UX Design Contracts

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 171 130
Rank change year-on-year -35 -41 -15
Contract jobs citing UX Design 490 872 1,801
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.50% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.67% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 606 1,318
10th Percentile £350 £384 £400
25th Percentile £411 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £611 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £716 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 14
10th Percentile £29.14 £36.43 £22.13
25th Percentile £34.16 £43.25 £40.75
Median hourly rate £41.68 £48.25 £56.38
Median % change year-on-year -13.63% -14.41% +52.36%
75th Percentile £72.33 £62.57 £64.69
90th Percentile £92.69 £74.53 £72.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £91.44 £59.59 £38.50
% change year-on-year +53.45% +54.77% +2.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UX Design over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for UX Design in the UK

UX Design
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 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 -52 398 £525 -4.55% 341
London -38 261 £525 -8.70% 158
Work from Home -21 191 £525 -4.55% 201
UK excluding London -20 136 £450 -5.26% 191
North of England -37 44 £450 -13.46% 79
Scotland +64 38 £425 - 21
North West 0 27 £426 -25.87% 55
South East +14 25 £475 +15.15% 26
Midlands +13 15 £500 +2.56% 34
West Midlands +4 12 £500 +5.26% 23
North East +11 9 £575 +14.43% 7
Yorkshire -20 8 £425 -10.53% 17
South West -1 6 £438 -2.78% 14
Northern Ireland - 6 £513 - 1
East Midlands +23 3 £418 -17.43% 11
Wales +14 1 £425 +21.43%
East of England -7 1 £500 - 17

