User Experience Contracts

UX
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 60 58
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,195 2,076 3,542
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.81% 3.63% 4.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.26% 4.04% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 799 1,467 2,527
10th Percentile £304 £363 £375
25th Percentile £403 £425 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% -3.24% +12.90%
75th Percentile £600 £611 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £489
% change year-on-year - -2.81% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 33 53
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.85 £20.90
25th Percentile £23.75 £18.93 £29.25
Median hourly rate £26.56 £32.69 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -41.10% +73.84%
75th Percentile £61.25 £48.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £73.82 £63.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £17.50 £69.08
% change year-on-year +42.86% -74.67% +255.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Experience over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Experience in the UK

User Experience
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 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
England -17 965 £500 -4.76% 1,021
London -15 579 £500 -9.09% 475
Work from Home 0 476 £501 -1.48% 566
UK excluding London -22 422 £475 - 621
North of England -10 108 £475 -9.52% 225
Scotland -8 94 £465 +3.91% 43
South East -33 86 £500 +5.26% 152
North West -13 60 £469 -14.77% 139
Midlands +8 57 £500 +8.11% 93
West Midlands +22 52 £506 +1.25% 60
South West -15 51 £425 -13.04% 52
Yorkshire -9 36 £500 +2.56% 66
North East +12 12 £450 -27.27% 21
East of England -19 12 £350 -6.67% 42
Wales +11 8 £412 -25.09% 11
Northern Ireland +9 7 £513 - 6
East Midlands +4 4 £418 -7.11% 33

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 63 (5.27%) CMS
2 36 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.92%) Confluence
4 17 (1.42%) Apache
5 14 (1.17%) SAS
6 10 (0.84%) Sitecore CMS
7 8 (0.67%) Headless CMS
8 7 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.59%) Drupal
9 6 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.50%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 5 (0.42%) WordPress
11 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.25%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.25%) nginx
13 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.17%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
14 1 (0.084%) Alfresco
14 1 (0.084%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 60 (5.02%) Sketch
2 34 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (2.68%) Adobe XD
4 27 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
5 23 (1.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 23 (1.92%) Photoshop
6 19 (1.59%) Adobe Illustrator
6 19 (1.59%) InVision
7 9 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.67%) Adobe Captivate
9 6 (0.50%) SPSS
9 6 (0.50%) UserZoom
10 5 (0.42%) MS Visio
11 4 (0.33%) InDesign
12 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
12 3 (0.25%) MicroStation
13 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
14 1 (0.084%) 3ds Max
14 1 (0.084%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.084%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 11 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
2 10 (0.84%) Magento
3 7 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.59%) Shopify
4 6 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.33%) WebTrends
6 3 (0.25%) Maximo
6 3 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.084%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.084%) Relativity
7 1 (0.084%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.084%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.084%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.084%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 146 (12.22%) Figma
2 134 (11.21%) AWS
3 124 (10.38%) Azure
4 50 (4.18%) Power Platform
5 36 (3.01%) GCP
6 33 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (2.51%) SaaS
7 30 (2.51%) Serverless
8 28 (2.34%) GitHub
9 19 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
10 17 (1.42%) Google Analytics
10 17 (1.42%) Power Automate
11 15 (1.26%) Miro
11 15 (1.26%) PowerApps
12 14 (1.17%) Amazon S3
13 13 (1.09%) Entra ID
14 12 (1.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 12 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.76%) Intranet
2 23 (1.92%) VPN
3 11 (0.92%) Internet
4 10 (0.84%) Firewall
5 9 (0.75%) HTTP
6 6 (0.50%) DHCP
6 6 (0.50%) DNS
6 6 (0.50%) SSH
7 4 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.25%) LAN
9 2 (0.17%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.17%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.17%) WAN
10 1 (0.084%) 5G
10 1 (0.084%) Cisco IPT
10 1 (0.084%) LTE
10 1 (0.084%) OpenLDAP
10 1 (0.084%) Radio Access Network
10 1 (0.084%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.77%) Power BI
2 44 (3.68%) Apache Cassandra
2 44 (3.68%) SQL Server
3 29 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (2.18%) MongoDB
5 23 (1.92%) MySQL
6 19 (1.59%) NoSQL
7 17 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (1.26%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (0.92%) Big Data
12 10 (0.84%) Crystal Reports
13 9 (0.75%) Tableau
14 8 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
15 7 (0.59%) Apache Ignite
15 7 (0.59%) Data Mining
15 7 (0.59%) Metadata
16 6 (0.50%) GIS
17 5 (0.42%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 65 (5.44%) JIRA
2 59 (4.94%) Git
3 14 (1.17%) Axure RP
4 13 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.09%) webpack
5 12 (1.00%) Cypress.io
5 12 (1.00%) GitLab
5 12 (1.00%) Gradle
6 11 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
7 9 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 9 (0.75%) git-flow
8 8 (0.67%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.50%) Babel
9 6 (0.50%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.42%) Maven
10 5 (0.42%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 4 (0.33%) Selenium
11 4 (0.33%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.25%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.25%) JMeter
General
1 330 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 181 (15.15%) Finance
3 133 (11.13%) Public Sector
4 117 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (7.95%) Marketing
6 60 (5.02%) Banking
7 41 (3.43%) Retail
8 33 (2.76%) Legal
9 32 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (2.18%) Telecoms
11 21 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (1.59%) Games
12 19 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
13 18 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (1.51%) Local Government
13 18 (1.51%) Publishing
14 17 (1.42%) Front Office
15 14 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (1.09%) Law
17 11 (0.92%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 289 (24.18%) Developer
2 252 (21.09%) Designer
3 199 (16.65%) Senior
4 150 (12.55%) UX Designer
5 81 (6.78%) Analyst
6 73 (6.11%) Software Engineer
7 67 (5.61%) React Developer
8 59 (4.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 57 (4.77%) Lead
10 56 (4.69%) UI Designer
11 53 (4.44%) Architect
12 51 (4.27%) UI/UX Designer
13 48 (4.02%) Business Analyst
14 46 (3.85%) Senior Designer
15 45 (3.77%) Senior Developer
16 40 (3.35%) Senior Software Engineer
17 39 (3.26%) Consultant
17 39 (3.26%) Full Stack Developer
18 35 (2.93%) Senior UX Designer
19 34 (2.85%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (14.98%) React
2 172 (14.39%) CSS
3 169 (14.14%) HTML
4 71 (5.94%) AngularJS
5 63 (5.27%) Node.js
6 62 (5.19%) .NET
7 58 (4.85%) RESTful
8 47 (3.93%) Kafka
9 38 (3.18%) REST
10 37 (3.10%) Redux
11 29 (2.43%) HTML5
12 24 (2.01%) CSS3
13 23 (1.92%) jQuery
14 22 (1.84%) Sass
14 22 (1.84%) Vue
15 20 (1.67%) Jest
15 20 (1.67%) Spring Boot
16 18 (1.51%) WebSockets
17 17 (1.42%) JSON
17 17 (1.42%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 117 (9.79%) Product Ownership
2 75 (6.28%) Mobile App
3 30 (2.51%) Fixed Income
4 27 (2.26%) Management Information System
4 27 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.01%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.17%) Data Structures
7 13 (1.09%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.00%) Cloud Native
8 12 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (0.92%) Digital Media
9 11 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (0.92%) Video\Live Streaming
10 10 (0.84%) Graphic Design
10 10 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
11 9 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (0.75%) Social Media
11 9 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (4.69%) Android
2 47 (3.93%) Apple iOS
3 45 (3.77%) Windows
4 14 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.00%) Linux
6 8 (0.67%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.59%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.33%) Unix
9 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.084%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (40.84%) UX Design
2 378 (31.63%) Agile
3 177 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 171 (14.31%) User Research
5 123 (10.29%) Software Engineering
5 123 (10.29%) UX Research
6 116 (9.71%) Front End Development
7 110 (9.21%) Analytics
8 108 (9.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 106 (8.87%) DevOps
9 106 (8.87%) Roadmaps
10 104 (8.70%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 96 (8.03%) Wireframes
12 93 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 80 (6.69%) Service Design
14 75 (6.28%) Scrum
15 74 (6.19%) CI/CD
16 72 (6.03%) Prototyping
17 70 (5.86%) Customer Experience
18 67 (5.61%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 199 (16.65%) JavaScript
2 103 (8.62%) Python
3 101 (8.45%) TypeScript
4 87 (7.28%) SQL
5 79 (6.61%) Java
6 58 (4.85%) C#
7 50 (4.18%) Go
8 24 (2.01%) Kotlin
9 17 (1.42%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.34%) Swift
11 15 (1.26%) PHP
12 12 (1.00%) Apex Code
12 12 (1.00%) Objective-C
13 11 (0.92%) Bicep
14 9 (0.75%) SOQL
15 7 (0.59%) C
16 6 (0.50%) C++
17 5 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 4 (0.33%) Bash
18 4 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 134 (11.21%) Degree
2 110 (9.21%) Security Cleared
3 75 (6.28%) SC Cleared
4 45 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (1.51%) Master's Degree
6 17 (1.42%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 8 (0.67%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.59%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.50%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.33%) HNC
12 4 (0.33%) Tableau Certification
13 3 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (11.63%) Accessibility
2 62 (5.19%) QA
3 25 (2.09%) WCAG
4 20 (1.67%) SLA
5 17 (1.42%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
8 8 (0.67%) GDPR
9 5 (0.42%) GxP
9 5 (0.42%) PMO
10 4 (0.33%) GRC
11 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.25%) MiFID
11 3 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.084%) NCSC
13 1 (0.084%) NIST
System Software
1 69 (5.77%) Docker
2 19 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.17%) vSphere
5 1 (0.084%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 70 (5.86%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (1.17%) Grafana
3 14 (1.17%) Terraform
4 4 (0.33%) Ansible
4 4 (0.33%) SCCM
5 3 (0.25%) Kibana
6 2 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.084%) AppManager
7 1 (0.084%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.084%) Nessus
Vendors
1 96 (8.03%) Microsoft
2 85 (7.11%) Adobe
3 46 (3.85%) Google
4 29 (2.43%) Salesforce
5 27 (2.26%) ServiceNow
6 26 (2.18%) SAP
7 19 (1.59%) Oracle
8 18 (1.51%) Apple
9 16 (1.34%) Sitecore
10 13 (1.09%) IFS
11 11 (0.92%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.92%) RedPrairie
12 9 (0.75%) Citrix
13 8 (0.67%) Cadence
14 7 (0.59%) Optimizely
14 7 (0.59%) Pardot
15 5 (0.42%) CyberArk
15 5 (0.42%) MicroStrategy
15 5 (0.42%) VMware
15 5 (0.42%) Xamarin