User Experience Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

UX
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring User Experience skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 106 91
Rank change year-on-year +29 -15 -14
Contract jobs citing User Experience 503 374 559
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.25% 2.08% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 2.51% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 231 416
10th Percentile £286 £280 £311
25th Percentile £358 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £550
90th Percentile £625 £626 £641
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £521
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.08% -1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 12 16
10th Percentile £15.03 £30.00 £16.55
25th Percentile £18.33 £30.33 £16.85
Median hourly rate £35.60 £66.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -46.06% +272.46% -74.69%
75th Percentile £57.44 £74.00 £70.12
90th Percentile £72.60 £74.40 £78.13
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £50.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -27.72% +6.32% -22.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,795 14,887 19,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.15% 82.93% 88.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,287 8,636 12,619
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £368 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £659 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,425 1,256 1,235
10th Percentile £14.03 £14.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.58 £43.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.50% +7.50% +73.12%
75th Percentile £43.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.16
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.00% +45.36%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing User Experience.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing User Experience

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 12 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the UK excluding London

User Experience
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing User Experience.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing User Experience

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 12 September 2025.

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 12 September 2025. 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 +23 171 £419 -16.08% 223
North West +22 112 £425 -10.53% 132
Midlands +26 101 £434 -15.37% 113
South East +17 88 £450 +20.00% 463
West Midlands +15 72 £500 -9.09% 69
Scotland -9 66 £460 -0.54% 54
Yorkshire +16 49 £400 -25.58% 58
South West +30 45 £488 -15.22% 83
East Midlands +10 29 £358 -14.35% 42
East of England +3 24 £525 - 77
Wales +22 14 £306 -26.88% 23
North East 0 10 £480 +20.00% 35
Northern Ireland -12 1 £408 -10.68% 5
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 16 (3.18%) CMS
2 15 (2.98%) Confluence
3 14 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.99%) Apache
4 5 (0.99%) IBM Domino
5 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.40%) CICS
6 2 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.40%) SugarCRM
6 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.20%) Drupal
7 1 (0.20%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (3.18%) Sketch
2 15 (2.98%) Siemens NX
3 8 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.39%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.99%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.80%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.60%) Camtasia
7 3 (0.60%) InVision
7 3 (0.60%) Snagit
7 3 (0.60%) Trello
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.20%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (3.18%) Teamcenter
2 7 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.40%) Magento
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle iProcurement
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.40%) Shopify
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 70 (13.92%) Azure
2 54 (10.74%) Figma
3 49 (9.74%) AWS
4 44 (8.75%) SaaS
5 29 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (5.77%) Power Platform
6 23 (4.57%) GCP
7 19 (3.78%) Google Workspace
8 16 (3.18%) Entra ID
9 14 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (2.78%) Google Analytics
9 14 (2.78%) Serverless
10 12 (2.39%) GitHub
11 10 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (1.99%) Sauce Labs
12 9 (1.79%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (0.99%) Adobe Analytics
13 5 (0.99%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.19%) Wireless
2 6 (1.19%) NFC
2 6 (1.19%) PPP
3 5 (0.99%) Firewall
3 5 (0.99%) HTTP
3 5 (0.99%) Network Security
4 4 (0.80%) DNS
4 4 (0.80%) VPN
5 3 (0.60%) Internet
5 3 (0.60%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.40%) LAN
6 2 (0.40%) WAN
6 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.20%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.20%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.20%) MPLS
7 1 (0.20%) NAS
7 1 (0.20%) SAN
7 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.17%) Power BI
2 20 (3.98%) Relational Database
3 17 (3.38%) MySQL
4 15 (2.98%) Tableau
5 8 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (1.59%) MongoDB
5 8 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.19%) Looker
6 6 (1.19%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.19%) SQL Server
7 5 (0.99%) BigQuery
7 5 (0.99%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.80%) Metadata
8 4 (0.80%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.40%) DB2
9 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.40%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 37 (7.36%) JIRA
2 35 (6.96%) Git
2 35 (6.96%) Jenkins
3 26 (5.17%) Xcode
4 18 (3.58%) Cypress.io
4 18 (3.58%) Eclipse
5 14 (2.78%) Android Studio
6 13 (2.58%) Browser DevTools
7 12 (2.39%) webpack
8 11 (2.19%) GitLab
9 10 (1.99%) Gradle
10 8 (1.59%) Storybook
11 7 (1.39%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.19%) Valgrind
13 5 (0.99%) JUnit
13 5 (0.99%) Vite
