UX Design Contracts in the North West

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for UX Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited UX Design over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 105 121
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 -33
Contract jobs citing UX Design 26 53 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.97% 1.70% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.87% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 33 50
10th Percentile - £415 £374
25th Percentile £325 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £575 £505
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +13.86% +12.22%
75th Percentile £475 £588 £549
90th Percentile £585 £600 £588
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.68 £54.50 £53.13
% change year-on-year -23.53% +2.59% +43.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

UX Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,318 2,831 3,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.17% 90.71% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,470 2,009 2,591
10th Percentile £306 £313 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £592 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 137 159
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £23.15 £14.13
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £20.13
Median % change year-on-year -33.89% +78.84% +9.28%
75th Percentile £46.11 £49.52 £43.13
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for UX Design in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the North West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in the North West

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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 8 May 2024. 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 +4 20 £350 -39.13% 39
Cheshire -5 3 £433 -26.19% 3
Merseyside +16 2 £500 +11.11% 8
Lancashire - 1 - - 3
UX Design
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) Azure
1 2 (7.69%) Figma
2 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
2 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.85%) Firebase
2 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
2 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
2 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.85%) MySQL
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) Crashlytics
2 1 (3.85%) Gradle
General
1 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Marketing
3 2 (7.69%) Health Technology
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Designer
2 6 (23.08%) User Researcher
3 4 (15.38%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) UX Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Android Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Content Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Flutter Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior UI Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior UI/UX Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior UX Designer
5 2 (7.69%) UI Designer
5 2 (7.69%) UI/UX Designer
6 1 (3.85%) Applications Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
2 2 (7.69%) CSS
2 2 (7.69%) HTML
2 2 (7.69%) React
3 1 (3.85%) .NET
3 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.85%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (3.85%) D3.js
3 1 (3.85%) Dagger
3 1 (3.85%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.85%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (3.85%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (3.85%) jQuery
3 1 (3.85%) Node.js
3 1 (3.85%) Sass
3 1 (3.85%) Web Services
3 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
1 2 (7.69%) Taxonomies
1 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Android
2 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) User Experience
2 15 (57.69%) Agile
3 11 (42.31%) User Research
4 9 (34.62%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 8 (30.77%) Data Science
5 8 (30.77%) Front End Development
5 8 (30.77%) Service Design
6 7 (26.92%) Mentoring
6 7 (26.92%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (23.08%) Actionable Insight
7 6 (23.08%) Design Persona
7 6 (23.08%) Ergonomics
7 6 (23.08%) Ethnography
7 6 (23.08%) Guerrilla Testing
7 6 (23.08%) Human Factors
7 6 (23.08%) Market Research
7 6 (23.08%) Qualitative Research
7 6 (23.08%) Quantitative Research
7 6 (23.08%) Usability Testing
7 6 (23.08%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) C#
1 2 (7.69%) Java
1 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
1 2 (7.69%) SQL
2 1 (3.85%) Bicep
2 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
2 1 (3.85%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
2 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Grafana
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft