UX Design Contracts with Work from Home Options

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 169 144 108
Rank change year-on-year -25 -36 -8
Contract jobs citing UX Design 190 449 1,055
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.25% 1.76% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.96% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 342 787
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +7.84% +13.33%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £586
90th Percentile - £688 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - £40.10 £20.25
25th Percentile £77.50 £43.25 £33.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £45.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% -18.92% +33.73%
75th Percentile £82.50 £46.13 £61.19
90th Percentile - £48.15 £69.34
UK median hourly rate £41.68 £47.50 £54.63
% change year-on-year -12.26% -13.04% +47.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,319 22,924 40,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,917 16,193 29,494
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 527 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.67 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

UX Design
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

UX Design trend for jobs with a WFH option

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing UX Design.

UX Design daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing UX Design over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

UX Design daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing UX Design.

UX Design hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

UX Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (2.63%) CMS
1 5 (2.63%) Confluence
2 3 (1.58%) Apache
3 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (4.21%) Sketch
2 6 (3.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (1.58%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.05%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.53%) InVision
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.53%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 37 (19.47%) AWS
2 31 (16.32%) Figma
3 20 (10.53%) Azure
4 9 (4.74%) Miro
5 6 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.63%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.11%) Azure AKS
7 4 (2.11%) GCP
8 2 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) Asana
8 2 (1.05%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.05%) Firebase
8 2 (1.05%) npm
8 2 (1.05%) SaaS
8 2 (1.05%) Yarn
9 1 (0.53%) Commercetools
9 1 (0.53%) GitHub
9 1 (0.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.53%) Internet
1 1 (0.53%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.79%) Apache Cassandra
2 13 (6.84%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.74%) MySQL
4 5 (2.63%) Power BI
5 3 (1.58%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.53%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.53%) Big Data
7 1 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.53%) HBase
7 1 (0.53%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.53%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (5.26%) Git
2 7 (3.68%) JIRA
3 4 (2.11%) webpack
4 3 (1.58%) Axure RP
4 3 (1.58%) Babel
4 3 (1.58%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.05%) Android Studio
5 2 (1.05%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.53%) Ant
6 1 (0.53%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.53%) Gradle
6 1 (0.53%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) Subversion
6 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.53%) TestNG
General
1 48 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.58%) Finance
3 16 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.42%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.68%) Banking
4 7 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (3.16%) Marketing
6 5 (2.63%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.63%) Front Office
6 5 (2.63%) Retail
7 3 (1.58%) Games
7 3 (1.58%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.05%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.53%) Advertising
9 1 (0.53%) Law
9 1 (0.53%) Legal
9 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (33.68%) Designer
2 48 (25.26%) Developer
3 47 (24.74%) UX Designer
4 41 (21.58%) Senior
5 30 (15.79%) Software Engineer
6 17 (8.95%) Senior Software Engineer
6 17 (8.95%) UI Designer
7 16 (8.42%) UI/UX Designer
8 15 (7.89%) React Developer
9 14 (7.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 13 (6.84%) .NET Developer
11 12 (6.32%) Senior Designer
12 11 (5.79%) Senior UX Designer
13 10 (5.26%) Full Stack Developer
14 9 (4.74%) Senior Developer
15 7 (3.68%) Product Designer
15 7 (3.68%) UI Developer
15 7 (3.68%) UX Engineer
16 6 (3.16%) Content Designer
16 6 (3.16%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (21.58%) React
2 34 (17.89%) HTML
3 33 (17.37%) CSS
4 31 (16.32%) Kafka
5 20 (10.53%) .NET
6 19 (10.00%) AngularJS
6 19 (10.00%) RESTful
7 8 (4.21%) Vue
8 6 (3.16%) CSS3
8 6 (3.16%) jQuery
8 6 (3.16%) Node.js
9 5 (2.63%) HTML5
9 5 (2.63%) Redux
9 5 (2.63%) REST
9 5 (2.63%) SAML
10 4 (2.11%) Ajax
10 4 (2.11%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (2.11%) YAML
11 3 (1.58%) Next.js
11 3 (1.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.42%) Mobile App
2 13 (6.84%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.26%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.58%) Derivative
5 3 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.05%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.05%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.05%) Photography
6 2 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.53%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.53%) Life Science
7 1 (0.53%) Mobile Games
7 1 (0.53%) Online Games
7 1 (0.53%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.53%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.74%) Android
2 6 (3.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (100.00%) User Experience
2 78 (41.05%) Agile
3 66 (34.74%) User Research
4 48 (25.26%) UX Research
5 36 (18.95%) Software Engineering
6 33 (17.37%) Fintech
7 31 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (14.74%) Front End Development
9 27 (14.21%) Wireframes
10 20 (10.53%) Code Quality
11 18 (9.47%) Full Stack Development
12 17 (8.95%) Usability Testing
12 17 (8.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 14 (7.37%) DevOps
13 14 (7.37%) Scrum
14 12 (6.32%) Service Design
15 10 (5.26%) CI/CD
15 10 (5.26%) Microservices
15 10 (5.26%) Prototyping
15 10 (5.26%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 43 (22.63%) JavaScript
2 30 (15.79%) Go
3 14 (7.37%) TypeScript
4 13 (6.84%) C#
4 13 (6.84%) Java
5 9 (4.74%) Python
6 8 (4.21%) SQL
7 5 (2.63%) Bicep
7 5 (2.63%) PHP
8 3 (1.58%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.53%) Bash
9 1 (0.53%) Groovy
9 1 (0.53%) JSX
9 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (4.74%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.21%) Degree
3 7 (3.68%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.53%) ISEB
6 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.74%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.84%) QA
3 3 (1.58%) WCAG
4 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 1 (0.53%) HL7
System Software
1 34 (17.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) HDFS
2 1 (0.53%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 31 (16.32%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.58%) Terraform
4 1 (0.53%) Grafana
4 1 (0.53%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.53%) Oozie
Vendors
1 10 (5.26%) Adobe
2 6 (3.16%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.58%) Google
3 3 (1.58%) SAP
4 2 (1.05%) Databricks
5 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.53%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.53%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (0.53%) Okta
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle
5 1 (0.53%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.53%) TSYS