UX Design
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 19 (3.88%) CMS
2 6 (1.22%) Apache
2 6 (1.22%) Confluence
3 5 (1.02%) WordPress
4 3 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.61%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.61%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.20%) Drupal
5 1 (0.20%) Jadu
Applications
1 55 (11.22%) Sketch
2 28 (5.71%) Adobe XD
3 18 (3.67%) InVision
4 11 (2.24%) Photoshop
5 10 (2.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 9 (1.84%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (1.02%) UserZoom
8 3 (0.61%) InDesign
8 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.20%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.20%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) WebTrends
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 109 (22.24%) Figma
2 59 (12.04%) AWS
3 56 (11.43%) Azure
4 14 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (2.86%) GitHub
5 13 (2.65%) GCP
6 11 (2.24%) Miro
6 11 (2.24%) Power Platform
6 11 (2.24%) SaaS
7 10 (2.04%) Azure AKS
8 7 (1.43%) Serverless
9 6 (1.22%) Azure App Service
10 5 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.82%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 3 (0.61%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (0.61%) npm
12 3 (0.61%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.82%) Internet
2 2 (0.41%) HTTP
2 2 (0.41%) Intranet
3 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (8.98%) Apache Cassandra
2 18 (3.67%) MongoDB
3 14 (2.86%) SQL Server
4 13 (2.65%) MySQL
5 11 (2.24%) Power BI
6 10 (2.04%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.22%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.82%) Big Data
10 3 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.41%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.41%) Looker
11 2 (0.41%) Tableau
12 1 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.20%) HBase
12 1 (0.20%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.20%) Metadata
12 1 (0.20%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 33 (6.73%) Git
2 15 (3.06%) JIRA
3 14 (2.86%) Axure RP
4 10 (2.04%) webpack
5 7 (1.43%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.22%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.02%) Gradle
8 4 (0.82%) Babel
8 4 (0.82%) Maven
8 4 (0.82%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.41%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.41%) Ant
9 2 (0.41%) Capybara
9 2 (0.41%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.41%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.20%) Selenium
10 1 (0.20%) Subversion
10 1 (0.20%) TestNG
General
1 138 (28.16%) Social Skills
2 65 (13.27%) Finance
3 41 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (7.76%) Public Sector
5 30 (6.12%) Banking
6 28 (5.71%) Marketing
7 15 (3.06%) Games
7 15 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.24%) Retail
8 11 (2.24%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.84%) Health Technology
10 8 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.43%) Front Office
11 7 (1.43%) Legal
11 7 (1.43%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.22%) Advertising
12 6 (1.22%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.22%) Local Government
13 5 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 208 (42.45%) Designer
2 149 (30.41%) UX Designer
3 112 (22.86%) Developer
4 105 (21.43%) Senior
5 54 (11.02%) UI Designer
6 51 (10.41%) Software Engineer
7 49 (10.00%) UI/UX Designer
8 42 (8.57%) Senior Designer
9 37 (7.55%) Senior UX Designer
10 36 (7.35%) Senior Software Engineer
11 32 (6.53%) React Developer
12 27 (5.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 19 (3.88%) Full Stack Developer
14 18 (3.67%) .NET Developer
14 18 (3.67%) Content Designer
14 18 (3.67%) Lead
14 18 (3.67%) Senior Developer
15 17 (3.47%) UX Developer
16 15 (3.06%) UI Developer
16 15 (3.06%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (17.96%) React
2 83 (16.94%) HTML
3 73 (14.90%) CSS
4 45 (9.18%) Kafka
5 43 (8.78%) AngularJS
6 36 (7.35%) .NET
6 36 (7.35%) RESTful
7 17 (3.47%) CSS3
8 16 (3.27%) HTML5
9 15 (3.06%) REST
10 14 (2.86%) Vue
11 13 (2.65%) Node.js
12 12 (2.45%) Redux
13 11 (2.24%) SAML
14 9 (1.84%) jQuery
14 9 (1.84%) Web Services
14 9 (1.84%) YAML
15 7 (1.43%) .NET Framework
15 7 (1.43%) Ajax
15 7 (1.43%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.43%) Product Ownership
2 44 (8.98%) Mobile App
3 12 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.04%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (1.63%) Graphic Design
6 8 (1.63%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (1.02%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.02%) Educational Technology
8 5 (1.02%) Mobile Banking
8 5 (1.02%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.82%) Animation
9 4 (0.82%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.82%) Derivative
9 4 (0.82%) Hedge funds
9 4 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.69%) Android
2 20 (4.08%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (100.00%) User Experience
2 193 (39.39%) Agile
3 136 (27.76%) User Research
4 94 (19.18%) UX Research
5 83 (16.94%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 77 (15.71%) Wireframes
7 68 (13.88%) Front End Development
8 67 (13.67%) Software Engineering
9 63 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (10.61%) Fintech
11 50 (10.20%) Prototyping
12 42 (8.57%) Service Design
13 41 (8.37%) Usability Testing
14 32 (6.53%) DevOps
14 32 (6.53%) Interaction Design
15 30 (6.12%) Full Stack Development
16 29 (5.92%) Customer Experience
17 28 (5.71%) E-Commerce
17 28 (5.71%) User Stories
18 27 (5.51%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 83 (16.94%) JavaScript
2 46 (9.39%) Go
3 31 (6.33%) C#
3 31 (6.33%) Python
3 31 (6.33%) TypeScript
4 28 (5.71%) SQL
5 26 (5.31%) Java
6 11 (2.24%) Bicep
7 6 (1.22%) PHP
8 4 (0.82%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.61%) Ruby
10 1 (0.20%) Bash
10 1 (0.20%) Dart
10 1 (0.20%) Groovy
10 1 (0.20%) JSX
10 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.20%) Swift
10 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (8.78%) Degree
2 26 (5.31%) Security Cleared
3 17 (3.47%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.82%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.41%) MBA
8 2 (0.41%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.20%) ISEB
9 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (15.51%) Accessibility
2 27 (5.51%) QA
3 13 (2.65%) WCAG
4 8 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.61%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.20%) GRC
7 1 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 50 (10.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) HDFS
2 1 (0.20%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 49 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.82%) Terraform
4 1 (0.20%) Grafana
4 1 (0.20%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.20%) Oozie
Vendors
1 51 (10.41%) Adobe
2 15 (3.06%) Google
3 12 (2.45%) Microsoft
4 8 (1.63%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.43%) SAP
6 5 (1.02%) MicroStrategy
7 4 (0.82%) Black Duck
7 4 (0.82%) Databricks
7 4 (0.82%) Virgin Media
8 3 (0.61%) Oracle
8 3 (0.61%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.41%) Apple
9 2 (0.41%) Maxymiser
9 2 (0.41%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.41%) Proofpoint
9 2 (0.41%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.20%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.20%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.20%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.20%) TSYS