UX Designer Contracts in London

User Experience Designer
England > London

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in London is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 322 292
Rank change year-on-year +20 -30 -11
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 52 78 202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.40% 0.45% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.48% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 51 148
10th Percentile £300 £363 £356
25th Percentile £313 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -8.70% +9.11%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £650
90th Percentile £538 £650 £750
England median daily rate £408 £504 £528
% change year-on-year -19.14% -4.41% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £46.85 - -
25th Percentile £47.75 - -
Median hourly rate £51.00 - -
75th Percentile £54.75 - -
90th Percentile £55.95 - -
England median hourly rate £51.00 - -

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 12,044 16,404 23,985
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 93.88% 94.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,141 11,758 17,511
10th Percentile £335 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 316 271
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.23 £20.17 £22.95
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -26.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £50.50 £45.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.18 £39.55 £43.93
% change year-on-year -28.75% -9.97% +75.72%

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 July 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 July 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 4 £431 -14.81% 17
East London +14 2 £495 -8.33% 5
UX Designer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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 52 (100.00%) User Experience
2 51 (98.08%) UX Design
3 35 (67.31%) Figma
4 20 (38.46%) Prototyping
5 18 (34.62%) Wireframes
5 18 (34.62%) Finance
6 17 (32.69%) Sketch
7 16 (30.77%) User Research
8 14 (26.92%) Banking
9 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
10 12 (23.08%) Product Ownership
10 12 (23.08%) Accessibility
10 12 (23.08%) Workshop Facilitation
10 12 (23.08%) Agile
10 12 (23.08%) Adobe
11 11 (21.15%) Axure RP
11 11 (21.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 9 (17.31%) Adobe XD
12 9 (17.31%) HTML
12 9 (17.31%) CSS
12 9 (17.31%) Mobile App
13 8 (15.38%) JavaScript
13 8 (15.38%) UX Research
14 7 (13.46%) Inclusive Design
14 7 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
14 7 (13.46%) Retail
14 7 (13.46%) Responsive Web Design
14 7 (13.46%) Interaction Design
15 6 (11.54%) Front End Development

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 (1.92%) CMS
1 1 (1.92%) Drupal
1 1 (1.92%) Moodle
Applications
1 17 (32.69%) Sketch
2 9 (17.31%) Adobe XD
3 3 (5.77%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (5.77%) InVision
3 3 (5.77%) OmniGraffle
3 3 (5.77%) Photoshop
3 3 (5.77%) UXPin
4 2 (3.85%) Chatbot
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (1.92%) Camtasia
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.92%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 35 (67.31%) Figma
2 2 (3.85%) Miro
3 1 (1.92%) AWS
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 11 (21.15%) Axure RP
2 3 (5.77%) Balsamiq
General
1 18 (34.62%) Finance
2 14 (26.92%) Banking
3 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (13.46%) Retail
5 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.77%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (5.77%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.77%) Retail Banking
7 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.92%) Local Government
8 1 (1.92%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.31%) CSS
1 9 (17.31%) HTML
2 4 (7.69%) Framer.js
3 3 (5.77%) React
4 2 (3.85%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.85%) CSS3
4 2 (3.85%) HTML5
4 2 (3.85%) RESTful
4 2 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 9 (17.31%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.77%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.85%) Educational Technology
4 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.85%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.92%) 3D Graphics
5 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.92%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.92%) VLE
5 1 (1.92%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Android
1 5 (9.62%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) User Experience
2 51 (98.08%) UX Design
3 20 (38.46%) Prototyping
4 18 (34.62%) Wireframes
5 16 (30.77%) User Research
6 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (23.08%) Agile
7 12 (23.08%) Workshop Facilitation
8 11 (21.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 8 (15.38%) UX Research
10 7 (13.46%) Inclusive Design
10 7 (13.46%) Interaction Design
10 7 (13.46%) Responsive Web Design
10 7 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (11.54%) Design Thinking
11 6 (11.54%) Front End Development
11 6 (11.54%) Usability Testing
12 5 (9.62%) Artificial Intelligence
12 5 (9.62%) Journey Map
12 5 (9.62%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.85%) Python
2 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.92%) Degree
2 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (23.08%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.69%) WCAG
3 3 (5.77%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (23.08%) Adobe
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.92%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.92%) Virgin Media