Senior UX Designer Contracts in England

Senior User Experience Designer
UK > England

The median Senior User Experience Designer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 507 610
Rank change year-on-year +39 +103 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Senior UX Designer 17 35 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.070% 0.094% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.10% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 27 27
10th Percentile £458 £404 £455
25th Percentile £509 £463 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £825 - £703
90th Percentile - - £750
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +12.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior UX Designer in England

Senior UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior UX Designer in England

Senior UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior UX Designer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior UX Designer in England

Senior UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior UX Designer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior UX Designer in England

Senior 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 Senior UX Designer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +22 15 £550 - 29
South West - 1 - - 10
East of England - 1 £475 - 16
Senior UX Designer
UK

Senior UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior UX Designer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) User Experience
2 16 (94.12%) UX Design
3 14 (82.35%) Figma
4 11 (64.71%) Banking
5 10 (58.82%) Finance
6 9 (52.94%) Agile
6 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
7 7 (41.18%) Prototyping
8 6 (35.29%) Accessibility
9 5 (29.41%) User Research
9 5 (29.41%) UX Research
9 5 (29.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 5 (29.41%) Wireframes
9 5 (29.41%) Adobe
10 4 (23.53%) Mobile App
10 4 (23.53%) Information Architecture
10 4 (23.53%) Sketch
10 4 (23.53%) Strategic Thinking
10 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (23.53%) Responsive Web Design
10 4 (23.53%) Inclusive Design
11 3 (17.65%) Adobe XD
11 3 (17.65%) Product Thinking
11 3 (17.65%) Front End Development
11 3 (17.65%) Interaction Design
11 3 (17.65%) Copywriting
11 3 (17.65%) WCAG
12 2 (11.76%) Usability Testing
12 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Sketch
2 3 (17.65%) Adobe XD
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (5.88%) OmniGraffle
3 1 (5.88%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) Figma
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Miro
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Wireless
General
1 11 (64.71%) Banking
2 10 (58.82%) Finance
3 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) CSS
1 1 (5.88%) HTML
1 1 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) User Experience
2 16 (94.12%) UX Design
3 9 (52.94%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) Prototyping
5 5 (29.41%) User Research
5 5 (29.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 5 (29.41%) UX Research
5 5 (29.41%) Wireframes
6 4 (23.53%) Inclusive Design
6 4 (23.53%) Information Architecture
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Responsive Web Design
6 4 (23.53%) Strategic Thinking
7 3 (17.65%) Copywriting
7 3 (17.65%) Front End Development
7 3 (17.65%) Interaction Design
7 3 (17.65%) Product Thinking
8 2 (11.76%) Journey Map
8 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
8 2 (11.76%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) Accessibility
2 3 (17.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Adobe
2 1 (5.88%) CA Agile Central