The first table below looks at the demand for the User Experience Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the 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 21 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Experience (UX) Designer
Rank - 115 -
Contract jobs requiring a User Experience Designer 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire - 0.044% -
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.046% -
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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1803 2164 1674
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 94.55% 94.75% 93.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1155 783
Average daily rate £320 £335 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.47% +3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £190 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £452 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 110 122
Average hourly rate £13.71 £13.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.55% -22.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £10.30 £7.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £30.00 £40.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
User Experience Designer
England

User Experience Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire User Experience Designer Daily Rate Trend

User Experience Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire User Experience Designer Hourly Rate Trend

User Experience Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (40.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Content Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Web Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Taxonomies
3 1 (20.00%) Graphic Design
3 1 (20.00%) Copywriting
3 1 (20.00%) WPF
3 1 (20.00%) Silverlight
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (20.00%) Apple
3 1 (20.00%) Benchmarking
3 1 (20.00%) SEO
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) OmniGraffle
3 1 (20.00%) Axure RP
3 1 (20.00%) CSS3
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics

User Experience Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) WPF
3 1 (20.00%) Silverlight
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) CSS3
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (20.00%) OmniGraffle
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Axure RP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Taxonomies
1 1 (20.00%) Graphic Design
1 1 (20.00%) Copywriting
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Content Management
1 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) Web Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (20.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (20.00%) SEO
1 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (20.00%) Customer Insight
1 1 (20.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Apple