UX Designer Contracts in London

User Experience Designer
England > London

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 281 264
Rank change year-on-year -27 -17 -70
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 93 231 396
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.52% 0.86% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.90% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 174 276
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £589 £537
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +9.65% +7.43%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £600
90th Percentile £600 £799 £670
England median daily rate £506 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -4.93% +1.43% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.30
25th Percentile - - £55.37
Median hourly rate - - £60.97
75th Percentile - - £61.45
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £55.73
% change year-on-year - - +48.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,596 25,593 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,994 18,537 27,104
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 292 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.60 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.13 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.72 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in London

UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for UX Designer in London

UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Designer in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Designer in London

UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Designer in London

UX Designer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Central London +31 8 £506 -1.22% 15
South London +2 1 £450 -25.00%
East London -4 1 £540 -10.00% 1
UX Designer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 London region featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 93 (100.00%) UX Design
1 93 (100.00%) User Experience
2 51 (54.84%) Figma
3 43 (46.24%) Social Skills
4 31 (33.33%) User Research
4 31 (33.33%) Wireframes
5 29 (31.18%) Agile
6 26 (27.96%) Sketch
7 25 (26.88%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 25 (26.88%) Adobe
8 24 (25.81%) Finance
9 21 (22.58%) Usability Testing
10 18 (19.35%) Mobile App
11 16 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (16.13%) Adobe XD
13 14 (15.05%) Accessibility
14 13 (13.98%) HTML
15 11 (11.83%) CSS
15 11 (11.83%) Marketing
15 11 (11.83%) Degree
15 11 (11.83%) Workshop Facilitation
15 11 (11.83%) Design Thinking
16 10 (10.75%) E-Commerce
17 9 (9.68%) JavaScript
17 9 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
17 9 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
18 8 (8.60%) Interaction Design
18 8 (8.60%) UX Research
18 8 (8.60%) Storyboarding
18 8 (8.60%) Games

UX Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (1.08%) CMS
Applications
1 26 (27.96%) Sketch
2 15 (16.13%) Adobe XD
3 7 (7.53%) InVision
4 6 (6.45%) Photoshop
5 4 (4.30%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (3.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (3.23%) InDesign
7 1 (1.08%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 51 (54.84%) Figma
2 6 (6.45%) Miro
3 5 (5.38%) Azure
4 4 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.30%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.15%) SaaS
6 1 (1.08%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.08%) Pendo
6 1 (1.08%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.30%) Power BI
2 2 (2.15%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 8 (8.60%) Axure RP
General
1 43 (46.24%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.81%) Finance
3 11 (11.83%) Marketing
4 8 (8.60%) Games
5 7 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.53%) Banking
6 5 (5.38%) Health Technology
7 4 (4.30%) Front Office
7 4 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.30%) Retail
8 3 (3.23%) Advertising
8 3 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.15%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.15%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.08%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.08%) Publishing
10 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.98%) HTML
2 11 (11.83%) CSS
3 4 (4.30%) React
4 2 (2.15%) CSS3
4 2 (2.15%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (1.08%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.35%) Mobile App
2 9 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (8.60%) Graphic Design
4 7 (7.53%) Product Ownership
5 6 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (3.23%) Animation
7 3 (3.23%) Derivative
7 3 (3.23%) Digital Media
7 3 (3.23%) Fixed Income
8 2 (2.15%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.15%) Mobile Games
8 2 (2.15%) Virtual Reality
9 1 (1.08%) Educational Technology
9 1 (1.08%) Low-Code
9 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.08%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (1.08%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.08%) Android
1 1 (1.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) User Experience
1 93 (100.00%) UX Design
2 31 (33.33%) User Research
2 31 (33.33%) Wireframes
3 29 (31.18%) Agile
4 25 (26.88%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 21 (22.58%) Usability Testing
6 16 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (11.83%) Design Thinking
7 11 (11.83%) Workshop Facilitation
8 10 (10.75%) E-Commerce
9 9 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (8.60%) Digital Marketing
10 8 (8.60%) Interaction Design
10 8 (8.60%) Storyboarding
10 8 (8.60%) UX Research
11 7 (7.53%) Customer Experience
11 7 (7.53%) Prototyping
12 6 (6.45%) Typography
12 6 (6.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.68%) JavaScript
2 4 (4.30%) Java
3 3 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (11.83%) Degree
2 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.05%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 25 (26.88%) Adobe
2 3 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.15%) Apple
3 2 (2.15%) MicroStrategy