UX Design Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

User Experience Design (UXD)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring UX Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 50 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing UX Design 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.78% 0.67% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.74% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £363 £304 -
25th Percentile £371 £306 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £310 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.97% - -
75th Percentile £376 £455 -
90th Percentile £379 £542 -
North West median daily rate £388 £383 £575
% change year-on-year +1.31% -33.48% +9.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 564 405 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.40% 89.80% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 242 238
10th Percentile £268 £303 £265
25th Percentile £350 £361 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% -2.65% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £550
90th Percentile £672 £651 £592
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 22 25
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £14.80
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.51 £17.14
Median hourly rate £22.85 £24.18 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +2.41% +48.40%
75th Percentile £40.75 £33.75 £35.75
90th Percentile £72.75 £85.15 £42.25
North West median hourly rate £40.00 £30.20 £37.75
% change year-on-year +32.45% -20.00% +42.29%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in Cheshire

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing UX Design

UX Design
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Knutsford -22 3 £375 +21.95% 2
UX Design
North West

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (20.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) Gradle
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) Xcode
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) iOS Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Designer
3 1 (20.00%) React Developer
3 1 (20.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) CSS3
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) MobX
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Redux
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Android
1 3 (60.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) User Experience
2 4 (80.00%) Front End Development
3 3 (60.00%) BDD
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (60.00%) Mobile Development
3 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (40.00%) iOS Development
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
5 1 (20.00%) Interaction Design
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) Storyboarding
5 1 (20.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) C
2 3 (60.00%) C++
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Kotlin
2 3 (60.00%) Objective-C
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Ruby
2 3 (60.00%) Scala
2 3 (60.00%) Swift
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe