UX Design Contracts in England

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring UX Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UX Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 211 167
Rank change year-on-year -12 -44 -34
Contract jobs citing UX Design 293 411 774
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.20% 1.11% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.28% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 293 545
10th Percentile £313 £363 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £625
90th Percentile £686 - £723
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 8
10th Percentile £53.97 £29.65 £35.18
25th Percentile £65.54 £31.71 £43.75
Median hourly rate £91.69 £41.68 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +120.01% -23.53% -0.23%
75th Percentile £97.52 £62.17 £71.45
90th Percentile £98.14 £90.65 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £91.69 £41.68 £47.50
% change year-on-year +120.01% -12.26% -14.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

UX Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in England

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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

UX Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UX Design in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 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 -10 200 £500 -6.98% 400
South East +45 26 £425 -12.87% 135
North of England -6 20 £400 -8.57% 106
South West +55 15 £400 -8.57% 51
Midlands +17 10 £356 -28.80% 58
North West 0 10 £400 -6.16% 70
Yorkshire +6 8 £463 +8.88% 26
East of England +35 6 £478 -4.50% 58
East Midlands +12 5 £356 -14.83% 16
West Midlands +7 5 £405 -19.00% 39
North East -6 2 £388 -44.64% 11
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 14 (4.78%) CMS
2 9 (3.07%) Confluence
3 5 (1.71%) Drupal
4 4 (1.37%) nginx
5 3 (1.02%) JBoss
5 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.02%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.68%) Apache
6 2 (0.68%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.34%) Mendix
7 1 (0.34%) Moodle
Applications
1 32 (10.92%) Sketch
2 24 (8.19%) Adobe XD
3 11 (3.75%) InVision
4 10 (3.41%) Chatbot
5 8 (2.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (2.73%) Autodesk Smoke
6 3 (1.02%) Trello
6 3 (1.02%) Zeplin
7 2 (0.68%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.68%) Blender
7 2 (0.68%) CINEMA 4D
7 2 (0.68%) Final Cut Pro
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.68%) OmniGraffle
7 2 (0.68%) UserZoom
7 2 (0.68%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.68%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (0.68%) Shopify
3 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 112 (38.23%) Figma
2 30 (10.24%) Azure
3 19 (6.48%) SaaS
4 17 (5.80%) AWS
5 12 (4.10%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.39%) Serverless
7 6 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.71%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.71%) GCP
8 5 (1.71%) GitHub
9 4 (1.37%) Miro
9 4 (1.37%) npm
10 3 (1.02%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (1.02%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.02%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.02%) Yarn
11 2 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.37%) HTTP
2 2 (0.68%) Intranet
2 2 (0.68%) WebEx
3 1 (0.34%) Internet
3 1 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.41%) Power BI
2 8 (2.73%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.05%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.05%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.71%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.37%) MySQL
5 4 (1.37%) Qlik Sense
5 4 (1.37%) Spotfire
6 3 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.02%) Metadata
6 3 (1.02%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.68%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.68%) Mixpanel
7 2 (0.68%) Redis
7 2 (0.68%) Tableau
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 23 (7.85%) JIRA
2 18 (6.14%) Git
3 17 (5.80%) Axure RP
4 10 (3.41%) Cypress.io
5 7 (2.39%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (1.71%) Selenium
6 5 (1.71%) Vite
6 5 (1.71%) webpack
7 4 (1.37%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.02%) Ant
8 3 (1.02%) Babel
8 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.02%) JUnit
8 3 (1.02%) Mocha
8 3 (1.02%) Postman
8 3 (1.02%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.02%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.68%) Storybook
9 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 69 (23.55%) Finance
3 33 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.56%) Public Sector
5 27 (9.22%) Banking
6 20 (6.83%) Marketing
6 20 (6.83%) Retail
