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 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 444 374 308
Rank change year-on-year -70 -66 -31
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 142 344 765
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.61% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.65% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 257 550
10th Percentile £373 £361 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +0.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £600
90th Percentile £595 £730 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £440 £475
% change year-on-year -3.41% -7.37% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £60.93
25th Percentile - - £61.61
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £62.98
Median % change year-on-year - -28.55% +79.05%
75th Percentile - - £64.11
90th Percentile - - £64.64
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 39,738 53,234 84,137
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,861 37,175 59,182
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% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,776 1,475 2,018
10th Percentile £12.81 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +87.50% +6.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £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%

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 28 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 28 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 -72 111 £513 -2.84% 59
London -40 79 £540 -6.49% 29
UK excluding London +10 54 £425 -3.41% 31
Work from Home -13 51 £488 -6.70% 21
Scotland +58 24 £413 -17.29% 4
South East +22 12 £464 +25.34% 6
North of England -2 8 £450 +0.56% 16
Midlands +18 5 £400 +23.08% 3
East Midlands +16 4 £409 +3.54% 1
Yorkshire -11 4 £488 +2.63% 2
North West +20 3 - - 14
South West -10 3 £425 -5.56% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 -
North East +10 1 £450 +11.11%
West Midlands +2 1 £388 +19.23% 2

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 142 (100.00%) User Experience
2 138 (97.18%) UX Design
3 73 (51.41%) Figma
4 53 (37.32%) Social Skills
5 45 (31.69%) Wireframes
6 41 (28.87%) User Research
6 41 (28.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 37 (26.06%) Sketch
8 35 (24.65%) Agile
9 28 (19.72%) Adobe
10 25 (17.61%) Accessibility
10 25 (17.61%) Prototyping
11 24 (16.90%) Product Ownership
12 22 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (14.79%) Finance
13 21 (14.79%) Usability Testing
14 20 (14.08%) HTML
15 19 (13.38%) Mobile App
16 18 (12.68%) Adobe XD
17 16 (11.27%) UX Research
17 16 (11.27%) Visualisation
18 15 (10.56%) Azure
18 15 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
18 15 (10.56%) React
18 15 (10.56%) User Stories
18 15 (10.56%) CSS
19 13 (9.15%) JavaScript
19 13 (9.15%) Python
19 13 (9.15%) B2B
19 13 (9.15%) Marketing

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:

Applications
1 37 (26.06%) Sketch
2 18 (12.68%) Adobe XD
3 9 (6.34%) InVision
4 8 (5.63%) Photoshop
5 6 (4.23%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (2.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (2.11%) InDesign
8 1 (0.70%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.70%) UXPin
8 1 (0.70%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 73 (51.41%) Figma
2 15 (10.56%) Azure
3 7 (4.93%) SaaS
4 6 (4.23%) Miro
5 5 (3.52%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.70%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.70%) Pendo
7 1 (0.70%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.04%) MongoDB
2 5 (3.52%) Power BI
3 3 (2.11%) Big Data
4 2 (1.41%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (6.34%) Axure RP
2 1 (0.70%) Balsamiq
2 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.70%) Git
General
1 53 (37.32%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.79%) Finance
3 15 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.15%) Marketing
5 9 (6.34%) Banking
5 9 (6.34%) Games
5 9 (6.34%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.63%) Health Technology
7 7 (4.93%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.52%) Advertising
8 5 (3.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.82%) Front Office
9 4 (2.82%) Retail
10 3 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.11%) Publishing
10 3 (2.11%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.08%) HTML
2 15 (10.56%) CSS
2 15 (10.56%) React
3 3 (2.11%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.11%) CSS3
4 2 (1.41%) Framer.js
4 2 (1.41%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (0.70%) COM+
5 1 (0.70%) HTML5
5 1 (0.70%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.70%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.90%) Product Ownership
2 19 (13.38%) Mobile App
3 9 (6.34%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.93%) Graphic Design
5 5 (3.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.82%) Derivative
6 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.11%) Animation
7 3 (2.11%) Digital Media
7 3 (2.11%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.41%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.41%) Mobile Games
8 2 (1.41%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.70%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.70%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.70%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.15%) Android
1 13 (9.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (100.00%) User Experience
2 138 (97.18%) UX Design
3 45 (31.69%) Wireframes
4 41 (28.87%) User Research
4 41 (28.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 35 (24.65%) Agile
6 25 (17.61%) Prototyping
7 22 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (14.79%) Usability Testing
9 16 (11.27%) UX Research
9 16 (11.27%) Visualisation
10 15 (10.56%) User Stories
11 13 (9.15%) B2B
11 13 (9.15%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
12 12 (8.45%) Workshop Facilitation
13 11 (7.75%) E-Commerce
14 10 (7.04%) Service Design
15 9 (6.34%) Analytics
15 9 (6.34%) Information Architecture
15 9 (6.34%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.15%) JavaScript
1 13 (9.15%) Python
2 4 (2.82%) Java
3 1 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (8.45%) Degree
2 4 (2.82%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.11%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (17.61%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.52%) WCAG
3 2 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 28 (19.72%) Adobe
2 6 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.11%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.41%) Apple
4 2 (1.41%) MicroStrategy
4 2 (1.41%) SAP
5 1 (0.70%) Virgin Media