User Experience Contracts in the UK excluding London

UX
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 80 87
Rank change year-on-year -21 +7 -23
Contract jobs citing User Experience 424 696 924
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.03% 3.04% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 3.41% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 518 689
10th Percentile £266 £318 £359
25th Percentile £377 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +16.47%
75th Percentile £568 £550 £550
90th Percentile £624 £600 £615
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 14 23
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.43 £20.30
25th Percentile - £16.85 £23.13
Median hourly rate £25.00 £17.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -75.00% +260.08%
75th Percentile £72.90 £32.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £55.13 £80.30
UK median hourly rate £29.14 £29.60 £56.38
% change year-on-year -1.55% -47.50% +71.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 of England -9 112 £475 -9.52% 168
Scotland -8 95 £463 +3.64% 46
South East -46 81 £500 +5.26% 101
North West -13 64 £456 -15.12% 111
Midlands +14 59 £500 +5.26% 86
West Midlands +14 53 £525 +5.00% 50
South West -16 51 £413 -15.38% 60
Yorkshire -6 36 £500 +5.26% 43
North East +12 12 £450 -27.27% 14
East of England -20 12 £381 +1.67% 38
Wales +8 8 £412 -24.92% 5
Northern Ireland +9 7 £513 - 7
East Midlands -2 5 £409 -9.11% 36
User Experience
UK

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 22 (5.19%) CMS
2 12 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.59%) SAS
4 10 (2.36%) Apache
4 10 (2.36%) Sitecore CMS
5 6 (1.42%) Confluence
6 3 (0.71%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.71%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.24%) Drupal
8 1 (0.24%) Jadu
8 1 (0.24%) Moodle
8 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (5.90%) Sketch
2 21 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.83%) InVision
4 10 (2.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 10 (2.36%) Photoshop
5 9 (2.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
7 6 (1.42%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.94%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.71%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.24%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.24%) SPSS
10 1 (0.24%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.24%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 7 (1.65%) Magento
2 5 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.71%) Maximo
3 3 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.24%) Relativity
4 1 (0.24%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 48 (11.32%) Figma
2 42 (9.91%) Azure
3 22 (5.19%) AWS
3 22 (5.19%) Power Platform
4 20 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (3.54%) Serverless
6 14 (3.30%) Amazon S3
6 14 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (3.07%) SaaS
8 12 (2.83%) OpenShift
9 7 (1.65%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.42%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 6 (1.42%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 5 (1.18%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.18%) Azure App Service
11 5 (1.18%) GCP
11 5 (1.18%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.18%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.83%) VPN
2 7 (1.65%) Firewall
3 4 (0.94%) Intranet
4 3 (0.71%) HTTP
4 3 (0.71%) Internet
4 3 (0.71%) Wireless
5 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.24%) 5G
6 1 (0.24%) DHCP
6 1 (0.24%) DNS
6 1 (0.24%) LAN
6 1 (0.24%) LTE
6 1 (0.24%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.25%) MongoDB
1 18 (4.25%) Power BI
2 17 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (3.30%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (2.36%) Crystal Reports
5 7 (1.65%) MySQL
6 6 (1.42%) GIS
6 6 (1.42%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.18%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.94%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.94%) Metadata
8 4 (0.94%) Tableau
9 3 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.71%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.71%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.71%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.71%) QGIS
9 3 (0.71%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 13 (3.07%) JIRA
2 11 (2.59%) Git
3 8 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.65%) GitLab
5 6 (1.42%) Axure RP
6 4 (0.94%) Artifactory
6 4 (0.94%) Gradle
6 4 (0.94%) webpack
7 2 (0.47%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.47%) Capybara
7 2 (0.47%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.47%) JMeter
7 2 (0.47%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.47%) Maven
7 2 (0.47%) Selenium
7 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.24%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.24%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.24%) JUnit
8 1 (0.24%) UI Automator
General
1 115 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 75 (17.69%) Public Sector
3 52 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (8.49%) Finance
5 27 (6.37%) Marketing
6 15 (3.54%) Legal
6 15 (3.54%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.59%) Retail
