Senior UX Designer Contracts in London

Senior User Experience Designer
England > London

The median Senior User Experience Designer daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 360 453
Rank change year-on-year +22 +93 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Senior UX Designer 15 31 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.19% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 25 24
10th Percentile £482 £403 £461
25th Percentile £513 £463 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £631
Median % change year-on-year - -12.87% +12.22%
75th Percentile £825 - £750
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +8.70%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior UX Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior UX Designer in London

Senior UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior UX Designer in London.

Daily rate trend for Senior UX Designer in London

Senior UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior UX Designer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior UX Designer in London

Senior UX Designer
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 Senior UX Designer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 - 1 £550 - 1
Senior UX Designer
England

Senior UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior UX Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Senior UX Designer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) User Experience
2 14 (93.33%) Figma
2 14 (93.33%) UX Design
3 11 (73.33%) Banking
4 10 (66.67%) Finance
5 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
6 7 (46.67%) Agile
7 6 (40.00%) Prototyping
8 5 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 5 (33.33%) UX Research
8 5 (33.33%) Accessibility
8 5 (33.33%) User Research
9 4 (26.67%) Inclusive Design
9 4 (26.67%) Strategic Thinking
9 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (26.67%) Wireframes
9 4 (26.67%) Adobe
9 4 (26.67%) Responsive Web Design
9 4 (26.67%) Mobile App
9 4 (26.67%) Information Architecture
10 3 (20.00%) Copywriting
10 3 (20.00%) Adobe XD
10 3 (20.00%) Sketch
10 3 (20.00%) Product Thinking
11 2 (13.33%) Journey Map
11 2 (13.33%) Interaction Design
11 2 (13.33%) Product Strategy
11 2 (13.33%) Data Science
11 2 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
11 2 (13.33%) Mentoring

Senior UX Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Adobe XD
1 3 (20.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) Figma
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Miro
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
General
1 11 (73.33%) Banking
2 10 (66.67%) Finance
3 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) CSS
1 1 (6.67%) HTML
1 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) User Experience
2 14 (93.33%) UX Design
3 7 (46.67%) Agile
4 6 (40.00%) Prototyping
5 5 (33.33%) User Research
5 5 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 5 (33.33%) UX Research
6 4 (26.67%) Inclusive Design
6 4 (26.67%) Information Architecture
6 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (26.67%) Responsive Web Design
6 4 (26.67%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (26.67%) Wireframes
7 3 (20.00%) Copywriting
7 3 (20.00%) Product Thinking
8 2 (13.33%) Data Science
8 2 (13.33%) Front End Development
8 2 (13.33%) Journey Map
8 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
8 2 (13.33%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Adobe
2 1 (6.67%) CA Agile Central