UX Design Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

User Experience Design (UXD)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh 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 53 53 77
Rank change year-on-year 0 +24 +19
Contract jobs citing UX Design 11 16 7
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.87% 2.53% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 2.75% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 5
10th Percentile £403 £374 £355
25th Percentile £434 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £431 £475
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -9.21% -
75th Percentile £588 £448 £500
90th Percentile - £464 £534
Scotland median daily rate £475 £444 £415
% change year-on-year +7.04% +6.93% -12.63%

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 539 581 841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.67% 91.79% 92.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 308 502
10th Percentile £222 £229 £205
25th Percentile £406 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +3.33% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 26 10
10th Percentile £17.36 £17.32 £13.12
25th Percentile - £21.01 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +33.96% -14.33%
75th Percentile £35.75 £24.18 £31.97
90th Percentile £64.00 £26.28 £54.48
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in Edinburgh

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Adobe XD
1 1 (9.09%) InVision
1 1 (9.09%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Figma
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Axure RP
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Financial Institution
3 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Designer
2 5 (45.45%) Senior
3 4 (36.36%) UX Designer
4 2 (18.18%) Content Designer
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Content Designer
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Designer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Designer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior UX Designer
5 1 (9.09%) Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) CSS
1 2 (18.18%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) XML
2 1 (9.09%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) User Experience
2 6 (54.55%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (36.36%) User Research
5 3 (27.27%) Customer Experience
5 3 (27.27%) Service Design
5 3 (27.27%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (18.18%) Content Writing
6 2 (18.18%) Copywriting
6 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
6 2 (18.18%) Design Thinking
6 2 (18.18%) Project Management
6 2 (18.18%) Qualitative Research
6 2 (18.18%) Quantitative Research
6 2 (18.18%) Usability Testing
6 2 (18.18%) UX Research
7 1 (9.09%) Data Privacy
7 1 (9.09%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Adobe