UX Designer Contracts in Scotland

User Experience Designer
UK > Scotland

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in Scotland is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 153 153
Rank change year-on-year +40 0 -27
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 22 7 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.98% 0.24% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 0.26% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 13
10th Percentile - £421 £423
25th Percentile - £423 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £499 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.80% -9.32% +29.41%
75th Percentile £467 £578 £575
90th Percentile £483 £584 £597
UK median daily rate £475 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -10.80% +1.43% +10.53%

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 2,117 2,724 3,382
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 95.18% 96.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 1,950 2,398
10th Percentile £202 £243 £211
25th Percentile £375 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year - +3.83% +7.65%
75th Percentile £588 £551 £549
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 114 46 55
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.94 £12.35
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.34 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.82
Median % change year-on-year +43.44% -10.21% -35.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.17 £47.98
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.09
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in Scotland

UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for UX Designer in Scotland

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 UX Designer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 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
Glasgow +19 12 £400 -10.61%
Edinburgh +40 10 £465 -15.45% 1
UX Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 Scotland region featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) UX Design
1 22 (100.00%) User Experience
2 14 (63.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 13 (59.09%) Product Ownership
4 12 (54.55%) Figma
5 10 (45.45%) Apple iOS
5 10 (45.45%) Android
6 9 (40.91%) Visualisation
6 9 (40.91%) User Stories
6 9 (40.91%) Prototyping
6 9 (40.91%) Sketch
7 8 (36.36%) Accessibility
7 8 (36.36%) User Research
7 8 (36.36%) Wireframes
7 8 (36.36%) React
7 8 (36.36%) MongoDB
7 8 (36.36%) Azure
7 8 (36.36%) Agile
7 8 (36.36%) Python
8 7 (31.82%) Public Sector
9 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
9 6 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (27.27%) Storyboarding
9 6 (27.27%) Information Architecture
9 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (22.73%) Product Management
10 5 (22.73%) Workshop Facilitation
10 5 (22.73%) Co-Creation
10 5 (22.73%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
11 4 (18.18%) Service Design

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:

Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) Figma
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
General
1 7 (31.82%) Public Sector
2 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) React
2 1 (4.55%) COM+
Miscellaneous
1 13 (59.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Android
1 10 (45.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) User Experience
1 22 (100.00%) UX Design
2 14 (63.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 9 (40.91%) Prototyping
3 9 (40.91%) User Stories
3 9 (40.91%) Visualisation
4 8 (36.36%) Agile
4 8 (36.36%) User Research
4 8 (36.36%) Wireframes
5 6 (27.27%) Information Architecture
5 6 (27.27%) Storyboarding
6 5 (22.73%) Co-Creation
6 5 (22.73%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
6 5 (22.73%) Product Management
6 5 (22.73%) Workshop Facilitation
7 4 (18.18%) Service Design
8 2 (9.09%) B2B
8 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
8 2 (9.09%) Mobile First
9 1 (4.55%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (9.09%) WCAG