UX Design Contracts in London

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for UX Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited UX Design over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 136 116
Rank change year-on-year -28 -20 -16
Contract jobs citing UX Design 266 519 961
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.50% 1.94% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 2.13% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 373 697
10th Percentile £392 £410 £406
25th Percentile £425 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £644 £649 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile £28.62 £34.47 £36.18
25th Percentile - £38.75 £50.50
Median hourly rate £31.71 £53.75 £57.36
Median % change year-on-year -41.00% -6.29% +65.41%
75th Percentile £41.84 £71.25 £63.17
90th Percentile - £81.25 £76.31
England median hourly rate £41.68 £54.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year -23.53% +1.40% +45.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

UX Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,688 24,387 35,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 91.02% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,246 17,526 26,214
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 276 425
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.56 £17.20
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +7.11% +10.84%
75th Percentile £47.34 £64.06 £50.75
90th Percentile £65.68 £80.00 £68.50
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in London

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for UX Design in London

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in London

UX Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UX Design in London.

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UX Design in London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for UX Design in London

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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 UX Design within the London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 +22 34 £525 -4.55% 24
West London -27 3 £475 -14.61% 7
North London - 2 £344 -
South London +1 1 £450 -25.00% 1
East London -5 1 £540 -10.00% 8
UX Design
England

UX Design
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 15 (5.64%) CMS
2 5 (1.88%) WordPress
3 4 (1.50%) Confluence
4 3 (1.13%) Apache
4 3 (1.13%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) Drupal
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (12.03%) Sketch
2 19 (7.14%) Adobe XD
3 11 (4.14%) InVision
4 7 (2.63%) Photoshop
5 5 (1.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (1.88%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (1.13%) InDesign
6 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (1.13%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.38%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.38%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) WebTrends
2 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (25.94%) Figma
2 30 (11.28%) AWS
3 24 (9.02%) Azure
4 13 (4.89%) GitHub
5 10 (3.76%) Miro
6 8 (3.01%) GCP
6 8 (3.01%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.26%) Serverless
8 5 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.50%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.13%) npm
10 3 (1.13%) SaaS
10 3 (1.13%) Yarn
11 2 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.75%) Asana
11 2 (0.75%) IaaS
11 2 (0.75%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.75%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.75%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.02%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (3.38%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.01%) Power BI
4 6 (2.26%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.88%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (1.50%) MySQL
6 4 (1.50%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.13%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.75%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.75%) Looker
9 1 (0.38%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.38%) Big Data
9 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.38%) HBase
9 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.38%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 17 (6.39%) Git
2 9 (3.38%) Axure RP
3 8 (3.01%) JIRA
4 6 (2.26%) webpack
5 5 (1.88%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.50%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.50%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.13%) Babel
8 2 (0.75%) Ant
8 2 (0.75%) Gradle
8 2 (0.75%) Maven
8 2 (0.75%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.75%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.38%) Selenium
9 1 (0.38%) Subversion
9 1 (0.38%) TestNG
General
1 74 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 61 (22.93%) Finance
3 21 (7.89%) Banking
4 19 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.14%) Marketing
5 13 (4.89%) Games
6 9 (3.38%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.38%) Retail
7 7 (2.63%) Front Office
7 7 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.63%) Local Government
8 6 (2.26%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.26%) Health Technology
8 6 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.26%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.88%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.88%) Legal
9 5 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.88%) Publishing
10 4 (1.50%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 123 (46.24%) Designer
2 93 (34.96%) UX Designer
3 71 (26.69%) Senior
4 59 (22.18%) Developer
5 33 (12.41%) UI Designer
6 32 (12.03%) Senior Designer
7 30 (11.28%) UI/UX Designer
8 29 (10.90%) Senior UX Designer
9 23 (8.65%) React Developer
10 22 (8.27%) Software Engineer
11 21 (7.89%) Senior Software Engineer
12 19 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 17 (6.39%) Lead
14 14 (5.26%) Senior Developer
14 14 (5.26%) UX Developer
15 13 (4.89%) UI Developer
16 11 (4.14%) Full Stack Developer
16 11 (4.14%) UI/UX Developer
17 9 (3.38%) Content Designer
17 9 (3.38%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (19.55%) HTML
2 47 (17.67%) React
3 45 (16.92%) CSS
4 19 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 17 (6.39%) Kafka
6 14 (5.26%) RESTful
7 12 (4.51%) CSS3
8 11 (4.14%) HTML5
9 10 (3.76%) REST
10 9 (3.38%) .NET
11 7 (2.63%) Ajax
11 7 (2.63%) Redux
12 6 (2.26%) jQuery
12 6 (2.26%) Vue
13 5 (1.88%) Node.js
13 5 (1.88%) SAML
13 5 (1.88%) Unity (Game Engine)
13 5 (1.88%) Web Services
14 4 (1.50%) SignalR
14 4 (1.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.15%) Mobile App
2 22 (8.27%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.76%) Fixed Income
5 8 (3.01%) Graphic Design
6 7 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.88%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.88%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.50%) Animation
8 4 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.13%) CMDB
9 3 (1.13%) Derivative
9 3 (1.13%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.13%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.13%) Mobile Banking
9 3 (1.13%) Mobile Games
9 3 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.50%) Android
1 4 (1.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (100.00%) User Experience
2 92 (34.59%) Agile
3 61 (22.93%) User Research
4 43 (16.17%) Front End Development
4 43 (16.17%) Wireframes
5 41 (15.41%) UX Research
6 36 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (13.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 28 (10.53%) Software Engineering
9 24 (9.02%) Prototyping
9 24 (9.02%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (8.65%) Customer Experience
10 23 (8.65%) Usability Testing
11 21 (7.89%) Fintech
12 20 (7.52%) E-Commerce
12 20 (7.52%) Service Design
13 19 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
14 18 (6.77%) Design Thinking
14 18 (6.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 17 (6.39%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 47 (17.67%) JavaScript
2 17 (6.39%) Go
2 17 (6.39%) SQL
3 14 (5.26%) Java
3 14 (5.26%) TypeScript
4 10 (3.76%) Python
5 9 (3.38%) C#
6 5 (1.88%) PHP
7 1 (0.38%) Dart
7 1 (0.38%) JSX
7 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 28 (10.53%) Degree
2 7 (2.63%) SC Cleared
2 7 (2.63%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.88%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.75%) MBA
6 1 (0.38%) ISEB
6 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.16%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.38%) QA
3 4 (1.50%) WCAG
4 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 1 (0.38%) GRC
System Software
1 19 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (6.39%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.38%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (0.38%) Oozie
Vendors
1 34 (12.78%) Adobe
2 10 (3.76%) Google
3 8 (3.01%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.88%) MicroStrategy
4 5 (1.88%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.50%) Black Duck
6 3 (1.13%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.75%) Apple
7 2 (0.75%) Maxymiser
7 2 (0.75%) Optimizely
7 2 (0.75%) Oracle
7 2 (0.75%) Proofpoint
7 2 (0.75%) SAP
7 2 (0.75%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.38%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.38%) Databricks
8 1 (0.38%) Sitecore