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 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 389 305
Rank change year-on-year -49 -84 -29
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 160 366 802
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.61% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.65% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 269 594
10th Percentile £353 £381 £400
25th Percentile £400 £428 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £599
90th Percentile £588 £750 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £422 £444 £488
% change year-on-year -5.01% -8.97% +21.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £47.45
25th Percentile £71.25 - £49.25
Median hourly rate £72.50 £45.00 £55.73
Median % change year-on-year +61.11% -19.26% +48.62%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £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 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
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 £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

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 27 April 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 14 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 27 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 -39 130 £506 -4.93% 55
London -24 96 £525 -10.87% 26
UK excluding London +44 53 £422 -5.01% 29
Work from Home +3 53 £506 -7.95% 28
Scotland +49 22 £400 -19.80% 1
South East +33 13 £400 -3.03% 3
North of England +3 8 £463 +1.65% 12
Midlands +22 5 £418 +52.00% 9
Yorkshire -4 5 £463 -0.54% 1
East Midlands +20 3 £418 +52.00% 1
North West +11 3 - - 9
South West +11 3 £425 -5.56% 2
West Midlands +27 2 £444 +18.33% 8
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 -

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 160 (100.00%) User Experience
2 156 (97.50%) UX Design
3 89 (55.63%) Figma
4 67 (41.88%) Social Skills
5 53 (33.13%) User Research
6 52 (32.50%) Wireframes
7 47 (29.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 47 (29.38%) Agile
8 43 (26.88%) Sketch
9 33 (20.63%) Adobe
10 32 (20.00%) Accessibility
11 27 (16.88%) Finance
11 27 (16.88%) Mobile App
12 26 (16.25%) Usability Testing
12 26 (16.25%) Product Ownership
13 25 (15.63%) Prototyping
14 22 (13.75%) Adobe XD
15 20 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (11.25%) UX Research
16 18 (11.25%) Marketing
17 17 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
17 17 (10.63%) Workshop Facilitation
18 16 (10.00%) Visualisation
18 16 (10.00%) HTML
19 15 (9.38%) E-Commerce
19 15 (9.38%) Interaction Design
19 15 (9.38%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
20 14 (8.75%) Storyboarding
20 14 (8.75%) Degree
20 14 (8.75%) Axure RP

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 (0.63%) CMS
1 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 43 (26.88%) Sketch
2 22 (13.75%) Adobe XD
3 11 (6.88%) InVision
4 8 (5.00%) Photoshop
5 6 (3.75%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (3.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (1.88%) InDesign
8 1 (0.63%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 89 (55.63%) Figma
2 13 (8.13%) Azure
3 7 (4.38%) Miro
4 5 (3.13%) SaaS
5 4 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.88%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.63%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.63%) Pendo
7 1 (0.63%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.88%) Big Data
2 3 (1.88%) Power BI
3 2 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (8.75%) Axure RP
2 1 (0.63%) JIRA
General
1 67 (41.88%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.88%) Finance
3 18 (11.25%) Marketing
4 17 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.88%) Banking
7 9 (5.63%) Games
8 8 (5.00%) Health Technology
9 7 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (3.13%) Advertising
10 5 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (3.13%) Retail
11 4 (2.50%) Front Office
11 4 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.88%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.25%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.25%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.00%) HTML
2 12 (7.50%) CSS
2 12 (7.50%) React
3 2 (1.25%) CSS3
4 1 (0.63%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.63%) COM+
4 1 (0.63%) Framer.js
4 1 (0.63%) Material Design
4 1 (0.63%) SAPUI5
4 1 (0.63%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.88%) Mobile App
2 26 (16.25%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (5.00%) Graphic Design
5 6 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.88%) Animation
7 3 (1.88%) Derivative
7 3 (1.88%) Digital Media
7 3 (1.88%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.25%) Mobile Games
8 2 (1.25%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.63%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.63%) Infotainment
9 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.63%) Virtual Reality
9 1 (0.63%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.13%) Android
1 13 (8.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (100.00%) User Experience
2 156 (97.50%) UX Design
3 53 (33.13%) User Research
4 52 (32.50%) Wireframes
5 47 (29.38%) Agile
5 47 (29.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 26 (16.25%) Usability Testing
7 25 (15.63%) Prototyping
8 20 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (11.25%) UX Research
10 17 (10.63%) Workshop Facilitation
11 16 (10.00%) Visualisation
12 15 (9.38%) E-Commerce
12 15 (9.38%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
12 15 (9.38%) Interaction Design
13 14 (8.75%) Storyboarding
14 13 (8.13%) B2B
15 12 (7.50%) Service Design
15 12 (7.50%) User Stories
16 11 (6.88%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 11 (6.88%) JavaScript
1 11 (6.88%) Python
2 4 (2.50%) Java
3 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (8.75%) Degree
2 3 (1.88%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.25%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.75%) WCAG
3 2 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 33 (20.63%) Adobe
2 4 (2.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.88%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.25%) Apple
4 2 (1.25%) MicroStrategy
4 2 (1.25%) SAP
5 1 (0.63%) Virgin Media