UX Design Contracts in England

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for UX Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited UX Design over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 165 135
Rank change year-on-year -51 -30 -24
Contract jobs citing UX Design 407 782 1,441
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.10% 1.57% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.74% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 557 1,078
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £600
90th Percentile - £713 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 15
10th Percentile £29.65 £35.18 £22.75
25th Percentile £31.71 £43.75 £41.75
Median hourly rate £41.68 £54.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +1.40% +45.27%
75th Percentile £62.17 £71.45 £61.45
90th Percentile £90.65 £78.75 £71.01
UK median hourly rate £41.68 £47.50 £54.63
% change year-on-year -12.26% -13.04% +47.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

UX Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,103 45,050 64,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.60% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,075 31,613 45,917
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 1,592 1,754
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.42
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in England

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for UX Design in England

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in England

UX Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UX Design in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for UX Design 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 UX Design within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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 -31 267 £538 -6.52% 161
North of England -32 45 £438 -14.43% 68
South East +18 26 £475 +11.76% 28
North West -1 26 £403 -30.00% 49
Midlands +11 15 £500 +2.56% 39
West Midlands +1 12 £500 +5.26% 25
Yorkshire -17 10 £425 -10.53% 13
North East +14 9 £575 +41.98% 6
South West +3 6 £438 -2.78% 23
East Midlands +18 3 £418 -17.43% 14
East of England -6 1 £500 - 21
UX Design
UK

