UX Design Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

User Experience Design (UXD)
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Liverpool 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 30 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing UX Design 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 2.44% - 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% - 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.43%
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median daily rate £425 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -4.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 183 142 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 89.27% 75.13% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 77 61
10th Percentile £134 £144 £220
25th Percentile £163 £175 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -15.79% -
75th Percentile £505 £501 £563
90th Percentile £650 £626 £638
Merseyside median daily rate £275 £413 £463
% change year-on-year -33.33% -10.81% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 13
10th Percentile - £12.65 £13.56
25th Percentile £15.18 £14.40 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.24 £19.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.72% +2.63% +8.57%
75th Percentile £51.02 £23.40 £28.44
90th Percentile - £23.53 £45.80
Merseyside median hourly rate £30.95 £18.60 £18.75
% change year-on-year +66.43% -0.83% +6.78%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in Liverpool

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

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

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Figma
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (20.00%) Firebase
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Axure RP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) UX Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) Streamlit
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) D3.js
2 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (20.00%) Flask
2 1 (20.00%) Flutter
2 1 (20.00%) Gradio
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) LangChain
2 1 (20.00%) Material-UI
2 1 (20.00%) Next.js
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React Native
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (60.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) User Experience
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (80.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (60.00%) Rapid Prototyping
4 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (40.00%) Design Thinking
5 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (20.00%) Co-Creation
5 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
5 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (20.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 1 (20.00%) Interaction Design
5 1 (20.00%) Journey Map
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) User Research
5 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Netlify
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAI