Senior UI/UX Designer Contract Job Trends in London

Senior User Interface/User Experience Designer
England > London

The median Senior User Interface/User Experience Designer daily rate in London is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 382 421
Rank change year-on-year +15 +39 +124
Contract jobs requiring a Senior UI/UX Designer 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.022% 0.006% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.007% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £383 - -
25th Percentile £394 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £494 £550 -
90th Percentile £528 - -
England median daily rate £425 £388 -
% change year-on-year +9.68% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,626 14,784 19,120
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.03% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,377 9,568 13,908
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 163 209
10th Percentile £17.08 £17.25 £18.13
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.78 £37.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% -7.41% +24.62%
75th Percentile £47.50 £59.38 £61.53
90th Percentile £65.57 £80.75 £76.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -39.40% -9.55% +55.53%

Senior UI/UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior UI/UX Designer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior UI/UX Designer job vacancy trend in London

Senior UI/UX Designer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior UI/UX Designer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior UI/UX Designer job vacancies in London

Senior UI/UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior UI/UX Designer in London over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior UI/UX Designer in London

Senior UI/UX Designer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 30 October 2025, Senior UI/UX Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Senior UI/UX Designer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
1 3 (100.00%) UX Design
2 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (66.67%) Interaction Design
2 2 (66.67%) User Research
2 2 (66.67%) Wireframes
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Journey Map
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Figma
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Journey Map
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Qualitative Research
3 1 (33.33%) Quantitative Research
3 1 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (33.33%) Storyboarding
3 1 (33.33%) Storytelling
3 1 (33.33%) Typography
3 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation

Senior UI/UX Designer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
1 3 (100.00%) UX Design
2 2 (66.67%) Interaction Design
2 2 (66.67%) User Research
2 2 (66.67%) Wireframes
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Journey Map
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Journey Map
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Quantitative Research
3 1 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (33.33%) Storyboarding
3 1 (33.33%) Storytelling
3 1 (33.33%) Typography
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft