User Experience Contracts in Scotland

UX
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring User Experience skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Experience over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 30 44
Rank change year-on-year -5 +14 -1
Contract jobs citing User Experience 95 183 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.43% 6.85% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.12% 7.45% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 150 128
10th Percentile £370 £363 £393
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £443 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -6.84% +11.76%
75th Percentile £500 £501 £548
90th Percentile £588 £550 £572
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £33.07 £29.60 £56.38
% change year-on-year +11.74% -47.50% +71.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

User Experience falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,857 2,457 3,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.65% 91.95% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,716 2,260
10th Percentile £221 £258 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 57 54
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.07 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £43.75 £50.27
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.63 £57.05
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 12 June 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 12 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
Edinburgh +3 43 £450 - 17
Glasgow +1 34 £463 +6.32% 12
West Lothian - 2 £475 -
Perthshire +9 1 £500 -12.28%
South Lanarkshire -16 1 £450 -
Lanarkshire - 1 - - 3
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 (5.26%) Confluence
2 3 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.11%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (13.68%) Sketch
2 2 (2.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.05%) Adobe Captivate
3 1 (1.05%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.05%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 25 (26.32%) Azure
2 20 (21.05%) Figma
3 15 (15.79%) AWS
4 14 (14.74%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (13.68%) Amazon S3
5 13 (13.68%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (13.68%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (13.68%) Serverless
6 11 (11.58%) OpenShift
7 8 (8.42%) SaaS
8 5 (5.26%) Power Platform
8 5 (5.26%) Textract
9 4 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (4.21%) Power Automate
10 3 (3.16%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (2.11%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 2 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.11%) Rekognition
12 1 (1.05%) Entra ID
12 1 (1.05%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.74%) Amazon Aurora
1 14 (14.74%) MongoDB
1 14 (14.74%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.16%) GIS
3 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.16%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.11%) Power BI
5 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.05%) Looker
5 1 (1.05%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (8.42%) Jenkins
1 8 (8.42%) JIRA
2 3 (3.16%) Git
2 3 (3.16%) webpack
3 2 (2.11%) Capybara
3 2 (2.11%) Gradle
3 2 (2.11%) Maven
4 1 (1.05%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.05%) GitLab
General
1 46 (48.42%) Public Sector
2 19 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.42%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (7.37%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Finance
7 2 (2.11%) Legal
7 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.05%) Banking
8 1 (1.05%) Law
8 1 (1.05%) Marketing
8 1 (1.05%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.05%) Publishing
8 1 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (31.58%) Designer
2 28 (29.47%) Developer
3 25 (26.32%) UX Designer
4 15 (15.79%) Analyst
5 12 (12.63%) Senior
6 9 (9.47%) .NET Developer
6 9 (9.47%) Business Analyst
7 7 (7.37%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.32%) Full Stack Developer
8 6 (6.32%) Senior .NET Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (5.26%) React Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Senior React Developer
9 5 (5.26%) User Experience Manager
10 4 (4.21%) Automation Developer
10 4 (4.21%) Consultant
10 4 (4.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 3 (3.16%) Senior Designer
11 3 (3.16%) Senior UX Designer
11 3 (3.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (32.63%) React
2 14 (14.74%) AWS CDK
2 14 (14.74%) CSS
2 14 (14.74%) HTML
3 11 (11.58%) .NET
4 7 (7.37%) Node.js
5 6 (6.32%) RESTful
5 6 (6.32%) Spring Boot
6 5 (5.26%) REST
7 4 (4.21%) Spring
8 3 (3.16%) CSS3
8 3 (3.16%) HTML5
8 3 (3.16%) OAuth
8 3 (3.16%) OAuth2
8 3 (3.16%) PyTorch
8 3 (3.16%) Redux
8 3 (3.16%) SpaCy
8 3 (3.16%) Spring Security
9 2 (2.11%) .NET Core
9 2 (2.11%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.32%) Product Ownership
2 9 (9.47%) Legacy Applications
2 9 (9.47%) Wiki
3 6 (6.32%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.16%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.11%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.05%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.05%) iPad
7 1 (1.05%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.68%) Apple iOS
2 12 (12.63%) Android
3 2 (2.11%) Linux
4 1 (1.05%) Windows
4 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (46.32%) Agile
2 39 (41.05%) UX Design
3 25 (26.32%) Code Quality
4 23 (24.21%) DevOps
4 23 (24.21%) Service Design
5 22 (23.16%) User Research
6 20 (21.05%) User Stories
7 19 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 18 (18.95%) Scrum
9 16 (16.84%) Coaching
10 15 (15.79%) Roadmaps
10 15 (15.79%) Wireframes
11 13 (13.68%) Analytics
11 13 (13.68%) Code Coverage
12 12 (12.63%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (11.58%) Community of Practice
13 11 (11.58%) Mentoring
13 11 (11.58%) Product Management
13 11 (11.58%) Prototyping
13 11 (11.58%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (24.21%) Python
2 17 (17.89%) JavaScript
3 15 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 12 (12.63%) Java
5 5 (5.26%) C#
6 4 (4.21%) Bash
6 4 (4.21%) SQL
7 3 (3.16%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (3.16%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.11%) Degree
2 2 (2.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.05%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (28.42%) Accessibility
2 9 (9.47%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (3.16%) WCAG
4 2 (2.11%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (12.63%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (11.58%) Grafana
2 7 (7.37%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.11%) Kibana
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (7.37%) Cadence
2 4 (4.21%) Adobe
3 3 (3.16%) Oracle
4 2 (2.11%) Google
4 2 (2.11%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.11%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.05%) Apple
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft