UX Design Contract Job Trends in Scotland

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 82 90 127
Rank change year-on-year +8 +37 +11
Contract jobs citing UX Design 28 26 15
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.83% 1.55% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 1.73% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 13
10th Percentile £410 £348 £330
25th Percentile £447 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £444 £415
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% +6.93% -12.63%
75th Percentile £588 £499 £488
90th Percentile £595 £621 £512
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.03 - -
Median hourly rate £28.09 - -
75th Percentile £29.16 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £33.27 £72.50
% change year-on-year +33.75% -54.11% +33.03%

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 1,343 1,503 2,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.72% 89.78% 91.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 892 1,345
10th Percentile £240 £231 £250
25th Percentile £391 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 45 55
10th Percentile £13.97 £15.09 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £19.59 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £55.63 £39.30 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in Scotland

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing UX Design

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in Scotland

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing UX Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing UX Design

UX 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 UX Design within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +10 16 £463 -7.13%
Edinburgh 0 11 £525 +21.74% 6
UX Design
UK

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Adobe XD
1 2 (7.14%) Sketch
2 1 (3.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (3.57%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (3.57%) InDesign
2 1 (3.57%) InVision
2 1 (3.57%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Figma
2 6 (21.43%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) Azure
4 1 (3.57%) Miro
4 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
1 1 (3.57%) Metadata
1 1 (3.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Cypress.io
1 5 (17.86%) JUnit
2 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) webpack
3 3 (10.71%) Axure RP
4 2 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 17 (60.71%) Finance
2 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 9 (32.14%) Banking
4 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.57%) Marketing
6 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Designer
2 8 (28.57%) Senior
3 7 (25.00%) Developer
3 7 (25.00%) UX Designer
4 4 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (10.71%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Designer
6 2 (7.14%) Content Designer
6 2 (7.14%) Digital Content Designer
6 2 (7.14%) Digital Designer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior UX Designer
6 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (3.57%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (39.29%) CSS
1 11 (39.29%) HTML
2 10 (35.71%) React
2 10 (35.71%) RESTful
3 7 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 5 (17.86%) Jest
4 5 (17.86%) Spring
4 5 (17.86%) Spring Boot
5 4 (14.29%) CSS3
5 4 (14.29%) HTML5
5 4 (14.29%) Node.js
5 4 (14.29%) Redux
6 1 (3.57%) Vue
6 1 (3.57%) XML
6 1 (3.57%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Digital Media
1 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Graphic Design
2 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) User Experience
2 15 (53.57%) Agile
3 14 (50.00%) Front End Development
4 12 (42.86%) User Research
5 10 (35.71%) Wireframes
6 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
6 9 (32.14%) Microservices
6 9 (32.14%) Service Design
7 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (28.57%) Prototyping
8 7 (25.00%) Usability Testing
8 7 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 6 (21.43%) Interaction Design
9 6 (21.43%) Translating Business Requirements
10 5 (17.86%) Containerisation
10 5 (17.86%) DevOps
10 5 (17.86%) DevSecOps
10 5 (17.86%) Fintech
10 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (17.86%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) Java
2 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.57%) Bash
3 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (46.43%) Accessibility
2 5 (17.86%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Ansible
1 5 (17.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Adobe
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft