UI/UX Designer Contracts in England

User Interface/User Experience Designer
UK > England

The median User Interface/User Experience Designer daily rate in England is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 540 579
Rank change year-on-year +51 +39 -142
Contract jobs requiring a UI/UX Designer 50 105 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.23% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 79 148
10th Percentile £371 £293 £363
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £719 £590
90th Percentile £640 £838 £661
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.48
Median hourly rate - - £60.97
75th Percentile - - £61.45
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £60.97
% change year-on-year - - +56.32%

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 34,087 46,245 67,040
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.62% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,605 32,838 47,758
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 £761 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,370 1,849
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.49 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.80
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

UI/UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for UI/UX Designer in England

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for UI/UX Designer in England

UI/UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI/UX Designer in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UI/UX Designer in England

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for UI/UX Designer in England

UI/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 UI/UX Designer within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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 +45 30 £538 -10.12% 16
South East +23 8 £475 +15.15% 2
North of England +27 3 - - 2
South West +12 3 £425 +6.25% 2
Midlands +29 2 £418 +52.00% 3
East Midlands +21 2 £418 +52.00%
North West +18 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +11 1 - - 1
UI/UX Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, UI/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 UI/UX Designer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) User Experience
2 46 (92.00%) UX Design
3 25 (50.00%) Figma
4 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
5 13 (26.00%) Adobe
6 12 (24.00%) HTML
6 12 (24.00%) Sketch
7 11 (22.00%) Wireframes
8 10 (20.00%) Finance
8 10 (20.00%) Agile
8 10 (20.00%) Marketing
9 8 (16.00%) Health Technology
9 8 (16.00%) CSS
9 8 (16.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (14.00%) JavaScript
10 7 (14.00%) Photoshop
10 7 (14.00%) User Research
11 6 (12.00%) Product Ownership
11 6 (12.00%) Games
11 6 (12.00%) Typography
11 6 (12.00%) Adobe XD
12 5 (10.00%) Project Delivery
12 5 (10.00%) Service Design
12 5 (10.00%) React
12 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
12 5 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
12 5 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (10.00%) UX Research

UI/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 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Sketch
2 7 (14.00%) Photoshop
3 6 (12.00%) Adobe XD
4 5 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (8.00%) InVision
6 3 (6.00%) InDesign
7 2 (4.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (2.00%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 25 (50.00%) Figma
2 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.00%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (2.00%) Miro
3 1 (2.00%) Pendo
3 1 (2.00%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Big Data
2 2 (4.00%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Axure RP
2 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.00%) Finance
2 10 (20.00%) Marketing
3 8 (16.00%) Health Technology
4 6 (12.00%) Games
5 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (8.00%) Advertising
7 3 (6.00%) Front Office
7 3 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (4.00%) Banking
8 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
9 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.00%) Publishing
9 1 (2.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.00%) HTML
2 8 (16.00%) CSS
3 5 (10.00%) React
4 2 (4.00%) CSS3
5 1 (2.00%) Framer.js
5 1 (2.00%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (2.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (8.00%) Derivative
3 4 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.00%) Animation
4 3 (6.00%) Digital Media
4 3 (6.00%) Fixed Income
4 3 (6.00%) Graphic Design
4 3 (6.00%) Mobile App
4 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.00%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (4.00%) Virtual Reality
5 2 (4.00%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.00%) Blog
6 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.00%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Android
1 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) User Experience
2 46 (92.00%) UX Design
3 11 (22.00%) Wireframes
4 10 (20.00%) Agile
5 8 (16.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.00%) User Research
7 6 (12.00%) Typography
8 5 (10.00%) Project Delivery
8 5 (10.00%) Service Design
8 5 (10.00%) UX Research
9 4 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (8.00%) Digital Marketing
9 4 (8.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
9 4 (8.00%) Web Design
9 4 (8.00%) Web Development
10 3 (6.00%) B2B
10 3 (6.00%) B2C
10 3 (6.00%) OOP
10 3 (6.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.00%) Java
2 3 (6.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (6.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 13 (26.00%) Adobe
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.00%) MicroStrategy
3 2 (4.00%) Salesforce