UX Design Contracts in Manchester

User Experience Design (UXD)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring UX Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UX Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 75 84
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 +17
Contract jobs citing UX Design 6 21 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.65% 1.38% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.59% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 24
10th Percentile £260 - £413
25th Percentile £375 £325 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £575
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -39.13% +15.00%
75th Percentile £425 £484 £600
90th Percentile - £570 £618
North West median daily rate £400 £426 £575
% change year-on-year -6.16% -25.87% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

UX Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for UX Design in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (16.67%) UXPin
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Balsamiq
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Legal
1 3 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Designer
1 5 (83.33%) UX Designer
2 4 (66.67%) Content Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Content Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Digital UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (50.00%) Social Media
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) User Experience
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Content Marketing
3 3 (50.00%) Conversational UI
3 3 (50.00%) Customer Insight
3 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (50.00%) Product Marketing
3 3 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (33.33%) User Research
5 1 (16.67%) Content Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Interaction Design
5 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
5 1 (16.67%) Service Design
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Identification
5 1 (16.67%) UX Research
5 1 (16.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Accessibility