User Experience Contracts in London

UX
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 67 53 53
Rank change year-on-year -14 0 -3
Contract jobs citing User Experience 596 1,152 1,849
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.37% 4.39% 4.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 4.82% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 811 1,341
10th Percentile £315 £363 £381
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £656
90th Percentile £749 £745 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 26
10th Percentile £16.74 £25.75 £24.25
25th Percentile £21.89 £29.22 £38.00
Median hourly rate £41.68 £37.50 £51.56
Median % change year-on-year +11.13% -27.26% +48.68%
75th Percentile £51.75 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £62.31 £75.00 £70.42
England median hourly rate £26.56 £26.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +0.23% -47.52% +53.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,685 23,887 35,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.71% 90.96% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,243 17,198 25,835
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 269 419
10th Percentile £15.97 £18.40 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £80.45 £68.88
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in London

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in London

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in London

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in London

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in London

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +2 68 £500 -9.09% 28
South London -1 9 £438 -27.08% 6
West London -34 6 £463 -15.91% 8
East London -1 4 £539 -10.21% 13
North London - 3 £344 - 1
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 36 (6.04%) CMS
2 21 (3.52%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.52%) Confluence
4 9 (1.51%) Apache
5 6 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.01%) Drupal
6 5 (0.84%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 5 (0.84%) WordPress
7 4 (0.67%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.67%) Tornado
8 2 (0.34%) nginx
8 2 (0.34%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.17%) Kentico
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 33 (5.54%) Sketch
2 22 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (3.02%) Adobe XD
4 13 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (2.01%) InVision
5 12 (2.01%) Photoshop
6 11 (1.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 9 (1.51%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.67%) InDesign
9 4 (0.67%) SPSS
10 3 (0.50%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.50%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.34%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
12 1 (0.17%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.17%) Blender
12 1 (0.17%) Houdini
12 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 7 (1.17%) Shopify
2 4 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.67%) WebTrends
3 2 (0.34%) Magento
4 1 (0.17%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.17%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (13.26%) Figma
2 67 (11.24%) Azure
3 63 (10.57%) AWS
4 30 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (4.53%) Power Platform
6 19 (3.19%) GCP
7 14 (2.35%) GitHub
7 14 (2.35%) Power Automate
7 14 (2.35%) PowerApps
8 12 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.01%) Miro
8 12 (2.01%) SaaS
9 11 (1.85%) Serverless
10 9 (1.51%) Entra ID
11 8 (1.34%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.17%) Google Analytics
13 6 (1.01%) BigCommerce
13 6 (1.01%) WhatsApp
14 4 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.34%) VPN
2 7 (1.17%) Internet
2 7 (1.17%) Intranet
3 6 (1.01%) DHCP
3 6 (1.01%) DNS
4 5 (0.84%) SSH
5 4 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.50%) HTTP
7 2 (0.34%) LAN
7 2 (0.34%) NetScaler
7 2 (0.34%) WAN
8 1 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.36%) Power BI
1 26 (4.36%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.68%) NoSQL
3 15 (2.52%) Apache Cassandra
4 13 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.68%) MySQL
6 9 (1.51%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.17%) Big Data
8 7 (1.17%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.01%) Apache Ignite
10 5 (0.84%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (0.84%) Tableau
11 3 (0.50%) BusinessObjects XI
11 3 (0.50%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.50%) Power Query
11 3 (0.50%) PowerPivot
12 2 (0.34%) Looker
12 2 (0.34%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 34 (5.70%) Git
2 29 (4.87%) JIRA
3 9 (1.51%) Axure RP
3 9 (1.51%) Cypress.io
3 9 (1.51%) TeamCity
4 8 (1.34%) git-flow
4 8 (1.34%) Gradle
5 7 (1.17%) webpack
6 6 (1.01%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.01%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.84%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.50%) Babel
9 3 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.50%) Maven
10 2 (0.34%) Ant
10 2 (0.34%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.34%) NUnit
10 2 (0.34%) Selenium
11 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 179 (30.03%) Social Skills
2 110 (18.46%) Finance
3 60 (10.07%) Marketing
