UX Design Contracts in Central London

User Experience Design (UXD)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 102 99 121
Rank change year-on-year -3 +22 -17
Contract jobs citing UX Design 27 34 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.35% 1.39% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.53% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 34
10th Percentile £155 £363 £416
25th Percentile £408 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £698 £628 £648
90th Percentile £738 £725 £723
London median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £28.06 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £30.30 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £34.12 -
Median % change year-on-year +39.22% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.02 -
90th Percentile - £40.31 -
London median hourly rate £70.29 £31.71 £53.75
% change year-on-year +121.67% -41.00% -6.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in Central London

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for UX Design in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UX Design in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +2 24 £600 +14.29% 17
Southwark - 3 £155 -
UX Design
London

UX Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (11.11%) CMS
1 3 (11.11%) Drupal
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Sketch
2 2 (7.41%) Adobe XD
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Figma
2 4 (14.81%) SaaS
3 3 (11.11%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) Azure
4 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (7.41%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) npm
4 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.41%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.41%) Mixpanel
2 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.41%) Power BI
2 2 (7.41%) Tableau
3 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.70%) Looker
3 1 (3.70%) Metadata
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (3.70%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Ant
1 2 (7.41%) Babel
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.41%) TeamCity
1 2 (7.41%) webpack
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 10 (37.04%) Finance
2 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 7 (25.93%) Banking
4 6 (22.22%) Retail
5 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 3 (11.11%) Retail Banking
6 2 (7.41%) Marketing
6 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.70%) Front Office
7 1 (3.70%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Designer
2 5 (18.52%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Lead
3 4 (14.81%) Product Designer
4 3 (11.11%) Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Content Designer
4 3 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Junior
4 3 (11.11%) Junior Content Designer
4 3 (11.11%) Junior Designer
4 3 (11.11%) React Developer
4 3 (11.11%) UX Designer
5 2 (7.41%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (7.41%) Lead Service Designer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Designer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Product Designer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior User Experience Researcher
5 2 (7.41%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) CSS
1 4 (14.81%) HTML
1 4 (14.81%) React
2 3 (11.11%) Redux
3 2 (7.41%) .NET
3 2 (7.41%) CSS3
3 2 (7.41%) HTML5
3 2 (7.41%) jQuery
3 2 (7.41%) Material-UI
3 2 (7.41%) RESTful
3 2 (7.41%) Semantic UI
3 2 (7.41%) Web Services
3 2 (7.41%) WPF
4 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.70%) Node.js
4 1 (3.70%) REST
4 1 (3.70%) SOAP
4 1 (3.70%) WebSockets
4 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Mobile App
2 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.70%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Android
1 2 (7.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) User Experience
2 11 (40.74%) Agile
3 10 (37.04%) User Research
4 8 (29.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 8 (29.63%) Wireframes
5 7 (25.93%) Product Strategy
6 6 (22.22%) Analytics
7 5 (18.52%) Journey Map
7 5 (18.52%) Usability Testing
7 5 (18.52%) Validation
8 4 (14.81%) B2B
8 4 (14.81%) Fintech
8 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (14.81%) Product Vision
8 4 (14.81%) Prototyping
8 4 (14.81%) Visualisation
9 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
9 3 (11.11%) User Stories
9 3 (11.11%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.41%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) PMI Certification
1 2 (7.41%) PMP
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.41%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.70%) PMO
3 1 (3.70%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Adobe
2 2 (7.41%) Optimizely
3 1 (3.70%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) GoldenSource
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) OutSystems
3 1 (3.70%) SAP