UX Designer Contract Job Trends in Essex

User Experience Designer
East of England > Essex

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in Essex is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 20 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 1.74% 0.79% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.08% 0.83% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
East of England median daily rate £425 £450 £563
% change year-on-year -5.56% -20.00% -10.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Essex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 96 121 212
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.48% 96.03% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 59 129
10th Percentile £175 £180 £180
25th Percentile £200 £263 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £318 £475
Median % change year-on-year +21.86% -33.05% +0.53%
75th Percentile £506 £450 £575
90th Percentile £550 £600 £601
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 16
10th Percentile - £20.75 £20.25
25th Percentile £13.25 £26.98 £20.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.59 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -34.44% +161.92%
75th Percentile £71.50 £76.44 £76.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £79.75
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -36.84% +6.74% +124.63%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'UX Designer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

UX Designer job vacancy trend in Essex

UX Designer
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UX Designer job vacancies in Essex.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UX Designer job vacancies in Essex

UX Designer
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UX Designer within the Essex region over the 6 months to 30 October 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
Witham - 2 £425 -
UX Designer
East of England

UX Designer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex

For the 6 months to 30 October 2025, UX Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Essex region featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Contentful
1 2 (100.00%) Figma
1 2 (100.00%) Framer.js
1 2 (100.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
1 2 (100.00%) Interaction Design
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
1 2 (100.00%) Sketch
1 2 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
1 2 (100.00%) Wireframes

UX Designer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Contentful
1 2 (100.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Framer.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
1 2 (100.00%) Interaction Design
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
1 2 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
1 2 (100.00%) Wireframes