UX Designer Contracts in England

User Experience Designer
UK > England

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in England is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 359 327
Rank change year-on-year -57 -32 -57
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 124 321 592
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.65% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.69% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 249 439
10th Percentile £355 £363 £387
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £600
90th Percentile £596 £750 £664
UK median daily rate £475 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -10.38% +0.95% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £51.27
25th Percentile - - £52.81
Median hourly rate - - £55.73
75th Percentile - - £58.77
90th Percentile - - £60.38
UK median hourly rate - £45.00 £55.73
% change year-on-year - -19.26% +48.62%

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 34,105 46,424 66,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.64% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,627 32,967 47,588
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £640
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,373 1,839
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in England

UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for UX Designer in England

UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Designer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Designer in England

UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Designer in England

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 UX Designer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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 -29 91 £525 -8.70% 27
South East +32 13 £400 -3.03% 5
North of England -2 8 £450 -3.23% 15
Midlands +32 5 £418 +39.33% 7
Yorkshire -7 4 £488 +2.63% 1
East Midlands +26 3 £418 +52.00%
North West +11 3 - - 14
South West +2 3 £425 -2.86% 2
West Midlands +17 2 £444 +36.54% 7
North East +11 1 £450 +11.11%
UX Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 England region featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 124 (100.00%) User Experience
2 120 (96.77%) UX Design
3 63 (50.81%) Figma
4 50 (40.32%) Social Skills
5 36 (29.03%) User Research
6 35 (28.23%) Wireframes
7 32 (25.81%) Agile
8 30 (24.19%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 29 (23.39%) Sketch
10 28 (22.58%) Adobe
11 23 (18.55%) Finance
11 23 (18.55%) Usability Testing
12 19 (15.32%) Mobile App
13 18 (14.52%) Accessibility
14 17 (13.71%) Adobe XD
14 17 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (13.71%) Marketing
15 15 (12.10%) HTML
16 14 (11.29%) UX Research
17 11 (8.87%) Product Ownership
17 11 (8.87%) Interaction Design
17 11 (8.87%) Prototyping
17 11 (8.87%) CSS
17 11 (8.87%) Degree
17 11 (8.87%) Axure RP
18 10 (8.06%) E-Commerce
18 10 (8.06%) JavaScript
18 10 (8.06%) B2B
18 10 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
18 10 (8.06%) Games

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 (0.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 29 (23.39%) Sketch
2 17 (13.71%) Adobe XD
3 9 (7.26%) InVision
4 8 (6.45%) Photoshop
5 6 (4.84%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (2.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (2.42%) InDesign
7 1 (0.81%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 63 (50.81%) Figma
2 6 (4.84%) Miro
3 5 (4.03%) Azure
4 4 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.61%) SaaS
6 1 (0.81%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (0.81%) Pendo
6 1 (0.81%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.23%) Power BI
2 3 (2.42%) Big Data
3 2 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 11 (8.87%) Axure RP
2 1 (0.81%) JIRA
General
1 50 (40.32%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.55%) Finance
3 17 (13.71%) Marketing
4 10 (8.06%) Games
5 8 (6.45%) Health Technology
6 7 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.65%) Banking
7 5 (4.03%) Advertising
7 5 (4.03%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (4.03%) Retail
8 4 (3.23%) Front Office
8 4 (3.23%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.42%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.61%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.10%) HTML
2 11 (8.87%) CSS
3 4 (3.23%) React
4 2 (1.61%) CSS3
4 2 (1.61%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (0.81%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.81%) Framer.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.32%) Mobile App
2 11 (8.87%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.26%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (6.45%) Graphic Design
5 5 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.42%) Animation
7 3 (2.42%) Derivative
7 3 (2.42%) Digital Media
7 3 (2.42%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.61%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.61%) Mobile Games
8 2 (1.61%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (1.61%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.81%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.81%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.81%) Android
1 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (100.00%) User Experience
2 120 (96.77%) UX Design
3 36 (29.03%) User Research
4 35 (28.23%) Wireframes
5 32 (25.81%) Agile
6 30 (24.19%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 23 (18.55%) Usability Testing
8 17 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (11.29%) UX Research
10 11 (8.87%) Interaction Design
10 11 (8.87%) Prototyping
11 10 (8.06%) B2B
11 10 (8.06%) Design Thinking
11 10 (8.06%) E-Commerce
11 10 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (8.06%) Workshop Facilitation
12 8 (6.45%) Digital Marketing
13 7 (5.65%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (5.65%) Mentoring
13 7 (5.65%) Typography
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.06%) JavaScript
2 4 (3.23%) Java
3 3 (2.42%) Python
4 1 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (8.87%) Degree
2 4 (3.23%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.61%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.52%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.61%) WCAG
Vendors
1 28 (22.58%) Adobe
2 5 (4.03%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.42%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.61%) Apple
4 2 (1.61%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (0.81%) SAP
5 1 (0.81%) Virgin Media