UX Design Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring UX Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 27 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing UX Design 1 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.44% 2.56% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 2.78% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £451 -
25th Percentile £613 £491 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% - -
75th Percentile £638 £579 £569
90th Percentile - £586 -
UK median daily rate £469 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -5.25% -1.00% -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 193 144 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 84.28% 92.31% 81.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 69 78
10th Percentile £260 £143 £210
25th Percentile £400 £225 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £325 £500
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% -35.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £588 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 17 20
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 £12.13
25th Percentile £14.77 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £21.55 £24.18 £13.47
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% +79.58% -13.13%
75th Percentile £43.01 £52.31 £18.19
90th Percentile £53.75 £78.47 £23.54
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing UX Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing UX Design

UX Design
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 4 February 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
County Antrim -5 1 £625 +16.28% 3
UX Design
UK

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Service Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Service Designer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Culture Change
1 1 (100.00%) Design Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Journey Map
1 1 (100.00%) Minimum Viable Product
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Research
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation