UX Design Contracts in the City of London

User Experience Design (UXD)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for UX Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited UX Design over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 124 99
Rank change year-on-year +29 -25 +7
Contract jobs citing UX Design 31 49 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.41% 1.35% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.47% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 32 76
10th Percentile £363 £416 £421
25th Percentile £422 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -4.35% +30.68%
75th Percentile £688 £648 £619
90th Percentile £739 £724 £675
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +29.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £38.55
25th Percentile £41.51 - £40.50
Median hourly rate £41.68 - £44.50
75th Percentile £41.84 - £48.00
90th Percentile - - £49.65
Central London median hourly rate £34.12 - £44.50
% change year-on-year - - -28.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

UX Design 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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,989 3,335 3,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.53% 91.72% 91.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,408 2,250 2,941
10th Percentile £363 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 24 42
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +128.09%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the City of London

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UX Design in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for UX Design in the City of London

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UX Design in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (9.68%) CMS
2 2 (6.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (3.23%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Adobe XD
1 2 (6.45%) Sketch
2 1 (3.23%) InVision
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) Figma
2 4 (12.90%) Azure
3 2 (6.45%) GCP
3 2 (6.45%) Mimecast
3 2 (6.45%) Serverless
4 1 (3.23%) AWS
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub
4 1 (3.23%) npm
4 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.23%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (3.23%) Looker
2 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Ant
1 1 (3.23%) Babel
1 1 (3.23%) Git
1 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
1 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
1 1 (3.23%) webpack
General
1 9 (29.03%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Marketing
3 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Games
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Designer
2 9 (29.03%) UX Designer
3 8 (25.81%) Developer
4 7 (22.58%) UI Designer
4 7 (22.58%) UI/UX Designer
5 6 (19.35%) Lead
5 6 (19.35%) Lead Designer
6 3 (9.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (9.68%) Product Owner
6 3 (9.68%) React Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Applications Specialist
7 2 (6.45%) Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Digital Product Owner
7 2 (6.45%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Lead UX Designer
7 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
7 2 (6.45%) UI Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Change Manager
8 1 (3.23%) Games Designer
8 1 (3.23%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) HTML
2 4 (12.90%) CSS
3 3 (9.68%) .NET
4 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.45%) CSS3
4 2 (6.45%) HTML5
4 2 (6.45%) Laravel
4 2 (6.45%) React
4 2 (6.45%) REST
4 2 (6.45%) SAML
4 2 (6.45%) Vue
4 2 (6.45%) Web Services
5 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (3.23%) Material-UI
5 1 (3.23%) MobX
5 1 (3.23%) NgRx
5 1 (3.23%) Redux
5 1 (3.23%) RxJS
5 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.23%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (3.23%) CMDB
3 1 (3.23%) Educational Technology
3 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (3.23%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) User Experience
2 7 (22.58%) Agile
3 6 (19.35%) User Research
4 5 (16.13%) Prototyping
4 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (12.90%) Front End Development
5 4 (12.90%) Iconography
5 4 (12.90%) Marketing Strategy
5 4 (12.90%) Storytelling
5 4 (12.90%) Typography
6 3 (9.68%) Business Strategy
6 3 (9.68%) CI/CD
6 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.68%) Service Design
6 3 (9.68%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 3 (9.68%) Wireframes
7 2 (6.45%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (6.45%) Full Stack Development
7 2 (6.45%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) C#
1 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
1 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
2 2 (6.45%) SQL
3 1 (3.23%) Java
3 1 (3.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Adobe
2 3 (9.68%) Google
3 2 (6.45%) Proofpoint
4 1 (3.23%) Black Duck
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.23%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (3.23%) SAP