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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 293 391
Rank change year-on-year -57 +98 +11
Contract jobs citing Figma 264 184 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.77% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 2.06% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 123 102
10th Percentile £344 £315 £326
25th Percentile £400 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% -8.60% -
75th Percentile £575 £563 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
UK median daily rate £480 £457 £488
% change year-on-year +5.03% -6.26% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 1
10th Percentile £22.39 - -
25th Percentile £30.00 £35.25 £38.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £36.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -7.59% -16.84%
75th Percentile - £43.25 £40.75
90th Percentile £46.45 £46.55 -
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £36.50 £39.50
% change year-on-year -6.88% -7.59% -16.84%

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 14,671 8,950 11,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.13% 37.56% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,994 6,159 8,486
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £508 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -0.72% -2.63% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 200 323
10th Percentile £15.64 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.75 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £66.75
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -39.80%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -55 149 £489 +7.77% 81
South West +2 33 £525 +16.67% 10
North of England -59 28 £456 -4.00% 17
West Midlands -38 27 £390 +95.00% 3
Midlands -43 27 £390 +22.83% 5
North West -27 18 £414 +3.50% 9
South East -56 10 £550 +15.79% 21
Yorkshire -54 7 £500 -4.76% 5
North East -29 3 £350 -41.67% 3
East of England -29 1 - - 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 21 (7.95%) Confluence
2 11 (4.17%) CMS
3 4 (1.52%) Drupal
4 3 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.38%) Kentico
5 1 (0.38%) nginx
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.38%) Traefik
Applications
1 27 (10.23%) Sketch
2 26 (9.85%) Photoshop
3 22 (8.33%) Adobe Illustrator
4 20 (7.58%) Adobe After Effects
5 19 (7.20%) Adobe XD
6 15 (5.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 9 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (3.03%) Chatbot
8 8 (3.03%) InDesign
8 8 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
9 7 (2.65%) MS Visio
10 6 (2.27%) InVision
11 3 (1.14%) UXPin
12 2 (0.76%) Trello
12 2 (0.76%) UserZoom
12 2 (0.76%) Zeplin
13 1 (0.38%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.38%) Blender
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Shopify
2 1 (0.38%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 17 (6.44%) AWS
2 14 (5.30%) Azure
3 12 (4.55%) Miro
3 12 (4.55%) SaaS
4 7 (2.65%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 7 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.65%) Google Analytics
5 6 (2.27%) GCP
5 6 (2.27%) Slack
6 5 (1.89%) Amazon S3
6 5 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.89%) Serverless
7 4 (1.52%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (1.52%) Canva
7 4 (1.52%) GitHub
7 4 (1.52%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.14%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (1.14%) CloudFront
9 2 (0.76%) Azure AI
9 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) HTTP
1 1 (0.38%) Internet
1 1 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (0.38%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.14%) CockroachDB
2 3 (1.14%) Pinecone
3 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.76%) Power BI
3 2 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.38%) GIS
4 1 (0.38%) Metadata
4 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.38%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 31 (11.74%) JIRA
2 17 (6.44%) Git
3 8 (3.03%) Cypress.io
4 6 (2.27%) Axure RP
5 5 (1.89%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.14%) Balsamiq
6 3 (1.14%) GitLab
6 3 (1.14%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.14%) Storybook
6 3 (1.14%) Vite
6 3 (1.14%) webpack
7 2 (0.76%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.76%) Gradle
7 2 (0.76%) Selenium
8 1 (0.38%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.38%) MSI
8 1 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 56 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 48 (18.18%) Finance
