UX Design Contract Job Trends in South Wales

User Experience Design (UXD)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales 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 38 44 44
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +14
Contract jobs citing UX Design 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.13% 0.56% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 0.64% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £194 - -
25th Percentile £251 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £425 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -21.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £438 -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £475 £425 £538
% change year-on-year +11.76% -21.00% -

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 285 311 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 80.28% 86.63% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 181 242
10th Percentile £206 £167 £165
25th Percentile £290 £213 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £413 £444
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -7.04% -6.58%
75th Percentile £502 £550 £588
90th Percentile £608 £688 £650
Wales median daily rate £410 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -3.53% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 40 24
10th Percentile £13.08 £19.63 £17.30
25th Percentile £15.11 £20.12 £21.32
Median hourly rate £19.19 £25.36 £26.58
Median % change year-on-year -24.33% -4.60% +33.21%
75th Percentile £25.53 £40.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £85.00 £48.75 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £18.18 £25.36 £26.58
% change year-on-year -28.31% -4.60% +40.24%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in South Wales

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing UX Design

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

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

Daily rate histogram 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 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
Newport - 2 £588 - 4
Cardiff -3 1 £283 -33.43% 1
Monmouthshire - 1 £163 -
UX Design
Wales

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (50.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Designer
2 2 (50.00%) UX Designer
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) User Research
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (50.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Usability Testing
3 2 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (50.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Ergonomics
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (25.00%) Service Design
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
4 1 (25.00%) UX Research
4 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe