Lead UX Designer Contracts in England

Lead User Experience Designer
UK > England

The median Lead User Experience Designer daily rate in England is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 634 744
Rank change year-on-year +96 +110 -127
Contract jobs requiring a Lead UX Designer 3 11 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.022% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.024% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 23
10th Percentile £473 £548 -
25th Percentile £506 £619 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +23.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £591 £717 £606
90th Percentile £593 £756 £650
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -11.54% +23.81% +10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,898 46,550 67,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.63% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,460 33,060 48,164
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,372 1,874
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.51
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +2.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%

Lead UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Lead UX Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Lead UX Designer in England

Lead UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead UX Designer in England.

Daily rate trend for Lead UX Designer in England

Lead UX Designer
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 Lead UX Designer within the England region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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 +82 3 £575 -14.02% 6
Lead UX Designer
UK

Lead UX Designer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Lead UX Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Lead UX Designer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) UX Design
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (33.33%) Design Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Adobe XD
3 1 (33.33%) Sketch
3 1 (33.33%) Figma
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (33.33%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) User Research
3 1 (33.33%) UX Research
3 1 (33.33%) B2C
3 1 (33.33%) Adobe
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture

Lead UX Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe XD
1 1 (33.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Over-the-Top Content
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
1 3 (100.00%) UX Design
2 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) B2C
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Design Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) User Research
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) UX Research
3 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe