Figma Contract Job Trends in England

Figma
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Figma skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 294 383
Rank change year-on-year -109 +89 +14
Contract jobs citing Figma 236 233 146
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.83% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% 2.19% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 165 94
10th Percentile £362 £325 £263
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% +4.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £548
90th Percentile £653 £600 £661
UK median daily rate £508 £468 £450
% change year-on-year +8.50% +3.94% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 2
10th Percentile £21.87 £33.15 £30.75
25th Percentile - £35.25 £31.21
Median hourly rate £33.99 £36.50 £32.21
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +13.33% -41.44%
75th Percentile - £47.25 £32.98
90th Percentile £46.71 £59.55 £33.32
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £36.50 £32.21
% change year-on-year -6.88% +13.33% -48.05%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Figma falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 16,037 10,617 11,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 38.00% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,689 7,193 7,615
10th Percentile £319 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 252 166
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.48 £33.54
% change year-on-year +13.31% -21.06% -4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Figma relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Figma job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Figma.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Figma

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Figma in England over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Figma in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Figma.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Figma

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Figma in England over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Figma in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Figma within the England region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
London -91 144 £550 +13.30% 369
South West -24 25 £475 -17.39% 24
Midlands -31 24 £450 -3.74% 17
West Midlands -28 23 £457 -17.00% 13
North of England -90 23 £440 +3.53% 29
Yorkshire -39 14 £470 -14.55% 6
North West -64 7 £388 -0.70% 20
South East -75 7 £310 -26.19% 34
East of England -34 4 £375 -3.23% 10
North East -41 2 £316 -39.76% 3
East Midlands -18 1 £425 -9.09% 4
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UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 23 (9.75%) Confluence
2 8 (3.39%) CMS
3 7 (2.97%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.27%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.85%) Drupal
6 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.42%) Camunda
6 1 (0.42%) Kentico
6 1 (0.42%) Mendix
6 1 (0.42%) nginx
6 1 (0.42%) Traefik
Applications
1 27 (11.44%) Photoshop
2 25 (10.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 25 (10.59%) Adobe Illustrator
3 21 (8.90%) Sketch
4 18 (7.63%) Adobe After Effects
5 15 (6.36%) Adobe XD
6 9 (3.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (3.39%) MS Visio
8 7 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
9 5 (2.12%) InDesign
10 3 (1.27%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.85%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.85%) InVision
11 2 (0.85%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.42%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.42%) Blender
12 1 (0.42%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Eloqua
1 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (8.05%) Miro
2 17 (7.20%) Azure
3 15 (6.36%) AWS
4 14 (5.93%) GitHub
5 9 (3.81%) SaaS
6 8 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.54%) GCP
7 6 (2.54%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.54%) Pendo
7 6 (2.54%) Slack
8 5 (2.12%) Anthropic Claude
8 5 (2.12%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.69%) Canva
9 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (1.69%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.27%) ChatGPT
10 3 (1.27%) Google Analytics
10 3 (1.27%) Lucidchart
10 3 (1.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) Broadband
2 1 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.12%) Power BI
2 4 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.27%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.85%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.85%) Tableau
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.42%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 24 (10.17%) JIRA
2 17 (7.20%) Git
3 13 (5.51%) Cypress.io
3 13 (5.51%) Storybook
4 8 (3.39%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.85%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.85%) Postman
6 1 (0.42%) GitLab
6 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 74 (31.36%) Social Skills
2 47 (19.92%) Finance
3 45 (19.07%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.47%) Marketing
4 20 (8.47%) Retail
5 15 (6.36%) Banking
6 14 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.93%) Automotive
7 10 (4.24%) Publishing
8 8 (3.39%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.97%) Games
10 5 (2.12%) Military
10 5 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.27%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.27%) Multimedia
12 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 153 (64.83%) Designer
2 44 (18.64%) UI Designer
3 43 (18.22%) Senior
4 41 (17.37%) UX Designer
5 33 (13.98%) Senior Designer
6 25 (10.59%) Developer
7 19 (8.05%) Service Designer
8 17 (7.20%) Product Designer
9 16 (6.78%) Lead
10 15 (6.36%) Senior UI Designer
11 14 (5.93%) Interaction Designer
12 13 (5.51%) Content Designer
13 12 (5.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 12 (5.08%) Junior
13 12 (5.08%) Junior Designer
13 12 (5.08%) UI/UX Designer
14 11 (4.66%) Digital Designer
15 10 (4.24%) Lead Designer
16 9 (3.81%) User Researcher
17 7 (2.97%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (17.37%) React
2 34 (14.41%) CSS
3 31 (13.14%) HTML
4 24 (10.17%) REST
5 14 (5.93%) Playwright
6 12 (5.08%) CSS3
6 12 (5.08%) HTML5
7 11 (4.66%) OAuth
7 11 (4.66%) OAuth2
8 10 (4.24%) Node.js
9 9 (3.81%) Express.js
10 8 (3.39%) Material-UI
10 8 (3.39%) RESTful
11 7 (2.97%) Jest
11 7 (2.97%) Kafka
11 7 (2.97%) OpenAPI
11 7 (2.97%) Swagger
12 6 (2.54%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.54%) JWT
12 6 (2.54%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.02%) Mobile App
2 20 (8.47%) Product Ownership
3 18 (7.63%) Graphic Design
4 16 (6.78%) Animation
5 13 (5.51%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.81%) Social Media
7 6 (2.54%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.12%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.12%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.69%) Life Science
9 4 (1.69%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.27%) FMCG
10 3 (1.27%) Video Editing
11 2 (0.85%) Genomics
11 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.85%) NHS
11 2 (0.85%) Web Conferencing
12 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.42%) Midjourney
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.27%) Android
2 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.42%) Linux
3 1 (0.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (62.71%) User Experience
2 107 (45.34%) Agile
3 98 (41.53%) UX Design
4 71 (30.08%) Wireframes
5 58 (24.58%) AI
6 57 (24.15%) User Research
7 52 (22.03%) Prototyping
8 48 (20.34%) Interaction Design
9 46 (19.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 46 (19.49%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 41 (17.37%) Service Design
11 39 (16.53%) Journey Map
12 38 (16.10%) Workshop Facilitation
13 36 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (14.41%) Usability Testing
15 29 (12.29%) Design Patterns
15 29 (12.29%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
15 29 (12.29%) Inclusive Design
16 27 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
17 26 (11.02%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 35 (14.83%) JavaScript
2 31 (13.14%) TypeScript
3 9 (3.81%) Python
4 7 (2.97%) SQL
5 2 (0.85%) C#
5 2 (0.85%) Java
6 1 (0.42%) C++
6 1 (0.42%) Haskell
6 1 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (17.80%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.56%) Degree
3 29 (12.29%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.24%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.42%) CBAP
6 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (46.61%) Accessibility
2 40 (16.95%) WCAG
3 7 (2.97%) QA
4 3 (1.27%) GDPR
5 2 (0.85%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.42%) WAI
6 1 (0.42%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 11 (4.66%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (4.24%) Grafana
2 8 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.54%) Prometheus
3 6 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.69%) Argo
5 1 (0.42%) Istio
5 1 (0.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 61 (25.85%) Adobe
2 9 (3.81%) Google
3 7 (2.97%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.69%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.27%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.85%) Databricks
6 2 (0.85%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.42%) CODA
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle
7 1 (0.42%) Pardot
7 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.42%) TikTok
7 1 (0.42%) YouTube