The first table below looks at the demand for the User Experience Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited User Experience Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the South East region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Experience (UX) Designer
Rank 218 234 246
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +12
Contract jobs requiring a User Experience Designer 5 13 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.064% 0.128% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.138% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
Average daily rate £325 £306 £210
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.12% +45.83%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £331 £308
% change year-on-year
-1.88% +7.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £62.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £62.00
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7243 9396 9678
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.69% 92.50% 92.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3591 4212 4167
Average daily rate £350 £350 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 721 805
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% -9.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.03 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
User Experience Designer
England

User Experience Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing User Experience Designer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East User Experience Designer Jobs Demand Trend

User Experience Designer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing User Experience Designer across the South East region.

South East User Experience Designer Daily Rate Trend

User Experience Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing User Experience Designer across the South East region.

South East User Experience Designer Hourly Rate Trend

User Experience Designer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Experience Designer within the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Berkshire +14 2 £260 -
Surrey +21 1 £325 +18.18%
East Sussex - 1 £350 -
User Experience Designer
England

User Experience Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited User Experience Designer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with User Experience Designer in their job title.

1 6 (54.55%) HTML
2 5 (45.45%) Information Architecture
3 4 (36.36%) Photoshop
3 4 (36.36%) CSS
3 4 (36.36%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (27.27%) Adobe
4 3 (27.27%) C#
4 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 3 (27.27%) Ergonomics
5 2 (18.18%) Axure RP
5 2 (18.18%) HTML5
5 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
5 2 (18.18%) jQuery
5 2 (18.18%) InDesign
5 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (18.18%) Retail
6 1 (9.091%) Ruby
6 1 (9.091%) Ajax
6 1 (9.091%) Google
6 1 (9.091%) Taxonomies
6 1 (9.091%) Degree
6 1 (9.091%) Usability Testing
6 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
6 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
6 1 (9.091%) Android
6 1 (9.091%) Market Research
6 1 (9.091%) MVC
6 1 (9.091%) Finance
6 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (9.091%) ADO.NET

User Experience Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited User Experience Designer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with User Experience Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (54.55%) HTML
2 4 (36.36%) CSS
3 2 (18.18%) jQuery
3 2 (18.18%) HTML5
4 1 (9.091%) Ajax
4 1 (9.091%) WCF
4 1 (9.091%) .NET
4 1 (9.091%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Photoshop
1 4 (36.36%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (18.18%) InDesign
3 1 (9.091%) OmniGraffle
3 1 (9.091%) MS Visio
3 1 (9.091%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Axure RP
General
1 2 (18.18%) Retail
2 1 (9.091%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Ergonomics
2 1 (9.091%) Blackberry
2 1 (9.091%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Android
1 1 (9.091%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Information Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (9.091%) Usability Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Market Research
3 1 (9.091%) Analytics
3 1 (9.091%) B2B
3 1 (9.091%) B2C
3 1 (9.091%) MVC
3 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) C#
1 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.091%) PHP
2 1 (9.091%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Degree
1 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Adobe
2 1 (9.091%) Google
2 1 (9.091%) Facebook