UX Design Contracts in Edinburgh

User Experience Design (UXD)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring UX Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UX Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 57 99
Rank change year-on-year +1 +42 -2
Contract jobs citing UX Design 11 15 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.76% 1.84% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 2.08% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 8
10th Percentile £249 £325 £424
25th Percentile £364 £400 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £465 £513
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -9.27% +2.50%
75th Percentile £564 £488 £547
90th Percentile £572 £580 £579
Scotland median daily rate £413 £438 £433
% change year-on-year -5.71% +1.16% -13.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in Edinburgh

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UX Design in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for UX Design in Edinburgh

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in Edinburgh

UX Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (9.09%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Figma
2 4 (36.36%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Marketing
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Designer
2 5 (45.45%) UX Designer
3 3 (27.27%) Content Designer
3 3 (27.27%) Product Owner
3 3 (27.27%) UI Designer
3 3 (27.27%) UI/UX Designer
4 1 (9.09%) Service Designer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
2 3 (27.27%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) User Experience
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) B2B
3 3 (27.27%) Backlog Management
3 3 (27.27%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 3 (27.27%) Business Case
3 3 (27.27%) Customer Experience
3 3 (27.27%) Data Collection
3 3 (27.27%) Digital Customer Experience
3 3 (27.27%) Objectives and Key Results
3 3 (27.27%) Product Vision
4 2 (18.18%) Content Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Copywriting
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) User Research
5 1 (9.09%) Service Design
5 1 (9.09%) Usability Testing
5 1 (9.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Adobe