UX Design Contracts in Glasgow

User Experience Design (UXD)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 64 64 72
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing UX Design 15 18 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.88% 2.05% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 2.23% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 11
10th Percentile £303 - £356
25th Percentile £400 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £378
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +5.96% -8.48%
75th Percentile £512 £458 £425
90th Percentile £556 £487 £471
Scotland median daily rate £413 £438 £433
% change year-on-year -5.71% +1.16% -13.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in Glasgow

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for UX Design in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 4 (26.67%) Sketch
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe XD
3 1 (6.67%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Figma
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) MariaDB
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Xcode
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) webpack
3 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Designer
2 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) UX Designer
3 3 (20.00%) Mobile Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Service Designer
4 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (13.33%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Designer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Service Designer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior UX Designer
4 2 (13.33%) UX Service Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Node.js
1 5 (33.33%) React
2 3 (20.00%) CSS
2 3 (20.00%) HTML
2 3 (20.00%) RESTful
2 3 (20.00%) SwiftUI
2 3 (20.00%) UIKit
3 2 (13.33%) CSS3
3 2 (13.33%) HTML5
3 2 (13.33%) Redux
3 2 (13.33%) Vue
4 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Credit Risk
1 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (20.00%) iPad
1 3 (20.00%) iPhone
1 3 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Android
1 5 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) User Experience
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (46.67%) Service Design
3 7 (46.67%) Wireframes
4 6 (40.00%) Agile
4 6 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 6 (40.00%) Prototyping
4 6 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 5 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 5 (33.33%) Microservices
5 5 (33.33%) Usability Testing
5 5 (33.33%) User Research
6 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) A/B Testing
7 3 (20.00%) API Management
7 3 (20.00%) Customer Experience
7 3 (20.00%) Design Thinking
7 3 (20.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
7 3 (20.00%) Push Notifications
7 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (20.00%) Objective-C
2 3 (20.00%) Swift
3 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (20.00%) WCAG
3 2 (13.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Adobe