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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 302 383
Rank change year-on-year -40 +81 +28
Contract jobs citing Figma 257 182 162
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.75% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 2.00% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 126 109
10th Percentile £350 £318 £325
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £653 £675 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +1.06% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £28.40 - -
25th Percentile £31.99 £46.25 £38.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £47.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.44% +20.25% -7.06%
75th Percentile £38.53 £48.75 £40.75
90th Percentile £46.71 - -
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £47.50 £39.50
% change year-on-year -28.44% +20.25% -12.22%

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 14,359 9,084 11,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.33% 37.23% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,858 6,352 8,496
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £745 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 198 318
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.25 £26.45 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +71.08% +27.35% -31.90%
75th Percentile £68.07 £41.85 £32.31
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.88 £61.72
UK median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +47.78% +30.95% -40.00%

Figma
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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -25 158 £500 +5.26% 67
South West -12 29 £475 +5.56% 7
North of England -45 28 £463 +5.83% 14
North West -30 18 £421 +5.25% 11
West Midlands -43 18 £380 +90.00% 14
Midlands -61 18 £380 +19.69% 20
South East -52 11 £550 +15.79% 16
Yorkshire -53 7 £500 -4.76%
North East -20 3 £350 -41.67% 3
Figma
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 21 (8.17%) Confluence
2 8 (3.11%) CMS
3 4 (1.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.17%) Drupal
5 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.39%) IIS
5 1 (0.39%) nginx
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.39%) Traefik
Applications
1 29 (11.28%) Sketch
2 23 (8.95%) Adobe XD
3 13 (5.06%) Photoshop
4 12 (4.67%) Adobe After Effects
4 12 (4.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 10 (3.89%) Chatbot
6 9 (3.50%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (3.11%) InVision
7 8 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
7 8 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 6 (2.33%) MS Visio
9 5 (1.95%) InDesign
10 3 (1.17%) Trello
10 3 (1.17%) UserZoom
10 3 (1.17%) UXPin
10 3 (1.17%) Zeplin
11 2 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.39%) Blender
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Shopify
2 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.00%) AWS
2 14 (5.45%) Azure
3 12 (4.67%) SaaS
4 11 (4.28%) Miro
5 9 (3.50%) Google Analytics
6 7 (2.72%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 7 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.33%) GCP
7 6 (2.33%) Serverless
7 6 (2.33%) Slack
8 5 (1.95%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.95%) Anthropic Claude
8 5 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.56%) GitHub
10 3 (1.17%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (1.17%) ChatGPT
10 3 (1.17%) CloudFront
11 2 (0.78%) Azure AI
11 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) HTTP
1 1 (0.39%) Internet
1 1 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (0.39%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.56%) Pinecone
3 3 (1.17%) CockroachDB
4 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.78%) Power BI
4 2 (0.78%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.39%) GIS
5 1 (0.39%) Metadata
5 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.39%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.39%) SQLite
5 1 (0.39%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 35 (13.62%) JIRA
2 16 (6.23%) Git
3 11 (4.28%) Axure RP
4 8 (3.11%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.95%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.56%) GitLab
6 4 (1.56%) Vite
7 3 (1.17%) Balsamiq
7 3 (1.17%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.17%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.17%) Storybook
7 3 (1.17%) webpack
8 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.78%) Gradle
8 2 (0.78%) Selenium
9 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.39%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.39%) MSI
9 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (21.01%) Finance
2 53 (20.62%) Social Skills
3 40 (15.56%) Banking
4 28 (10.89%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.39%) Marketing
