UX Designer Contracts in the City of London

User Experience Designer
Central London > City of London

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in the City of London is £506 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 150 144
Rank change year-on-year +33 -6 -17
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 9 22 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.41% 0.61% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.64% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 40
10th Percentile £372 £410 £425
25th Percentile £416 £431 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -14.89% +28.77%
75th Percentile £592 £563 £620
90th Percentile £619 £669 £663
Central London median daily rate £506 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -1.22% -10.87% +26.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £50.25
Median hourly rate - - £50.50
75th Percentile - - £50.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £50.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,090 3,462 3,995
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.13% 95.21% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,357 3,013
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £560
% change year-on-year -5.98% +4.46% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 52
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +110.01%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.97 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -28.57% -6.04% +107.23%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured UX Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in the City of London

UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for UX Designer in the City of London

UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for UX Designer in the City of London

UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Designer in the City of London

UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, UX Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) UX Design
1 9 (100.00%) User Experience
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Figma
3 2 (22.22%) Adobe XD
3 2 (22.22%) Sketch
3 2 (22.22%) Wireframes
3 2 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
3 2 (22.22%) User Research
3 2 (22.22%) UX Research
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) B2B
3 2 (22.22%) Adobe
4 1 (11.11%) Power BI
4 1 (11.11%) Service Design
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (11.11%) Information Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (11.11%) CSS3
4 1 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (11.11%) User Stories
4 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (11.11%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (11.11%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) CSS

UX Designer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Adobe XD
1 2 (22.22%) Sketch
2 1 (11.11%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Figma
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) CSS3
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (11.11%) Educational Technology
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Reality
1 1 (11.11%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) User Experience
1 9 (100.00%) UX Design
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) B2B
3 2 (22.22%) User Research
3 2 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (22.22%) UX Research
3 2 (22.22%) Wireframes
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Experience
4 1 (11.11%) Design Sprint
4 1 (11.11%) Design Thinking
4 1 (11.11%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (11.11%) Ideation Sessions
4 1 (11.11%) Journey Map
4 1 (11.11%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
4 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (11.11%) Storyboarding
4 1 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) MicroStrategy