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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 317 394
Rank change year-on-year -43 +77 +9
Contract jobs citing Figma 272 199 148
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.73% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 1.96% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 139 107
10th Percentile £339 £320 £325
25th Percentile £411 £364 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £470 £463
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +1.62% -7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £554
90th Percentile £650 £620 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £473 £450
% change year-on-year +5.82% +5.00% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 1
10th Percentile £22.91 - -
25th Percentile £31.99 £35.25 £38.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £36.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -7.59% -28.18%
75th Percentile £36.71 £46.00 £40.75
90th Percentile £49.83 £52.75 -
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £36.50 £39.50
% change year-on-year -6.88% -7.59% -27.85%

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 15,640 10,152 12,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.94% 37.35% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,495 6,858 8,574
10th Percentile £325 £311 £312
25th Percentile £420 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 270 321
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.98% +24.15% -36.71%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -45 162 £523 +10.00% 54
North of England -72 31 £440 -2.22% 19
South West -8 30 £500 +2.56% 4
Midlands -46 24 £375 +18.11% 6
West Midlands -39 23 £367 +83.53% 3
North West -46 15 £420 -1.29% 14
South East -62 13 £475 +2.26% 24
Yorkshire -48 11 £470 -10.48% 5
North East -38 5 £340 -39.56%
East of England -19 3 £375 +3.45% 5
East Midlands -14 1 £425 +7.66% 3
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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 21 (7.72%) Confluence
2 9 (3.31%) CMS
3 2 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.74%) Drupal
3 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.37%) IIS
4 1 (0.37%) Kentico
4 1 (0.37%) Mendix
4 1 (0.37%) nginx
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.37%) Traefik
Applications
1 27 (9.93%) Sketch
2 26 (9.56%) Photoshop
3 23 (8.46%) Adobe Illustrator
4 22 (8.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 19 (6.99%) Adobe After Effects
6 16 (5.88%) Adobe XD
7 8 (2.94%) InDesign
8 7 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (2.57%) MS Visio
9 5 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
10 4 (1.47%) Chatbot
10 4 (1.47%) InVision
11 2 (0.74%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.74%) UXPin
12 1 (0.37%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.37%) Blender
12 1 (0.37%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Shopify
2 1 (0.37%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 18 (6.62%) Miro
2 17 (6.25%) Azure
3 15 (5.51%) AWS
4 14 (5.15%) SaaS
5 10 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.31%) GitHub
7 7 (2.57%) Slack
8 6 (2.21%) GCP
8 6 (2.21%) Google Analytics
9 4 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 4 (1.47%) Canva
9 4 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.47%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.10%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.10%) ChatGPT
10 3 (1.10%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (1.10%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) Broadband
1 1 (0.37%) HTTP
1 1 (0.37%) Internet
1 1 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (0.37%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.10%) Power BI
2 3 (1.10%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.74%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.74%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.37%) GIS
4 1 (0.37%) Metadata
4 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.37%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 29 (10.66%) JIRA
2 11 (4.04%) Cypress.io
2 11 (4.04%) Git
3 6 (2.21%) Storybook
4 5 (1.84%) Balsamiq
4 5 (1.84%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.10%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.74%) Vite
6 2 (0.74%) webpack
7 1 (0.37%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.37%) GitLab
7 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.37%) MSI
7 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 75 (27.57%) Social Skills
2 55 (20.22%) Finance
3 37 (13.60%) Public Sector