9 10 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.12%) Banking
11 7 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.94%) Multimedia
13 4 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.71%) Electronics
14 3 (0.71%) Games
14 3 (0.71%) German Language
14 3 (0.71%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 100 (23.58%) Developer
2 84 (19.81%) Designer
3 54 (12.74%) UX Designer
4 46 (10.85%) Senior
5 43 (10.14%) Analyst
6 26 (6.13%) Business Analyst
7 24 (5.66%) Architect
8 22 (5.19%) UI Designer
9 21 (4.95%) Lead
10 19 (4.48%) UI/UX Designer
11 18 (4.25%) User Researcher
12 15 (3.54%) Consultant
13 14 (3.30%) React Developer
14 13 (3.07%) Delivery Manager
14 13 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
15 12 (2.83%) .NET Developer
15 12 (2.83%) IT Support
16 11 (2.59%) Full Stack Developer
16 11 (2.59%) Senior Designer
17 9 (2.12%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (11.32%) React
2 43 (10.14%) HTML
3 36 (8.49%) CSS
4 23 (5.42%) Node.js
5 20 (4.72%) .NET
5 20 (4.72%) AngularJS
5 20 (4.72%) RESTful
6 14 (3.30%) AWS CDK
7 13 (3.07%) REST
8 6 (1.42%) CSS3
8 6 (1.42%) HTML5
8 6 (1.42%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.18%) Apache NiFi
9 5 (1.18%) Redux
9 5 (1.18%) Web Services
10 4 (0.94%) jQuery
10 4 (0.94%) OAuth
10 4 (0.94%) OAuth2
10 4 (0.94%) Spring
10 4 (0.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (13.44%) Product Ownership
2 24 (5.66%) Mobile App
3 9 (2.12%) Legacy Applications
3 9 (2.12%) Wiki
4 8 (1.89%) Public Cloud
5 6 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.18%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.18%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.18%) Robotics
7 4 (0.94%) Data Structures
7 4 (0.94%) Digital Media
8 3 (0.71%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.71%) CMDB
8 3 (0.71%) NHS
8 3 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.71%) Social Media
8 3 (0.71%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.08%) Android
2 25 (5.90%) Apple iOS
3 21 (4.95%) Windows
4 7 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.94%) Linux
6 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (32.55%) UX Design
2 134 (31.60%) Agile
3 61 (14.39%) DevOps
4 57 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (13.44%) Roadmaps
5 56 (13.21%) Analytics
6 54 (12.74%) User Research
7 48 (11.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 48 (11.32%) Wireframes
8 46 (10.85%) Service Design
9 40 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (7.55%) User Stories
11 30 (7.08%) Prototyping
11 30 (7.08%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (7.08%) UX Research
12 29 (6.84%) CI/CD
12 29 (6.84%) Code Quality
12 29 (6.84%) Mentoring
12 29 (6.84%) Software Engineering
13 28 (6.60%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 56 (13.21%) Python
2 41 (9.67%) JavaScript
3 32 (7.55%) SQL
4 28 (6.60%) TypeScript
5 23 (5.42%) Java
6 18 (4.25%) C#
7 7 (1.65%) Kotlin
8 6 (1.42%) Bicep
8 6 (1.42%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.94%) Bash
9 4 (0.94%) C++
9 4 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.94%) PHP
10 3 (0.71%) Ruby
10 3 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.71%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.47%) GLSL
11 2 (0.47%) Go
11 2 (0.47%) HLSL
12 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 54 (12.74%) Degree
2 44 (10.38%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.72%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 6 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.94%) HNC
8 4 (0.94%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.47%) IIBA
10 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.47%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.24%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.24%) CBAP
11 1 (0.24%) CCNP
11 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.24%) ISEB
11 1 (0.24%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.32%) Accessibility
2 26 (6.13%) QA
3 9 (2.12%) Disclosure Scotland
3 9 (2.12%) WCAG
4 8 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
5 7 (1.65%) SLA
6 3 (0.71%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.47%) GxP
7 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.47%) PMO
7 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.24%) GDPR
8 1 (0.24%) HL7
8 1 (0.24%) NCSC
8 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (3.54%) Docker
2 5 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (4.01%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.07%) Grafana
3 7 (1.65%) Terraform
4 5 (1.18%) Ansible
5 3 (0.71%) Kibana
5 3 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.24%) AppManager
7 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (7.55%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.42%) Adobe
3 14 (3.30%) Google
4 11 (2.59%) IFS
5 10 (2.36%) Sitecore
6 9 (2.12%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.89%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.65%) Cadence
8 7 (1.65%) RedPrairie
9 6 (1.42%) Apple
9 6 (1.42%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.42%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.18%) Oracle
10 5 (1.18%) SAP
11 3 (0.71%) Anaplan
11 3 (0.71%) ESRI
12 2 (0.47%) Virgin Media
12 2 (0.47%) VMware
12 2 (0.47%) Xamarin
13 1 (0.24%) Pardot