UX Design Contracts in Birmingham

User Experience Design (UXD)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring UX Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UX Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 64 52
Rank change year-on-year +18 -12 +36
Contract jobs citing UX Design 4 3 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.77% 0.39% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.47% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 18
10th Percentile - £395 £248
25th Percentile £200 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £513 £475 £600
90th Percentile £558 £490 -
West Midlands median daily rate £405 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -19.00% +5.26% -9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

UX Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in Birmingham

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UX Design in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for UX Design in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (50.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Axure RP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Designer
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Designer
2 2 (50.00%) UX Designer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior
3 1 (25.00%) Junior Designer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior Digital Designer
3 1 (25.00%) Mid-Level Digital Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Animation
1 2 (50.00%) Motion Graphics
1 2 (50.00%) Photography
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (50.00%) Interaction Design
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Content Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Design Sprint
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Service Design
4 1 (25.00%) User Research
4 1 (25.00%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe