UX Designer Contracts in Edinburgh

User Experience Designer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in Edinburgh is £465 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 104 112
Rank change year-on-year +40 +8 -18
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 10 6 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.23% 0.46% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 0.49% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 8
10th Percentile £423 £441 £448
25th Percentile £458 £473 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +7.32% +20.59%
75th Percentile £488 £581 £589
90th Percentile - £585 £623
Scotland median daily rate £400 £499 £550
% change year-on-year -19.80% -9.32% +29.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 779 1,236 1,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.47% 95.59% 96.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 882 1,275
10th Percentile £200 £253 £230
25th Percentile £409 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £550
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £458
% change year-on-year - +3.83% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 14 24
10th Percentile £16.08 £14.53 £12.30
25th Percentile £17.79 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -10.48% -58.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £63.60 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.82
% change year-on-year +43.44% -10.21% -35.46%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in Edinburgh

UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UX Designer in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for UX Designer in Edinburgh

UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 Edinburgh region featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) UX Design
1 10 (100.00%) User Experience
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
3 7 (70.00%) Wireframes
3 7 (70.00%) Public Sector
3 7 (70.00%) Accessibility
3 7 (70.00%) User Research
4 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (60.00%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (60.00%) Storyboarding
4 6 (60.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (60.00%) Information Architecture
5 5 (50.00%) Product Management
5 5 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 5 (50.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 5 (50.00%) Co-Creation
5 5 (50.00%) Product Ownership
6 4 (40.00%) Service Design
7 3 (30.00%) Figma
8 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
8 2 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
9 1 (10.00%) UX Research
9 1 (10.00%) Journey Map
9 1 (10.00%) Android
9 1 (10.00%) COM+
9 1 (10.00%) B2B
9 1 (10.00%) Banking
9 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking

UX Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Figma
General
1 7 (70.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Presentation Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) COM+
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) User Experience
1 10 (100.00%) UX Design
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
3 7 (70.00%) User Research
3 7 (70.00%) Wireframes
4 6 (60.00%) Information Architecture
4 6 (60.00%) Storyboarding
4 6 (60.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 5 (50.00%) Co-Creation
5 5 (50.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 5 (50.00%) Product Management
5 5 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 4 (40.00%) Service Design
7 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
8 1 (10.00%) Analytics
8 1 (10.00%) B2B
8 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
8 1 (10.00%) Technical Analysis
8 1 (10.00%) User Journey Map
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (10.00%) WCAG