UX Design Contracts in the North of England

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 146 140 116
Rank change year-on-year -6 -24 -2
Contract jobs citing UX Design 20 45 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.61% 0.94% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.10% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 26 67
10th Percentile £313 - £395
25th Percentile £325 £325 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £520
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -15.87% +4.00%
75th Percentile £425 £538 £586
90th Percentile £518 £606 £600
England median daily rate £475 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -11.63% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 £77.50 £48.50
Median hourly rate £91.69 £80.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.61% +63.27% -11.71%
75th Percentile £98.56 £82.50 £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 of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the North of England

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for UX Design in the North of England

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the North of England

UX Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UX Design in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in the North of England

UX Design
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West 0 10 £400 -6.16% 70
Yorkshire +6 8 £463 +8.88% 26
North East -6 2 £388 -44.64% 11
UX Design
England

UX Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (15.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) Mendix
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Chatbot
2 2 (10.00%) InVision
2 2 (10.00%) UserZoom
3 1 (5.00%) Adobe XD
3 1 (5.00%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (5.00%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Figma
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Axure RP
3 1 (5.00%) Balsamiq
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Legal
3 4 (20.00%) Marketing
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Publishing
6 1 (5.00%) Retail
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Designer
2 8 (40.00%) UX Designer
3 5 (25.00%) Content Designer
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) UI Designer
4 2 (10.00%) UI/UX Designer
4 2 (10.00%) User Researcher
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Agile Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Technical Writer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) CSS
1 4 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) D3.js
2 1 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (5.00%) React
2 1 (5.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (15.00%) Social Media
3 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) IVR
4 1 (5.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Android
1 3 (15.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) User Experience
2 12 (60.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) User Research
3 7 (35.00%) Wireframes
4 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (25.00%) Conversational UI
4 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 5 (25.00%) Prototyping
5 4 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 4 (20.00%) Usability Testing
5 4 (20.00%) UX Research
6 3 (15.00%) Asset Management
6 3 (15.00%) Business Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.00%) Customer Experience
6 3 (15.00%) Customer Service
6 3 (15.00%) Interaction Design
6 3 (15.00%) Product Marketing
6 3 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (15.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (5.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (45.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (5.00%) Adobe
2 1 (5.00%) Avaya
2 1 (5.00%) Genesys
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce