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 during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 608 648
Rank change year-on-year +101 +40 -106
Contract jobs requiring a Senior UX Designer 36 50 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.097% 0.098% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.10% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 28 92
10th Percentile £404 £457 £482
25th Percentile £463 £508 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £569
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +9.89% +8.33%
75th Percentile - £695 £621
90th Percentile - £750 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 - -

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 34,494 48,433 68,665
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.54% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,968 34,321 48,831
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,386 1,460 1,923
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.63 £48.20
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.07
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 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 +93 32 £550 -13.39% 8
North of England +39 3 £550 +6.28%
North West +24 2 - -
Yorkshire +21 1 £550 +5.26%
South East - 1 £550 - 1
Senior UX Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, 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 36 (100.00%) UX Design
1 36 (100.00%) User Experience
2 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 14 (38.89%) Mobile App
4 13 (36.11%) Figma
5 9 (25.00%) E-Commerce
5 9 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (22.22%) Usability Testing
7 7 (19.44%) Digital Marketing
7 7 (19.44%) Marketing
7 7 (19.44%) Finance
7 7 (19.44%) User Research
7 7 (19.44%) UX Research
8 6 (16.67%) Adobe
8 6 (16.67%) Degree
8 6 (16.67%) Interaction Design
9 5 (13.89%) Graphic Design
9 5 (13.89%) Health Technology
10 4 (11.11%) Miro
10 4 (11.11%) Azure
10 4 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (11.11%) Agile
10 4 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (11.11%) DevOps
11 3 (8.33%) Digital Media
11 3 (8.33%) Typography
11 3 (8.33%) Service Design
11 3 (8.33%) Adobe Illustrator

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:

Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (8.33%) InDesign
1 3 (8.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (2.78%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.78%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) Figma
2 4 (11.11%) Azure
2 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (11.11%) Miro
3 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Axure RP
General
1 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Finance
2 7 (19.44%) Marketing
3 5 (13.89%) Health Technology
4 4 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (8.33%) Advertising
5 3 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Retail
6 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 14 (38.89%) Mobile App
2 5 (13.89%) Graphic Design
3 3 (8.33%) Animation
3 3 (8.33%) Digital Media
3 3 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.56%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.78%) Blog
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Android
1 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) User Experience
1 36 (100.00%) UX Design
2 9 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 9 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (22.22%) Usability Testing
4 7 (19.44%) Digital Marketing
4 7 (19.44%) User Research
4 7 (19.44%) UX Research
5 6 (16.67%) Interaction Design
6 4 (11.11%) Agile
6 4 (11.11%) DevOps
6 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 3 (8.33%) B2C
7 3 (8.33%) Psychology
7 3 (8.33%) Service Design
7 3 (8.33%) Time Management
7 3 (8.33%) Typography
7 3 (8.33%) Web Design
7 3 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Adobe
2 2 (5.56%) Apple
3 1 (2.78%) Virgin Media