UI/UX Designer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

User Interface/User Experience Designer
Central London > City of London

The median User Interface/User Experience Designer daily rate in the City of London is £473, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 127 142
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 +47
Contract jobs requiring a UI/UX Designer 2 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.12% 0.095% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.10% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £439 £601 £328
25th Percentile £449 £603 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £613 £475
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +28.95% -7.77%
75th Percentile £489 £628 £513
90th Percentile £496 £634 £587
Central London median daily rate £473 £613 £475
% change year-on-year -22.86% +28.95% -7.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,625 1,985 2,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 94.17% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,087 1,252 1,970
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £424 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £17.25 £16.65
25th Percentile £23.75 £22.84 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.15 £48.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.35% +35.21% -13.41%
75th Percentile £56.75 £112.00 £44.87
90th Percentile £65.57 £137.50 £67.13
Central London median hourly rate £27.83 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.50% - -14.63%

UI/UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured UI/UX Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for UI/UX Designer in the City of London

UI/UX Designer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UI/UX Designer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UI/UX Designer job vacancies in the City of London

UI/UX Designer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 21 September 2025, UI/UX Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring UI/UX Designer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Wireframes
2 1 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe XD
2 1 (50.00%) Sketch
2 1 (50.00%) Figma
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) UX Research
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership

UI/UX Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (50.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
1 2 (100.00%) Wireframes
2 1 (50.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) UX Research
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe