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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 61 60
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing User Experience 1,213 2,076 3,501
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.85% 3.64% 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 4.05% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 1,468 2,512
10th Percentile £305 £363 £375
25th Percentile £402 £425 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £490
% change year-on-year +2.15% -5.10% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 32 54
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.85 £20.58
25th Percentile £23.75 £18.57 £24.81
Median hourly rate £26.56 £29.60 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -46.43% +68.19%
75th Percentile £61.25 £45.94 £73.31
90th Percentile £73.82 £60.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £17.50 £67.80
% change year-on-year +42.86% -74.19% +185.83%

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 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -17 980 £500 -4.76% 879
London -9 590 £500 -9.09% 366
Work from Home +1 482 £501 +0.10% 533
UK excluding London -18 425 £475 +2.15% 549
North of England -15 106 £475 -9.52% 211
Scotland -7 94 £465 +6.90% 46
South East -28 91 £500 +5.26% 96
North West -14 58 £463 -15.91% 139
Midlands +20 57 £500 +5.26% 87
West Midlands +20 51 £500 - 56
South West -4 50 £413 -14.46% 53
Yorkshire -9 36 £500 +2.56% 56
East of England -16 13 £388 +3.33% 38
North East +12 12 £450 -25.00% 17
Wales +14 8 £412 -25.09% 13
Northern Ireland +12 7 £513 - 6
East Midlands +2 5 £409 -9.11% 31

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 (5.19%) CMS
2 36 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.98%) Confluence
4 18 (1.48%) Apache
5 14 (1.15%) SAS
6 10 (0.82%) Sitecore CMS
7 8 (0.66%) Headless CMS
8 7 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.58%) Drupal
9 6 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.41%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 5 (0.41%) WordPress
11 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.33%) Tornado
12 3 (0.25%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.25%) nginx
13 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
14 1 (0.082%) Liferay
Applications
1 61 (5.03%) Sketch
2 34 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (2.64%) Adobe XD
4 28 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
5 24 (1.98%) Photoshop
6 23 (1.90%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 20 (1.65%) InVision
8 19 (1.57%) Adobe Illustrator
9 9 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 8 (0.66%) Adobe Captivate
11 6 (0.49%) SPSS
11 6 (0.49%) UserZoom
12 5 (0.41%) MS Visio
13 4 (0.33%) InDesign
14 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
14 3 (0.25%) MicroStation
15 2 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
15 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
16 1 (0.082%) Adobe Premiere
16 1 (0.082%) Houdini
Business Applications
1 12 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
2 10 (0.82%) Magento
3 7 (0.58%) Shopify
4 6 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.33%) WebTrends
6 3 (0.25%) Maximo
6 3 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.082%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.082%) Relativity
7 1 (0.082%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.082%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.082%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.082%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 148 (12.20%) Figma
2 132 (10.88%) AWS
3 126 (10.39%) Azure
4 51 (4.20%) Power Platform
5 35 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (2.64%) GCP
7 31 (2.56%) Serverless
8 29 (2.39%) SaaS
9 27 (2.23%) GitHub
10 20 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (1.48%) Power Automate
13 17 (1.40%) Google Analytics
13 17 (1.40%) PowerApps
14 15 (1.24%) Amazon S3
14 15 (1.24%) Miro
15 13 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (0.99%) Entra ID
16 12 (0.99%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.72%) Intranet
2 22 (1.81%) VPN
3 11 (0.91%) Internet
4 10 (0.82%) Firewall
5 9 (0.74%) HTTP
6 6 (0.49%) DHCP
6 6 (0.49%) DNS
7 5 (0.41%) SSH
8 4 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.25%) LAN
10 2 (0.16%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.16%) WAN
11 1 (0.082%) Cisco IPT
11 1 (0.082%) OpenLDAP
11 1 (0.082%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.082%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (3.79%) SQL Server
2 45 (3.71%) Power BI
3 44 (3.63%) Apache Cassandra
4 29 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.14%) MongoDB
6 22 (1.81%) MySQL
7 21 (1.73%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (1.07%) Big Data
10 13 (1.07%) Relational Database
11 11 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (0.82%) Crystal Reports
13 9 (0.74%) Tableau
14 8 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
15 7 (0.58%) Apache Ignite
15 7 (0.58%) Data Mining
15 7 (0.58%) Metadata
16 6 (0.49%) GIS
17 5 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 68 (5.61%) JIRA
2 55 (4.53%) Git
3 15 (1.24%) Axure RP
4 13 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.07%) webpack
5 12 (0.99%) Cypress.io
5 12 (0.99%) GitLab
5 12 (0.99%) Gradle
6 11 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
7 9 (0.74%) Bitbucket
7 9 (0.74%) git-flow
8 8 (0.66%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.49%) Babel
9 6 (0.49%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.41%) Maven
10 5 (0.41%) 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
1 335 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 183 (15.09%) Finance