6 15 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.06%) Retail
8 8 (3.11%) Publishing
9 7 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.33%) Advertising
10 6 (2.33%) Automotive
10 6 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.33%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.56%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.56%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.17%) Billing
12 3 (1.17%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 168 (65.37%) Designer
2 60 (23.35%) UX Designer
3 42 (16.34%) Product Designer
4 40 (15.56%) Senior
5 35 (13.62%) UI Designer
6 32 (12.45%) Senior Designer
7 19 (7.39%) Developer
8 18 (7.00%) Content Designer
9 16 (6.23%) UI/UX Designer
10 13 (5.06%) Lead
11 12 (4.67%) Senior Product Designer
12 11 (4.28%) Service Designer
13 10 (3.89%) Junior
13 10 (3.89%) Junior Designer
13 10 (3.89%) Senior UX Designer
14 9 (3.50%) Interaction Designer
15 8 (3.11%) Analyst
15 8 (3.11%) Digital Designer
15 8 (3.11%) Senior UI Designer
15 8 (3.11%) Visual Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (15.95%) React
2 38 (14.79%) CSS
3 37 (14.40%) HTML
4 16 (6.23%) AngularJS
5 12 (4.67%) CSS3
5 12 (4.67%) HTML5
6 11 (4.28%) Node.js
7 9 (3.50%) RESTful
8 7 (2.72%) GraphQL
8 7 (2.72%) Playwright
8 7 (2.72%) REST
9 5 (1.95%) LangGraph
9 5 (1.95%) Spring
9 5 (1.95%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.95%) Vue
10 4 (1.56%) Redux
10 4 (1.56%) Tailwind CSS
11 3 (1.17%) FastAPI
11 3 (1.17%) Framer.js
11 3 (1.17%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.34%) Mobile App
1 24 (9.34%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.06%) AI Agents
2 13 (5.06%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.50%) Graphic Design
4 8 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.33%) Animation
6 5 (1.95%) Motion Graphics
7 4 (1.56%) Augmented Reality
7 4 (1.56%) Blog
7 4 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.56%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.56%) Social Media
7 4 (1.56%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.17%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.17%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.17%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (0.78%) FMCG
9 2 (0.78%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.33%) Android
2 5 (1.95%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.56%) Windows
4 3 (1.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (68.87%) User Experience
2 132 (51.36%) UX Design
3 119 (46.30%) Agile
4 87 (33.85%) Prototyping
5 70 (27.24%) User Research
5 70 (27.24%) Wireframes
6 48 (18.68%) Interaction Design
7 44 (17.12%) AI
8 43 (16.73%) Usability Testing
9 41 (15.95%) Analytics
9 41 (15.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 39 (15.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 37 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (14.01%) Service Design
13 35 (13.62%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
14 34 (13.23%) Journey Map
15 30 (11.67%) UX Research
16 26 (10.12%) Workshop Facilitation
17 24 (9.34%) Generative AI
17 24 (9.34%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 36 (14.01%) JavaScript
2 27 (10.51%) TypeScript
3 17 (6.61%) Python
4 11 (4.28%) Java
5 4 (1.56%) Go
5 4 (1.56%) SQL
6 3 (1.17%) C#
7 2 (0.78%) C++
7 2 (0.78%) Korn
7 2 (0.78%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.78%) Ruby
7 2 (0.78%) Scala
8 1 (0.39%) Bicep
8 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (12.06%) Security Cleared
2 26 (10.12%) Degree
3 22 (8.56%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.72%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.33%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (37.74%) Accessibility
2 36 (14.01%) WCAG
3 7 (2.72%) QA
4 3 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.39%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.39%) GDPR
5 1 (0.39%) WAI
5 1 (0.39%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 8 (3.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (2.72%) Terraform
2 6 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.17%) Grafana
5 2 (0.78%) Argo
5 2 (0.78%) Rancher
6 1 (0.39%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 56 (21.79%) Adobe
2 12 (4.67%) Google
3 10 (3.89%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.95%) MuleSoft
5 4 (1.56%) Oracle
6 3 (1.17%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.78%) Databricks
7 2 (0.78%) Pega
7 2 (0.78%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.78%) SAP
8 1 (0.39%) Amplitude
8 1 (0.39%) CODA
8 1 (0.39%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.39%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.39%) Marketo
8 1 (0.39%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.39%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.39%) Pardot
8 1 (0.39%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow