UX Design Contracts in the UK excluding London

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 230 185
Rank change year-on-year -28 -45 -36
Contract jobs citing UX Design 133 244 435
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 1.02% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.14% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 168 334
10th Percentile £325 £321 £388
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £611 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £80.04 £50.66 -
25th Percentile £83.84 £53.90 £20.25
Median hourly rate £91.44 £59.59 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.45% +54.77% +2.67%
75th Percentile £97.78 £65.07 £56.16
90th Percentile £100.83 £68.19 £56.89
UK median hourly rate £41.68 £47.50 £54.63
% change year-on-year -12.26% -13.04% +47.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,415 21,396 27,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.54% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,848 19,199
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £689 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,314 1,359
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.17
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.63 £14.04
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.21
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the UK excluding London

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UX Design in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for UX Design in the UK excluding London

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the UK excluding London

UX Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UX Design in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in the UK excluding London

UX Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UX Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for UX Design in the UK excluding London

UX Design
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
North of England -30 45 £438 -14.43% 68
Scotland +52 34 £438 +2.94% 18
North West -8 26 £403 -30.00% 48
South East +18 25 £488 +14.76% 24
Midlands +9 15 £500 +2.56% 37
West Midlands +6 12 £500 +5.26% 23
Yorkshire -17 10 £425 -10.53% 13
North East +16 9 £575 +41.98% 7
South West +3 6 £438 -2.78% 24
Northern Ireland - 6 £513 - 1
East Midlands +22 3 £418 -17.43% 14
Wales +8 1 £425 +21.43%
East of England -5 1 £500 - 20
UX Design
UK

UX Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (2.26%) CMS
2 2 (1.50%) Confluence
2 2 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.75%) Jadu
Applications
1 17 (12.78%) Sketch
2 7 (5.26%) InVision
3 5 (3.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (3.76%) Adobe XD
4 4 (3.01%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (3.01%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.50%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.31%) Figma
2 16 (12.03%) Azure
3 6 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.76%) Azure AKS
4 5 (3.76%) Azure App Service
5 4 (3.01%) SaaS
6 3 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.26%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) AWS
7 1 (0.75%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.75%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.75%) Firebase
7 1 (0.75%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.75%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.75%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.75%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) Internet
2 1 (0.75%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.77%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.26%) Big Data
2 3 (2.26%) Power BI
3 2 (1.50%) MySQL
3 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.50%) Tableau
4 1 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.75%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Axure RP
1 5 (3.76%) Git
1 5 (3.76%) JIRA
2 3 (2.26%) Gradle
2 3 (2.26%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.26%) webpack
3 2 (1.50%) Android Studio
3 2 (1.50%) Capybara
3 2 (1.50%) Maven
4 1 (0.75%) Crashlytics
General
1 38 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 17 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.77%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (6.02%) Marketing
6 7 (5.26%) Banking
7 6 (4.51%) Finance
7 6 (4.51%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.26%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Games
9 2 (1.50%) Legal
10 1 (0.75%) Advertising
10 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.75%) Publishing
10 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (48.12%) Designer
2 50 (37.59%) UX Designer
3 27 (20.30%) Developer
4 18 (13.53%) UI Designer
5 16 (12.03%) UI/UX Designer
6 14 (10.53%) Senior
7 12 (9.02%) User Researcher
8 8 (6.02%) Analyst
8 8 (6.02%) Senior Designer
9 7 (5.26%) Architect
9 7 (5.26%) Interaction Designer
9 7 (5.26%) Senior UX Designer
10 6 (4.51%) Business Analyst
11 5 (3.76%) Angular Developer
11 5 (3.76%) Flutter Developer
11 5 (3.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 4 (3.01%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 4 (3.01%) Android Developer
12 4 (3.01%) Senior UI Designer
12 4 (3.01%) User Experience Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (15.04%) React
2 15 (11.28%) HTML
3 12 (9.02%) CSS
3 12 (9.02%) RESTful
4 9 (6.77%) AngularJS
5 7 (5.26%) .NET
6 6 (4.51%) Node.js
7 3 (2.26%) CSS3
7 3 (2.26%) HTML5
7 3 (2.26%) Redux
8 2 (1.50%) Android SDK
8 2 (1.50%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.50%) Web Services
8 2 (1.50%) WebKit
9 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.75%) COM+
9 1 (0.75%) DOM
9 1 (0.75%) jQuery
9 1 (0.75%) SAML
9 1 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.55%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.77%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.50%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.50%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.50%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.50%) Taxonomies
4 2 (1.50%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.75%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (0.75%) Graphic Design
5 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.28%) Android
2 12 (9.02%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (100.00%) User Experience
2 52 (39.10%) Agile
3 35 (26.32%) User Research
3 35 (26.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 31 (23.31%) Wireframes
5 23 (17.29%) UX Research
6 19 (14.29%) Service Design
7 18 (13.53%) Prototyping
8 17 (12.78%) Front End Development
9 14 (10.53%) Usability Testing
10 13 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (9.77%) User Stories
11 12 (9.02%) Mentoring
11 12 (9.02%) Visualisation
12 10 (7.52%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
12 10 (7.52%) Interaction Design
13 9 (6.77%) B2B
13 9 (6.77%) Data Science
13 9 (6.77%) DevOps
14 8 (6.02%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 12 (9.02%) Python
3 10 (7.52%) TypeScript
4 8 (6.02%) SQL
5 7 (5.26%) C#
6 6 (4.51%) Bicep
6 6 (4.51%) Java
7 3 (2.26%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.26%) Ruby
8 1 (0.75%) Bash
8 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (7.52%) Degree
2 7 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.01%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.26%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.50%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (18.80%) Accessibility
2 9 (6.77%) QA
3 7 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (5.26%) WCAG
4 3 (2.26%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.50%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.75%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.75%) Grafana
2 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (7.52%) Adobe
2 4 (3.01%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.26%) Databricks
3 3 (2.26%) SAP
4 2 (1.50%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.75%) Google
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.75%) Qualtrics
5 1 (0.75%) Red Hat