UX Design Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

User Experience Design (UXD)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring UX Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing UX Design 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 1.92% - 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% - 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.26%
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £388 £383 £575
% change year-on-year +1.31% -33.48% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 229 165 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 88.08% 72.37% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 87 73
10th Percentile £132 £147 £221
25th Percentile £151 £188 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £413 £463
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -10.81% -2.63%
75th Percentile £500 £507 £575
90th Percentile £642 £626 £620
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 14
10th Percentile - £13.07 £13.77
25th Percentile £15.18 £14.84 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.95 £18.60 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +66.43% -0.83% +6.78%
75th Percentile £51.02 £23.13 £26.71
90th Percentile - £23.53 £43.70
North West median hourly rate £31.75 £31.25 £35.73
% change year-on-year +1.60% -12.53% +34.66%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing UX Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

UX Design job vacancy trend in Merseyside

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing UX Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing UX Design

UX Design
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Liverpool - 5 £425 - 1
UX Design
North West

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Figma
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (20.00%) Firebase
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Axure RP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) UX Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) Streamlit
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) D3.js
2 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (20.00%) Flask
2 1 (20.00%) Flutter
2 1 (20.00%) Gradio
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) LangChain
2 1 (20.00%) Material-UI
2 1 (20.00%) Next.js
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React Native
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (60.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) User Experience
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (80.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (60.00%) Rapid Prototyping
4 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (40.00%) Design Thinking
5 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (20.00%) Co-Creation
5 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
5 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (20.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 1 (20.00%) Interaction Design
5 1 (20.00%) Journey Map
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) User Research
5 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Netlify
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAI