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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 301 393
Rank change year-on-year -115 +92 +10
Contract jobs citing Figma 229 233 144
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.84% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.44% 2.20% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 165 93
10th Percentile £363 £325 £265
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 £565 £575 £550
90th Percentile £648 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £469 £450
% change year-on-year +6.61% +4.22% -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% -48.47%
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% -48.26%

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 15,857 10,575 11,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.37% 38.12% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,574 7,170 7,575
10th Percentile £319 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £532
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.92% -3.27%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £643
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 246 162
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.38 £15.98
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £69.75 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.30 £33.54
% change year-on-year +14.07% -21.59% -3.61%

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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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -95 138 £532 +10.73% 327
South West -22 25 £475 -17.39% 23
Midlands -29 24 £450 -3.74% 17
West Midlands -28 23 £457 -17.00% 13
North of England -88 22 £440 +3.53% 32
Yorkshire -39 13 £470 -14.55% 9
South East -64 7 £310 -26.19% 21
North West -75 7 £388 -0.70% 20
East of England -20 4 £375 -9.09% 10
North East -40 2 £316 -39.76% 4
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 22 (9.61%) Confluence
2 8 (3.49%) CMS
3 7 (3.06%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.31%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.87%) Drupal
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.44%) Camunda
6 1 (0.44%) Kentico
6 1 (0.44%) Mendix
6 1 (0.44%) nginx
6 1 (0.44%) Traefik
Applications
1 27 (11.79%) Photoshop
2 25 (10.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 25 (10.92%) Adobe Illustrator
3 20 (8.73%) Sketch
4 18 (7.86%) Adobe After Effects
5 14 (6.11%) Adobe XD
6 8 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (3.49%) MS Visio
7 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
8 5 (2.18%) InDesign
9 3 (1.31%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.87%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.87%) InVision
10 2 (0.87%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.44%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.44%) Blender
11 1 (0.44%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Eloqua
1 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (8.30%) Miro
2 17 (7.42%) Azure
3 14 (6.11%) AWS
3 14 (6.11%) GitHub
4 9 (3.93%) SaaS
5 8 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.62%) GCP
6 6 (2.62%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.62%) Pendo
7 5 (2.18%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (2.18%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.18%) Slack
8 4 (1.75%) Canva
8 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (1.75%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.31%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.31%) Lucidchart
10 2 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) Broadband
2 1 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.18%) Power BI
2 3 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.31%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.87%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.87%) Tableau
4 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.44%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 22 (9.61%) JIRA
2 16 (6.99%) Git
3 13 (5.68%) Cypress.io
3 13 (5.68%) Storybook
4 8 (3.49%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.87%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.87%) Postman
6 1 (0.44%) GitLab
6 1 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 72 (31.44%) Social Skills
2 44 (19.21%) Finance
2 44 (19.21%) Public Sector
3 20 (8.73%) Marketing
3 20 (8.73%) Retail
4 14 (6.11%) Automotive
5 13 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.68%) Banking
6 10 (4.37%) Publishing
7 8 (3.49%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.06%) Games
9 5 (2.18%) Military
9 5 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.31%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.31%) Japanese Language
11 3 (1.31%) Legal Technology
11 3 (1.31%) Multimedia
11 3 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 149 (65.07%) Designer
2 43 (18.78%) Senior
2 43 (18.78%) UI Designer
3 40 (17.47%) UX Designer
4 33 (14.41%) Senior Designer
5 24 (10.48%) Developer
6 19 (8.30%) Service Designer
7 17 (7.42%) Product Designer
8 15 (6.55%) Lead
8 15 (6.55%) Senior UI Designer
9 13 (5.68%) Interaction Designer
10 12 (5.24%) Content Designer
10 12 (5.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 12 (5.24%) Junior
10 12 (5.24%) Junior Designer
10 12 (5.24%) UI/UX Designer
11 11 (4.80%) Digital Designer
12 10 (4.37%) Lead Designer
13 9 (3.93%) User Researcher
14 7 (3.06%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (17.47%) React
2 32 (13.97%) CSS
3 29 (12.66%) HTML
4 23 (10.04%) REST
5 14 (6.11%) Playwright
6 11 (4.80%) CSS3
6 11 (4.80%) HTML5
6 11 (4.80%) OAuth
6 11 (4.80%) OAuth2
7 9 (3.93%) Express.js
7 9 (3.93%) Node.js
8 8 (3.49%) Material-UI
8 8 (3.49%) RESTful
9 7 (3.06%) Jest
9 7 (3.06%) Kafka
9 7 (3.06%) OpenAPI
9 7 (3.06%) Swagger
10 6 (2.62%) JWT
10 6 (2.62%) Semantic HTML
11 5 (2.18%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.35%) Mobile App
2 19 (8.30%) Product Ownership
3 18 (7.86%) Graphic Design
4 16 (6.99%) Animation
5 12 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.93%) Social Media
7 6 (2.62%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.18%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.75%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.75%) Life Science
9 4 (1.75%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.31%) FMCG
10 3 (1.31%) Video Editing
11 2 (0.87%) Genomics
11 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.87%) NHS
11 2 (0.87%) Web Conferencing
12 1 (0.44%) Midjourney
12 1 (0.44%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.31%) Android
2 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.44%) Linux
3 1 (0.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (62.88%) User Experience
2 103 (44.98%) Agile
3 95 (41.48%) UX Design
4 68 (29.69%) Wireframes
5 57 (24.89%) AI
6 56 (24.45%) User Research
7 52 (22.71%) Prototyping
8 47 (20.52%) Interaction Design
9 45 (19.65%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 44 (19.21%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (17.47%) Service Design
12 39 (17.03%) Journey Map
13 38 (16.59%) Workshop Facilitation
14 36 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (14.85%) Usability Testing
16 29 (12.66%) Design Patterns
16 29 (12.66%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
16 29 (12.66%) Inclusive Design
17 26 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
18 25 (10.92%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 33 (14.41%) JavaScript
2 29 (12.66%) TypeScript
3 9 (3.93%) Python
4 7 (3.06%) SQL
5 2 (0.87%) C#
6 1 (0.44%) C++
6 1 (0.44%) Haskell
6 1 (0.44%) Java
Qualifications
1 40 (17.47%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.97%) Degree
3 27 (11.79%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.37%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.44%) CBAP
6 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (47.16%) Accessibility
2 38 (16.59%) WCAG
3 7 (3.06%) QA
4 3 (1.31%) GDPR
5 2 (0.87%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.44%) WAI
6 1 (0.44%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 11 (4.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (4.37%) Grafana
2 8 (3.49%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.62%) Prometheus
3 6 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.75%) Argo
5 1 (0.44%) Istio
5 1 (0.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 60 (26.20%) Adobe
2 8 (3.49%) Google
3 7 (3.06%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.75%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.31%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.87%) Databricks
6 2 (0.87%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.44%) CODA
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle
7 1 (0.44%) Pardot
7 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.44%) TikTok
7 1 (0.44%) YouTube