4 55 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (7.05%) Public Sector
6 33 (5.54%) Banking
7 26 (4.36%) Retail
8 19 (3.19%) Local Government
9 17 (2.85%) Front Office
10 14 (2.35%) Games
10 14 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.18%) Publishing
12 11 (1.85%) Law
12 11 (1.85%) Legal
13 9 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.34%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (23.15%) Designer
2 135 (22.65%) Developer
3 127 (21.31%) Senior
4 91 (15.27%) UX Designer
5 40 (6.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 40 (6.71%) React Developer
6 35 (5.87%) Software Engineer
7 33 (5.54%) Senior Designer
7 33 (5.54%) UI Designer
8 31 (5.20%) Analyst
8 31 (5.20%) Lead
9 30 (5.03%) Senior Developer
9 30 (5.03%) Senior UX Designer
9 30 (5.03%) UI/UX Designer
10 26 (4.36%) Architect
10 26 (4.36%) UI Developer
11 25 (4.19%) UI Engineer
12 23 (3.86%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (3.36%) Full Stack Developer
13 20 (3.36%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (16.78%) React
2 83 (13.93%) CSS
3 77 (12.92%) HTML
4 30 (5.03%) AngularJS
4 30 (5.03%) Node.js
5 29 (4.87%) Redux
6 25 (4.19%) .NET
7 22 (3.69%) Kafka
8 21 (3.52%) REST
8 21 (3.52%) RESTful
9 17 (2.85%) Sass
9 17 (2.85%) WebSockets
10 16 (2.68%) HTML5
11 15 (2.52%) Jest
12 14 (2.35%) CSS3
12 14 (2.35%) Tailwind CSS
13 12 (2.01%) Material-UI
14 10 (1.68%) jQuery
14 10 (1.68%) Vue
15 9 (1.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.55%) Mobile App
2 43 (7.21%) Product Ownership
3 29 (4.87%) Fixed Income
4 22 (3.69%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.02%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.52%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.85%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.68%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.68%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.68%) Graphic Design
10 10 (1.68%) Video\Live Streaming
11 7 (1.17%) FMCG
11 7 (1.17%) Over-the-Top Content
12 6 (1.01%) Animation
12 6 (1.01%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.01%) Digital Media
13 5 (0.84%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.69%) Windows
2 19 (3.19%) Android
3 16 (2.68%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.34%) Windows 7
5 6 (1.01%) Linux
5 6 (1.01%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.34%) Unix
8 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (44.13%) UX Design
2 178 (29.87%) Agile
3 97 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (12.58%) Front End Development
5 69 (11.58%) User Research
6 65 (10.91%) Software Engineering
7 57 (9.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 54 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 49 (8.22%) Customer Experience
9 49 (8.22%) UX Research
10 44 (7.38%) Wireframes
11 42 (7.05%) DevOps
12 40 (6.71%) Computer Science
13 39 (6.54%) Roadmaps
14 38 (6.38%) SDLC
15 36 (6.04%) Scrum
16 35 (5.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 34 (5.70%) E-Commerce
17 34 (5.70%) Full Stack Development
18 33 (5.54%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 103 (17.28%) JavaScript
2 55 (9.23%) TypeScript
3 52 (8.72%) SQL
4 51 (8.56%) Java
5 47 (7.89%) Python
6 27 (4.53%) C#
7 18 (3.02%) Go
8 15 (2.52%) Kotlin
9 13 (2.18%) Swift
10 12 (2.01%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.85%) Objective-C
12 8 (1.34%) PHP
13 6 (1.01%) C
14 3 (0.50%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.50%) Dart
15 2 (0.34%) C++
15 2 (0.34%) R
15 2 (0.34%) SOQL
15 2 (0.34%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.17%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 77 (12.92%) Degree
2 47 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 39 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.68%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.50%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.50%) CCA
8 3 (0.50%) Citrix Certification
8 3 (0.50%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.50%) PMP
9 2 (0.34%) CCNA
9 2 (0.34%) CCNP
9 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.34%) ISEB
9 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.34%) MBA
9 2 (0.34%) MCSA
9 2 (0.34%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (9.90%) Accessibility
2 24 (4.03%) QA
3 16 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.35%) SLA
5 8 (1.34%) WCAG
6 5 (0.84%) GDPR
7 4 (0.67%) GRC
8 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.50%) MiFID
8 3 (0.50%) PMO
9 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.17%) EMIR
System Software
1 25 (4.19%) Docker
2 14 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.34%) vSphere
4 1 (0.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.67%) Terraform
4 3 (0.50%) SCCM
5 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.17%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.17%) Nessus
5 1 (0.17%) Oozie
Vendors
1 53 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 52 (8.72%) Adobe
3 18 (3.02%) Google
4 17 (2.85%) Salesforce
4 17 (2.85%) ServiceNow
5 14 (2.35%) SAP
6 12 (2.01%) Apple
7 10 (1.68%) Citrix
8 8 (1.34%) Oracle
9 7 (1.17%) Optimizely
10 6 (1.01%) Sitecore
11 5 (0.84%) Databricks
11 5 (0.84%) MicroStrategy
12 4 (0.67%) Black Duck
12 4 (0.67%) Blue Prism
12 4 (0.67%) Confluent
12 4 (0.67%) CyberArk
12 4 (0.67%) Hotjar
12 4 (0.67%) Screaming Frog
12 4 (0.67%) UiPath