UX Designer Contracts in Manchester

User Experience Designer
North West > Manchester

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in Manchester is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 93 99
Rank change year-on-year +27 +6 +29
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 6 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.67% 0.21% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.22% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile - - £427
25th Percentile £375 - £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £519
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.07%
75th Percentile £481 - £583
90th Percentile £500 - £616
North West median daily rate £400 - £438
% change year-on-year - - -14.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 833 1,375 1,714
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.97% 95.55% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 953 1,276
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £400 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £466 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 84 43
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.87
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £16.85
Median hourly rate £24.83 £28.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% +9.62% +36.84%
75th Percentile £66.25 £63.13 £44.38
90th Percentile £78.38 £73.75 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £32.12 £30.54
% change year-on-year -10.48% +5.16% +29.71%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in Manchester

UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for UX Designer in Manchester

UX Designer
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 30 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
Salford - 2 £500 -
UX Designer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 Manchester region featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) UX Design
1 6 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) Customer Insight
2 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (50.00%) Social Media
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Legal
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (50.00%) Marketing
2 3 (50.00%) Chatbot
2 3 (50.00%) Content Marketing
2 3 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 3 (50.00%) Figma
2 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (50.00%) Product Marketing
2 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (16.67%) User Research
3 1 (16.67%) Wireframes
3 1 (16.67%) UXPin
3 1 (16.67%) Product Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Psychology
3 1 (16.67%) Usability Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Information Architecture

UX Designer Skill Set
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%) Presentation Skills
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) User Experience
1 6 (100.00%) UX Design
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Content Marketing
2 3 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 3 (50.00%) Customer Insight
2 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) Product Marketing
2 3 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Information Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Product Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Psychology
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Usability Testing
3 1 (16.67%) User Research
3 1 (16.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility