UI/UX Designer Contracts in London

User Interface/User Experience Designer
England > London

The median User Interface/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 337 360 413
Rank change year-on-year +23 +53 +52
Contract jobs requiring a UI/UX Designer 16 31 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.17% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.19% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 62
10th Percentile £360 £400 £333
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £599
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -14.44% +15.19%
75th Percentile £825 £600 £816
90th Percentile - £643 £838
England median daily rate £480 £481 £543
% change year-on-year -0.26% -11.29% +10.71%

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%

UI/UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for UI/UX Designer in London

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for UI/UX Designer in London

UI/UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for UI/UX Designer in London

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UI/UX Designer in London.

Hourly rate trend for UI/UX Designer in London

UI/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 UI/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
East London - 2 £495 -
Central London -2 1 £550 -5.38% 1
UI/UX Designer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, UI/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 UI/UX Designer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) UX Design
1 16 (100.00%) User Experience
2 14 (87.50%) Figma
3 10 (62.50%) Finance
4 9 (56.25%) Banking
4 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
5 7 (43.75%) User Research
5 7 (43.75%) Agile
6 6 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 5 (31.25%) Prototyping
8 4 (25.00%) Sketch
8 4 (25.00%) Accessibility
9 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (18.75%) Wireframes
9 3 (18.75%) Front End Development
10 2 (12.50%) Service Design
10 2 (12.50%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
10 2 (12.50%) Adobe XD
10 2 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
10 2 (12.50%) Axure RP
10 2 (12.50%) Usability Testing
10 2 (12.50%) Responsive Web Design
10 2 (12.50%) Adobe
10 2 (12.50%) WCAG
10 2 (12.50%) QA
11 1 (6.25%) Drupal
11 1 (6.25%) CMS
11 1 (6.25%) Games
11 1 (6.25%) nginx
11 1 (6.25%) Product Management

UI/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 (6.25%) CMS
1 1 (6.25%) Drupal
1 1 (6.25%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Sketch
2 2 (12.50%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) Figma
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Axure RP
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 9 (56.25%) Banking
2 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Games
3 1 (6.25%) Local Government
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) CSS
1 1 (6.25%) HTML
1 1 (6.25%) React
1 1 (6.25%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) User Experience
1 16 (100.00%) UX Design
2 7 (43.75%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) User Research
3 6 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 5 (31.25%) Prototyping
5 3 (18.75%) Front End Development
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Wireframes
6 2 (12.50%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
6 2 (12.50%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (12.50%) Service Design
6 2 (12.50%) Usability Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
7 1 (6.25%) Analytics
7 1 (6.25%) Asset Management
7 1 (6.25%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
7 1 (6.25%) Product Management
7 1 (6.25%) Rapid Prototyping
7 1 (6.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Adobe