UX Design Contracts in South Wales

User Experience Design (UXD)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 37 52
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 +7
Contract jobs citing UX Design 1 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.43% 0.31% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.40% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £339
25th Percentile £406 £413 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -8.11% -5.61%
75th Percentile £469 £438 £553
90th Percentile - - £596
Wales median daily rate £438 £425 £350
% change year-on-year +2.94% +21.43% -30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 212 251 427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 90.21% 77.95% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 170 323
10th Percentile £188 £143 £190
25th Percentile £285 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £484 £563 £588
90th Percentile £648 £668 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -18.37% +3.16% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 25 23
10th Percentile £12.65 £11.39 £16.37
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.48 £16.98
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year +11.19% +11.55% -15.11%
75th Percentile £41.25 £53.75 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.08 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £25.15 £19.70 £18.14
% change year-on-year +27.65% +8.61% -15.11%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in South Wales

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for UX Design in South Wales

UX Design
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 30 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
Cardiff +3 1 £438 +2.94% 30
UX Design
Wales

UX Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior User Experience Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Domain Models
1 1 (100.00%) Information Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Research
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes