UX Design Contract Job Trends in Leeds

User Experience Design (UXD)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring UX Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 51 65
Rank change year-on-year -13 +14 -4
Contract jobs citing UX Design 12 10 7
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.63% 1.65% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.90% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 4
10th Percentile £398 £465 -
25th Percentile £447 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £519 £456
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% +13.70% -13.10%
75th Percentile £547 £547 £495
90th Percentile £575 £553 £543
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £519 £456
% change year-on-year -3.61% +13.70% -13.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 648 526 800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.80% 86.94% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 331 539
10th Percentile £305 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £573 £574 £614
90th Percentile £649 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 6
10th Percentile - £15.59 £18.50
25th Percentile - £17.43 £18.74
Median hourly rate £14.25 £35.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -59.29% +66.61% -2.29%
75th Percentile £25.00 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £26.95 £98.25 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.46% +71.05% -11.63%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in Leeds

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Leeds over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in Leeds

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing UX Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing UX Design

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe XD
1 1 (8.33%) InVision
1 1 (8.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) CircleCI
3 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 5 (41.67%) Designer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Designer
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) UX Designer
4 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 2 (16.67%) iOS Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior UX Designer
4 2 (16.67%) Service Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Service Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) RESTful
2 4 (33.33%) React
3 3 (25.00%) Node.js
4 2 (16.67%) SwiftUI
5 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
5 1 (8.33%) CSS
5 1 (8.33%) CSS3
5 1 (8.33%) HTML
5 1 (8.33%) HTML5
5 1 (8.33%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 2 (16.67%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) User Experience
2 4 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 4 (33.33%) Microservices
2 4 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 3 (25.00%) Information Architecture
3 3 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (25.00%) Service Design
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (25.00%) User Research
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Software Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) Swift
2 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Adobe