User Experience Contracts in the South East

UX
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 100 77 99
Rank change year-on-year -23 +22 -25
Contract jobs citing User Experience 89 152 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.63% 2.72% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 3.05% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 110 140
10th Percentile £263 £313 £349
25th Percentile £381 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +18.75%
75th Percentile £601 £538 £563
90th Percentile £658 £664 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile - - £58.22
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.25 £59.86
Median hourly rate £45.45 £17.50 £62.71
Median % change year-on-year +159.69% -72.09% +121.97%
75th Percentile £78.51 £18.75 £65.53
90th Percentile £93.13 - £67.16
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
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,596 4,978 6,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.27% 89.15% 89.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,675 3,464 4,669
10th Percentile £250 £248 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £595
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 213 279
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £11.99
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the South East

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the South East.

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the South East

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the South East

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Experience in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the South East

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in the South East

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley -24 58 £501 +5.37% 45
Berkshire +5 50 £525 +10.53% 16
Surrey -2 12 £525 +55.56% 13
Hampshire -15 12 £444 -26.04% 16
Oxfordshire +6 4 £275 -42.11% 16
Buckinghamshire -16 4 £531 +11.84% 13
Kent +7 2 £446 -28.60% 5
West Sussex +5 2 £425 -17.07% 2
East Sussex +3 1 - - 2
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (11.24%) SAS
2 5 (5.62%) CMS
2 5 (5.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.25%) Apache
3 2 (2.25%) Confluence
4 1 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.12%) Drupal
4 1 (1.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Sketch
2 1 (1.12%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.12%) InVision
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.12%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.12%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Relativity
1 1 (1.12%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.85%) Figma
2 6 (6.74%) Azure
3 4 (4.49%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.49%) SaaS
4 2 (2.25%) AWS
4 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.25%) GCP
4 2 (2.25%) Google App Engine
4 2 (2.25%) npm
4 2 (2.25%) PaaS
4 2 (2.25%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.12%) GitHub
5 1 (1.12%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.12%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.12%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.25%) HTTP
1 2 (2.25%) Intranet
2 1 (1.12%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (1.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.24%) Crystal Reports
2 4 (4.49%) Power BI
3 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.25%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.25%) MySQL
5 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.12%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.12%) Metadata
5 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.12%) QlikView
5 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.62%) JIRA
2 3 (3.37%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.12%) Android Studio
3 1 (1.12%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.12%) Git
3 1 (1.12%) Gradle
3 1 (1.12%) JUnit
3 1 (1.12%) rollup.js
3 1 (1.12%) webpack
General
1 20 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.73%) Marketing
3 13 (14.61%) Telecoms
4 11 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.87%) Finance
6 6 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.37%) Electronics
8 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Legal
8 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.25%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.25%) Publishing
8 2 (2.25%) Retail
9 1 (1.12%) Advertising
9 1 (1.12%) Banking
9 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Local Government
9 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (28.09%) Developer
2 12 (13.48%) Designer
2 12 (13.48%) UX Designer
3 11 (12.36%) Analyst
4 9 (10.11%) Architect
4 9 (10.11%) Senior
5 7 (7.87%) IFS Developer
5 7 (7.87%) UI Designer
5 7 (7.87%) UI/UX Designer
6 6 (6.74%) Product Manager
7 5 (5.62%) User Experience Architect
8 4 (4.49%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.49%) Lead
8 4 (4.49%) Product Designer
8 4 (4.49%) Report Developer
8 4 (4.49%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 3 (3.37%) Data Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) Digital Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) Digital Business Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.24%) CSS
1 10 (11.24%) HTML
2 6 (6.74%) AngularJS
2 6 (6.74%) React
3 4 (4.49%) REST
3 4 (4.49%) RESTful
4 3 (3.37%) Node.js
5 2 (2.25%) .NET
5 2 (2.25%) DirectX
5 2 (2.25%) JSON
5 2 (2.25%) OpenGL
5 2 (2.25%) OpenGL ES
5 2 (2.25%) PySpark
5 2 (2.25%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 2 (2.25%) Vue
5 2 (2.25%) Vulkan
5 2 (2.25%) XML
6 1 (1.12%) Enzyme
6 1 (1.12%) Jest
6 1 (1.12%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.24%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.62%) Mobile App
2 5 (5.62%) Robotics
3 2 (2.25%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.25%) Animation
3 2 (2.25%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (2.25%) Biopharmaceutical
3 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.25%) Mixed Reality
4 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.12%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.12%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.12%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.12%) IoT
4 1 (1.12%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.12%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.62%) Android
2 3 (3.37%) Windows
3 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.12%) Linux
3 1 (1.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (26.97%) UX Design
2 22 (24.72%) Agile
3 19 (21.35%) Analytics
4 13 (14.61%) Data Security
5 12 (13.48%) Project Delivery
5 12 (13.48%) Roadmaps
6 11 (12.36%) DevOps
6 11 (12.36%) Matrix Organization
6 11 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (12.36%) Project Management
7 10 (11.24%) Data Analytics
8 9 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (10.11%) Customer Experience
8 9 (10.11%) ITIL
8 9 (10.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (10.11%) Wireframes
9 8 (8.99%) Prototyping
9 8 (8.99%) Service Management
10 7 (7.87%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (7.87%) Development Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.73%) SQL
2 10 (11.24%) JavaScript
3 6 (6.74%) Python
4 5 (5.62%) Java
5 4 (4.49%) C#
5 4 (4.49%) Kotlin
5 4 (4.49%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.25%) C++
6 2 (2.25%) GLSL
6 2 (2.25%) HLSL
6 2 (2.25%) PHP
7 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (15.73%) Degree
2 9 (10.11%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.49%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.37%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.37%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.12%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.12%) CCNP
6 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.12%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.12%) MCSE
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.99%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.74%) QA
3 4 (4.49%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.37%) SLA
5 2 (2.25%) GxP
5 2 (2.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.25%) WCAG
6 1 (1.12%) NCSC
6 1 (1.12%) NIST
6 1 (1.12%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (2.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.12%) AppManager
2 1 (1.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (11.24%) IFS
2 5 (5.62%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.49%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.37%) Adobe
4 3 (3.37%) Databricks
4 3 (3.37%) Google
4 3 (3.37%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.25%) Oracle
6 1 (1.12%) Blackboard
6 1 (1.12%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.12%) QinetiQ
6 1 (1.12%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.12%) VMware