The first table below looks at the demand for the User Experience Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 23 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 England 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Experience (UX) Designer
Rank 394 486 517
Rank change year-on-year
+92 +31
Contract jobs requiring a User Experience Designer 124 76 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.299% 0.142% 0.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.323% 0.154% 0.106%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 54 33
Average daily rate £365 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.14% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £275 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £525 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £338 £333
% change year-on-year
-3.70% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £31.50 £62.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -49.19%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £62.00
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38380 49421 52947
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.44% 92.55% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22598 27956 29382
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1965 2419 2806
Average hourly rate £18.88 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.02% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.13 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
User Experience Designer
UK

User Experience Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England User Experience Designer Daily Rate Histogram

User Experience Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing User Experience Designer across the England region.

England User Experience Designer Hourly Rate Trend

User Experience Designer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience Designer within the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +81 108 £370 +9.62%
East of England - 10 £331 -
South East +10 4 £293 -13.33%
West Midlands +9 2 £315 +5.00%
User Experience Designer
UK

User Experience Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 60 (26.67%) Axure RP
2 58 (25.78%) Adobe
3 57 (25.33%) HTML
3 57 (25.33%) Photoshop
4 48 (21.33%) E-Commerce
5 41 (18.22%) CSS
5 41 (18.22%) Adobe Illustrator
6 36 (16.00%) Information Architecture
7 34 (15.11%) OmniGraffle
8 33 (14.67%) Finance
9 28 (12.44%) Usability Testing
10 27 (12.00%) JavaScript
11 26 (11.56%) Retail
11 26 (11.56%) Mobile App
12 25 (11.11%) Banking
13 24 (10.67%) User Experience Design
13 24 (10.67%) MS Visio
14 23 (10.22%) Marketing
15 21 (9.333%) Android
15 21 (9.333%) Microsoft
15 21 (9.333%) Digital Media
16 20 (8.889%) Apple iOS
16 20 (8.889%) Stakeholder Management
16 20 (8.889%) Agile Software Development
17 19 (8.444%) Fireworks
17 19 (8.444%) HTML5
18 17 (7.556%) Workflow
18 17 (7.556%) CSS3
19 16 (7.111%) XAML
20 15 (6.667%) Web Design