14 4 (0.80%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.80%) REST Assured
15 3 (0.60%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.60%) Plastic SCM
General
1 167 (33.20%) Social Skills
2 92 (18.29%) Finance
3 76 (15.11%) Public Sector
4 47 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (7.16%) Banking
6 27 (5.37%) Marketing
7 22 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (2.78%) Legal
9 11 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.99%) Automotive
10 10 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.79%) Games
11 9 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.79%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.59%) Military
12 8 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.59%) Retail
13 6 (1.19%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.99%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 106 (21.07%) Developer
2 80 (15.90%) Designer
3 60 (11.93%) Senior
4 45 (8.95%) Lead
5 38 (7.55%) Analyst
6 37 (7.36%) UX Designer
7 27 (5.37%) React Developer
8 23 (4.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 21 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
10 18 (3.58%) Support Engineer
11 16 (3.18%) Architect
11 16 (3.18%) Business Analyst
12 15 (2.98%) Senior Designer
13 14 (2.78%) Configuration Engineer
14 13 (2.58%) Technical Support
14 13 (2.58%) User Experience Researcher
15 12 (2.39%) DevOps Engineer
15 12 (2.39%) Full-Stack Developer
15 12 (2.39%) Product Owner
16 11 (2.19%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (14.71%) CSS
2 72 (14.31%) React
3 59 (11.73%) HTML
4 45 (8.95%) RESTful
5 33 (6.56%) AngularJS
6 29 (5.77%) REST
7 26 (5.17%) Node.js
8 25 (4.97%) XML
9 23 (4.57%) GraphQL
10 20 (3.98%) Jest
11 19 (3.78%) Playwright
11 19 (3.78%) Redux
12 17 (3.38%) HTML5
13 16 (3.18%) CSS3
14 15 (2.98%) .NET
15 13 (2.58%) Ajax
15 13 (2.58%) React Native
16 11 (2.19%) JSON
17 10 (1.99%) Spring
17 10 (1.99%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 58 (11.53%) Mobile App
2 45 (8.95%) Product Ownership
3 27 (5.37%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (2.78%) Learning Management System
6 11 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.19%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.99%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.99%) e-Learning
8 9 (1.79%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.59%) Mobile Banking
9 8 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.39%) iPhone
11 6 (1.19%) Credit Risk
11 6 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.19%) iPad
11 6 (1.19%) SCORM
11 6 (1.19%) Smartcard
11 6 (1.19%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 43 (8.55%) Android
2 41 (8.15%) Windows
3 35 (6.96%) Apple iOS
4 19 (3.78%) Linux
5 12 (2.39%) Mac OS
5 12 (2.39%) Unix
6 7 (1.39%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.19%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (33.80%) Agile
2 163 (32.41%) UX Design
3 77 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 67 (13.32%) CI/CD
6 65 (12.92%) Front End Development
7 64 (12.72%) Stakeholder Management
8 63 (12.52%) Analytics
9 59 (11.73%) DevOps
9 59 (11.73%) Roadmaps
10 57 (11.33%) Decision-Making
11 48 (9.54%) User Research
12 44 (8.75%) Scrum
13 39 (7.75%) Service Design
13 39 (7.75%) Wireframes
14 37 (7.36%) Software Engineering
15 36 (7.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 33 (6.56%) Prototyping
16 33 (6.56%) Usability Testing
17 32 (6.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 78 (15.51%) JavaScript
2 58 (11.53%) Java
3 57 (11.33%) Python
4 45 (8.95%) TypeScript
5 29 (5.77%) SQL
6 24 (4.77%) Swift
7 20 (3.98%) Objective-C
8 18 (3.58%) C#
8 18 (3.58%) Kotlin
9 16 (3.18%) Bash
10 14 (2.78%) C++
11 12 (2.39%) PowerShell
12 11 (2.19%) Perl
13 9 (1.79%) Scala
14 8 (1.59%) C
15 7 (1.39%) Ruby
16 5 (0.99%) PHP
17 3 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.40%) JSX
18 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (14.12%) Security Cleared
2 62 (12.33%) Degree
3 43 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.99%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.59%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.99%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.99%) PMP
10 4 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.60%) CISSP
11 3 (0.60%) Citrix Certification
11 3 (0.60%) MOS
12 2 (0.40%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.40%) CISM
12 2 (0.40%) HND
12 2 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.40%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (14.51%) Accessibility
2 38 (7.55%) QA
3 25 (4.97%) GDPR
4 22 (4.37%) WCAG
5 21 (4.17%) Data Quality
6 12 (2.39%) SLA
7 8 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.99%) GxP
9 5 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.40%) FIPS 140-2
11 2 (0.40%) PSD2
11 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.20%) GRC
12 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (3.78%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.58%) Docker
3 12 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.20%) Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.20%) vSphere
5 1 (0.20%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 22 (4.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (3.78%) Terraform
3 15 (2.98%) SCCM
4 11 (2.19%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.59%) Ansible
6 6 (1.19%) Grafana
7 5 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.80%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.40%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.20%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.20%) HP Data Protector
10 1 (0.20%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.20%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 78 (15.51%) Microsoft
2 41 (8.15%) Google
3 25 (4.97%) Adobe
4 20 (3.98%) Oracle
5 19 (3.78%) ServiceNow
6 17 (3.38%) Salesforce
7 16 (3.18%) SAP
8 12 (2.39%) VMware
9 11 (2.19%) Splunk
10 10 (1.99%) Apple
10 10 (1.99%) Citrix
11 8 (1.59%) Hotjar
12 6 (1.19%) Hopewiser
13 5 (0.99%) Genesys
13 5 (0.99%) Progress
14 4 (0.80%) Dell
14 4 (0.80%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.80%) Workday
15 3 (0.60%) OneLogin
15 3 (0.60%) Optimizely