UX Designer Contracts in London

User Experience Designer
England > London

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in London is £495, 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 300 294 277
Rank change year-on-year -6 -17 -12
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 53 97 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.42% 0.54% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.58% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 64 172
10th Percentile £334 £354 £400
25th Percentile £398 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £533 £598
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% -10.95% +11.59%
75th Percentile £556 £570 £650
90th Percentile £825 £600 £808
England median daily rate £475 £513 £535
% change year-on-year -7.32% -4.21% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.50 - -

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%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in London

UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for UX Designer in London

UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for UX Designer in London

UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Designer in London

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 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 -2 3 £456 -9.88% 3
East London +16 2 £495 -8.33% 1
West London - 1 £400 - 2
UX Designer
England

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

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

1 53 (100.00%) User Experience
2 52 (98.11%) UX Design
3 42 (79.25%) Figma
4 26 (49.06%) Prototyping
5 24 (45.28%) User Research
6 22 (41.51%) Finance
7 20 (37.74%) Social Skills
8 17 (32.08%) Banking
9 16 (30.19%) Sketch
10 14 (26.42%) Wireframes
11 13 (24.53%) Usability Testing
11 13 (24.53%) Adobe
12 12 (22.64%) Interaction Design
13 11 (20.75%) Adobe XD
14 10 (18.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 10 (18.87%) Agile
15 9 (16.98%) Responsive Web Design
15 9 (16.98%) Accessibility
16 8 (15.09%) UX Research
16 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (15.09%) Mobile App
16 8 (15.09%) Axure RP
17 7 (13.21%) Service Design
17 7 (13.21%) Front End Development
18 6 (11.32%) Analytics
18 6 (11.32%) Retail
18 6 (11.32%) Collaborative Working
18 6 (11.32%) Workshop Facilitation
19 5 (9.43%) Journey Map
19 5 (9.43%) Public Sector

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 2 (3.77%) CMS
2 1 (1.89%) Drupal
2 1 (1.89%) Moodle
2 1 (1.89%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (30.19%) Sketch
2 11 (20.75%) Adobe XD
3 5 (9.43%) InVision
4 1 (1.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.89%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.89%) Camtasia
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.89%) OmniGraffle
4 1 (1.89%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.89%) UXPin
4 1 (1.89%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 42 (79.25%) Figma
2 2 (3.77%) AWS
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.77%) Miro
3 1 (1.89%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Axure RP
2 1 (1.89%) Balsamiq
General
1 22 (41.51%) Finance
2 20 (37.74%) Social Skills
3 17 (32.08%) Banking
4 6 (11.32%) Retail
5 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (3.77%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.77%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.89%) Games
8 1 (1.89%) Local Government
8 1 (1.89%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) CSS
1 5 (9.43%) HTML
2 4 (7.55%) React
3 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.77%) CSS3
3 2 (3.77%) Framer.js
3 2 (3.77%) HTML5
3 2 (3.77%) RESTful
3 2 (3.77%) Vue
4 1 (1.89%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Mobile App
2 4 (7.55%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.77%) Educational Technology
4 2 (3.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.77%) Learning Management System
4 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) 3D Graphics
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.89%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.89%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (1.89%) VLE
5 1 (1.89%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) User Experience
2 52 (98.11%) UX Design
3 26 (49.06%) Prototyping
4 24 (45.28%) User Research
5 14 (26.42%) Wireframes
6 13 (24.53%) Usability Testing
7 12 (22.64%) Interaction Design
8 10 (18.87%) Agile
8 10 (18.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 9 (16.98%) Responsive Web Design
10 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (15.09%) UX Research
11 7 (13.21%) Front End Development
11 7 (13.21%) Service Design
12 6 (11.32%) Analytics
12 6 (11.32%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (11.32%) Workshop Facilitation
13 5 (9.43%) Inclusive Design
13 5 (9.43%) Journey Map
13 5 (9.43%) Typography
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.77%) Python
2 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.66%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.77%) Degree
3 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.55%) WCAG
3 3 (5.66%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Docker
Vendors
1 13 (24.53%) Adobe
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.89%) CA Agile Central