UX Designer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

User Experience Designer
England > North of England

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in the North of England is £394, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 151 181
Rank change year-on-year -37 +30 +8
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 23 11 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.49% 0.31% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.33% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 3
10th Percentile £308 £207 £203
25th Percentile £360 £243 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £406 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -4.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £411 £567 £453
90th Percentile £484 £587 £463
England median daily rate £468 £525 £529
% change year-on-year -10.86% -0.76% +0.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 4,327 3,308 4,346
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.54% 92.09% 93.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,899 1,910 2,911
10th Percentile £213 £230 £270
25th Percentile £363 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £593
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 170 208
10th Percentile £16.47 £15.35 £15.49
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.99 £25.03 £27.90
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -10.29% +29.77%
75th Percentile £55.00 £42.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.75 £60.50 £61.99
England median hourly rate £26.78 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.61% -20.00% +38.46%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'UX Designer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

UX Designer job vacancy trend in the North of England

UX Designer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UX Designer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UX Designer job vacancies in the North of England

UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Designer in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Designer in the North of England

UX Designer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for UX Designer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for UX Designer job vacancies in the North of England

UX Designer
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 Designer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 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 -16 15 £388 +40.91% 17
Yorkshire -41 5 £531 -1.16% 10
North East -4 3 £410 - 5
UX Designer
England

UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, UX Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring UX Designer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) User Experience
1 23 (100.00%) UX Design
2 14 (60.87%) Agile
3 12 (52.17%) Accessibility
3 12 (52.17%) Figma
3 12 (52.17%) User Research
4 11 (47.83%) Usability Testing
5 9 (39.13%) Interaction Design
6 8 (34.78%) Service Design
7 7 (30.43%) Sketch
8 6 (26.09%) Journey Map
8 6 (26.09%) Prototyping
8 6 (26.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 6 (26.09%) UX Research
8 6 (26.09%) Workshop Facilitation
9 5 (21.74%) Personalization
9 5 (21.74%) Validation
9 5 (21.74%) Wireframes
10 4 (17.39%) Adobe
10 4 (17.39%) CMS
10 4 (17.39%) Content Management
10 4 (17.39%) Design Thinking
10 4 (17.39%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
10 4 (17.39%) Hopewiser
10 4 (17.39%) Human-Centred Design
11 3 (13.04%) Creative Thinking
11 3 (13.04%) Customer Experience
11 3 (13.04%) Degree
11 3 (13.04%) Information Architecture
11 3 (13.04%) Microsoft

UX Designer Skill Set
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 4 (17.39%) CMS
2 2 (8.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Sketch
2 2 (8.70%) Adobe XD
2 2 (8.70%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Figma
2 2 (8.70%) Azure
2 2 (8.70%) Miro
3 1 (4.35%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Automotive
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) CSS
1 1 (4.35%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.35%) Graphic Design
3 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) User Experience
1 23 (100.00%) UX Design
2 14 (60.87%) Agile
3 12 (52.17%) User Research
4 11 (47.83%) Usability Testing
5 9 (39.13%) Interaction Design
6 8 (34.78%) Service Design
7 6 (26.09%) Journey Map
7 6 (26.09%) Prototyping
7 6 (26.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 6 (26.09%) UX Research
7 6 (26.09%) Workshop Facilitation
8 5 (21.74%) Personalization
8 5 (21.74%) Validation
8 5 (21.74%) Wireframes
9 4 (17.39%) Content Management
9 4 (17.39%) Design Thinking
9 4 (17.39%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
9 4 (17.39%) Human-Centred Design
10 3 (13.04%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (52.17%) Accessibility
2 3 (13.04%) WCAG
3 1 (4.35%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Adobe
1 4 (17.39%) Hopewiser
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft