UX Designer Contracts in England

User Experience Designer
UK > England

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in England is £506 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 413 350 332
Rank change year-on-year -63 -18 -63
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 127 325 587
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.65% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.69% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 253 436
10th Percentile £356 £347 £388
25th Percentile £402 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £552 £638 £600
90th Percentile £594 £748 £661
UK median daily rate £475 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -10.38% +0.95% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £47.45
25th Percentile - - £49.25
Median hourly rate - - £55.73
75th Percentile - - £61.45
90th Percentile - - -
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 34,178 47,326 67,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,701 33,606 48,311
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
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 2,433 1,407 1,890
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

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 4 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 4 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 -20 93 £525 -9.09% 40
South East +29 13 £400 -3.03% 3
North of England -5 9 £456 +0.27% 13
Midlands +26 5 £418 +39.33% 9
Yorkshire -4 5 £463 -2.63% 1
East Midlands +25 3 £418 +52.00% 1
North West +14 3 - - 12
South West +9 3 £425 -5.56% 3
West Midlands +20 2 £444 +36.54% 8
North East +17 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 4 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.

1 127 (100.00%) User Experience
2 123 (96.85%) UX Design
3 67 (52.76%) Figma
4 52 (40.94%) Social Skills
5 38 (29.92%) User Research
6 37 (29.13%) Wireframes
7 35 (27.56%) Agile
8 32 (25.20%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 30 (23.62%) Sketch
10 29 (22.83%) Adobe
11 24 (18.90%) Finance
11 24 (18.90%) Usability Testing
12 20 (15.75%) Mobile App
13 19 (14.96%) Accessibility
14 18 (14.17%) Adobe XD
15 17 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (13.39%) Marketing
16 16 (12.60%) HTML
17 14 (11.02%) UX Research
18 13 (10.24%) Product Ownership
19 12 (9.45%) Design Thinking
19 12 (9.45%) CSS
20 11 (8.66%) JavaScript
20 11 (8.66%) Degree
20 11 (8.66%) Axure RP
20 11 (8.66%) Workshop Facilitation
20 11 (8.66%) Interaction Design
20 11 (8.66%) Prototyping
21 10 (7.87%) E-Commerce
21 10 (7.87%) B2B

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 (0.79%) CMS
1 1 (0.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 30 (23.62%) Sketch
2 18 (14.17%) Adobe XD
3 9 (7.09%) InVision
4 8 (6.30%) Photoshop
5 6 (4.72%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (2.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (2.36%) InDesign
7 1 (0.79%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 67 (52.76%) Figma
2 6 (4.72%) Miro
3 5 (3.94%) Azure
4 4 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.15%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.57%) SaaS
6 1 (0.79%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (0.79%) Pendo
6 1 (0.79%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.15%) Power BI
2 3 (2.36%) Big Data
3 2 (1.57%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 11 (8.66%) Axure RP
2 1 (0.79%) JIRA
General
1 52 (40.94%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.90%) Finance
3 17 (13.39%) Marketing
4 10 (7.87%) Games
5 8 (6.30%) Health Technology
6 7 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.51%) Banking
7 5 (3.94%) Advertising
7 5 (3.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.94%) Retail
8 4 (3.15%) Front Office
8 4 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.15%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.57%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.60%) HTML
2 12 (9.45%) CSS
3 4 (3.15%) React
4 2 (1.57%) CSS3
4 2 (1.57%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (0.79%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.79%) Framer.js
5 1 (0.79%) Material Design
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.75%) Mobile App
2 13 (10.24%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.09%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (6.30%) Graphic Design
5 6 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.15%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.36%) Animation
7 3 (2.36%) Derivative
7 3 (2.36%) Digital Media
7 3 (2.36%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.57%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.57%) Mobile Games
8 2 (1.57%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (1.57%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.79%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.79%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.79%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.57%) Android
1 2 (1.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (100.00%) User Experience
2 123 (96.85%) UX Design
3 38 (29.92%) User Research
4 37 (29.13%) Wireframes
5 35 (27.56%) Agile
6 32 (25.20%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 24 (18.90%) Usability Testing
8 17 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (11.02%) UX Research
10 12 (9.45%) Design Thinking
11 11 (8.66%) Interaction Design
11 11 (8.66%) Prototyping
11 11 (8.66%) Workshop Facilitation
12 10 (7.87%) B2B
12 10 (7.87%) E-Commerce
12 10 (7.87%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (6.30%) Digital Marketing
13 8 (6.30%) Storyboarding
14 7 (5.51%) Customer Experience
14 7 (5.51%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.66%) JavaScript
2 4 (3.15%) Java
3 3 (2.36%) Python
4 1 (0.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (8.66%) Degree
2 3 (2.36%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.96%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.57%) WCAG
Vendors
1 29 (22.83%) Adobe
2 5 (3.94%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.36%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.57%) Apple
4 2 (1.57%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (0.79%) SAP
5 1 (0.79%) Virgin Media