User Experience Contracts in the South West

UX
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 85 82
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing User Experience 51 79 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.61% 2.28% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 2.54% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 68 70
10th Percentile £208 £388 £297
25th Percentile £235 £412 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £489 £479
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.09% +12.65%
75th Percentile £523 £588 £584
90th Percentile £613 £669 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 2
10th Percentile - - £20.66
25th Percentile - - £21.18
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £23.91
75th Percentile £68.00 - £28.52
90th Percentile £74.44 - £30.16
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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,622 3,107 3,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.97% 89.72% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,675 2,271 2,297
10th Percentile £222 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.37%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £723 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 318 204
10th Percentile £13.88 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.61 £20.46
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +24.03% +13.82%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.63
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the South West

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the South West

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the South West over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the South West

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the South West

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience in the South West over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in the South West

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Bristol +4 19 £475 - 24
Wiltshire +12 16 £235 -57.27% 4
Somerset +13 9 - - 4
Gloucestershire -3 2 £563 -0.44% 3
Devon -10 2 - - 5
Dorset +6 1 £625 +49.25% 6
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 12 (23.53%) CMS
2 10 (19.61%) Sitecore CMS
3 4 (7.84%) Apache
4 1 (1.96%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (23.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (3.92%) InVision
3 1 (1.96%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.96%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Magento
2 1 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.96%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.76%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 2 (3.92%) AWS
2 2 (3.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (1.96%) Azure
3 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.96%) Figma
3 1 (1.96%) GCP
3 1 (1.96%) Google Analytics
3 1 (1.96%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (1.96%) npm
3 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
3 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
3 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) 5G
1 1 (1.96%) DHCP
1 1 (1.96%) DNS
1 1 (1.96%) LTE
1 1 (1.96%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.96%) VPN
1 1 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) Big Data
1 1 (1.96%) InfluxDB
1 1 (1.96%) MySQL
1 1 (1.96%) Power BI
1 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) GitLab
2 3 (5.88%) Artifactory
3 2 (3.92%) Git
3 2 (3.92%) JMeter
3 2 (3.92%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.96%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.96%) Babel
4 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.96%) ESLint
4 1 (1.96%) Selenium
4 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.96%) Vite
4 1 (1.96%) webpack
General
1 15 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.73%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.80%) Finance
4 2 (3.92%) Marketing
5 1 (1.96%) Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.96%) Legal
5 1 (1.96%) Local Government
5 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (19.61%) Developer
2 9 (17.65%) IT Support
2 9 (17.65%) IT Support Specialist
2 9 (17.65%) Support Specialist
3 6 (11.76%) Designer
3 6 (11.76%) Senior
3 6 (11.76%) Web Specialist
4 4 (7.84%) Author
4 4 (7.84%) Content Manager
4 4 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Technical Author
4 4 (7.84%) Web Content Manager
4 4 (7.84%) Web Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Architect
5 3 (5.88%) UI Designer
5 3 (5.88%) UI/UX Designer
5 3 (5.88%) UX Designer
6 2 (3.92%) Salesforce Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Senior Designer
6 2 (3.92%) Web Content Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) Apache NiFi
1 4 (7.84%) REST
2 3 (5.88%) CSS
2 3 (5.88%) HTML
3 2 (3.92%) jQuery
3 2 (3.92%) JSON
3 2 (3.92%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (3.92%) React
3 2 (3.92%) RESTful
3 2 (3.92%) XML
4 1 (1.96%) Android SDK
4 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.96%) Django
4 1 (1.96%) Flask
4 1 (1.96%) Jest
4 1 (1.96%) Material-UI
4 1 (1.96%) Parceljs
4 1 (1.96%) React Native
4 1 (1.96%) Vue
4 1 (1.96%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
1 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
1 1 (1.96%) Mobile Banking
1 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
1 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Windows
2 1 (1.96%) Android
2 1 (1.96%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (19.61%) Agile
3 10 (19.61%) Analytics
3 10 (19.61%) Problem Management
4 9 (17.65%) Data Analysis
4 9 (17.65%) Data Protection
4 9 (17.65%) Incident Management
4 9 (17.65%) ITIL
4 9 (17.65%) Knowledge Management
5 8 (15.69%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (15.69%) Validation
6 7 (13.73%) UX Design
7 6 (11.76%) CI/CD
8 4 (7.84%) Coaching
8 4 (7.84%) DevOps
8 4 (7.84%) Mentoring
8 4 (7.84%) Swim Lanes
8 4 (7.84%) Workflow
9 3 (5.88%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.80%) JavaScript
1 5 (9.80%) Python
2 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.92%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.96%) PHP
4 1 (1.96%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 9 (17.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 9 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.69%) Degree
3 5 (9.80%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.84%) HNC
5 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 5 (9.80%) QA
3 2 (3.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.84%) Ansible
2 4 (7.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 10 (19.61%) Sitecore
3 8 (15.69%) Atlassian
4 4 (7.84%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.88%) Adobe
6 2 (3.92%) Google
6 2 (3.92%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.96%) Pardot
7 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow