UX Design Contract Job Trends in the City of London

User Experience Design (UXD)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 80 104
Rank change year-on-year -18 +24 +28
Contract jobs citing UX Design 28 39 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.54% 1.89% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 2.05% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 18
10th Percentile £433 £470 £409
25th Percentile £463 £512 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £662 £684
90th Percentile £675 £770 £783
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.25 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £72.50
75th Percentile £56.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +33.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,654 1,902 2,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.68% 92.06% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,167 1,163 1,618
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £424 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -1.71%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £758 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 11
10th Percentile £20.02 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +70.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £41.94 £102.25 £42.38
90th Percentile £54.95 £127.30 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.54 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.19% +37.25% -37.04%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in the City of London

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing UX Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing UX Design

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the City of London

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing UX Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing UX Design

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Appian
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (3.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Sketch
2 1 (3.57%) Adobe XD
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Figma
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 5 (17.86%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) Firebase
3 3 (10.71%) GCP
3 3 (10.71%) Google Gemini
3 3 (10.71%) SaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Run
4 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.14%) Vertex AI
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.57%) ChatGPT
5 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Mixpanel
2 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
1 2 (7.14%) Snyk
1 2 (7.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 1 (3.57%) Ant
2 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
2 1 (3.57%) Vite
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 10 (35.71%) Finance
3 6 (21.43%) Banking
4 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 2 (7.14%) Marketing
6 2 (7.14%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Designer
2 8 (28.57%) Developer
3 6 (21.43%) UX Designer
4 5 (17.86%) Senior
5 4 (14.29%) Service Designer
6 3 (10.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Designer
7 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Content Designer
7 2 (7.14%) Conversion Specialist
7 2 (7.14%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (7.14%) React Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Service Designer
7 2 (7.14%) UX Service Designer
8 1 (3.57%) Digital Learning Specialist
8 1 (3.57%) Lead
8 1 (3.57%) Mobile Architect
8 1 (3.57%) SailPoint Consultant
8 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Technical Leader
8 1 (3.57%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (39.29%) CSS
1 11 (39.29%) HTML
2 5 (17.86%) HTML5
2 5 (17.86%) React
3 4 (14.29%) .NET
3 4 (14.29%) Zustand
4 3 (10.71%) GraphQL
4 3 (10.71%) jQuery
4 3 (10.71%) JWT
4 3 (10.71%) Next.js
4 3 (10.71%) OAuth
4 3 (10.71%) OAuth2
4 3 (10.71%) Redux
4 3 (10.71%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (7.14%) CSS3
5 2 (7.14%) Playwright
5 2 (7.14%) REST
5 2 (7.14%) Spring
5 2 (7.14%) Vitest
5 2 (7.14%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.71%) Low-Code
3 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.57%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.57%) Learning Management System
4 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.57%) SCORM
4 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Android
1 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) User Experience
2 14 (50.00%) Agile
3 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
4 5 (17.86%) Analytics
4 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.86%) Microservices
4 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (17.86%) Service Design
5 4 (14.29%) AI
5 4 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 4 (14.29%) Journey Map
5 4 (14.29%) Scrum
5 4 (14.29%) Storytelling
6 3 (10.71%) Customer-Centricity
6 3 (10.71%) DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) Generative AI
6 3 (10.71%) Prototyping
6 3 (10.71%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (10.71%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) JavaScript
2 7 (25.00%) SQL
3 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 4 (14.29%) C#
4 4 (14.29%) Java
5 1 (3.57%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.57%) BeanShell
5 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.57%) Objective-C
5 1 (3.57%) Python
5 1 (3.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
2 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.14%) WCAG
3 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Grafana
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Google
2 3 (10.71%) OutSystems
3 2 (7.14%) Adobe
3 2 (7.14%) Amplitude
3 2 (7.14%) Hotjar
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) OpenAI
3 2 (7.14%) Optimizely
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow