Figma Contract Job Trends in London

Figma
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Figma skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 220 298
Rank change year-on-year -56 +78 +9
Contract jobs citing Figma 165 143 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 1.05% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 2.44% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 95 77
10th Percentile £383 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +12.42% -2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £588 £566 £575
90th Percentile £678 £650 £600
England median daily rate £489 £469 £463
% change year-on-year +4.27% +1.35% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £45.46 - -
25th Percentile £46.33 £35.25 £38.25
Median hourly rate £48.16 £36.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.93% -7.59% -16.84%
75th Percentile £50.34 £46.00 £40.75
90th Percentile £51.43 £52.75 -
England median hourly rate £33.99 £36.50 £39.50
% change year-on-year -6.88% -7.59% -28.18%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

Figma falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,268 5,852 6,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.52% 42.91% 40.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,655 3,998 5,080
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.39% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 81 61
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.01 £22.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.79% -52.05%
75th Percentile £54.75 £47.50 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.75 £67.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £39.02 £25.15 £21.75
% change year-on-year +55.15% +15.63% -37.67%

Figma
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Figma relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Figma job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Figma.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Figma

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Figma in London over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Figma in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Figma.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Figma

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Figma within the London region over the 6 months to 19 July 2026. 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
Central London -12 15 £575 +18.56% 9
Figma
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 17 (10.30%) Confluence
2 8 (4.85%) CMS
3 2 (1.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.61%) Drupal
4 1 (0.61%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.61%) Kentico
Applications
1 17 (10.30%) Sketch
2 14 (8.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (6.67%) Adobe XD
4 8 (4.85%) Photoshop
5 5 (3.03%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (2.42%) Adobe After Effects
6 4 (2.42%) Chatbot
6 4 (2.42%) InDesign
6 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (1.82%) InVision
7 3 (1.82%) MS Visio
8 2 (1.21%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.61%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.61%) Blender
9 1 (0.61%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Shopify
2 1 (0.61%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 12 (7.27%) AWS
1 12 (7.27%) SaaS
2 9 (5.45%) Azure
3 7 (4.24%) GitHub
3 7 (4.24%) Slack
4 5 (3.03%) Google Analytics
4 5 (3.03%) Miro
5 4 (2.42%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 4 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.42%) GCP
5 4 (2.42%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (1.82%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.82%) Serverless
7 2 (1.21%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.21%) ChatGPT
7 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.21%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.21%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.21%) DynamoDB
2 2 (1.21%) Power BI
2 2 (1.21%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.61%) Metadata
3 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (12.12%) JIRA
2 10 (6.06%) Cypress.io
3 7 (4.24%) Storybook
4 5 (3.03%) Claude Code
4 5 (3.03%) Git
5 2 (1.21%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.61%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.61%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.61%) GitLab
6 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.61%) Subversion
General
1 52 (31.52%) Social Skills
2 51 (30.91%) Finance
3 23 (13.94%) Banking
4 19 (11.52%) Retail
5 16 (9.70%) Marketing
6 14 (8.48%) Public Sector
7 13 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (4.24%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.42%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.82%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.82%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.21%) Advertising
12 2 (1.21%) Front Office
12 2 (1.21%) Legal
12 2 (1.21%) Military
12 2 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.21%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 113 (68.48%) Designer
2 32 (19.39%) UX Designer
3 31 (18.79%) Product Designer
4 27 (16.36%) UI Designer
5 19 (11.52%) Senior
6 18 (10.91%) Lead
7 14 (8.48%) Senior Designer
8 11 (6.67%) Content Designer
9 10 (6.06%) Lead Designer
10 9 (5.45%) Developer
11 8 (4.85%) Interaction Designer
11 8 (4.85%) UI/UX Designer
12 6 (3.64%) Service Designer
13 5 (3.03%) Architect
13 5 (3.03%) Consultant
13 5 (3.03%) Senior Product Designer
13 5 (3.03%) Senior UX Designer
14 4 (2.42%) Analyst
14 4 (2.42%) Business Analyst
14 4 (2.42%) Product Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.33%) React
2 17 (10.30%) CSS
3 15 (9.09%) HTML
4 7 (4.24%) Playwright
5 6 (3.64%) CSS3
5 6 (3.64%) HTML5
5 6 (3.64%) RESTful
6 5 (3.03%) Jest
6 5 (3.03%) Kafka
7 4 (2.42%) JWT
7 4 (2.42%) OAuth
7 4 (2.42%) OAuth2
7 4 (2.42%) REST
8 3 (1.82%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.82%) Next.js
8 3 (1.82%) Node.js
8 3 (1.82%) Tailwind CSS
9 2 (1.21%) .NET
9 2 (1.21%) Framer.js
9 2 (1.21%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.30%) Mobile App
2 15 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 13 (7.88%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (7.27%) Graphic Design
5 7 (4.24%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.03%) Motion Graphics
6 5 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.82%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.82%) Digital Media
7 3 (1.82%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (1.21%) FMCG
8 2 (1.21%) Genomics
8 2 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.21%) Life Science
8 2 (1.21%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.21%) Midjourney
8 2 (1.21%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.61%) 3D Graphics
9 1 (0.61%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.64%) Android
2 5 (3.03%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.61%) Linux
3 1 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (69.70%) User Experience
2 75 (45.45%) UX Design
3 62 (37.58%) Agile
4 53 (32.12%) Wireframes
5 47 (28.48%) AI
6 45 (27.27%) Prototyping
7 44 (26.67%) User Research
8 36 (21.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (14.55%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
9 24 (14.55%) Interaction Design
10 23 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (13.33%) E-Commerce
11 22 (13.33%) Generative AI
12 20 (12.12%) Journey Map
13 19 (11.52%) Usability Testing
14 18 (10.91%) Analytics
14 18 (10.91%) Workshop Facilitation
15 17 (10.30%) Service Design
15 17 (10.30%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 17 (10.30%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 20 (12.12%) TypeScript
2 15 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 10 (6.06%) Python
4 3 (1.82%) Java
5 2 (1.21%) Ruby
5 2 (1.21%) Scala
5 2 (1.21%) SQL
6 1 (0.61%) C#
6 1 (0.61%) C++
6 1 (0.61%) Haskell
6 1 (0.61%) Korn
Qualifications
1 14 (8.48%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.88%) Degree
2 13 (7.88%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.64%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (37.58%) Accessibility
2 26 (15.76%) WCAG
3 6 (3.64%) QA
4 1 (0.61%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.61%) WAI
4 1 (0.61%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 8 (4.85%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.42%) Grafana
2 4 (2.42%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.21%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (20.00%) Adobe
2 9 (5.45%) Google
3 2 (1.21%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.21%) Databricks
4 1 (0.61%) CODA
4 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.61%) Pardot
4 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.61%) TikTok
4 1 (0.61%) YouTube