UX Designer Contracts

User Experience Designer
UK

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 389 302
Rank change year-on-year -49 -87 -21
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 154 356 781
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.61% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.65% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 267 573
10th Percentile £370 £373 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +0.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £634 £600
90th Percentile £588 £743 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £440 £488
% change year-on-year -3.41% -9.74% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £51.27
25th Percentile - - £52.81
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £55.73
Median % change year-on-year - -19.26% +48.62%
75th Percentile - - £58.77
90th Percentile - - £60.38
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 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £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 2,673 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in the UK

UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UX Designer in the UK

UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Designer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Designer in the UK

UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Designer in the UK

UX Designer
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 UX Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 -57 124 £513 -2.38% 55
London -29 91 £525 -8.70% 25
UK excluding London +29 55 £425 -3.41% 35
Work from Home +1 51 £506 -2.17% 33
Scotland +61 24 £413 -17.29% 6
South East +32 13 £400 -3.03% 4
North of England -2 8 £450 -3.23% 15
Midlands +32 5 £418 +39.33% 7
Yorkshire -7 4 £488 +2.63% 1
East Midlands +26 3 £418 +52.00%
North West +11 3 - - 14
South West +2 3 £425 -2.86% 2
West Midlands +17 2 £444 +36.54% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 -
North East +11 1 £450 +11.11%

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, 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 UX Designer in the job title.

1 154 (100.00%) User Experience
2 150 (97.40%) UX Design
3 81 (52.60%) Figma
4 61 (39.61%) Social Skills
5 47 (30.52%) Wireframes
6 46 (29.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 46 (29.87%) User Research
7 43 (27.92%) Sketch
7 43 (27.92%) Agile
8 30 (19.48%) Adobe
9 29 (18.83%) Accessibility
10 26 (16.88%) Product Ownership
11 25 (16.23%) Prototyping
11 25 (16.23%) Finance
12 24 (15.58%) Usability Testing
13 22 (14.29%) Mobile App
14 20 (12.99%) Adobe XD
14 20 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (11.04%) UX Research
15 17 (11.04%) Visualisation
15 17 (11.04%) Marketing
16 16 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
17 15 (9.74%) Azure
17 15 (9.74%) HTML
17 15 (9.74%) Workshop Facilitation
18 14 (9.09%) React
18 14 (9.09%) User Stories
19 13 (8.44%) Apple iOS
19 13 (8.44%) Android
19 13 (8.44%) Python

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 (0.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 43 (27.92%) Sketch
2 20 (12.99%) Adobe XD
3 11 (7.14%) InVision
4 8 (5.19%) Photoshop
5 6 (3.90%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (2.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (1.95%) InDesign
8 1 (0.65%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 81 (52.60%) Figma
2 15 (9.74%) Azure
3 7 (4.55%) SaaS
4 6 (3.90%) Miro
5 4 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.60%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.65%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (0.65%) Pendo
6 1 (0.65%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.49%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.60%) Power BI
3 3 (1.95%) Big Data
4 2 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (7.79%) Axure RP
2 1 (0.65%) JIRA
General
1 61 (39.61%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.23%) Finance
3 17 (11.04%) Marketing
4 16 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.79%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.49%) Banking
6 10 (6.49%) Games
7 8 (5.19%) Health Technology
8 7 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.25%) Advertising
9 5 (3.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (3.25%) Retail
10 4 (2.60%) Front Office
11 3 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.95%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.30%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.30%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.74%) HTML
2 14 (9.09%) React
3 11 (7.14%) CSS
4 2 (1.30%) CSS3
4 2 (1.30%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (0.65%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.65%) COM+
5 1 (0.65%) Framer.js
5 1 (0.65%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.88%) Product Ownership
2 22 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 9 (5.84%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (5.19%) Graphic Design
5 5 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.95%) Animation
7 3 (1.95%) Derivative
7 3 (1.95%) Digital Media
7 3 (1.95%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.30%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.30%) Mobile Games
8 2 (1.30%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (1.30%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.65%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.65%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.44%) Android
1 13 (8.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (100.00%) User Experience
2 150 (97.40%) UX Design
3 47 (30.52%) Wireframes
4 46 (29.87%) User Research
4 46 (29.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 43 (27.92%) Agile
6 25 (16.23%) Prototyping
7 24 (15.58%) Usability Testing
8 20 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (11.04%) UX Research
9 17 (11.04%) Visualisation
10 15 (9.74%) Workshop Facilitation
11 14 (9.09%) User Stories
12 13 (8.44%) E-Commerce
12 13 (8.44%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
12 13 (8.44%) Storyboarding
13 12 (7.79%) B2B
13 12 (7.79%) Interaction Design
14 11 (7.14%) Service Design
15 10 (6.49%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.44%) Python
2 10 (6.49%) JavaScript
3 4 (2.60%) Java
4 1 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (8.44%) Degree
2 4 (2.60%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.95%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.30%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.65%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (18.83%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.90%) WCAG
3 2 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 30 (19.48%) Adobe
2 5 (3.25%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.95%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.30%) Apple
4 2 (1.30%) MicroStrategy
4 2 (1.30%) SAP
5 1 (0.65%) Virgin Media