UX Design Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring UX Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 42 61
Rank change year-on-year -38 +19 0
Contract jobs citing UX Design 3 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.30% 1.57% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.81% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 2
10th Percentile £439 £332 £378
25th Percentile £479 £341 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £356 £409
Median % change year-on-year +53.09% -12.96% -13.89%
75th Percentile £638 - £432
90th Percentile £694 - £433
England median daily rate £476 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.90% -4.76% -4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 843 442 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.22% 86.67% 79.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 299 406
10th Percentile £198 £201 £185
25th Percentile £360 £325 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £417
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% +1.98% -7.39%
75th Percentile £543 £510 £538
90th Percentile £628 £588 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 20 64
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.86
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.97 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.19 £22.05 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% +24.46% +5.24%
75th Percentile £25.00 £26.00 £27.06
90th Percentile £26.81 £35.38 £51.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -10.48%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing UX Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing UX Design

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the East Midlands

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing UX Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing UX Design

UX Design
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 March 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire - 2 £633 - 1
Leicestershire - 1 £425 -
UX Design
England

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (33.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce Architect
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) CSS3
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Architecture Governance
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Product Vision
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Order Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Personalization
3 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud