The first table below looks at the demand for the User Experience Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited User Experience Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the West Yorkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Experience (UX) Designer
Rank - 93 -
Contract jobs requiring a User Experience Designer 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire - 0.062% -
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.065% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £331 £308
% change year-on-year
-1.88% +7.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £62.00
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1203 1535 1053
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 94.80% 94.87% 93.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 849 480
Average daily rate £313 £338 £326
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £210 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 65 78
Average hourly rate £12.75 £12.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% +4.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.59 £10.30 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.50 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
User Experience Designer
Yorkshire

User Experience Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing User Experience Designer across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

West Yorkshire User Experience Designer Jobs Demand Trend

User Experience Designer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing User Experience Designer across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire User Experience Designer Daily Rate Trend

User Experience Designer
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited User Experience Designer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with User Experience Designer in their job title.

1 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Apple
2 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
2 1 (33.33%) SEO
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Graphic Design
2 1 (33.33%) Copywriting
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Insight

User Experience Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited User Experience Designer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with User Experience Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Photoshop
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Graphic Design
1 1 (33.33%) Copywriting
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
1 1 (33.33%) SEO
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Content Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Insight
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Apple