UX Design Contracts in the West Midlands

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 105 134
Rank change year-on-year +4 +29 -47
Contract jobs citing UX Design 12 31 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.62% 1.32% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.48% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 33
10th Percentile £450 £253 £430
25th Percentile £469 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +20.00%
75th Percentile £611 £588 £575
90th Percentile - £600 £587
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,619 2,088 3,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.06% 88.62% 90.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 1,429 2,350
10th Percentile £275 £263 £271
25th Percentile £368 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +14.71%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 49 68
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.40 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.97
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £16.91
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% +9.39% +0.55%
75th Percentile £40.38 £27.13 £19.59
90th Percentile £58.00 £48.75 £20.96
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the West Midlands

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for UX Design in the West Midlands

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the West Midlands

UX Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in the West Midlands

UX Design
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
Warwickshire +7 5 £607 - 9
Birmingham -7 3 £450 -18.18% 8
Staffordshire +6 2 £488 +2.63% 6
Coventry +12 1 £500 -
UX Design
England

UX Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (8.33%) CMS
1 1 (8.33%) Jadu
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
1 5 (41.67%) Azure AKS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure App Service
1 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Angular Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Designer
4 2 (16.67%) Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) UX Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Flutter Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Interaction Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Service Architect
5 1 (8.33%) User Experience Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) .NET
1 5 (41.67%) AngularJS
1 5 (41.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) User Experience
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Critical Thinking
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (41.67%) Microservices
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) User Research
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Experience
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Journey Map
5 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 1 (8.33%) Interaction Design
5 1 (8.33%) Journey Map
5 1 (8.33%) Prototyping
5 1 (8.33%) Risk Register
5 1 (8.33%) Service Design
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 1 (8.33%) UX Research
5 1 (8.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Bicep
1 5 (41.67%) C#
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
1 5 (41.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) SAP