4 28 (10.29%) Banking
5 22 (8.09%) Marketing
6 21 (7.72%) Retail
7 19 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (5.15%) Automotive
9 11 (4.04%) Publishing
10 8 (2.94%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.21%) Games
12 6 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.47%) Retail Banking
15 3 (1.10%) Advertising
15 3 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (1.10%) Investment Banking
15 3 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 185 (68.01%) Designer
2 55 (20.22%) UX Designer
3 52 (19.12%) UI Designer
4 39 (14.34%) Senior
5 33 (12.13%) Product Designer
6 29 (10.66%) Senior Designer
7 21 (7.72%) Developer
8 18 (6.62%) Content Designer
8 18 (6.62%) Lead
8 18 (6.62%) UI/UX Designer
9 16 (5.88%) Service Designer
10 15 (5.51%) Junior
10 15 (5.51%) Junior Designer
11 13 (4.78%) Interaction Designer
11 13 (4.78%) Senior UI Designer
12 12 (4.41%) Analyst
12 12 (4.41%) Business Analyst
13 11 (4.04%) Digital Designer
14 10 (3.68%) Lead Designer
15 8 (2.94%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (13.24%) React
2 29 (10.66%) CSS
3 27 (9.93%) HTML
4 12 (4.41%) REST
5 9 (3.31%) CSS3
5 9 (3.31%) HTML5
5 9 (3.31%) Node.js
6 8 (2.94%) AngularJS
7 7 (2.57%) Playwright
8 6 (2.21%) RESTful
9 5 (1.84%) Kafka
10 4 (1.47%) Express.js
10 4 (1.47%) FastAPI
10 4 (1.47%) GraphQL
10 4 (1.47%) Jest
10 4 (1.47%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (1.47%) Vue
11 3 (1.10%) JWT
11 3 (1.10%) Next.js
11 3 (1.10%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.19%) Product Ownership
2 24 (8.82%) Mobile App
3 20 (7.35%) Graphic Design
4 13 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.41%) Animation
6 10 (3.68%) AI Agents
6 10 (3.68%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.57%) Social Media
8 6 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.84%) Motion Graphics
10 4 (1.47%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.10%) Digital Media
11 3 (1.10%) Midjourney
11 3 (1.10%) Mobile Banking
11 3 (1.10%) Taxonomies
12 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.74%) Genomics
12 2 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.74%) Life Science
12 2 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.21%) Android
2 5 (1.84%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.74%) Linux
3 2 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (66.91%) User Experience
2 125 (45.96%) UX Design
3 117 (43.01%) Agile
4 79 (29.04%) Wireframes
5 73 (26.84%) Prototyping
6 66 (24.26%) User Research
7 62 (22.79%) AI
8 47 (17.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 41 (15.07%) Interaction Design
10 38 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (13.24%) Service Design
12 35 (12.87%) Usability Testing
13 34 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 33 (12.13%) Analytics
14 33 (12.13%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
14 33 (12.13%) Journey Map
15 32 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
16 26 (9.56%) Generative AI
17 25 (9.19%) E-Commerce
17 25 (9.19%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.03%) JavaScript
2 23 (8.46%) TypeScript
3 14 (5.15%) Python
4 4 (1.47%) Java
4 4 (1.47%) SQL
5 2 (0.74%) C#
5 2 (0.74%) C++
5 2 (0.74%) Go
5 2 (0.74%) Korn
5 2 (0.74%) Ruby
5 2 (0.74%) Scala
6 1 (0.37%) Bicep
6 1 (0.37%) Haskell
6 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 37 (13.60%) Degree
3 32 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.37%) CBAP
6 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (38.24%) Accessibility
2 36 (13.24%) WCAG
3 9 (3.31%) QA
4 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.37%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.37%) GDPR
4 1 (0.37%) WAI
4 1 (0.37%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 10 (3.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (2.57%) Grafana
1 7 (2.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.47%) Argo
2 4 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.10%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.10%) Terraform
4 2 (0.74%) Rancher
5 1 (0.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 65 (23.90%) Adobe
2 13 (4.78%) Google
3 4 (1.47%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.47%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.10%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.74%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.74%) Databricks
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle
5 2 (0.74%) Pega
6 1 (0.37%) CODA
6 1 (0.37%) Pardot
6 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.37%) TikTok
6 1 (0.37%) YouTube