UX Design Contracts in the South West

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 96 151 143
Rank change year-on-year +55 -8 -9
Contract jobs citing UX Design 15 6 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.89% 0.19% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.23% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 19
10th Percentile £210 £338 £385
25th Percentile £288 £391 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £483 £515 £494
90th Percentile £500 £579 £538
England median daily rate £475 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -11.63% -2.27% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for UX Design in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in the South West

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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 UX Design 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
Bristol +23 7 £372 -12.47% 19
Wiltshire +35 4 £375 -27.88% 6
Dorset +6 3 - - 11
Devon - 1 £425 - 19
UX Design
England

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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 3 (20.00%) Adobe XD
1 3 (20.00%) Sketch
2 1 (6.67%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Figma
2 1 (6.67%) Google Analytics
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) Storybook
1 1 (6.67%) Vite
1 1 (6.67%) webpack
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (13.33%) Finance
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Private Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Designer
2 7 (46.67%) UX Designer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 4 (26.67%) UI Designer
3 4 (26.67%) UI/UX Designer
4 3 (20.00%) Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Digital Designer
4 3 (20.00%) Digital UX Designer
5 2 (13.33%) Flutter Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Content Designer
6 1 (6.67%) Digital Content Designer
6 1 (6.67%) Interaction Designer
6 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Designer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Interaction Designer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior UI/UX Designer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior UX Designer
6 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (6.67%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) CSS
1 7 (46.67%) HTML
2 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
2 4 (26.67%) RESTful
3 3 (20.00%) jQuery
4 2 (13.33%) Flutter
5 1 (6.67%) React
5 1 (6.67%) Redux
5 1 (6.67%) REST
5 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Mobile App
2 3 (20.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (6.67%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) User Experience
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 5 (33.33%) Scrum
4 5 (33.33%) User Research
4 5 (33.33%) Wireframes
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) CAD
6 3 (20.00%) ITSM
6 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 3 (20.00%) Operational Stability
6 3 (20.00%) Product Management
6 3 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
6 3 (20.00%) Service Management
6 3 (20.00%) Usability Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 3 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) Dart
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Accessibility
1 4 (26.67%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Adobe
2 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Hotjar