UX Design
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 18 (4.42%) CMS
2 5 (1.23%) Confluence
2 5 (1.23%) WordPress
3 4 (0.98%) Apache
4 3 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.74%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.74%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.25%) Drupal
5 1 (0.25%) Jadu
Applications
1 39 (9.58%) Sketch
2 22 (5.41%) Adobe XD
3 16 (3.93%) InVision
4 11 (2.70%) Photoshop
5 9 (2.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 9 (2.21%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.98%) UserZoom
7 3 (0.74%) InDesign
7 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.25%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.25%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) WebTrends
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 89 (21.87%) Figma
2 60 (14.74%) AWS
3 34 (8.35%) Azure
4 13 (3.19%) GitHub
5 12 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (2.70%) Power Platform
7 10 (2.46%) GCP
7 10 (2.46%) Miro
8 7 (1.72%) Serverless
9 6 (1.47%) Azure AKS
9 6 (1.47%) Azure App Service
10 5 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.98%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (0.98%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.98%) SaaS
12 3 (0.74%) Google Analytics
12 3 (0.74%) npm
12 3 (0.74%) Yarn
13 2 (0.49%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.49%) HTTP
2 1 (0.25%) Intranet
2 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (11.30%) Apache Cassandra
2 11 (2.70%) Power BI
3 9 (2.21%) NoSQL
4 7 (1.72%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
5 5 (1.23%) MySQL
5 5 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.98%) Big Data
7 3 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.49%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.49%) Looker
9 1 (0.25%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.25%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.25%) HBase
9 1 (0.25%) Metadata
9 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.25%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 22 (5.41%) Git
2 14 (3.44%) Axure RP
3 12 (2.95%) JIRA
4 7 (1.72%) webpack
5 5 (1.23%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.98%) Babel
6 4 (0.98%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.98%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.74%) Gradle
8 2 (0.49%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.49%) Ant
8 2 (0.49%) Maven
8 2 (0.49%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.49%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 1 (0.25%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.25%) Selenium
9 1 (0.25%) Subversion
9 1 (0.25%) TestNG
General
1 104 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 63 (15.48%) Finance
3 27 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (6.63%) Marketing
4 23 (5.65%) Banking
5 21 (5.16%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.69%) Games
7 10 (2.46%) Retail
8 9 (2.21%) Health Technology
9 8 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.72%) Front Office
10 7 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.72%) Local Government
10 7 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.47%) Advertising
11 6 (1.47%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.47%) Legal
11 6 (1.47%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 170 (41.77%) Designer
2 123 (30.22%) UX Designer
3 98 (24.08%) Senior
4 81 (19.90%) Developer
5 52 (12.78%) Software Engineer
5 52 (12.78%) UI Designer
6 47 (11.55%) UI/UX Designer
7 38 (9.34%) Senior Software Engineer
8 37 (9.09%) Senior Designer
9 33 (8.11%) Senior UX Designer
10 26 (6.39%) React Developer
11 20 (4.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 17 (4.18%) Lead
13 16 (3.93%) UX Developer
14 15 (3.69%) Senior Developer
15 14 (3.44%) Architect
15 14 (3.44%) UI Developer
16 13 (3.19%) Full Stack Developer
16 13 (3.19%) Product Designer
17 12 (2.95%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (16.22%) HTML
2 56 (13.76%) CSS
3 55 (13.51%) React
4 47 (11.55%) Kafka
5 28 (6.88%) AngularJS
6 23 (5.65%) RESTful
7 18 (4.42%) .NET
8 12 (2.95%) CSS3
8 12 (2.95%) REST
9 11 (2.70%) HTML5
10 8 (1.97%) Node.js
10 8 (1.97%) Redux
11 7 (1.72%) Ajax
11 7 (1.72%) jQuery
11 7 (1.72%) Web Services
12 6 (1.47%) SAML
12 6 (1.47%) Vue
13 5 (1.23%) Spring
13 5 (1.23%) Unity (Game Engine)
13 5 (1.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.34%) Product Ownership
2 35 (8.60%) Mobile App
3 13 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.46%) Fixed Income
6 9 (2.21%) Graphic Design
7 7 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.23%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.23%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.23%) Mobile Banking
8 5 (1.23%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.98%) Animation
9 4 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.74%) CMDB
10 3 (0.74%) Derivative
10 3 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.74%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.21%) Android
2 6 (1.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (100.00%) User Experience
2 164 (40.29%) Agile
3 121 (29.73%) User Research
4 91 (22.36%) UX Research
5 67 (16.46%) Software Engineering
6 63 (15.48%) Wireframes
7 58 (14.25%) Front End Development
7 58 (14.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 53 (13.02%) Fintech
9 48 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (9.09%) Usability Testing
11 34 (8.35%) Service Design
12 33 (8.11%) Prototyping
13 29 (7.13%) Interaction Design
14 27 (6.63%) Customer Experience
15 26 (6.39%) DevOps
16 25 (6.14%) Mentoring
16 25 (6.14%) Stakeholder Management
17 22 (5.41%) E-Commerce
18 21 (5.16%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 59 (14.50%) JavaScript
2 47 (11.55%) Go
3 23 (5.65%) SQL
4 22 (5.41%) TypeScript
5 18 (4.42%) C#
5 18 (4.42%) Java
6 13 (3.19%) Python
7 7 (1.72%) Bicep
8 5 (1.23%) PHP
9 4 (0.98%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.25%) Dart
10 1 (0.25%) JSX
10 1 (0.25%) Ruby
10 1 (0.25%) Swift
10 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (8.11%) Degree
2 18 (4.42%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.46%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.47%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.74%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.49%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.49%) MBA
8 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.25%) ISEB
8 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (12.53%) Accessibility
2 19 (4.67%) QA
3 7 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (1.47%) WCAG
5 3 (0.74%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 50 (12.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 49 (12.04%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.49%) Terraform
4 1 (0.25%) Grafana
4 1 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.25%) Oozie
Vendors
1 43 (10.57%) Adobe
2 12 (2.95%) Google
2 12 (2.95%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.21%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.47%) SAP
5 5 (1.23%) MicroStrategy
6 4 (0.98%) Black Duck
6 4 (0.98%) Databricks
6 4 (0.98%) Virgin Media
7 3 (0.74%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.49%) Apple
8 2 (0.49%) Maxymiser
8 2 (0.49%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle
8 2 (0.49%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.25%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.25%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.25%) Sitecore