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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 301 379
Rank change year-on-year -115 +78 +10
Contract jobs citing Figma 236 228 146
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.81% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% 2.13% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 161 95
10th Percentile £363 £325 £263
25th Percentile £414 £393 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% +3.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £544
90th Percentile £644 £600 £663
UK median daily rate £518 £468 £450
% change year-on-year +10.70% +3.89% -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 16,031 10,713 11,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 38.23% 34.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,669 7,252 7,558
10th Percentile £321 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -2.75%
75th Percentile £630 £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 569 253 165
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.30 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.77% -24.86% +6.06%

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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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -78 146 £531 +12.87% 428
Midlands -34 24 £450 -3.74% 28
West Midlands -22 23 £457 -17.00% 21
South West -25 23 £475 -20.83% 23
North of England -93 23 £440 +3.53% 56
Yorkshire -35 14 £460 -16.36% 16
South East -66 7 £310 -26.19% 49
North West -70 7 £388 -0.70% 32
East of England -22 5 £375 -9.09% 19
North East -47 2 £316 -39.76% 9
East Midlands -20 1 £425 -9.09% 7
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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 (9.32%) Confluence
2 10 (4.24%) CMS
3 8 (3.39%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.27%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.85%) Drupal
5 2 (0.85%) WordPress
6 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.42%) Camunda
6 1 (0.42%) Kentico
6 1 (0.42%) Mendix
Applications
1 27 (11.44%) Photoshop
2 25 (10.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 25 (10.59%) Adobe Illustrator
3 20 (8.47%) Sketch
4 18 (7.63%) Adobe After Effects
5 14 (5.93%) Adobe XD
6 8 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (3.39%) MS Visio
7 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
8 5 (2.12%) InDesign
9 3 (1.27%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.85%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.85%) InVision
10 2 (0.85%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.42%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.42%) Blender
11 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 18 (7.63%) Azure
3 15 (6.36%) GitHub
4 14 (5.93%) AWS
5 9 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.81%) SaaS
6 6 (2.54%) Anthropic Claude
6 6 (2.54%) GCP
6 6 (2.54%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.54%) Pendo
7 5 (2.12%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.12%) Slack
8 4 (1.69%) Canva
8 4 (1.69%) Lucidchart
8 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (1.69%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.27%) ChatGPT
10 2 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.85%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.12%) Power BI
2 3 (1.27%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.85%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.85%) Tableau
4 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (9.75%) JIRA
2 16 (6.78%) Git
3 13 (5.51%) Cypress.io
3 13 (5.51%) Storybook
4 9 (3.81%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.27%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.85%) Postman
7 1 (0.42%) GitLab
7 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 75 (31.78%) Social Skills
2 46 (19.49%) Finance
3 44 (18.64%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.47%) Marketing
4 20 (8.47%) Retail
5 14 (5.93%) Automotive
5 14 (5.93%) Banking
6 13 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.81%) 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%) Japanese Language
12 3 (1.27%) Multimedia
12 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 152 (64.41%) Designer
2 45 (19.07%) Senior
3 44 (18.64%) UI Designer
4 40 (16.95%) UX Designer
5 33 (13.98%) Senior Designer
6 26 (11.02%) Developer
7 19 (8.05%) Service Designer
8 17 (7.20%) Product Designer
9 15 (6.36%) Interaction Designer
9 15 (6.36%) Lead
9 15 (6.36%) Senior UI Designer
10 14 (5.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 12 (5.08%) Content Designer
11 12 (5.08%) UI/UX Designer
12 11 (4.66%) Digital Designer
12 11 (4.66%) Junior
13 10 (4.24%) Junior Designer
13 10 (4.24%) Lead Designer
14 9 (3.81%) User Researcher
15 8 (3.39%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (16.95%) React
2 35 (14.83%) CSS
3 32 (13.56%) HTML
4 23 (9.75%) REST
5 14 (5.93%) Playwright
6 11 (4.66%) CSS3
6 11 (4.66%) HTML5
6 11 (4.66%) OAuth
6 11 (4.66%) OAuth2
7 9 (3.81%) Express.js
7 9 (3.81%) Node.js
7 9 (3.81%) RESTful
8 8 (3.39%) Material-UI
8 8 (3.39%) OpenAPI
8 8 (3.39%) Semantic HTML
8 8 (3.39%) Swagger
9 7 (2.97%) Jest
9 7 (2.97%) Kafka
10 6 (2.54%) JWT
11 5 (2.12%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.44%) Mobile App
2 21 (8.90%) 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 4 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.69%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.69%) Life Science
8 4 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.27%) FMCG
9 3 (1.27%) Video Editing
10 2 (0.85%) Genomics
10 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.85%) NHS
10 2 (0.85%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 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
2 104 (44.07%) Agile
3 98 (41.53%) UX Design
4 71 (30.08%) Wireframes
5 61 (25.85%) AI
6 58 (24.58%) User Research
7 56 (23.73%) Prototyping
8 50 (21.19%) Interaction Design
9 47 (19.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 46 (19.49%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 40 (16.95%) Journey Map
11 40 (16.95%) Service Design
12 38 (16.10%) Workshop Facilitation
13 37 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (14.41%) Usability Testing
15 31 (13.14%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
16 30 (12.71%) Inclusive Design
17 28 (11.86%) Design Patterns
18 26 (11.02%) Analytics
18 26 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 35 (14.83%) JavaScript
2 28 (11.86%) TypeScript
3 8 (3.39%) Python
4 7 (2.97%) SQL
5 2 (0.85%) C#
6 1 (0.42%) C++
6 1 (0.42%) Haskell
6 1 (0.42%) Java
Qualifications
1 38 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.56%) Degree
3 25 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.24%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.81%) 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
1 113 (47.88%) 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 10 (4.24%) 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 60 (25.42%) Adobe
2 8 (3.39%) 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