UX Design Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

User Experience Design (UXD)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring UX Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 48 55
Rank change year-on-year -50 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing UX Design 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.30% 0.31% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.33% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.34%
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - £400
% change year-on-year - - +10.34%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 903 304 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 91.30% 95.60% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 198 199
10th Percentile £363 £228 £375
25th Percentile £414 £386 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £588
90th Percentile £670 £650 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £475 £471
% change year-on-year +2.53% +0.85% -14.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £15.74 - £10.90
25th Percentile £16.34 £18.10 £11.33
Median hourly rate £18.01 £18.21 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -17.25% +91.30%
75th Percentile £19.01 £18.41 £23.75
90th Percentile £19.21 £18.47 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.34 £18.21 £17.62
% change year-on-year +6.23% +3.35% +65.71%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in Sheffield

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (33.33%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (33.33%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Designer
1 3 (100.00%) UX Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Graphic Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Graphic Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Technical Writer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior UI Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior UI/UX Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior UX Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Writer
2 1 (33.33%) UI Designer
2 1 (33.33%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Interaction Design
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java