The first table below looks at the demand for the User Experience Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited User Experience Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Experience (UX) Designer
Rank 169 203 223
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +20
Contract jobs requiring a User Experience Designer 36 12 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.560% 0.150% 0.186%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.606% 0.164% 0.203%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 10 17
Average daily rate £358 £420 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.88% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 £238 £296
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £530 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £338 £333
% change year-on-year
-3.70% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £62.00
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5944 7299 8873
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.46% 91.48% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4372 5246 6461
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 182 195
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
User Experience Designer
London

User Experience Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing User Experience Designer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London User Experience Designer Jobs Demand Trend

User Experience Designer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing User Experience Designer across the City of London region.

City of London User Experience Designer Daily Rate Trend

User Experience Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Experience Designer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London User Experience Designer Daily Rate Histogram

User Experience Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited User Experience Designer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with User Experience Designer in their job title.

1 15 (23.08%) HTML
2 14 (21.54%) Finance
2 14 (21.54%) Axure RP
3 13 (20.00%) Photoshop
3 13 (20.00%) Adobe
4 12 (18.46%) CSS
5 11 (16.92%) Usability Testing
6 10 (15.38%) User Experience Design
7 9 (13.85%) Marketing
8 8 (12.31%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (12.31%) E-Commerce
8 8 (12.31%) Information Architecture
9 7 (10.77%) HTML5
9 7 (10.77%) Android
9 7 (10.77%) Mobile App
9 7 (10.77%) XAML
9 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
10 6 (9.231%) MS Visio
10 6 (9.231%) Apple iOS
10 6 (9.231%) Product Management
11 5 (7.692%) OmniGraffle
11 5 (7.692%) Banking
11 5 (7.692%) Degree
11 5 (7.692%) Graphic Design
11 5 (7.692%) QA
12 4 (6.154%) Games
12 4 (6.154%) JavaScript
12 4 (6.154%) Workflow
12 4 (6.154%) Intranet
12 4 (6.154%) CSS3

User Experience Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited User Experience Designer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with User Experience Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (23.08%) HTML
2 12 (18.46%) CSS
3 7 (10.77%) HTML5
4 4 (6.154%) CSS3
5 2 (3.077%) Apache Flex
6 1 (1.538%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (1.538%) XHTML
6 1 (1.538%) Silverlight
6 1 (1.538%) Spring
6 1 (1.538%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.538%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (20.00%) Photoshop
2 8 (12.31%) Adobe Illustrator
3 6 (9.231%) MS Visio
4 5 (7.692%) OmniGraffle
5 2 (3.077%) Fireworks
6 1 (1.538%) InDesign
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.154%) Intranet
2 1 (1.538%) HTTP
2 1 (1.538%) Internet
Development Applications
1 14 (21.54%) Axure RP
2 2 (3.077%) Balsamiq Mockups
3 1 (1.538%) Expression Blend
General
1 14 (21.54%) Finance
2 9 (13.85%) Marketing
3 5 (7.692%) Banking
4 4 (6.154%) Games
5 3 (4.615%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.077%) Retail
6 2 (3.077%) Front Office
6 2 (3.077%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.538%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.538%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.692%) Graphic Design
3 3 (4.615%) Digital Media
3 3 (4.615%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.077%) Social Media
5 1 (1.538%) Social Gaming
5 1 (1.538%) SaaS
5 1 (1.538%) RIA
5 1 (1.538%) Social Network
5 1 (1.538%) Spread Betting
5 1 (1.538%) Psychology
5 1 (1.538%) Interactive TV
5 1 (1.538%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.77%) Android
2 6 (9.231%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.538%) Windows 8
3 1 (1.538%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (16.92%) Usability Testing
2 10 (15.38%) User Experience Design
3 8 (12.31%) E-Commerce
3 8 (12.31%) Information Architecture
4 6 (9.231%) Product Management
5 4 (6.154%) Workflow
6 3 (4.615%) Web Design
6 3 (4.615%) Business Analysis
7 2 (3.077%) Scrum
7 2 (3.077%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (3.077%) Use Case
7 2 (3.077%) Project Management
7 2 (3.077%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (3.077%) B2B
7 2 (3.077%) User Stories
8 1 (1.538%) Responsive Web Design
8 1 (1.538%) Mobile Marketing
8 1 (1.538%) Waterfall
8 1 (1.538%) Web Accessibility
8 1 (1.538%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.77%) XAML
2 4 (6.154%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.077%) Java
3 2 (3.077%) C
4 1 (1.538%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 5 (7.692%) Degree
2 1 (1.538%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.538%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.692%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (20.00%) Adobe
2 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.538%) Twitter
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