User Experience Contracts in Scotland

UX
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 33 51
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 -8
Contract jobs citing User Experience 94 190 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.36% 6.99% 4.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 7.56% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 157 117
10th Percentile £370 £363 £389
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £435 £463
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -5.95% +8.82%
75th Percentile £500 £495 £538
90th Percentile £588 £558 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.75
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - +62.79% -
75th Percentile - - £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £26.56 £29.60 £55.25
% change year-on-year -10.26% -46.43% +68.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,904 2,514 3,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.31% 92.43% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,167 1,792 2,248
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £471
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% +10.71%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 54 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £17.78
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.25 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -56.59% -6.43%
75th Percentile £46.24 £52.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £67.22 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in Scotland

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in Scotland

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in Scotland

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in Scotland

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 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
Edinburgh -1 43 £465 +4.49% 15
Glasgow 0 35 £450 +3.45% 20
West Lothian - 2 £475 -
Perthshire +9 1 £500 -12.28% 1
South Lanarkshire -19 1 £450 +3.75%
User Experience
UK

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (5.32%) Confluence
2 3 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.13%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (11.70%) Sketch
2 2 (2.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.06%) Adobe Captivate
3 1 (1.06%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.06%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 23 (24.47%) Azure
2 19 (20.21%) Figma
3 15 (15.96%) AWS
4 13 (13.83%) Amazon S3
4 13 (13.83%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (13.83%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (13.83%) Serverless
5 12 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (11.70%) OpenShift
7 8 (8.51%) SaaS
8 7 (7.45%) Textract
9 5 (5.32%) Amazon SageMaker
9 5 (5.32%) Power Platform
10 4 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (4.26%) Power Automate
10 4 (4.26%) Rekognition
11 2 (2.13%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 2 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.06%) Entra ID
12 1 (1.06%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.89%) Amazon Aurora
1 14 (14.89%) MongoDB
1 14 (14.89%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.19%) GIS
3 3 (3.19%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.19%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.13%) Power BI
5 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.06%) Looker
5 1 (1.06%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (8.51%) JIRA
2 6 (6.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.19%) Git
3 3 (3.19%) webpack
4 2 (2.13%) Capybara
4 2 (2.13%) Gradle
4 2 (2.13%) Maven
5 1 (1.06%) GitLab
General
1 44 (46.81%) Public Sector
2 21 (22.34%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.38%) Finance
5 6 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Legal
6 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.06%) Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Law
7 1 (1.06%) Marketing
7 1 (1.06%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.06%) Publishing
7 1 (1.06%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (30.85%) Designer
2 26 (27.66%) Developer
3 24 (25.53%) UX Designer
4 15 (15.96%) Analyst
5 12 (12.77%) Senior
6 8 (8.51%) Business Analyst
7 7 (7.45%) .NET Developer
7 7 (7.45%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.38%) Senior .NET Developer
9 5 (5.32%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (5.32%) React Developer
9 5 (5.32%) Senior React Developer
9 5 (5.32%) User Experience Manager
10 4 (4.26%) Automation Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Consultant
10 4 (4.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (4.26%) Software Developer
11 3 (3.19%) UI Specialist
11 3 (3.19%) UI/UX Designer
11 3 (3.19%) UX Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (29.79%) React
2 14 (14.89%) AWS CDK
3 12 (12.77%) CSS
3 12 (12.77%) HTML
4 9 (9.57%) .NET
5 7 (7.45%) Node.js
6 6 (6.38%) RESTful
7 5 (5.32%) Spring Boot
8 3 (3.19%) CSS3
8 3 (3.19%) HTML5
8 3 (3.19%) PyTorch
8 3 (3.19%) Redux
8 3 (3.19%) REST
8 3 (3.19%) SpaCy
8 3 (3.19%) Spring
9 2 (2.13%) OAuth
9 2 (2.13%) OAuth2
9 2 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (2.13%) Spring Security
9 2 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (24.47%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.45%) Legacy Applications
2 7 (7.45%) Wiki
3 5 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.26%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.19%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.13%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.06%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.06%) iPad
7 1 (1.06%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.83%) Apple iOS
2 12 (12.77%) Android
3 2 (2.13%) Linux
4 1 (1.06%) Windows
4 1 (1.06%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (48.94%) Agile
2 38 (40.43%) UX Design
3 24 (25.53%) Service Design
4 23 (24.47%) Code Quality
5 21 (22.34%) User Stories
6 19 (20.21%) DevOps
6 19 (20.21%) Scrum
6 19 (20.21%) User Research
6 19 (20.21%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 17 (18.09%) Coaching
8 15 (15.96%) Wireframes
9 14 (14.89%) Code Coverage
10 13 (13.83%) Mentoring
10 13 (13.83%) Product Management
10 13 (13.83%) Roadmaps
11 12 (12.77%) Community of Practice
11 12 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (12.77%) Requirements Analysis
12 11 (11.70%) ETL
12 11 (11.70%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.60%) Python
2 15 (15.96%) JavaScript
2 15 (15.96%) TypeScript
3 12 (12.77%) Java
4 5 (5.32%) C#
5 4 (4.26%) Bash
6 3 (3.19%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.19%) SQL
7 2 (2.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (3.19%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.13%) APMP
2 2 (2.13%) Degree
2 2 (2.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.06%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (28.72%) Accessibility
2 9 (9.57%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (3.19%) WCAG
4 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (12.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (11.70%) Grafana
2 9 (9.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.13%) Kibana
4 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (6.38%) Cadence
2 4 (4.26%) Adobe
3 3 (3.19%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.19%) Oracle
4 2 (2.13%) Google
4 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.13%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.06%) Apple
5 1 (1.06%) IFS