UX Design Contract Job Trends in Central London

User Experience Design (UXD)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring UX Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 94 113
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 +30
Contract jobs citing UX Design 32 40 33
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.59% 1.71% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 1.86% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 19
10th Percentile £432 £472 £410
25th Percentile £459 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £573 £648 £700
90th Percentile £675 £765 £780
London median daily rate £485 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.62% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate £34.48 - £72.50
75th Percentile £45.62 - £73.75
90th Percentile £52.30 - -
London median hourly rate £49.50 £42.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.79% -25.65% +5.50%

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 1,821 2,153 2,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.69% 92.09% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,271 1,350 1,738
10th Percentile £343 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £467 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
London median daily rate £526 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.45% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 27 16
10th Percentile £19.98 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.54 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.19% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £35.88 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £50.63 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £31.00 £36.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -13.90% +5.88% -11.39%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing UX Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

UX Design job vacancy trend in Central London

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing UX Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing UX Design

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Central London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in Central London

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing UX Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing UX Design

UX Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UX Design in Central London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for UX Design in Central London

UX Design
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 20 December 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 -18 28 £525 -4.55% 8
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 - -
UX Design
London

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) CMS
1 2 (6.25%) Confluence
1 2 (6.25%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (3.13%) Appian
2 1 (3.13%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (3.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Sketch
2 1 (3.13%) Adobe XD
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) Azure
1 6 (18.75%) Figma
2 5 (15.63%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) Firebase
3 3 (9.38%) GCP
3 3 (9.38%) Google Gemini
3 3 (9.38%) SaaS
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Run
4 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.25%) GitHub
4 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.25%) Vertex AI
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) ChatGPT
5 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Mixpanel
2 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) Snyk
2 2 (6.25%) Visual Website Optimizer
3 1 (3.13%) Ant
3 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.13%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) NUnit
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (3.13%) Selenium
3 1 (3.13%) SpecFlow
3 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.13%) Vite
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (31.25%) Finance
3 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.25%) Local Government
5 2 (6.25%) Marketing
5 2 (6.25%) Publishing
5 2 (6.25%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Designer
2 9 (28.13%) Developer
3 6 (18.75%) UX Designer
4 5 (15.63%) Senior
5 4 (12.50%) Service Designer
6 3 (9.38%) Content Designer
6 3 (9.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Designer
7 2 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Conversion Specialist
7 2 (6.25%) Digital Producer
7 2 (6.25%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (6.25%) React Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Service Designer
7 2 (6.25%) UX Service Designer
7 2 (6.25%) Web Producer
8 1 (3.13%) Lead
8 1 (3.13%) SailPoint Consultant
8 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Technical Leader
8 1 (3.13%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (37.50%) CSS
1 12 (37.50%) HTML
2 5 (15.63%) .NET
2 5 (15.63%) HTML5
2 5 (15.63%) React
3 4 (12.50%) Zustand
4 3 (9.38%) GraphQL
4 3 (9.38%) jQuery
4 3 (9.38%) JWT
4 3 (9.38%) Next.js
4 3 (9.38%) OAuth
4 3 (9.38%) OAuth2
4 3 (9.38%) Redux
4 3 (9.38%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (6.25%) CSS3
5 2 (6.25%) Playwright
5 2 (6.25%) REST
5 2 (6.25%) Spring
5 2 (6.25%) Vitest
5 2 (6.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 3 (9.38%) Low-Code
3 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.13%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.13%) Learning Management System
4 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.13%) SCORM
4 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Android
1 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) User Experience
2 16 (50.00%) Agile
3 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 5 (15.63%) Analytics
5 5 (15.63%) Microservices
5 5 (15.63%) Scrum
5 5 (15.63%) Service Design
6 4 (12.50%) AI
6 4 (12.50%) DevOps
6 4 (12.50%) E-Commerce
6 4 (12.50%) Journey Map
6 4 (12.50%) Prototyping
6 4 (12.50%) Storytelling
7 3 (9.38%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (9.38%) Customer-Centricity
7 3 (9.38%) Generative AI
7 3 (9.38%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (9.38%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 7 (21.88%) SQL
2 7 (21.88%) TypeScript
3 6 (18.75%) C#
4 4 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.13%) BeanShell
5 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.13%) Objective-C
5 1 (3.13%) Python
5 1 (3.13%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) Degree
2 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.25%) GDPR
2 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.25%) WCAG
3 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Grafana
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Google
2 3 (9.38%) OutSystems
3 2 (6.25%) Adobe
3 2 (6.25%) Amplitude
3 2 (6.25%) Hotjar
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) OpenAI
3 2 (6.25%) Optimizely
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) Sitecore
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow