User Experience Contracts in the North of England

UX
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 75 61
Rank change year-on-year -7 -14 -13
Contract jobs citing User Experience 108 175 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.32% 3.13% 3.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 3.46% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 110 214
10th Percentile £307 £406 £366
25th Percentile £327 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £694 £638 £590
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 14
10th Percentile £12.75 - £58.18
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £16.85 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.88% -77.53% +120.59%
75th Percentile £49.31 £30.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.88 £40.80 £81.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £26.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year -3.77% -52.04% +68.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,974 5,062 6,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.50% 90.49% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 3,486 4,633
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £401 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.07%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 203 262
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.36 £13.28
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.98 £18.94
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +47.71% +5.24%
75th Percentile £45.00 £44.13 £36.31
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.97
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the North of England

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the North of England

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the North of England

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the North of England

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in the North of England

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North West -14 60 £469 -14.77% 134
Yorkshire -14 36 £500 +2.56% 63
North East +14 12 £450 -27.27% 23
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (3.70%) CMS
2 3 (2.78%) ArcGIS
2 3 (2.78%) Headless CMS
2 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.85%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.93%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.63%) Photoshop
2 4 (3.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (3.70%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.78%) InVision
3 3 (2.78%) MicroStation
4 2 (1.85%) Adobe Captivate
5 1 (0.93%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.93%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (5.56%) Figma
2 4 (3.70%) AWS
3 3 (2.78%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 3 (2.78%) Contentstack
3 3 (2.78%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.85%) Azure
5 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.93%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.93%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.93%) Firebase
5 1 (0.93%) GCP
5 1 (0.93%) Google Analytics
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.93%) Miro
5 1 (0.93%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.93%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.93%) SaaS
5 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.48%) Firewall
1 7 (6.48%) VPN
2 1 (0.93%) Intranet
2 1 (0.93%) LAN
2 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.78%) Geospatial Data
1 3 (2.78%) GIS
1 3 (2.78%) Metadata
1 3 (2.78%) Power BI
1 3 (2.78%) QGIS
1 3 (2.78%) Spatial Data
2 2 (1.85%) Big Data
2 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.85%) MySQL
2 2 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.85%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.93%) OLAP
3 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Axure RP
2 2 (1.85%) Git
3 1 (0.93%) Crashlytics
3 1 (0.93%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (0.93%) GitLab
3 1 (0.93%) GoCD
3 1 (0.93%) Gradle
3 1 (0.93%) Selenium
3 1 (0.93%) TestCafe
General
1 29 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.26%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.33%) Legal
4 7 (6.48%) Retail
5 5 (4.63%) Marketing
6 3 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Banking
7 2 (1.85%) Finance
7 2 (1.85%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.85%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.93%) Automotive
8 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (25.00%) Developer
2 26 (24.07%) Designer
3 14 (12.96%) Senior
4 13 (12.04%) User Researcher
5 12 (11.11%) Analyst
6 9 (8.33%) Architect
7 8 (7.41%) Business Analyst
7 8 (7.41%) UX Designer
8 7 (6.48%) Lead
8 7 (6.48%) Lead Architect
8 7 (6.48%) Technical Architect
8 7 (6.48%) Technical Leader
9 6 (5.56%) Senior Designer
10 5 (4.63%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 5 (4.63%) Delivery Manager
10 5 (4.63%) Interaction Designer
10 5 (4.63%) Service Designer
10 5 (4.63%) UI Designer
11 4 (3.70%) Consultant
12 3 (2.78%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.26%) Node.js
2 8 (7.41%) CSS
2 8 (7.41%) HTML
3 5 (4.63%) AngularJS
3 5 (4.63%) React
4 2 (1.85%) jQuery
4 2 (1.85%) Web Services
4 2 (1.85%) XML
5 1 (0.93%) .NET
5 1 (0.93%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.93%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (0.93%) CSS3
5 1 (0.93%) D3.js
5 1 (0.93%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.93%) HTML5
5 1 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.93%) Redux
5 1 (0.93%) Sass
5 1 (0.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.19%) Mobile App
3 7 (6.48%) Public Cloud
4 6 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.78%) Lidar
6 2 (1.85%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.85%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.93%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.19%) Android
2 10 (9.26%) Apple iOS
3 8 (7.41%) Windows
4 7 (6.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (41.67%) UX Design
2 35 (32.41%) Agile
3 24 (22.22%) User Research
4 23 (21.30%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 15 (13.89%) Service Design
6 13 (12.04%) Mentoring
6 13 (12.04%) Roadmaps
6 13 (12.04%) UX Research
7 11 (10.19%) Interaction Design
8 10 (9.26%) DevOps
8 10 (9.26%) Front End Development
8 10 (9.26%) Requirements Gathering
9 9 (8.33%) Product Roadmap
10 8 (7.41%) CI/CD
10 8 (7.41%) Data Science
10 8 (7.41%) Design Patterns
10 8 (7.41%) Ethnography
10 8 (7.41%) Mobile Device Management
10 8 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (7.41%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.33%) Python
2 5 (4.63%) JavaScript
2 5 (4.63%) SQL
2 5 (4.63%) TypeScript
3 4 (3.70%) Java
4 3 (2.78%) C#
4 3 (2.78%) Go
4 3 (2.78%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.93%) Bicep
5 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.93%) PHP
5 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.26%) Degree
2 10 (9.26%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.93%) PMO
3 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.85%) Grafana
1 2 (1.85%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) Kibana
2 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (6.48%) Adobe
1 7 (6.48%) RedPrairie
2 6 (5.56%) Google
3 5 (4.63%) Apple
4 4 (3.70%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.78%) ESRI
5 3 (2.78%) SAP
6 2 (1.85%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.85%) Virgin Media