Figma
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Figma skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Figma over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 449 468
Rank change year-on-year +63 +19 +90
Contract jobs citing Figma 218 285 440
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.48% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.29% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 192 339
10th Percentile £327 £351 £352
25th Percentile £400 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -2.44% +20.59%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £575
90th Percentile £600 £675 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £422 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -11.26% +5.56% +38.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £41.55 £38.00 £26.95
25th Percentile £46.50 £40.63 £46.94
Median hourly rate £56.00 £45.00 £60.25
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% -25.31% +83.41%
75th Percentile £65.50 £46.88 £66.88
90th Percentile £70.45 £48.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Figma is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Figma as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Figma in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Figma.

Daily rate trend for Figma in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Figma over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Figma in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Figma.

Hourly rate trend for Figma in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Figma over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Figma in the UK

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Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Figma within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +55 174 £500 - 129
London +39 130 £500 - 64
Work from Home +75 76 £513 +2.50% 70
UK excluding London +65 59 £422 -11.26% 66
Scotland +42 19 £425 -10.53% 3
South East +38 19 £500 +5.26% 6
North of England +24 14 £400 -5.88% 27
Yorkshire +16 9 £425 - 8
North West +11 5 £350 -31.71% 18
Midlands +16 3 £418 -12.00% 21
East Midlands +18 2 £418 +10.73% 10
Northern Ireland +9 2 £563 -
West Midlands +23 1 £400 -27.27% 11
South West +15 1 £325 -31.58% 3
East of England +15 1 £285 +3.64% 5

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (4.13%) Confluence
2 6 (2.75%) CMS
3 4 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.46%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.46%) Umbraco
Applications
1 80 (36.70%) Sketch
2 40 (18.35%) Adobe XD
3 25 (11.47%) InVision
4 19 (8.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 13 (5.96%) Photoshop
6 11 (5.05%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (2.75%) InDesign
7 6 (2.75%) Zeplin
8 5 (2.29%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.92%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.46%) Avocode
10 1 (0.46%) Blender
10 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.46%) Final Cut Pro
10 1 (0.46%) Houdini
10 1 (0.46%) Maya
10 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.46%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (8.72%) Azure
2 14 (6.42%) Miro
3 10 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.21%) SaaS
5 6 (2.75%) AWS
6 5 (2.29%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 4 (1.83%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.38%) BigCommerce
8 3 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.92%) GitHub
10 1 (0.46%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.46%) Basecamp
10 1 (0.46%) Datadog
10 1 (0.46%) npm
10 1 (0.46%) Pendo
10 1 (0.46%) Sentry
10 1 (0.46%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.92%) Internet
2 1 (0.46%) RTP
2 1 (0.46%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.67%) MongoDB
2 4 (1.83%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (1.83%) Power BI
3 3 (1.38%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.46%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (8.72%) Axure RP
2 10 (4.59%) JIRA
3 5 (2.29%) Git
4 4 (1.83%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.38%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.38%) Storybook
5 3 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.92%) Postman
6 2 (0.92%) Selenium
7 1 (0.46%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.46%) rollup.js
7 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 74 (33.94%) Social Skills
2 42 (19.27%) Finance
3 28 (12.84%) Marketing
4 16 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.42%) Banking
5 14 (6.42%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (5.96%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.05%) Retail
8 8 (3.67%) Legal
9 7 (3.21%) Games
10 6 (2.75%) Advertising
10 6 (2.75%) Automotive
11 4 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.83%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.92%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.46%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.46%) Front Office
13 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 153 (70.18%) Designer
2 89 (40.83%) UX Designer
3 31 (14.22%) UI Designer
4 29 (13.30%) Developer
5 28 (12.84%) Product Designer
5 28 (12.84%) UI/UX Designer
6 27 (12.39%) Senior
7 23 (10.55%) Senior Designer
8 15 (6.88%) Senior UX Designer
9 13 (5.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 12 (5.50%) Service Designer
11 10 (4.59%) Interaction Designer
11 10 (4.59%) Lead
12 8 (3.67%) UX Developer
13 7 (3.21%) React Developer
13 7 (3.21%) Senior Product Designer
14 6 (2.75%) Content Designer
14 6 (2.75%) Lead Designer
15 5 (2.29%) UI Specialist
15 5 (2.29%) UX Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (17.89%) CSS
2 36 (16.51%) HTML
3 24 (11.01%) React
4 8 (3.67%) React Native
5 6 (2.75%) AngularJS
5 6 (2.75%) CSS3
5 6 (2.75%) Jest
5 6 (2.75%) Vue
6 5 (2.29%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.29%) Node.js
7 4 (1.83%) .NET
7 4 (1.83%) jQuery
7 4 (1.83%) Redux
7 4 (1.83%) REST
7 4 (1.83%) Sass
8 3 (1.38%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.38%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (1.38%) Flutter
8 3 (1.38%) Framer.js
8 3 (1.38%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.30%) Product Ownership
2 24 (11.01%) Mobile App
3 12 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (5.05%) Graphic Design
5 7 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.38%) Animation
7 3 (1.38%) Augmented Reality
7 3 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.38%) Social Media
7 3 (1.38%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.92%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (0.92%) Online Banking
8 2 (0.92%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.46%) Biopharmaceutical
9 1 (0.46%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.46%) Infotainment
9 1 (0.46%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.17%) Android
1 20 (9.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (73.39%) User Experience
2 121 (55.50%) UX Design
3 69 (31.65%) User Research
4 62 (28.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 58 (26.61%) Wireframes
6 53 (24.31%) Agile
7 52 (23.85%) Prototyping
8 43 (19.72%) Usability Testing
9 34 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (15.14%) Interaction Design
11 28 (12.84%) UX Research
12 24 (11.01%) Design Thinking
13 23 (10.55%) Workshop Facilitation
14 21 (9.63%) Service Design
14 21 (9.63%) User Stories
15 20 (9.17%) Journey Map
15 20 (9.17%) Visualisation
16 19 (8.72%) Analytics
17 18 (8.26%) Front End Development
18 17 (7.80%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 25 (11.47%) JavaScript
2 9 (4.13%) Python
3 6 (2.75%) C#
3 6 (2.75%) TypeScript
4 3 (1.38%) Java
5 1 (0.46%) Bash
5 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (13.30%) Degree
2 9 (4.13%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.67%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.75%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (21.10%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.50%) WCAG
3 3 (1.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.83%) Terraform
2 1 (0.46%) Bugsnag
2 1 (0.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 68 (31.19%) Adobe
2 6 (2.75%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.83%) MicroStrategy
3 4 (1.83%) Salesforce
3 4 (1.83%) Xamarin
4 3 (1.38%) SAP
4 3 (1.38%) Sitecore
5 2 (0.92%) Apple
5 2 (0.92%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.46%) Foundry
6 1 (0.46%) Optimizely