
12 12 (1.21%) Google Analytics
13 11 (1.11%) Entra ID
14 9 (0.90%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 9 (0.90%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (0.80%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.21%) VPN
2 12 (1.21%) Intranet
3 10 (1.01%) Firewall
4 8 (0.80%) HTTP
4 8 (0.80%) Internet
5 7 (0.70%) DHCP
6 6 (0.60%) DNS
7 5 (0.50%) SSH
8 4 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.30%) LAN
10 2 (0.20%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.20%) WAN
11 1 (0.10%) Cisco IPT
11 1 (0.10%) NFC
11 1 (0.10%) OpenLDAP
11 1 (0.10%) PPP
11 1 (0.10%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (4.42%) Apache Cassandra
2 42 (4.22%) Power BI
3 32 (3.22%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.81%) NoSQL
5 17 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.61%) MySQL
7 15 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (1.31%) Big Data
9 12 (1.21%) MongoDB
10 11 (1.11%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.01%) Crystal Reports
12 9 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
14 7 (0.70%) Metadata
14 7 (0.70%) Tableau
15 6 (0.60%) Apache Ignite
16 5 (0.50%) Data Mining
16 5 (0.50%) Power Query
17 4 (0.40%) BigQuery
17 4 (0.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 43 (4.32%) Git
2 35 (3.52%) JIRA
3 14 (1.41%) Axure RP
4 10 (1.01%) Cypress.io
4 10 (1.01%) Gradle
4 10 (1.01%) webpack
5 9 (0.90%) TeamCity
6 8 (0.80%) git-flow
7 7 (0.70%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.70%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (0.60%) GitLab
8 6 (0.60%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.50%) Babel
9 5 (0.50%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 4 (0.40%) Selenium
10 4 (0.40%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.30%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.30%) JMeter
11 3 (0.30%) Maven
General
1 282 (28.34%) Social Skills
2 147 (14.77%) Finance
3 97 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (9.25%) Marketing
5 87 (8.74%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.02%) Banking
6 40 (4.02%) Retail
7 27 (2.71%) Legal
8 21 (2.11%) Local Government
8 21 (2.11%) Telecoms
9 20 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (1.71%) Front Office
11 17 (1.71%) Games
11 17 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.51%) Publishing
13 14 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (1.21%) Law
14 12 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.11%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 216 (21.71%) Developer
2 201 (20.20%) Designer
3 183 (18.39%) Senior
4 124 (12.46%) UX Designer
5 71 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 66 (6.63%) Analyst
7 55 (5.53%) UI Designer
8 54 (5.43%) Lead
9 53 (5.33%) Architect
10 50 (5.03%) UI/UX Designer
11 46 (4.62%) React Developer
12 45 (4.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 42 (4.22%) Senior Designer
14 40 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
15 36 (3.62%) Senior Developer
16 35 (3.52%) Business Analyst
17 34 (3.42%) Senior UX Designer
18 30 (3.02%) Consultant
18 30 (3.02%) UI Developer
19 26 (2.61%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (11.76%) React
2 115 (11.56%) CSS
3 110 (11.06%) HTML
4 52 (5.23%) Node.js
5 51 (5.13%) Kafka
6 50 (5.03%) AngularJS
7 39 (3.92%) RESTful
8 37 (3.72%) .NET
9 33 (3.32%) REST
10 32 (3.22%) Redux
11 21 (2.11%) HTML5
11 21 (2.11%) Sass
12 20 (2.01%) WebSockets
13 19 (1.91%) CSS3
14 18 (1.81%) Jest
15 17 (1.71%) JSON
16 16 (1.61%) jQuery
17 15 (1.51%) Tailwind CSS
17 15 (1.51%) Vue
17 15 (1.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (8.74%) Product Ownership
2 67 (6.73%) Mobile App
3 29 (2.91%) Fixed Income
4 26 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.31%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.41%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.21%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.11%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.11%) Graphic Design
9 11 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
10 10 (1.01%) Digital Media
11 9 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (0.90%) Public Cloud
12 8 (0.80%) Animation
12 8 (0.80%) Over-the-Top Content
12 8 (0.80%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.70%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 45 (4.52%) Windows
2 41 (4.12%) Android
3 33 (3.32%) Apple iOS
4 14 (1.41%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.11%) Linux
6 8 (0.80%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.80%) Windows 7
7 5 (0.50%) Unix
8 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (40.40%) UX Design
2 306 (30.75%) Agile
3 157 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
4 137 (13.77%) User Research
5 116 (11.66%) Software Engineering
6 103 (10.35%) UX Research
7 97 (9.75%) Front End Development
8 91 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 87 (8.74%) Roadmaps
10 85 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
11 83 (8.34%) DevOps
12 78 (7.84%) Analytics
13 70 (7.04%) Wireframes
14 66 (6.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 63 (6.33%) Customer Experience
16 61 (6.13%) Computer Science
16 61 (6.13%) Fintech
17 57 (5.73%) CI/CD
18 55 (5.53%) Scrum
19 54 (5.43%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 138 (13.87%) JavaScript
2 83 (8.34%) SQL
3 77 (7.74%) Python
4 72 (7.24%) TypeScript
5 62 (6.23%) Java
6 50 (5.03%) Go
7 44 (4.42%) C#
8 23 (2.31%) Kotlin
9 19 (1.91%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.61%) Swift
11 14 (1.41%) PHP
12 12 (1.21%) Objective-C
13 7 (0.70%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.70%) Bicep
13 7 (0.70%) C
14 6 (0.60%) C++
15 5 (0.50%) SOQL
16 4 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.30%) Dart
17 3 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 127 (12.76%) Degree
2 99 (9.95%) Security Cleared
3 63 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 43 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.91%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.51%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 11 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.80%) ISTQB
10 7 (0.70%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.60%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.40%) HNC
13 3 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.30%) CCA
13 3 (0.30%) ISEB
13 3 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (8.64%) Accessibility
2 53 (5.33%) QA
3 22 (2.21%) Data Quality
4 21 (2.11%) SLA
5 13 (1.31%) WCAG
6 10 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.90%) GDPR
8 6 (0.60%) PMO
9 4 (0.40%) GRC
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.30%) MiFID
11 2 (0.20%) GxP
11 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.10%) EMIR
12 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.10%) NCSC
12 1 (0.10%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (5.53%) Docker
2 19 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.20%) vSphere
5 1 (0.10%) Firmware
5 1 (0.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 63 (6.33%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (1.01%) Terraform
4 5 (0.50%) SCCM
5 4 (0.40%) Ansible
6 2 (0.20%) Grafana
6 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.10%) AppManager
7 1 (0.10%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.10%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.10%) Kibana
7 1 (0.10%) Nessus
7 1 (0.10%) Oozie
7 1 (0.10%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 88 (8.84%) Microsoft
2 72 (7.24%) Adobe
3 34 (3.42%) Google
4 25 (2.51%) Salesforce
4 25 (2.51%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.41%) SAP
6 17 (1.71%) Apple
7 16 (1.61%) Sitecore
8 12 (1.21%) IFS
9 10 (1.01%) Citrix
9 10 (1.01%) Oracle
10 9 (0.90%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.80%) Databricks
12 7 (0.70%) Optimizely
13 6 (0.60%) RedPrairie
14 5 (0.50%) Blue Prism
14 5 (0.50%) MicroStrategy
14 5 (0.50%) Pardot
14 5 (0.50%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.50%) VMware