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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 301 378
Rank change year-on-year -93 +77 +30
Contract jobs citing Figma 247 226 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.82% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 2.20% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 160 97
10th Percentile £362 £325 £270
25th Percentile £413 £398 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% +6.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £558
90th Percentile £665 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -12.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 2
10th Percentile £22.39 £32.63 £31.22
25th Percentile £30.00 £35.25 £32.39
Median hourly rate £33.99 £36.50 £35.19
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +3.73% -36.02%
75th Percentile - £37.75 £38.39
90th Percentile £46.45 £47.25 £39.81
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £36.50 £35.19
% change year-on-year -6.88% +3.73% -35.73%

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 15,871 10,275 11,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.74% 37.30% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 6,957 7,878
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 274 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.84% -4.91% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £83.40 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.72
% change year-on-year +21.39% +1.01% -20.80%

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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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -71 149 £550 +10.00% 78
South West -26 29 £475 -13.64% 22
North of England -85 26 £440 +3.53% 14
Midlands -41 21 £413 -11.76% 8
West Midlands -44 20 £400 -27.27% 6
Yorkshire -37 14 £470 -10.48% 6
South East -72 11 £405 -3.57% 6
North West -61 9 £375 -7.41% 5
East of England -24 4 £375 -3.23% 1
North East -44 3 £325 -38.10% 3
East Midlands -18 1 £425 +7.66% 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 24 (9.72%) Confluence
2 9 (3.64%) CMS
3 3 (1.21%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.81%) Drupal
4 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.40%) Camunda
5 1 (0.40%) IIS
5 1 (0.40%) Kentico
5 1 (0.40%) Mendix
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.40%) Traefik
Applications
1 26 (10.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 26 (10.53%) Photoshop
2 24 (9.72%) Adobe Illustrator
3 23 (9.31%) Sketch
4 18 (7.29%) Adobe After Effects
5 12 (4.86%) Adobe XD
6 8 (3.24%) InDesign
7 5 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
8 4 (1.62%) MS Visio
9 3 (1.21%) InVision
10 2 (0.81%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.40%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.40%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.40%) Blender
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Eloqua
1 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (6.88%) Azure
2 16 (6.48%) AWS
2 16 (6.48%) Miro
3 12 (4.86%) GitHub
4 9 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (3.64%) SaaS
5 7 (2.83%) Slack
6 6 (2.43%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (2.43%) Google Analytics
6 6 (2.43%) Pendo
7 5 (2.02%) GCP
8 4 (1.62%) Canva
8 4 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.62%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.21%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.21%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.21%) Lucidchart
9 3 (1.21%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.81%) Broadband
2 1 (0.40%) HTTP
2 1 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.40%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.21%) Power BI
2 3 (1.21%) Qlik Sense
2 3 (1.21%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.81%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.40%) GIS
4 1 (0.40%) Metadata
4 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.40%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 29 (11.74%) JIRA
2 14 (5.67%) Cypress.io
3 9 (3.64%) Git
4 8 (3.24%) Storybook
5 7 (2.83%) Claude Code
6 4 (1.62%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.40%) MSI
7 1 (0.40%) Subversion
7 1 (0.40%) Vite
7 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 75 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 57 (23.08%) Finance
3 48 (19.43%) Public Sector
4 27 (10.93%) Banking
5 20 (8.10%) Marketing
5 20 (8.10%) Retail
6 15 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.67%) Automotive
8 10 (4.05%) Publishing
9 8 (3.24%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.83%) Games
11 6 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.02%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.62%) Military
14 3 (1.21%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.21%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 165 (66.80%) Designer
2 48 (19.43%) UI Designer
3 45 (18.22%) UX Designer
4 41 (16.60%) Senior
5 32 (12.96%) Senior Designer
6 22 (8.91%) Developer
7 19 (7.69%) Service Designer
8 18 (7.29%) Lead
8 18 (7.29%) Product Designer
9 17 (6.88%) Content Designer
10 15 (6.07%) Senior UI Designer
11 13 (5.26%) Junior
11 13 (5.26%) Junior Designer
11 13 (5.26%) UI/UX Designer
12 12 (4.86%) Digital Designer
12 12 (4.86%) Interaction Designer
13 11 (4.45%) Lead Designer
14 9 (3.64%) Graphic Designer
14 9 (3.64%) User Researcher
15 8 (3.24%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.17%) React
2 31 (12.55%) CSS
3 29 (11.74%) HTML
4 16 (6.48%) REST
5 12 (4.86%) CSS3
5 12 (4.86%) HTML5
6 10 (4.05%) Playwright
7 8 (3.24%) Kafka
7 8 (3.24%) RESTful
8 7 (2.83%) Jest
8 7 (2.83%) Node.js
9 6 (2.43%) JWT
9 6 (2.43%) OAuth
9 6 (2.43%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.02%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.02%) Tailwind CSS
11 4 (1.62%) Express.js
11 4 (1.62%) FastAPI
11 4 (1.62%) GraphQL
11 4 (1.62%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 25 (10.12%) Mobile App
3 22 (8.91%) Graphic Design
4 15 (6.07%) Animation
5 13 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.64%) Social Media
7 8 (3.24%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.02%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.02%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.02%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.21%) FMCG
10 3 (1.21%) Mobile Banking
10 3 (1.21%) Motion Graphics
11 2 (0.81%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.81%) Genomics
11 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.81%) Life Science
11 2 (0.81%) NHS
11 2 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.21%) Android
2 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.81%) Linux
2 2 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (63.97%) User Experience
2 111 (44.94%) Agile
3 107 (43.32%) UX Design
4 74 (29.96%) Wireframes
5 60 (24.29%) User Research
6 58 (23.48%) AI
7 54 (21.86%) Prototyping
8 48 (19.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 45 (18.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 43 (17.41%) Interaction Design
11 39 (15.79%) Journey Map
12 37 (14.98%) Workshop Facilitation
13 35 (14.17%) Service Design
14 33 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (12.96%) Usability Testing
16 30 (12.15%) Analytics
17 28 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
17 28 (11.34%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
17 28 (11.34%) Inclusive Design
18 22 (8.91%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 30 (12.15%) JavaScript
2 26 (10.53%) TypeScript
3 10 (4.05%) Python
4 5 (2.02%) SQL
5 4 (1.62%) Java
6 2 (0.81%) C#
6 2 (0.81%) C++
6 2 (0.81%) Ruby
6 2 (0.81%) Scala
7 1 (0.40%) Bicep
7 1 (0.40%) Go
7 1 (0.40%) Haskell
7 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.17%) Degree
3 29 (11.74%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.45%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.40%) CBAP
6 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (42.11%) Accessibility
2 36 (14.57%) WCAG
3 8 (3.24%) QA
4 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.40%) GDPR
4 1 (0.40%) WAI
4 1 (0.40%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 12 (4.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (4.05%) Grafana
2 9 (3.64%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.43%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.62%) Argo
4 4 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.40%) Istio
5 1 (0.40%) Kibana
5 1 (0.40%) Rancher
Vendors
1 62 (25.10%) Adobe
2 12 (4.86%) Google
3 4 (1.62%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.21%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.81%) Databricks
5 2 (0.81%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.81%) Oracle
5 2 (0.81%) Pega
6 1 (0.40%) CODA
6 1 (0.40%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.40%) Pardot
6 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.40%) TikTok
6 1 (0.40%) YouTube