UI/UX Designer Contracts in England

User Interface/User Experience Designer
UK > England

The median User Interface/User Experience Designer daily rate in England is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 492 559 586
Rank change year-on-year +67 +27 -154
Contract jobs requiring a UI/UX Designer 53 100 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.20% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.21% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 77 144
10th Percentile £347 £263 £363
25th Percentile £400 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £489
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +12.53% -6.90%
75th Percentile £569 £750 £590
90th Percentile £608 £838 £659
UK median daily rate £463 £550 £490
% change year-on-year -15.91% +12.24% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.48
Median hourly rate - - £60.97
75th Percentile - - £61.45
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £60.97
% change year-on-year - - +56.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,467 47,939 67,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.60% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,885 33,999 48,181
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,421 1,437 1,912
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.62
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.35 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

UI/UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for UI/UX Designer in England

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UI/UX Designer in England.

Daily rate trend for UI/UX Designer in England

UI/UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI/UX Designer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UI/UX Designer in England

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UI/UX Designer in England.

Hourly rate trend for UI/UX Designer in England

UI/UX Designer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UI/UX Designer within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
London +60 30 £513 -14.58% 10
South East +30 8 £475 +15.15% 1
South West +26 4 £425 +6.25% 2
North of England +22 4 £463 +85.00% 1
Midlands +28 2 £418 +52.00% 2
East Midlands +23 2 £418 +52.00%
North West +20 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +16 2 £463 +85.00%
UI/UX Designer
UK

UI/UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, UI/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 England region featuring UI/UX Designer in the job title.

1 53 (100.00%) User Experience
2 49 (92.45%) UX Design
3 26 (49.06%) Figma
4 14 (26.42%) Adobe
4 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
5 13 (24.53%) Agile
5 13 (24.53%) Sketch
6 12 (22.64%) Wireframes
7 11 (20.75%) HTML
8 10 (18.87%) Marketing
8 10 (18.87%) User Research
9 9 (16.98%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 9 (16.98%) Finance
10 8 (15.09%) Health Technology
11 7 (13.21%) Product Ownership
11 7 (13.21%) UX Research
11 7 (13.21%) Photoshop
11 7 (13.21%) CSS
11 7 (13.21%) Adobe XD
12 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (11.32%) Typography
12 6 (11.32%) JavaScript
13 5 (9.43%) B2B
13 5 (9.43%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (9.43%) Games
13 5 (9.43%) Adobe Illustrator
13 5 (9.43%) Service Design
13 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
13 5 (9.43%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
13 5 (9.43%) Project Delivery

UI/UX Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (1.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (24.53%) Sketch
2 7 (13.21%) Adobe XD
2 7 (13.21%) Photoshop
3 5 (9.43%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (7.55%) InVision
5 3 (5.66%) InDesign
6 2 (3.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (1.89%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 26 (49.06%) Figma
2 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.89%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (1.89%) Miro
3 1 (1.89%) Pendo
3 1 (1.89%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) Big Data
2 2 (3.77%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (3.77%) Power BI
3 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Axure RP
2 1 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.87%) Marketing
3 9 (16.98%) Finance
4 8 (15.09%) Health Technology
5 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.43%) Games
5 5 (9.43%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (7.55%) Advertising
7 3 (5.66%) Front Office
7 3 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.77%) Banking
8 2 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.89%) Automotive
9 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.89%) Publishing
9 1 (1.89%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.75%) HTML
2 7 (13.21%) CSS
3 4 (7.55%) React
4 2 (3.77%) CSS3
5 1 (1.89%) .NET
5 1 (1.89%) Framer.js
5 1 (1.89%) Material Design
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (7.55%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.66%) Animation
3 3 (5.66%) Derivative
3 3 (5.66%) Digital Media
3 3 (5.66%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.66%) Graphic Design
3 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.89%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.89%) Blog
5 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.89%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Android
1 2 (3.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) User Experience
2 49 (92.45%) UX Design
3 13 (24.53%) Agile
4 12 (22.64%) Wireframes
5 10 (18.87%) User Research
6 9 (16.98%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 7 (13.21%) UX Research
8 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (11.32%) Typography
9 5 (9.43%) B2B
9 5 (9.43%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
9 5 (9.43%) Project Delivery
9 5 (9.43%) Service Design
10 4 (7.55%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (7.55%) Digital Marketing
10 4 (7.55%) Web Design
11 3 (5.66%) Design Thinking
11 3 (5.66%) Iconography
11 3 (5.66%) Interaction Design
11 3 (5.66%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.32%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.66%) Java
2 3 (5.66%) Python
3 1 (1.89%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (5.66%) Degree
2 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.89%) WCAG
Vendors
1 14 (26.42%) Adobe
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.77%) MicroStrategy
3 2 (3.77%) Salesforce