UX Design Contracts in Scotland

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for UX Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited UX Design over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 145 112
Rank change year-on-year +51 -33 -9
Contract jobs citing UX Design 34 22 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.55% 0.78% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 0.85% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 39
10th Percentile - £361 £394
25th Percentile £400 £365 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £488 £483 £562
90th Percentile £584 £549 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

UX Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,936 2,599 3,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.48% 92.52% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 1,869 2,315
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £386 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £580 £558 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £12.04 £19.45
Median hourly rate £18.79 £16.86 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -57.86% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £49.24 £48.95
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.78 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in Scotland

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for UX Design in Scotland

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Scotland over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in Scotland

UX Design
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 UX Design within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 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
Glasgow +9 18 £400 +6.31% 11
Edinburgh +46 15 £465 -7.00% 9
West Lothian - 1 £650 -
UX Design
UK

UX Design
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.94%) CMS
1 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Sketch
2 1 (2.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) Figma
2 8 (23.53%) Azure
3 3 (8.82%) SaaS
4 1 (2.94%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.94%) MariaDB
2 1 (2.94%) MySQL
2 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
1 3 (8.82%) webpack
2 2 (5.88%) Capybara
2 2 (5.88%) Gradle
2 2 (5.88%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Maven
3 1 (2.94%) Git
General
1 11 (32.35%) Public Sector
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.94%) Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Marketing
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Publishing
5 1 (2.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (70.59%) Designer
2 22 (64.71%) UX Designer
3 6 (17.65%) Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 4 (11.76%) Senior
5 3 (8.82%) Lead
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Designer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior UX Designer
5 3 (8.82%) UI Designer
5 3 (8.82%) UI/UX Designer
6 2 (5.88%) Flutter Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Leader
7 1 (2.94%) Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Business Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Content Editor
7 1 (2.94%) Lead Designer
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Service Designer
7 1 (2.94%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (41.18%) React
2 5 (14.71%) CSS
2 5 (14.71%) HTML
3 4 (11.76%) RESTful
4 3 (8.82%) CSS3
4 3 (8.82%) HTML5
4 3 (8.82%) Node.js
4 3 (8.82%) Redux
5 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.88%) WebKit
6 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.94%) COM+
6 1 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (38.24%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.88%) Educational Technology
2 2 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (29.41%) Android
1 10 (29.41%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) User Experience
2 14 (41.18%) Agile
2 14 (41.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 11 (32.35%) Wireframes
4 9 (26.47%) Prototyping
4 9 (26.47%) User Stories
4 9 (26.47%) Visualisation
5 8 (23.53%) Service Design
5 8 (23.53%) User Research
6 6 (17.65%) Information Architecture
6 6 (17.65%) Storyboarding
7 5 (14.71%) Co-Creation
7 5 (14.71%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
7 5 (14.71%) Product Management
7 5 (14.71%) Workshop Facilitation
8 4 (11.76%) Front End Development
9 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
9 3 (8.82%) Customer Experience
10 2 (5.88%) Mentoring
10 2 (5.88%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) Python
2 6 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.82%) Java
3 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.88%) Ruby
5 1 (2.94%) Bash
5 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) Degree
1 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (32.35%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.82%) WCAG
3 2 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (2.94%) Adobe