3 34 (12.88%) Banking
4 32 (12.12%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.95%) Marketing
6 16 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.06%) Retail
7 14 (5.30%) Automotive
8 11 (4.17%) Publishing
9 8 (3.03%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.27%) Games
11 6 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.27%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.89%) Advertising
13 4 (1.52%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.14%) Billing
14 3 (1.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 171 (64.77%) Designer
2 55 (20.83%) UX Designer
3 44 (16.67%) UI Designer
4 40 (15.15%) Senior
5 37 (14.02%) Product Designer
6 32 (12.12%) Senior Designer
7 22 (8.33%) Developer
8 18 (6.82%) Content Designer
9 16 (6.06%) UI/UX Designer
10 15 (5.68%) Lead
11 13 (4.92%) Junior
11 13 (4.92%) Junior Designer
11 13 (4.92%) Senior UI Designer
12 10 (3.79%) Interaction Designer
13 9 (3.41%) Analyst
13 9 (3.41%) Business Analyst
13 9 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (3.41%) Senior Product Designer
14 8 (3.03%) Digital Designer
14 8 (3.03%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (17.05%) React
2 37 (14.02%) CSS
3 36 (13.64%) HTML
4 15 (5.68%) AngularJS
5 12 (4.55%) CSS3
5 12 (4.55%) HTML5
6 11 (4.17%) Node.js
7 9 (3.41%) REST
7 9 (3.41%) RESTful
8 7 (2.65%) Vue
9 6 (2.27%) GraphQL
9 6 (2.27%) Playwright
10 5 (1.89%) LangGraph
10 5 (1.89%) Spring
10 5 (1.89%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.89%) Tailwind CSS
11 4 (1.52%) Express.js
12 3 (1.14%) Framer.js
12 3 (1.14%) Model Context Protocol
12 3 (1.14%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.47%) Product Ownership
2 21 (7.95%) Mobile App
3 15 (5.68%) Graphic Design
4 12 (4.55%) AI Agents
4 12 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.17%) Animation
6 8 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.89%) Motion Graphics
8 5 (1.89%) Social Media
9 4 (1.52%) Digital Media
9 4 (1.52%) Mobile Banking
9 4 (1.52%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.14%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (1.14%) Blog
10 3 (1.14%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.76%) Genomics
11 2 (0.76%) Virtual Reality
11 2 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.89%) Android
2 4 (1.52%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.14%) Linux
3 3 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (67.42%) User Experience
2 130 (49.24%) UX Design
3 115 (43.56%) Agile
4 80 (30.30%) Prototyping
5 70 (26.52%) Wireframes
6 64 (24.24%) User Research
7 44 (16.67%) Interaction Design
8 43 (16.29%) AI
9 39 (14.77%) Usability Testing
10 37 (14.02%) Stakeholder Management
11 35 (13.26%) Analytics
11 35 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (13.26%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 34 (12.88%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
13 30 (11.36%) Service Design
14 28 (10.61%) Journey Map
15 26 (9.85%) UX Research
16 24 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
17 22 (8.33%) Responsive Web Design
18 21 (7.95%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 39 (14.77%) JavaScript
2 26 (9.85%) TypeScript
3 17 (6.44%) Python
4 8 (3.03%) Java
5 3 (1.14%) Go
5 3 (1.14%) SQL
6 2 (0.76%) C#
6 2 (0.76%) Korn
6 2 (0.76%) Kotlin
6 2 (0.76%) Ruby
6 2 (0.76%) Scala
7 1 (0.38%) Bicep
7 1 (0.38%) C++
7 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (13.64%) Degree
2 35 (13.26%) Security Cleared
3 25 (9.47%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.65%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.38%) CBAP
8 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (36.74%) Accessibility
2 37 (14.02%) WCAG
3 5 (1.89%) QA
4 3 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.38%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.38%) WAI
5 1 (0.38%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 7 (2.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
1 7 (2.65%) Terraform
2 6 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.52%) Argo
3 4 (1.52%) Grafana
4 2 (0.76%) Rancher
Vendors
1 64 (24.24%) Adobe
2 14 (5.30%) Google
3 9 (3.41%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.89%) MuleSoft
5 4 (1.52%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.14%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.14%) Oracle
7 2 (0.76%) Databricks
7 2 (0.76%) Pega
8 1 (0.38%) Amplitude
8 1 (0.38%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.38%) CODA
8 1 (0.38%) Pardot
8 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow