UX Design Contracts in the South East

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 133 178 193
Rank change year-on-year +45 +15 -23
Contract jobs citing UX Design 26 27 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.86% 0.49% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.57% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 19
10th Percentile £391 £366 £313
25th Percentile £413 £416 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.87% +14.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £547 £515
90th Percentile £615 £601 £540
England median daily rate £475 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -11.63% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £102.87 -
England median hourly rate £91.69 £41.68 £54.50
% change year-on-year +120.01% -23.53% -0.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UX Design in the South East.

Daily rate trend for UX Design in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UX Design in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +46 18 £425 -19.05% 55
Berkshire +32 14 £425 -17.11% 26
Surrey +20 5 - - 18
Buckinghamshire +19 4 £550 -12.00% 17
Hampshire +21 2 £325 -10.34% 33
West Sussex +12 1 - - 12
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) Figma
3 5 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) SaaS
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Stack
5 2 (7.69%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) DataStage
2 1 (3.85%) Metadata
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Git
1 5 (19.23%) JIRA
2 4 (15.38%) Cypress.io
2 4 (15.38%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (15.38%) Vite
3 2 (7.69%) Moq
3 2 (7.69%) Selenium
3 2 (7.69%) SpecFlow
3 2 (7.69%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.85%) Axure RP
4 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.85%) Maven
General
1 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
1 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
2 2 (7.69%) Marketing
2 2 (7.69%) Retail
3 1 (3.85%) Automotive
3 1 (3.85%) Electronics
3 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (69.23%) Developer
2 10 (38.46%) React Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 4 (15.38%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Designer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Technical Leader
6 2 (7.69%) UI Developer
6 2 (7.69%) UI/UX Developer
6 2 (7.69%) UX Designer
6 2 (7.69%) UX Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (3.85%) GUI Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Product Manager
7 1 (3.85%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) React
2 9 (34.62%) CSS
2 9 (34.62%) HTML
3 6 (23.08%) Redux
3 6 (23.08%) RESTful
4 5 (19.23%) AngularJS
5 4 (15.38%) Framer.js
5 4 (15.38%) YAML
6 3 (11.54%) Node.js
7 2 (7.69%) .NET
7 2 (7.69%) .NET Core
7 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET
7 2 (7.69%) Bootstrap
7 2 (7.69%) JSON
7 2 (7.69%) Parceljs
7 2 (7.69%) Vue
7 2 (7.69%) XML
8 1 (3.85%) Google Maps API
8 1 (3.85%) Java EE
8 1 (3.85%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
2 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.85%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) User Experience
2 15 (57.69%) Wireframes
3 9 (34.62%) Agile
4 7 (26.92%) Design Patterns
5 6 (23.08%) Front End Development
5 6 (23.08%) Scrum
6 5 (19.23%) DevOps
6 5 (19.23%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (19.23%) Unit Testing
7 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (15.38%) Insurtech
7 4 (15.38%) OO
7 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (15.38%) Product Backlog
7 4 (15.38%) Progressive Web App
7 4 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 4 (15.38%) SOLID
7 4 (15.38%) Sprint Retrospective
7 4 (15.38%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) TypeScript
2 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
3 4 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) ABAP
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.85%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) IBM
3 1 (3.85%) Talend