Interaction Design Contract Job Trends in the North West

Interaction Design (IxD)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Interaction Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 122 133
Rank change year-on-year -10 +11 +28
Contract jobs citing Interaction Design 15 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.57% 0.096% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.11% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 7
10th Percentile £306 £225 £344
25th Percentile £315 £288 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £394 £375
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% +5.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile £530 £498 £556
90th Percentile £554 £559 £575
England median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Interaction 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,293 1,847 2,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.49% 88.42% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,506 1,070 1,631
10th Percentile £213 £275 £306
25th Percentile £358 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £551 £567 £591
90th Percentile £650 £656 £683
England median daily rate £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.67% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 99 191
10th Percentile £16.37 £16.05 £12.74
25th Percentile £22.58 £21.98 £17.13
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.14% -10.00% -6.42%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.63 £75.30 £55.15
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

Interaction Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Interaction Design job vacancy trend in the North West

Interaction Design
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Interaction Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Interaction Design

Interaction Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Interaction Design in the North West over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Interaction Design in the North West

Interaction Design
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Interaction Design within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 January 2026. 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
Manchester +1 13 £374 +99.33% 4
Cheshire -19 1 - -
Merseyside - 1 £560 -
Interaction Design
England

Interaction Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (33.33%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Sketch
2 1 (6.67%) Adobe XD
2 1 (6.67%) InVision
2 1 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Figma
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Axure RP
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Designer
2 7 (46.67%) UX Designer
3 4 (26.67%) Interaction Designer
4 3 (20.00%) Service Designer
5 2 (13.33%) Content Designer
6 1 (6.67%) Graphic Designer
6 1 (6.67%) Interface Designer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Designer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Service Designer
6 1 (6.67%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) CSS
1 2 (13.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) e-Learning
2 1 (6.67%) Graphic Design
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Agile
1 11 (73.33%) User Experience
2 9 (60.00%) UX Design
3 6 (40.00%) Personalization
3 6 (40.00%) Usability Testing
3 6 (40.00%) Validation
4 5 (33.33%) Service Design
4 5 (33.33%) User Research
5 4 (26.67%) Content Management
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) Wireframes
6 3 (20.00%) Analytics
7 2 (13.33%) Design Patterns
7 2 (13.33%) Design Thinking
7 2 (13.33%) Human-Centred Design
7 2 (13.33%) Journey Map
7 2 (13.33%) Prototyping
7 2 (13.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 2 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
8 1 (6.67%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (86.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) WCAG
3 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Hopewiser
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Adobe