Senior UX Designer Contracts

Senior User Experience Designer
UK

The median Senior User Experience Designer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 669 700
Rank change year-on-year +115 +31 -94
Contract jobs requiring a Senior UX Designer 40 47 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.079% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.100% 0.083% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 29 110
10th Percentile £404 £459 £468
25th Percentile £459 £525 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile - £656 £619
90th Percentile - £750 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +6.28% -5.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

Senior UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior UX Designer in the UK

Senior UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior UX Designer in the UK

Senior UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior UX Designer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior UX Designer in the UK

Senior UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior UX Designer.

Hourly rate trend for Senior UX Designer in the UK

Senior UX Designer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior UX Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +109 36 £550 -12.00% 13
London +98 32 £550 -12.87% 8
Work from Home +121 12 £550 -12.00% 7
UK excluding London +68 7 £550 +6.28% 5
Scotland +36 3 £450 -21.74%
North of England +33 3 £550 +6.28%
North West +24 2 - -
Yorkshire +23 1 £550 +5.26%
South East - 1 £550 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior UX Designer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) UX Design
1 40 (100.00%) User Experience
2 17 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 17 (42.50%) Mobile App
3 15 (37.50%) Figma
4 9 (22.50%) E-Commerce
4 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (20.00%) Usability Testing
5 8 (20.00%) User Research
6 7 (17.50%) UX Research
6 7 (17.50%) Interaction Design
6 7 (17.50%) Digital Marketing
6 7 (17.50%) Marketing
6 7 (17.50%) Finance
7 6 (15.00%) Adobe
7 6 (15.00%) Degree
7 6 (15.00%) Service Design
8 5 (12.50%) Agile
8 5 (12.50%) Graphic Design
8 5 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 5 (12.50%) Miro
8 5 (12.50%) Health Technology
9 4 (10.00%) Accessibility
9 4 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (10.00%) Azure
9 4 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (10.00%) DevOps
10 3 (7.50%) Apple iOS

Senior UX Designer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (7.50%) InDesign
1 3 (7.50%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.50%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 15 (37.50%) Figma
2 5 (12.50%) Miro
3 4 (10.00%) Azure
3 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Axure RP
General
1 17 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Finance
2 7 (17.50%) Marketing
3 5 (12.50%) Health Technology
4 4 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (7.50%) Advertising
5 3 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Retail
6 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.50%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) COM+
Miscellaneous
1 17 (42.50%) Mobile App
2 5 (12.50%) Graphic Design
3 4 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (7.50%) Animation
4 3 (7.50%) Digital Media
5 2 (5.00%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.50%) Blog
6 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Android
1 3 (7.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) User Experience
1 40 (100.00%) UX Design
2 9 (22.50%) E-Commerce
2 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (20.00%) Usability Testing
3 8 (20.00%) User Research
4 7 (17.50%) Digital Marketing
4 7 (17.50%) Interaction Design
4 7 (17.50%) UX Research
5 6 (15.00%) Service Design
6 5 (12.50%) Agile
6 5 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 4 (10.00%) DevOps
7 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (7.50%) Mentoring
8 3 (7.50%) Prototyping
8 3 (7.50%) Typography
8 3 (7.50%) Web Design
8 3 (7.50%) Wireframes
8 3 (7.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) WCAG
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Adobe
2 2 (5.00%) Apple
3 1 (2.50%) Virgin Media