7 12 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.39%) Legal
9 7 (2.39%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.05%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.05%) Wearables
11 5 (1.71%) Automotive
11 5 (1.71%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (1.71%) Games
11 5 (1.71%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.71%) Publishing
11 5 (1.71%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.37%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 127 (43.34%) Designer
2 80 (27.30%) Developer
3 78 (26.62%) UX Designer
4 58 (19.80%) Senior
5 30 (10.24%) UI Designer
6 26 (8.87%) Senior Designer
6 26 (8.87%) UI/UX Designer
7 22 (7.51%) React Developer
8 20 (6.83%) Product Designer
9 17 (5.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 16 (5.46%) Analyst
10 16 (5.46%) Senior UX Designer
11 15 (5.12%) Full-Stack Developer
12 14 (4.78%) Lead
12 14 (4.78%) Senior Developer
13 13 (4.44%) Business Analyst
13 13 (4.44%) Content Designer
14 12 (4.10%) Interaction Designer
15 11 (3.75%) Senior UI Designer
16 10 (3.41%) Senior UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (21.16%) HTML
2 61 (20.82%) CSS
3 49 (16.72%) React
4 28 (9.56%) AngularJS
5 26 (8.87%) RESTful
6 21 (7.17%) .NET
7 19 (6.48%) HTML5
8 18 (6.14%) jQuery
9 17 (5.80%) Redux
10 12 (4.10%) Node.js
11 10 (3.41%) Vue
12 9 (3.07%) REST
13 8 (2.73%) Framer.js
14 7 (2.39%) CSS3
14 7 (2.39%) GraphQL
14 7 (2.39%) Material-UI
15 6 (2.05%) Jest
15 6 (2.05%) OpenAPI
15 6 (2.05%) Swagger
16 5 (1.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.95%) Mobile App
2 29 (9.90%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.07%) Animation
5 8 (2.73%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.73%) Low-Code
6 7 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.39%) IoT
7 6 (2.05%) Photography
8 5 (1.71%) Motion Graphics
8 5 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.37%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.37%) Learning Management System
9 4 (1.37%) Social Media
10 3 (1.02%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.02%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.02%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.02%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.10%) Android
2 11 (3.75%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.02%) Windows
3 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (100.00%) User Experience
2 106 (36.18%) Agile
3 72 (24.57%) User Research
3 72 (24.57%) Wireframes
4 66 (22.53%) Prototyping
5 54 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (15.70%) Usability Testing
6 46 (15.70%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 42 (14.33%) Interaction Design
8 37 (12.63%) Front End Development
9 35 (11.95%) Analytics
10 32 (10.92%) CI/CD
10 32 (10.92%) Responsive Web Design
11 29 (9.90%) Scrum
12 28 (9.56%) UX Research
13 25 (8.53%) Artificial Intelligence
13 25 (8.53%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (8.19%) Project Management
14 24 (8.19%) Service Design
14 24 (8.19%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 65 (22.18%) JavaScript
2 30 (10.24%) SQL
3 27 (9.22%) TypeScript
4 22 (7.51%) C#
5 9 (3.07%) Python
6 6 (2.05%) Java
7 3 (1.02%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.02%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.68%) Dart
8 2 (0.68%) Scala
8 2 (0.68%) Swift
9 1 (0.34%) ABAP
9 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.34%) Go
9 1 (0.34%) Groovy
9 1 (0.34%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (9.56%) Security Cleared
2 27 (9.22%) Degree
3 25 (8.53%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.02%) CBAP
6 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.68%) PMP
8 1 (0.34%) CSPO
8 1 (0.34%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (19.80%) Accessibility
2 16 (5.46%) QA
3 13 (4.44%) WCAG
4 3 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) GDPR
5 1 (0.34%) PMO
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (2.73%) Docker
2 4 (1.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.37%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.68%) Terraform
3 1 (0.34%) Grafana
3 1 (0.34%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 37 (12.63%) Adobe
2 22 (7.51%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.78%) SAP
4 13 (4.44%) OutSystems
5 6 (2.05%) Google
5 6 (2.05%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.71%) Databricks
6 5 (1.71%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.37%) Optimizely
8 3 (1.02%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.02%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.34%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.34%) Avaya
9 1 (0.34%) DataCore
9 1 (0.34%) Genesys
9 1 (0.34%) GoldenSource
9 1 (0.34%) Solace
9 1 (0.34%) Splunk
9 1 (0.34%) Talend
9 1 (0.34%) TIBCO