3 133 (10.96%) Public Sector
4 117 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (8.08%) Marketing
6 62 (5.11%) Banking
7 43 (3.54%) Retail
8 35 (2.89%) Legal
9 33 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (2.14%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.65%) Games
13 19 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (1.57%) Local Government
13 19 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 17 (1.40%) Front Office
14 17 (1.40%) Publishing
15 14 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (1.07%) Law
17 11 (0.91%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 291 (23.99%) Developer
2 257 (21.19%) Designer
3 203 (16.74%) Senior
4 153 (12.61%) UX Designer
5 86 (7.09%) Analyst
6 72 (5.94%) Software Engineer
7 66 (5.44%) React Developer
8 61 (5.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 58 (4.78%) Lead
10 57 (4.70%) UI Designer
11 54 (4.45%) Architect
12 52 (4.29%) UI/UX Designer
13 49 (4.04%) Business Analyst
14 47 (3.87%) Senior Designer
14 47 (3.87%) Senior Developer
15 39 (3.22%) Senior Software Engineer
16 38 (3.13%) Consultant
17 36 (2.97%) Full Stack Developer
17 36 (2.97%) Senior UX Designer
18 33 (2.72%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (14.26%) React
2 169 (13.93%) CSS
3 164 (13.52%) HTML
4 65 (5.36%) AngularJS
4 65 (5.36%) Node.js
5 63 (5.19%) .NET
6 55 (4.53%) RESTful
7 51 (4.20%) Kafka
8 41 (3.38%) REST
9 37 (3.05%) Redux
10 28 (2.31%) HTML5
11 23 (1.90%) CSS3
11 23 (1.90%) jQuery
12 22 (1.81%) Sass
12 22 (1.81%) Vue
13 21 (1.73%) WebSockets
14 20 (1.65%) Jest
14 20 (1.65%) Spring Boot
15 19 (1.57%) Tailwind CSS
16 17 (1.40%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 120 (9.89%) Product Ownership
2 76 (6.27%) Mobile App
3 30 (2.47%) Fixed Income
4 27 (2.23%) Management Information System
4 27 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.15%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (0.99%) Algorithms
9 12 (0.99%) Cloud Native
10 11 (0.91%) Digital Media
10 11 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
10 11 (0.91%) Video\Live Streaming
11 10 (0.82%) Graphic Design
12 9 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.74%) Public Cloud
12 9 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 55 (4.53%) Android
2 46 (3.79%) Apple iOS
3 45 (3.71%) Windows
4 14 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.91%) Linux
6 8 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.66%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.33%) Unix
7 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.082%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (40.40%) UX Design
2 387 (31.90%) Agile
3 177 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
4 172 (14.18%) User Research
5 125 (10.31%) Software Engineering
6 122 (10.06%) UX Research
7 120 (9.89%) Front End Development
8 110 (9.07%) Analytics
8 110 (9.07%) DevOps
9 108 (8.90%) Stakeholder Management
10 107 (8.82%) Roadmaps
11 105 (8.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 97 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 96 (7.91%) Wireframes
14 83 (6.84%) Service Design
15 76 (6.27%) Scrum
16 73 (6.02%) CI/CD
16 73 (6.02%) Prototyping
17 69 (5.69%) Customer Experience
17 69 (5.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 199 (16.41%) JavaScript
2 107 (8.82%) Python
3 104 (8.57%) TypeScript
4 89 (7.34%) SQL
5 78 (6.43%) Java
6 57 (4.70%) C#
7 50 (4.12%) Go
8 24 (1.98%) Kotlin
9 16 (1.32%) PowerShell
9 16 (1.32%) Swift
10 14 (1.15%) PHP
11 12 (0.99%) Apex Code
11 12 (0.99%) Objective-C
12 11 (0.91%) Bicep
13 9 (0.74%) SOQL
14 7 (0.58%) C
15 6 (0.49%) C++
16 5 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.33%) Bash
17 4 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 136 (11.21%) Degree
2 108 (8.90%) Security Cleared
3 73 (6.02%) SC Cleared
4 43 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (1.48%) Master's Degree
6 17 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 12 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 7 (0.58%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.58%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.49%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.33%) HNC
11 4 (0.33%) Tableau Certification
12 3 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (11.62%) Accessibility
2 63 (5.19%) QA
3 24 (1.98%) WCAG
4 21 (1.73%) Data Quality
5 20 (1.65%) SLA
6 11 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
8 8 (0.66%) GDPR
9 5 (0.41%) GxP
9 5 (0.41%) 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 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.082%) NCSC
13 1 (0.082%) NIST
System Software
1 68 (5.61%) Docker
2 19 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.16%) vSphere
5 1 (0.082%) HDFS
5 1 (0.082%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 73 (6.02%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (1.24%) Grafana
4 13 (1.07%) Terraform
5 4 (0.33%) Ansible
5 4 (0.33%) SCCM
6 3 (0.25%) Kibana
7 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.082%) AppManager
8 1 (0.082%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.082%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.082%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.082%) Nessus
8 1 (0.082%) Oozie
Vendors
1 98 (8.08%) Microsoft
2 86 (7.09%) Adobe
3 45 (3.71%) Google
4 32 (2.64%) Salesforce
5 28 (2.31%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.06%) SAP
7 18 (1.48%) Apple
7 18 (1.48%) Oracle
8 16 (1.32%) Sitecore
9 13 (1.07%) IFS
10 11 (0.91%) Atlassian
10 11 (0.91%) RedPrairie
11 10 (0.82%) Citrix
12 8 (0.66%) Cadence
12 8 (0.66%) Databricks
12 8 (0.66%) Pardot
13 7 (0.58%) Optimizely
14 5 (0.41%) MicroStrategy
14 5 (0.41%) VMware
14 5 (0.41%) Xamarin