Senior UX Designer Contracts in Scotland

Senior User Experience Designer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior User Experience Designer daily rate in Scotland is £450 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 127 162 169
Rank change year-on-year +35 +7 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Senior UX Designer 3 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.13% 0.035% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.037% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £563 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +4.55% -
75th Percentile - £588 £575
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +2.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,112 2,720 3,382
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 95.17% 96.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,289 1,953 2,401
10th Percentile £204 £233 £211
25th Percentile £369 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year - +3.83% +7.65%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 46 54
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.94 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.34 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £23.18 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +50.99% -9.26% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.17 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.14
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Senior UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior UX Designer in Scotland

Senior UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Senior UX Designer in Scotland

Senior UX Designer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior UX Designer within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +40 2 - -
Glasgow - 1 £450 -
Senior UX Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior 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 Scotland region featuring Senior UX Designer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) UX Design
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (66.67%) Service Design
3 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (33.33%) Figma
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) User Journey Map
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) User Research
3 1 (33.33%) Journey Map
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile First
3 1 (33.33%) Information Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) COM+
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
3 1 (33.33%) WCAG
3 1 (33.33%) Android

Senior UX Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) COM+
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
1 3 (100.00%) UX Design
2 2 (66.67%) Service Design
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Information Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Journey Map
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile First
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) User Journey Map
3 1 (33.33%) User Research
3 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) WCAG