UX Design Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring UX Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 111 127
Rank change year-on-year -16 +16 -20
Contract jobs citing UX Design 37 13 7
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.15% 0.56% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 0.65% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 8 5
10th Percentile £355 £341 £378
25th Percentile £402 £352 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £356 £463
Median % change year-on-year +19.38% -23.03% -6.57%
75th Percentile £496 £578 £513
90th Percentile £536 £618 £595
England median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £27.00 £30.75 -
25th Percentile £30.00 £31.21 -
Median hourly rate £35.60 £32.21 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -
75th Percentile - £32.98 -
90th Percentile - £33.32 -
England median hourly rate £46.00 £33.27 £72.50
% change year-on-year +38.26% -54.11% +33.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,761 1,992 2,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.99% 86.50% 84.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,724 1,248 1,481
10th Percentile £250 £250 £255
25th Percentile £380 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% -3.03%
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 197 73 101
10th Percentile £14.07 £14.70 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.67
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% -4.35% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £32.28 £51.50
90th Percentile £30.25 £52.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in the Midlands

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the Midlands

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

UX 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 UX Design within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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 -3 31 £425 -26.09% 64
East Midlands -20 6 £455 +27.81% 55
UX Design
England

UX 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.11%) SugarCRM
2 1 (2.70%) CMS
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) Drupal
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Adobe XD
1 5 (13.51%) Sketch
2 2 (5.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.70%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (2.70%) Blender
3 1 (2.70%) CINEMA 4D
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.70%) Moqups
3 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) Figma
2 4 (10.81%) Azure
3 3 (8.11%) AWS
4 2 (5.41%) GCP
4 2 (5.41%) SaaS
5 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.70%) Lucidchart
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) MySQL
2 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Git
2 4 (10.81%) JIRA
3 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (56.76%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Influencing Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Automotive
4 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.81%) Finance
6 3 (8.11%) Aerospace
6 3 (8.11%) Marketing
6 3 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.70%) Legal
7 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Developer
2 8 (21.62%) Designer
3 6 (16.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 6 (16.22%) Lead
3 6 (16.22%) UX Designer
4 4 (10.81%) Product Owner
4 4 (10.81%) UI Designer
5 3 (8.11%) Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) React Developer
5 3 (8.11%) UI/UX Designer
6 2 (5.41%) Lead Designer
6 2 (5.41%) Lead UX Designer
7 1 (2.70%) Animator
7 1 (2.70%) Business IT Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) IT Business Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Java Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Programme Director
7 1 (2.70%) Solutions Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (32.43%) CSS
2 11 (29.73%) HTML
2 11 (29.73%) React
3 7 (18.92%) CSS3
3 7 (18.92%) HTML5
3 7 (18.92%) RESTful
4 6 (16.22%) Material-UI
4 6 (16.22%) Playwright
5 5 (13.51%) AngularJS
6 4 (10.81%) REST
7 3 (8.11%) SOAP
8 1 (2.70%) .NET
8 1 (2.70%) Drush
8 1 (2.70%) jQuery
8 1 (2.70%) Node.js
8 1 (2.70%) OAuth
8 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
8 1 (2.70%) Razor View Engine
8 1 (2.70%) Sass
8 1 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Mobile App
1 4 (10.81%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.11%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.70%) Animation
3 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.70%) Motion Graphics
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Android
1 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
1 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) User Experience
2 19 (51.35%) Agile
3 14 (37.84%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (37.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (24.32%) Front End Development
5 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
5 7 (18.92%) Responsive Web Design
6 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (16.22%) CRM
6 6 (16.22%) End-to-End Testing
6 6 (16.22%) Programme Management
6 6 (16.22%) Progressive Enhancement
6 6 (16.22%) Prototyping
6 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (16.22%) User Stories
7 5 (13.51%) API Integration
7 5 (13.51%) Project Management
7 5 (13.51%) Scrum
7 5 (13.51%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 5 (13.51%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) JavaScript
2 7 (18.92%) Java
3 6 (16.22%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.81%) PHP
5 1 (2.70%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.70%) Python
5 1 (2.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Degree
2 4 (10.81%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) MCP
4 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.03%) Accessibility
2 7 (18.92%) QA
3 4 (10.81%) WCAG
4 3 (8.11%) GDPR
5 1 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
1 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Adobe
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.41%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.70%) Citrix
4 1 (2.70%) DocuSign
4 1 (2.70%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) VMware
4 1 (2.70%) Workday