UX Design Contracts in Scotland

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring UX Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UX 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 89 95 137
Rank change year-on-year +6 +42 -25
Contract jobs citing UX Design 27 34 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.66% 1.53% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.73% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 22 20
10th Percentile £286 - £362
25th Percentile £381 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £438 £433
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +1.16% -13.50%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £491
90th Percentile £572 £584 £541
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 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%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in Scotland

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for UX Design in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in Scotland

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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 UX 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
Glasgow 0 15 £425 +6.25% 5
Edinburgh +1 11 £388 -16.67% 7
Stirling - 1 - -
UX Design
UK

UX 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 4 (14.81%) Sketch
2 2 (7.41%) Adobe XD
2 2 (7.41%) Photoshop
3 1 (3.70%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Figma
2 4 (14.81%) SaaS
3 3 (11.11%) Azure
4 2 (7.41%) AWS
4 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.41%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.70%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
2 3 (11.11%) Xcode
3 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.41%) webpack
4 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
1 9 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Marketing
5 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Designer
2 10 (37.04%) UX Designer
3 5 (18.52%) Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Service Designer
5 3 (11.11%) Content Designer
5 3 (11.11%) Mobile Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Product Owner
5 3 (11.11%) UI Designer
5 3 (11.11%) UI/UX Designer
6 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (7.41%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Designer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Service Designer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior UX Designer
6 2 (7.41%) UX Service Designer
7 1 (3.70%) Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Implementation Specialist
7 1 (3.70%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) Node.js
1 5 (18.52%) React
2 3 (11.11%) CSS
2 3 (11.11%) HTML
2 3 (11.11%) RESTful
2 3 (11.11%) SwiftUI
2 3 (11.11%) UIKit
3 2 (7.41%) CSS3
3 2 (7.41%) HTML5
3 2 (7.41%) Redux
3 2 (7.41%) Vue
4 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.11%) Credit Risk
2 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (11.11%) iPad
2 3 (11.11%) iPhone
2 3 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 3 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Android
1 5 (18.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) User Experience
2 14 (51.85%) Agile
3 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
3 8 (29.63%) Service Design
3 8 (29.63%) Wireframes
4 7 (25.93%) Prototyping
4 7 (25.93%) User Research
4 7 (25.93%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 6 (22.22%) Analytics
5 6 (22.22%) Customer Experience
5 6 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 6 (22.22%) Usability Testing
6 5 (18.52%) Design Patterns
6 5 (18.52%) Microservices
6 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.11%) A/B Testing
7 3 (11.11%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
7 3 (11.11%) Push Notifications
7 3 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) Python
2 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 3 (11.11%) Objective-C
2 3 (11.11%) Swift
3 2 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) Accessibility
2 3 (11.11%) WCAG
3 2 (7.41%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Adobe
2 1 (3.70%) Genesys