User Experience Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 57 (25.33%) HTML
2 41 (18.22%) CSS
3 19 (8.444%) HTML5
4 17 (7.556%) CSS3
5 13 (5.778%) Flash
6 9 (4.000%) .NET
7 5 (2.222%) Apache Flex
7 5 (2.222%) jQuery
8 4 (1.778%) Silverlight
8 4 (1.778%) XHTML
9 3 (1.333%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.333%) WPF
9 3 (1.333%) BlazeDS
9 3 (1.333%) Parsley
9 3 (1.333%) Ember.js
9 3 (1.333%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.889%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.889%) Ajax
11 1 (0.444%) ADO.NET
11 1 (0.444%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (0.444%) SharePoint
Applications
1 57 (25.33%) Photoshop
2 41 (18.22%) Adobe Illustrator
3 34 (15.11%) OmniGraffle
4 24 (10.67%) MS Visio
5 19 (8.444%) Fireworks
6 8 (3.556%) InDesign
7 6 (2.667%) MS Excel
8 2 (0.889%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.444%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.222%) Intranet
2 2 (0.889%) Internet
3 1 (0.444%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.889%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 60 (26.67%) Axure RP
2 10 (4.444%) Balsamiq Mockups
3 5 (2.222%) Expression Blend
4 3 (1.333%) Dreamweaver
4 3 (1.333%) FlexUnit
General
1 33 (14.67%) Finance
2 26 (11.56%) Retail
3 25 (11.11%) Banking
4 23 (10.22%) Marketing
5 13 (5.778%) Investment Banking
6 8 (3.556%) Games
7 7 (3.111%) Front Office
8 4 (1.778%) Retail Banking
8 4 (1.778%) Multimedia
8 4 (1.778%) Back Office
9 3 (1.333%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.889%) Legal
11 1 (0.444%) Advertising
11 1 (0.444%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.56%) Mobile App
2 21 (9.333%) Digital Media
3 14 (6.222%) Graphic Design
4 11 (4.889%) Fixed Income
5 7 (3.111%) Taxonomies
5 7 (3.111%) Psychology
6 6 (2.667%) Social Media
7 4 (1.778%) Video on Demand
7 4 (1.778%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.333%) Ergonomics
8 3 (1.333%) Animation
9 2 (0.889%) Human Factors
9 2 (0.889%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.889%) W3C
10 1 (0.444%) Streaming Video
10 1 (0.444%) Web 2.0
10 1 (0.444%) Interactive TV
10 1 (0.444%) Copywriting
10 1 (0.444%) Social Network
10 1 (0.444%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.333%) Android
2 20 (8.889%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.333%) Windows
4 1 (0.444%) UNIX
4 1 (0.444%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (21.33%) E-Commerce
2 36 (16.00%) Information Architecture
3 28 (12.44%) Usability Testing
4 24 (10.67%) User Experience Design
5 20 (8.889%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (8.889%) Agile Software Development
6 17 (7.556%) Workflow
7 15 (6.667%) Web Design
8 9 (4.000%) Product Management
9 8 (3.556%) Rapid Prototyping
9 8 (3.556%) Waterfall
10 7 (3.111%) User Stories
10 7 (3.111%) Scrum
11 5 (2.222%) Responsive Web Design
11 5 (2.222%) Analytics
12 4 (1.778%) User Acceptance Testing
12 4 (1.778%) Web Analytics
12 4 (1.778%) Business Analysis
12 4 (1.778%) TDD
12 4 (1.778%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (12.00%) JavaScript
2 16 (7.111%) XAML
3 4 (1.778%) C#
3 4 (1.778%) ActionScript
4 2 (0.889%) C
4 2 (0.889%) Java
5 1 (0.444%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (5.778%) Degree
2 3 (1.333%) SC Cleared
2 3 (1.333%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.889%) QA
Vendors
1 58 (25.78%) Adobe
2 21 (9.333%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.333%) Apple
4 2 (0.889%) Facebook
5 1 (0.444%) Google
5 1 (0.444%) Twitter
City, London
User Researcher required for a contract role in London working with mobile applications. The UX Designer will have strong design skills and the ability to lead the user...
ISL
Rate: £350 - £380 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
South East
Skills: § Experience working as a UI/ UX and graphic designer; § Highly proficient: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator § Ability to quickly grasp complex user design issues and produce clean and understandable...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £200 - 255 p/d
Posted: 21 May 2013
Hounslow, South East
You will be an expert in website usability, working with the development teams and other stakeholders to ensure changes to the website embody usability best practice and are...
Hudson IT London
Rate: £300 - £340 per day
Posted: 1 May 2013
London
User Experience, Photoshop, Balsamic, Axure, UX, UI... In the role you will architect and design next generation web and mobile apps for their brand new product range, for...
Orleston Associates Ltd
Rate: Competitive Rates
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
UX, User Experience, Photoshop, Mobile, Illustrator URGENT ROLE, EXCLUSIVE!!... You will focus on User Experience for a next generation iPhone app whilst designing a range of User Interfaces...
Orleston Associates Ltd
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
UX, User Experience, Photoshop, Mobile, Illustrator URGENT ROLE, EXCLUSIVE!!... You will focus on User Experience for a next generation iPhone app whilst designing a range of User Interfaces...
Orleston Associates Ltd
Posted: 21 May 2013
Worcestershire, West Midlands
You will continually work on the optimisation of the main website and mobile app... In addition you must be able to design complex transactional interfaces and you should...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £250.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 9 May 2013
London
The UX Designer / CSS3 Developer will be coding in CSS language and will be working across multiple platforms such as IOS, PC, Android, MAC etc. You will have...
Nationwide People Ltd
Rate: £350 - 425 Per Day
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
One of our large retail banking clients is looking for a UX Designer to join their team working in a multi-channel role on the digital side of...
Reed Professional Services
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
User Experience, Design, wireframes, prototypes... The successful candidate will have broad skills in product & user research, experience strategy, business consulting and a depth of experience in information architecture,...
Aston Carter
Rate: £550 - £650 per day + depending on experience
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
This role offers the successful candidate full ownership of several significant projects within the team and so requires the ability and demonstrable previous experience of working with users,...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
West London
Thorough knowledge of design & delivery for mobile platforms, iOS & some Android experience is key to this role... Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite... Design & delivery of products for...
Experis IT
Rate: £350 - £405 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013