Interaction Design Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Interaction Design (IxD)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Interaction Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 121 128
Rank change year-on-year -35 +7 +44
Contract jobs citing Interaction Design 8 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.25% 0.044% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.051% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £351
25th Percentile £410 - £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.41%
75th Percentile £430 - £491
90th Percentile - - £504
England median daily rate £453 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -8.59% -1.00% -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Interaction 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,742 1,969 2,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.09% 86.47% 84.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,714 1,228 1,474
10th Percentile £250 £244 £254
25th Percentile £380 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% +4.71% -3.54%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 71 98
10th Percentile £14.13 £14.70 £13.78
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.77
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.59 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% -6.13% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £32.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £30.23 £52.50 £67.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

Interaction Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Interaction Design job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Interaction Design
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Interaction Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Interaction Design

Interaction Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Interaction Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Interaction Design

Interaction Design
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Interaction Design within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
West Midlands -21 8 £420 - 8
Interaction Design
England

Interaction Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (12.50%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (12.50%) Blender
1 1 (12.50%) CINEMA 4D
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (25.00%) Legal
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Designer
1 5 (62.50%) Interaction Designer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Animator
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) React
3 1 (12.50%) Framer.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Animation
1 1 (12.50%) Motion Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) User Experience
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) User Research
3 3 (37.50%) Service Design
3 3 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (25.00%) AI
4 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Data Science
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Minimum Viable Product
4 2 (25.00%) SDLC
5 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) OneLogin