UX Developer Contracts

User Experience Developer
UK

The median User Experience Developer daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 705 807
Rank change year-on-year +142 +102 -240
Contract jobs requiring a UX Developer 23 17 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.028% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.030% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 18
10th Percentile £393 £384 £476
25th Percentile £413 £434 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -4.44% +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £684
90th Percentile £618 £765 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £475 £445
% change year-on-year -21.05% +6.74% +18.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £25.75 £73.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% -65.58% -
75th Percentile - £27.25 £80.50
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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

UX Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Developer in the UK

UX Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UX Developer in the UK

UX Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Developer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Developer in the UK

UX Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Developer in the UK

UX Developer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UX Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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 +125 17 £550 +2.33% 3
London +114 16 £575 -9.80% 1
Work from Home +125 9 £413 -13.16% 4
UK excluding London +67 1 £375 -21.05% 1
South East - 1 £375 -

UX Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, UX Developer 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 UX Developer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) User Experience
2 19 (82.61%) HTML
3 18 (78.26%) React
3 18 (78.26%) Front End Development
4 17 (73.91%) CSS
5 16 (69.57%) UX Design
6 13 (56.52%) JavaScript
7 9 (39.13%) Finance
8 8 (34.78%) Figma
9 7 (30.43%) Agile
9 7 (30.43%) HTML5
9 7 (30.43%) Web Development
10 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (26.09%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (21.74%) GitHub
11 5 (21.74%) Interaction Design
11 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
12 4 (17.39%) Analytics
12 4 (17.39%) Git
12 4 (17.39%) jQuery
12 4 (17.39%) Fixed Income
12 4 (17.39%) Java
12 4 (17.39%) Python
12 4 (17.39%) Accessibility
12 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
12 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
13 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
13 3 (13.04%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (13.04%) Azure Key Vault

UX Developer 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 2 (8.70%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Figma
2 5 (21.74%) GitHub
3 3 (13.04%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (13.04%) Serverless
4 2 (8.70%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
3 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket
3 2 (8.70%) GitLab
4 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) Postman
4 1 (4.35%) Selenium
4 1 (4.35%) webpack
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Front Office
5 2 (8.70%) Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Advertising
6 1 (4.35%) Automotive
6 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (82.61%) HTML
2 18 (78.26%) React
3 17 (73.91%) CSS
4 7 (30.43%) HTML5
5 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
5 4 (17.39%) jQuery
6 3 (13.04%) Next.js
6 3 (13.04%) SignalR
6 3 (13.04%) WebSockets
6 3 (13.04%) YAML
7 2 (8.70%) CSS3
7 2 (8.70%) React Native
7 2 (8.70%) Semantic HTML
8 1 (4.35%) Blazor
8 1 (4.35%) D3.js
8 1 (4.35%) PySpark
8 1 (4.35%) Redux
8 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
8 1 (4.35%) Vue
8 1 (4.35%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Fixed Income
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Derivative
2 3 (13.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (13.04%) Hedge funds
2 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.70%) Mobile App
3 2 (8.70%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Online Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (8.70%) Solar Panel
4 1 (4.35%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) User Experience
2 18 (78.26%) Front End Development
3 16 (69.57%) UX Design
4 7 (30.43%) Agile
4 7 (30.43%) Web Development
5 5 (21.74%) Interaction Design
5 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (17.39%) Analytics
6 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
7 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.04%) Kanban
7 3 (13.04%) OOP
7 3 (13.04%) Prototyping
7 3 (13.04%) Scrum
7 3 (13.04%) SDLC
7 3 (13.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 2 (8.70%) Continuous Deployment
8 2 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (8.70%) Microinteractions
8 2 (8.70%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) JavaScript
2 4 (17.39%) Java
2 4 (17.39%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.35%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Black Duck
2 2 (8.70%) Atlassian