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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 301 373
Rank change year-on-year -41 +72 +77
Contract jobs citing Figma 251 176 172
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.72% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 1.91% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 124 115
10th Percentile £350 £308 £325
25th Percentile £400 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £648 £675 £601
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £28.47 - £41.55
25th Percentile £32.18 £46.25 £46.50
Median hourly rate £39.22 £47.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% -15.18% +49.33%
75th Percentile £46.12 £48.75 £65.50
90th Percentile £49.74 - £70.45
UK median hourly rate £39.22 £47.50 £56.00
% change year-on-year -17.43% -15.18% +35.76%

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 14,201 9,200 11,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.33% 37.78% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,803 6,477 8,620
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 185 321
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.50 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +60.73% +27.59% -23.07%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.97 £33.75
90th Percentile £80.60 £75.30 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +46.25% +30.24% -27.59%

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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 8 April 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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -53 151 £495 +9.15% 76
North of England -42 31 £456 +14.00% 37
South West -8 28 £475 +11.76% 11
North West -16 20 £428 +7.00% 22
Midlands -53 14 £370 +84.78% 8
West Midlands -55 13 £380 +90.00% 6
South East -46 12 £525 +15.64% 26
Yorkshire -46 8 £500 +6.38% 5
North East -18 3 £350 -41.67% 10
East of England -30 2 £425 +17.24% 3
East Midlands -30 1 £288 -8.15% 2
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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 17 (6.77%) Confluence
2 9 (3.59%) CMS
3 3 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.80%) Drupal
4 2 (0.80%) Magnolia
4 2 (0.80%) WordPress
5 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.40%) IIS
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.40%) Traefik
Applications
1 37 (14.74%) Sketch
2 29 (11.55%) Adobe XD
3 13 (5.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 11 (4.38%) InVision
5 10 (3.98%) Chatbot
6 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
6 7 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (2.39%) Adobe After Effects
7 6 (2.39%) InDesign
7 6 (2.39%) Photoshop
8 5 (1.99%) MS Visio
9 4 (1.59%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (1.20%) Trello
10 3 (1.20%) UXPin
10 3 (1.20%) Zeplin
11 2 (0.80%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
11 2 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.80%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (6.37%) AWS
2 15 (5.98%) Miro
3 13 (5.18%) SaaS
4 12 (4.78%) Azure
5 8 (3.19%) Google Analytics
6 6 (2.39%) Serverless
7 5 (1.99%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 5 (1.99%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.99%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.59%) GitHub
9 3 (1.20%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (1.20%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.20%) CloudFront
9 3 (1.20%) Contentful
10 2 (0.80%) Azure AI
10 2 (0.80%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (0.80%) Supabase
10 2 (0.80%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.40%) HTTP
1 1 (0.40%) Internet
1 1 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (0.40%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.59%) Pinecone
3 3 (1.20%) CockroachDB
4 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.40%) GIS
4 1 (0.40%) Metadata
4 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.40%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.40%) SQLite
4 1 (0.40%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 36 (14.34%) JIRA
2 14 (5.58%) Axure RP
2 14 (5.58%) Git
3 5 (1.99%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.99%) webpack
4 4 (1.59%) GitLab
4 4 (1.59%) Vite
5 3 (1.20%) Balsamiq
5 3 (1.20%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.20%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.20%) REST Assured
5 3 (1.20%) Storybook
6 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.80%) ESLint
6 2 (0.80%) Gradle
6 2 (0.80%) rollup.js
6 2 (0.80%) Selenium
6 2 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
General
1 61 (24.30%) Social Skills
2 59 (23.51%) Finance
3 45 (17.93%) Banking
4 24 (9.56%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.97%) Marketing
6 13 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.38%) Retail
8 8 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.79%) Advertising
10 6 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.99%) Publishing
11 5 (1.99%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.59%) Legal
12 4 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.59%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.20%) Billing
13 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 164 (65.34%) Designer
2 64 (25.50%) UX Designer
3 42 (16.73%) Product Designer
4 37 (14.74%) Senior
5 32 (12.75%) UI Designer
6 28 (11.16%) Senior Designer
7 21 (8.37%) Developer
8 18 (7.17%) UI/UX Designer
9 13 (5.18%) Senior UX Designer
10 11 (4.38%) Content Designer
10 11 (4.38%) Interaction Designer
10 11 (4.38%) Senior Product Designer
10 11 (4.38%) Service Designer
11 10 (3.98%) Lead
11 10 (3.98%) Visual Designer
12 9 (3.59%) Analyst
12 9 (3.59%) Business Analyst
12 9 (3.59%) Digital Designer
13 7 (2.79%) Junior
13 7 (2.79%) Junior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.34%) CSS
1 36 (14.34%) HTML
2 35 (13.94%) React
3 16 (6.37%) AngularJS
4 14 (5.58%) HTML5
5 13 (5.18%) CSS3
6 9 (3.59%) Node.js
6 9 (3.59%) RESTful
7 8 (3.19%) REST
8 7 (2.79%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.99%) Playwright
9 5 (1.99%) Spring
9 5 (1.99%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.99%) Vue
10 4 (1.59%) Framer.js
10 4 (1.59%) Next.js
10 4 (1.59%) Redux
11 3 (1.20%) boto
11 3 (1.20%) Jest
11 3 (1.20%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.36%) Mobile App
2 23 (9.16%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.78%) AI Agents
3 12 (4.78%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.79%) Graphic Design
6 5 (1.99%) Motion Graphics
7 4 (1.59%) Augmented Reality
7 4 (1.59%) Blog
7 4 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.59%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.59%) Social Media
7 4 (1.59%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.20%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.20%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.20%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.59%) Android
2 8 (3.19%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.59%) Windows
4 3 (1.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (66.53%) User Experience
2 125 (49.80%) UX Design
3 116 (46.22%) Agile
4 88 (35.06%) Prototyping
5 71 (28.29%) User Research
6 69 (27.49%) Wireframes
7 49 (19.52%) Interaction Design
8 45 (17.93%) Usability Testing
8 45 (17.93%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 40 (15.94%) AI
10 39 (15.54%) Service Design
11 38 (15.14%) Analytics
11 38 (15.14%) Journey Map
12 37 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (13.15%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (12.35%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
15 30 (11.95%) UX Research
16 24 (9.56%) Workshop Facilitation
17 22 (8.76%) CI/CD
18 21 (8.37%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.55%) JavaScript
2 23 (9.16%) TypeScript
3 13 (5.18%) Python
4 11 (4.38%) Java
5 4 (1.59%) Go
6 3 (1.20%) C#
7 2 (0.80%) C++
7 2 (0.80%) Korn
7 2 (0.80%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.80%) Ruby
7 2 (0.80%) Scala
7 2 (0.80%) SQL
8 1 (0.40%) Bicep
8 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (10.76%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.17%) Degree
3 17 (6.77%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.39%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.20%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.80%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (38.25%) Accessibility
2 37 (14.74%) WCAG
3 8 (3.19%) QA
4 3 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.40%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.40%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (2.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.79%) Terraform
2 6 (2.39%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.80%) Rancher
5 1 (0.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 56 (22.31%) Adobe
2 14 (5.58%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.98%) Google
4 5 (1.99%) MuleSoft
5 4 (1.59%) Oracle
6 3 (1.20%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.80%) Pega
7 2 (0.80%) SAP
7 2 (0.80%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.40%) Amplitude
8 1 (0.40%) Apple
8 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.40%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.40%) IBM
8 1 (0.40%) Marketo
8 1 (0.40%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.40%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.40%) Salesforce