UX Design Contract Job Trends in the North West

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 109 104 118
Rank change year-on-year -5 +14 -11
Contract jobs citing UX Design 37 19 20
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.47% 0.88% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 1.02% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 13 15
10th Percentile £308 £213 £325
25th Percentile £364 £303 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £383 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -33.48% +9.52%
75th Percentile £402 £475 £588
90th Percentile £488 £645 £608
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,217 1,865 2,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.33% 86.58% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,445 1,047 1,599
10th Percentile £213 £265 £300
25th Percentile £358 £389 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £565 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 106 156
10th Percentile £16.43 £16.00 £15.88
25th Percentile £20.73 £21.10 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.75 £31.25 £35.73
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -12.53% +34.66%
75th Percentile £53.13 £51.91 £47.41
90th Percentile £69.72 £68.96 £65.00
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 West

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in the North West

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the North West over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the North West

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

UX Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram for UX Design in the North West

UX 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 UX Design within the North West 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
Manchester +1 28 £388 +0.32% 12
Merseyside - 5 £425 - 1
Cheshire -11 4 £375 +20.97% 2
UX Design
England

UX 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 6 (16.22%) CMS
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Sketch
2 1 (2.70%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.70%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.70%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 17 (45.95%) Figma
2 2 (5.41%) AWS
2 2 (5.41%) Azure
2 2 (5.41%) Firebase
2 2 (5.41%) GitHub
2 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (5.41%) Miro
3 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.70%) GCP
3 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.70%) Vercel
3 1 (2.70%) Vyond
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Git
2 4 (10.81%) Gradle
3 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.11%) Xcode
4 2 (5.41%) CircleCI
4 2 (5.41%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.41%) GitLab
4 2 (5.41%) JUnit
4 2 (5.41%) Mocha
5 1 (2.70%) Axure RP
5 1 (2.70%) Crashlytics
5 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Finance
3 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.81%) Banking
4 4 (10.81%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Automotive
6 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (56.76%) Designer
2 16 (43.24%) UX Designer
3 9 (24.32%) Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Senior
5 4 (10.81%) Content Designer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Designer
6 2 (5.41%) Android Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.41%) iOS Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Lead
6 2 (5.41%) Senior UX Designer
6 2 (5.41%) Service Designer
6 2 (5.41%) User Experience Researcher
6 2 (5.41%) UX Service Designer
7 1 (2.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Product Designer
7 1 (2.70%) React Developer
7 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow Developer
7 1 (2.70%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) CSS
1 6 (16.22%) HTML
1 6 (16.22%) React
2 3 (8.11%) Jest
2 3 (8.11%) Node.js
3 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.41%) Next.js
3 2 (5.41%) Playwright
3 2 (5.41%) REST
3 2 (5.41%) Spring
3 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
3 2 (5.41%) Streamlit
4 1 (2.70%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (2.70%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.70%) Gradio
4 1 (2.70%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (2.70%) JSON
4 1 (2.70%) LangChain
4 1 (2.70%) Material-UI
4 1 (2.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (13.51%) Mobile App
1 5 (13.51%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.11%) Low-Code
2 3 (8.11%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (5.41%) e-Learning
3 2 (5.41%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.70%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.70%) Graphic Design
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Android
2 3 (8.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) User Experience
2 26 (70.27%) Agile
3 12 (32.43%) Usability Testing
4 11 (29.73%) User Research
5 10 (27.03%) Interaction Design
6 9 (24.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 7 (18.92%) Prototyping
8 6 (16.22%) Personalization
8 6 (16.22%) UX Research
8 6 (16.22%) Validation
9 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (13.51%) Creative Thinking
9 5 (13.51%) Data Protection
9 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
9 5 (13.51%) Service Design
9 5 (13.51%) Wireframes
10 4 (10.81%) Front End Development
10 4 (10.81%) Information Architecture
10 4 (10.81%) Mobile Development
10 4 (10.81%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
2 6 (16.22%) Java
3 5 (13.51%) Python
3 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.81%) Kotlin
5 3 (8.11%) C
5 3 (8.11%) C++
5 3 (8.11%) Objective-C
5 3 (8.11%) Ruby
5 3 (8.11%) Scala
5 3 (8.11%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) Degree
1 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (51.35%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.11%) WCAG
3 1 (2.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Hopewiser
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) Adobe
4 1 (2.70%) Netlify
4 1 (2.70%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow