UX Design Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

User Experience Design (UXD)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring UX Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 69 68
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing UX Design 8 15 12
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.12% 1.80% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.93% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 9
10th Percentile £453 £317 £390
25th Percentile £463 £391 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £449 £400
Median % change year-on-year +30.92% +12.19% +5.96%
75th Percentile £606 £504 -
90th Percentile - £542 £408
Scotland median daily rate £550 £431 £400
% change year-on-year +27.54% +7.81% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.03 - -
Median hourly rate £28.09 - -
75th Percentile £29.16 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £46.55 - -

All Process & 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 589 776 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.72% 93.05% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 490 543
10th Percentile £306 £312 £313
25th Percentile £375 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year - -8.16% +3.16%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £610 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 38
10th Percentile £16.11 £16.75 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.17 £23.17 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% +28.69% +55.64%
75th Percentile £49.15 £67.56 £40.94
90th Percentile £58.91 £77.63 £66.25
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.50
% change year-on-year -12.57% +17.31% +20.00%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing UX Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

UX Design job vacancy trend in Glasgow

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing UX Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing UX Design

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Glasgow over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in Glasgow

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (12.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (12.50%) InDesign
1 1 (12.50%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 4 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Designer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) UX Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 1 (12.50%) React Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Service Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Jest
1 5 (62.50%) React
1 5 (62.50%) RESTful
2 4 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (50.00%) Spring
2 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (37.50%) CSS
3 3 (37.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) CSS3
4 1 (12.50%) Django
4 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
4 1 (12.50%) Flask
4 1 (12.50%) HTML5
4 1 (12.50%) pytest
4 1 (12.50%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (12.50%) Graphic Design
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) User Experience
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Front End Development
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
4 4 (50.00%) Fintech
4 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (50.00%) Microservices
4 4 (50.00%) Observability
4 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (37.50%) Interaction Design
5 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (37.50%) Prototyping
5 3 (37.50%) User Research
5 3 (37.50%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) Accessibility
2 5 (62.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe