UI/UX Designer Contracts in the South West

User Interface/User Experience Designer
England > South West

The median User Interface/User Experience Designer daily rate in the South West is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 154 166
Rank change year-on-year +47 +12 +6
Contract jobs requiring a UI/UX Designer 4 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.24% 0.094% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.10% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - £308 -
25th Percentile £363 £338 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £438 £481 -
90th Percentile £468 £493 -
England median daily rate £480 £481 £543
% change year-on-year -0.26% -11.29% +10.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 1,546 2,986 3,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.34% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,903 2,516
10th Percentile £220 £208 £263
25th Percentile £386 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £620 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 400 267
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £26.62 £27.50 £50.62
Median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

UI/UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured UI/UX Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for UI/UX Designer in the South West

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UI/UX Designer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for UI/UX Designer in the South West

UI/UX Designer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UI/UX Designer within the South West 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
Wiltshire - 3 £375 -
Bristol +17 1 - -
UI/UX Designer
England

UI/UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, UI/UX Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring UI/UX Designer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) UX Design
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) Figma
3 2 (50.00%) Adobe XD
3 2 (50.00%) Sketch
3 2 (50.00%) User Research
3 2 (50.00%) Wireframes
3 2 (50.00%) Product Management
3 2 (50.00%) Usability Testing
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) Adobe
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Tandem
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) WCAG
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
4 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (25.00%) Interaction Design
4 1 (25.00%) Power BI
4 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Objectives and Key Results
4 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (25.00%) Public Sector

UI/UX Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe XD
1 2 (50.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Figma
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (25.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
1 4 (100.00%) UX Design
2 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) Product Management
2 2 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 2 (50.00%) User Research
2 2 (50.00%) Wireframes
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Interaction Design
3 1 (25.00%) Objectives and Key Results
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe