UI/UX Designer Contracts

User Interface/User Experience Designer
UK

The median User Interface/User Experience Designer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 586 609
Rank change year-on-year +54 +23 -107
Contract jobs requiring a UI/UX Designer 52 110 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.20% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 76 192
10th Percentile £371 £281 £363
25th Percentile £402 £409 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £716 £578
90th Percentile £640 £838 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £422 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +20.43% -22.22% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.48
Median hourly rate - - £60.97
75th Percentile - - £61.45
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 39,482 54,195 83,684
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,839 58,825
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,507 2,030
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.21 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

UI/UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UI/UX Designer in the UK

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UI/UX Designer in the UK

UI/UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI/UX Designer over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UI/UX Designer in the UK

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UI/UX Designer in the UK

UI/UX Designer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UI/UX Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England +56 49 £513 -2.38% 22
London +44 30 £563 -2.00% 13
Work from Home +74 19 £513 +2.50% 11
UK excluding London +54 18 £422 +20.43% 9
South East +28 7 £400 +100.00% 1
North of England +22 3 - - 4
South West +12 3 £425 +6.25% 1
Scotland - 3 £463 -
Midlands +23 2 £418 +52.00% 3
East Midlands +19 2 £418 +52.00% 2
North West +14 2 - - 3
Yorkshire +12 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, UI/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 UI/UX Designer in the job title.

1 52 (100.00%) User Experience
2 48 (92.31%) UX Design
3 28 (53.85%) Figma
4 13 (25.00%) Wireframes
4 13 (25.00%) Adobe
4 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 12 (23.08%) HTML
5 12 (23.08%) Sketch
6 10 (19.23%) Finance
6 10 (19.23%) Agile
7 9 (17.31%) Marketing
8 8 (15.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (15.38%) CSS
8 8 (15.38%) Health Technology
8 8 (15.38%) User Research
9 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
9 7 (13.46%) Photoshop
10 6 (11.54%) Games
10 6 (11.54%) Adobe XD
10 6 (11.54%) Typography
10 6 (11.54%) Product Ownership
11 5 (9.62%) UX Research
11 5 (9.62%) React
11 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (9.62%) Project Delivery
11 5 (9.62%) Adobe Illustrator
11 5 (9.62%) B2B
11 5 (9.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (9.62%) Pharmaceutical

UI/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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (23.08%) Sketch
2 7 (13.46%) Photoshop
3 6 (11.54%) Adobe XD
4 5 (9.62%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (7.69%) InVision
6 3 (5.77%) InDesign
7 2 (3.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (1.92%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 28 (53.85%) Figma
2 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.92%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (1.92%) Miro
3 1 (1.92%) Pendo
3 1 (1.92%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Big Data
2 2 (3.85%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Axure RP
2 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.92%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.23%) Finance
3 9 (17.31%) Marketing
4 8 (15.38%) Health Technology
5 6 (11.54%) Games
6 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (9.62%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (7.69%) Advertising
8 3 (5.77%) Front Office
8 3 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (3.85%) Banking
9 2 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.92%) Publishing
10 1 (1.92%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) HTML
2 8 (15.38%) CSS
3 5 (9.62%) React
4 2 (3.85%) CSS3
5 1 (1.92%) Framer.js
5 1 (1.92%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (1.92%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (7.69%) Derivative
3 4 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.77%) Animation
4 3 (5.77%) Digital Media
4 3 (5.77%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.77%) Graphic Design
4 3 (5.77%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.85%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.85%) Virtual Reality
5 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.92%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.92%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Android
1 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) User Experience
2 48 (92.31%) UX Design
3 13 (25.00%) Wireframes
4 10 (19.23%) Agile
5 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (15.38%) User Research
5 8 (15.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 6 (11.54%) Typography
7 5 (9.62%) B2B
7 5 (9.62%) Project Delivery
7 5 (9.62%) UX Research
8 4 (7.69%) Analytics
8 4 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (7.69%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
8 4 (7.69%) Service Design
8 4 (7.69%) Web Design
8 4 (7.69%) Web Development
9 3 (5.77%) Digital Marketing
9 3 (5.77%) Iconography
9 3 (5.77%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.77%) Java
2 3 (5.77%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (5.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.92%) WCAG
Vendors
1 13 (25.00%) Adobe
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.85%) MicroStrategy
3 2 (3.85%) Salesforce