UX Design Contract Job Trends in the North of England

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 147 132 152
Rank change year-on-year -15 +20 -33
Contract jobs citing UX Design 63 31 30
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.33% 0.87% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.00% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 17 22
10th Percentile £337 £238 £325
25th Percentile £375 £310 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £511 £544 £584
90th Percentile £531 £623 £599
England median daily rate £475 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -6.17% -3.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £46.40 - £72.25
25th Percentile £49.63 - £73.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile £62.50 - £80.63
90th Percentile £67.00 - £81.75
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
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 4,195 3,105 4,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.54% 86.78% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,787 1,767 2,728
10th Percentile £215 £263 £293
25th Percentile £363 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £665 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 155 189
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.32 £17.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £28.96 £27.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% -8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £51.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £68.90 £66.80 £62.35
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in the North of England

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing UX Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing UX Design

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 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the North of England

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing UX Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing UX Design

UX Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UX Design in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 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
North West -5 37 £388 +1.31% 15
Yorkshire -40 20 £500 -3.61% 7
North East -3 6 £369 - 9
UX Design
England

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (11.11%) CMS
2 4 (6.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (14.29%) Sketch
2 2 (3.17%) Adobe XD
2 2 (3.17%) InVision
3 1 (1.59%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 18 (28.57%) Figma
2 11 (17.46%) Azure
3 10 (15.87%) AWS
4 9 (14.29%) GCP
5 3 (4.76%) GitHub
6 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.17%) Firebase
6 2 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.17%) Miro
7 1 (1.59%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.59%) Vercel
7 1 (1.59%) Vyond
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (20.63%) Git
2 5 (7.94%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.35%) CircleCI
3 4 (6.35%) GitLab
3 4 (6.35%) Gradle
3 4 (6.35%) JIRA
4 3 (4.76%) Cypress.io
4 3 (4.76%) Xcode
5 2 (3.17%) JUnit
5 2 (3.17%) Mocha
6 1 (1.59%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.59%) Crashlytics
General
1 20 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.22%) Finance
3 11 (17.46%) Public Sector
4 10 (15.87%) Banking
5 4 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Automotive
6 2 (3.17%) Marketing
7 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (53.97%) Designer
2 24 (38.10%) UX Designer
3 13 (20.63%) Developer
4 12 (19.05%) Senior
5 7 (11.11%) Senior Designer
6 6 (9.52%) Service Designer
7 4 (6.35%) Content Designer
7 4 (6.35%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (6.35%) iOS Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Senior UX Designer
7 4 (6.35%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) UX Service Designer
8 3 (4.76%) Lead
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Android Developer
9 2 (3.17%) Angular Developer
9 2 (3.17%) DevOps Developer
9 2 (3.17%) Node.js Developer
9 2 (3.17%) User Experience Researcher
9 2 (3.17%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) React
1 11 (17.46%) RESTful
2 10 (15.87%) Node.js
3 9 (14.29%) CSS
3 9 (14.29%) HTML
4 5 (7.94%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.35%) CSS3
5 4 (6.35%) HTML5
5 4 (6.35%) Jest
5 4 (6.35%) REST
6 2 (3.17%) Express.js
6 2 (3.17%) MEAN Stack
6 2 (3.17%) Next.js
6 2 (3.17%) NgRx
6 2 (3.17%) Playwright
6 2 (3.17%) Sass
6 2 (3.17%) Spring
6 2 (3.17%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.17%) Streamlit
6 2 (3.17%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 6 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (7.94%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.35%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (4.76%) Low-Code
6 2 (3.17%) e-Learning
6 2 (3.17%) Learning Management System
6 2 (3.17%) NHS
7 1 (1.59%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.59%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.59%) Graphic Design
7 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Apple iOS
2 4 (6.35%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) User Experience
2 35 (55.56%) Agile
3 22 (34.92%) User Research
4 19 (30.16%) Usability Testing
5 16 (25.40%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 15 (23.81%) Service Design
7 13 (20.63%) Interaction Design
8 11 (17.46%) Microservices
8 11 (17.46%) Prototyping
9 10 (15.87%) Clean Code
10 9 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
10 9 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
11 8 (12.70%) CI/CD
11 8 (12.70%) Containerisation
11 8 (12.70%) Front End Development
11 8 (12.70%) Journey Map
11 8 (12.70%) UX Research
12 7 (11.11%) Information Architecture
12 7 (11.11%) Personalization
12 7 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.87%) JavaScript
2 9 (14.29%) TypeScript
3 7 (11.11%) Python
4 6 (9.52%) Java
5 5 (7.94%) Swift
6 4 (6.35%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.76%) C
7 3 (4.76%) C++
7 3 (4.76%) Objective-C
7 3 (4.76%) Ruby
7 3 (4.76%) Scala
8 2 (3.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (9.52%) Degree
1 6 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (34.92%) Accessibility
2 6 (9.52%) WCAG
3 3 (4.76%) QA
4 2 (3.17%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.17%) Terraform
3 1 (1.59%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (9.52%) Hopewiser
2 4 (6.35%) Adobe
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.59%) Netlify
4 1 (1.59%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow