Interaction Design Contracts in Scotland

Interaction Design (IxD)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Interaction Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Interaction Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 127 146
Rank change year-on-year +12 +19 +3
Contract jobs citing Interaction Design 1 2 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.062% 0.090% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.10% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 12
10th Percentile - £662 £413
25th Percentile - £665 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £671 £479
Median % change year-on-year - +40.05% +0.79%
75th Percentile - £676 £600
90th Percentile - £679 £645
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Interaction Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Interaction Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Interaction Design in Scotland

Interaction Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Interaction Design in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Interaction Design in Scotland

Interaction Design
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh +4 1 - - 1
Interaction Design
UK

Interaction Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Google Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Google Data Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Measurement
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) User Research
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google