UX Design Contracts in the North East

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 36 30 48
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 -19
Contract jobs citing UX Design 2 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.63% 2.37% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 2.96% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £334 - £372
25th Percentile £347 - £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £700 £503
Median % change year-on-year -44.64% +39.30% +0.50%
75th Percentile £422 - £622
90th Percentile £431 - £661
England median daily rate £475 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -11.63% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - - £49.00
75th Percentile - - £49.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £91.69 £41.68 £54.50
% change year-on-year +120.01% -23.53% -0.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the North East

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UX Design in the North East.

Daily rate trend for UX Design in the North East

UX Design
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Tyne and Wear -9 2 £388 -44.64% 16
UX Design
England

UX Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (50.00%) MadCap Flare
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Writer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Writer
1 1 (50.00%) User Researcher
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) User Research