User Experience Contracts in the West Midlands

UX
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 65 69
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +31
Contract jobs citing User Experience 43 51 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.92% 2.47% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 3.06% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 41 39
10th Percentile £234 £419 £260
25th Percentile £400 £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile - £611 £600
England median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £66.19 -
25th Percentile - £67.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £71.93 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - +219.69% +104.55%
75th Percentile - £73.95 £23.75
90th Percentile - £74.58 -
England median hourly rate £49.50 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +65.00% +15.38% -52.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,307 1,665 1,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.79% 80.75% 87.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 825 1,099 1,328
10th Percentile £200 £269 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -1.48% +1.86%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £611
90th Percentile £658 £738 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 121 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.13 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.32 £14.25 £14.84
Median hourly rate £23.36 £22.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.82% -8.16% +40.00%
75th Percentile £32.29 £40.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £49.38
England median hourly rate £26.45 £38.12 £35.02
% change year-on-year -30.61% +8.87% +36.35%

User Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing User Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for User Experience in the West Midlands

User Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for User Experience in the West Midlands

User Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Experience in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Experience in the West Midlands

User Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for User Experience in the West Midlands

User Experience
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Birmingham +9 15 £500 - 130
Warwickshire 0 9 £538 -11.45% 60
Coventry +4 8 £400 -28.89% 48
Worcestershire -3 7 £575 +4.55% 48
Staffordshire +6 3 £400 -17.95% 58
Shropshire - 1 - - 67
User Experience
England

User Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (4.65%) CMS
1 2 (4.65%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle iProcurement
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.28%) Azure
2 5 (11.63%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (11.63%) Power Platform
3 4 (9.30%) AWS
4 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.98%) Figma
4 3 (6.98%) GitHub
4 3 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.65%) Mimecast
5 2 (4.65%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.33%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.33%) GCP
6 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Firewall
1 2 (4.65%) Unified Communications
2 1 (2.33%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (2.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) Power BI
2 2 (4.65%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.65%) Tableau
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Git
1 3 (6.98%) Plastic SCM
2 2 (4.65%) Android Studio
2 2 (4.65%) Gradle
2 2 (4.65%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (4.65%) Xcode
3 1 (2.33%) Axure RP
3 1 (2.33%) GitLab
3 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (18.60%) Games
1 8 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Retail
3 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Finance
3 4 (9.30%) Polish Language
4 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.33%) Billing
5 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Designer
2 9 (20.93%) Developer
3 7 (16.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Senior
5 5 (11.63%) Consultant
5 5 (11.63%) Games Designer
5 5 (11.63%) Technical Designer
6 4 (9.30%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 4 (9.30%) Lead
6 4 (9.30%) Senior Designer
6 4 (9.30%) Senior Games Designer
7 3 (6.98%) Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Games Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Digital Designer
8 2 (4.65%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Product Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 4 (9.30%) Unreal Engine
3 2 (4.65%) Jest
3 2 (4.65%) React
3 2 (4.65%) React Native
3 2 (4.65%) Redux
3 2 (4.65%) REST
4 1 (2.33%) .NET
4 1 (2.33%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.33%) ADO
4 1 (2.33%) CSS
4 1 (2.33%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Mobile Games
1 5 (11.63%) Virtual Reality
2 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Animation
3 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.65%) Learning Management System
3 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.65%) Motion Graphics
3 2 (4.65%) Photography
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.33%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.33%) IVR
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Android
1 2 (4.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) DevOps
2 12 (27.91%) Decision-Making
3 11 (25.58%) Agile
4 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (18.60%) Software Engineering
4 8 (18.60%) Workflow
5 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
5 7 (16.28%) Computer Science
5 7 (16.28%) UX Design
6 6 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (11.63%) Prototyping
8 4 (9.30%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (9.30%) Change Management
8 4 (9.30%) Data Management
8 4 (9.30%) Design Patterns
8 4 (9.30%) Generative AI
8 4 (9.30%) Migration
9 3 (6.98%) Architectural Patterns
9 3 (6.98%) ITSM
9 3 (6.98%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.60%) TypeScript
2 5 (11.63%) Python
2 5 (11.63%) SQL
3 4 (9.30%) C#
4 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.65%) JSX
5 2 (4.65%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.65%) R
6 1 (2.33%) Bash
6 1 (2.33%) Go
6 1 (2.33%) Java
6 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) Degree
2 7 (16.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (13.95%) DV Cleared
3 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.33%) CCIE
5 1 (2.33%) CCIE Security
5 1 (2.33%) CCSE
5 1 (2.33%) CCSM
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (27.91%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) GDPR
2 3 (6.98%) SLA
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) Ansible
1 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.33%) Puppet
2 1 (2.33%) SCCM
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) SAP
3 3 (6.98%) Cisco
4 2 (4.65%) Adobe
4 2 (4.65%) Fujitsu
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle
4 2 (4.65%) Proofpoint
5 1 (2.33%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.33%) F5
5 1 (2.33%) Optimizely
5 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.33%) SendGrid
5 1 (2.33%) Zscaler
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