UX Design Contract Job Trends in the South West

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring UX Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 112 132
Rank change year-on-year -13 +20 0
Contract jobs citing UX Design 12 6 13
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.49% 0.31% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.35% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 10
10th Percentile £353 £195 £369
25th Percentile £375 £213 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £275 £475
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -42.11% -7.32%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £561
90th Percentile £730 £623 £609
England median daily rate £463 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £73.75
Median hourly rate - - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £81.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £46.00 £33.54 £77.50
% change year-on-year +37.15% -56.72% +42.20%

All Process & 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 2,006 1,719 2,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 81.98% 88.06% 84.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 1,045 1,615
10th Percentile £263 £248 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £629 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £714 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 106 262
10th Percentile £15.62 £18.51 £17.46
25th Percentile £20.82 £46.56 £44.44
Median hourly rate £38.94 £65.00 £59.84
Median % change year-on-year -40.09% +8.62% -2.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.30 £74.22 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the South West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing UX Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing UX Design

UX Design
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 14 January 2026. 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 -1 9 £450 +80.00% 4
Wiltshire -16 2 £523 -12.92% 3
Gloucestershire - 1 £700 - 1
UX Design
England

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Sketch
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe XD
2 1 (8.33%) InVision
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Figma
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (8.33%) Google Analytics
2 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) Maven
1 1 (8.33%) Pa11y
1 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) User Researcher
2 3 (25.00%) Designer
2 3 (25.00%) UX Designer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (8.33%) Head of Design
4 1 (8.33%) Interaction Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Power Apps Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Power Apps Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior UX Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) Bootstrap
2 1 (8.33%) CSS3
2 1 (8.33%) HTML5
2 1 (8.33%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (8.33%) JAX-RS
2 1 (8.33%) LESS
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Sass
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) User Experience
2 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 9 (75.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 8 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 8 (66.67%) User Research
4 7 (58.33%) Decision-Making
5 6 (50.00%) Fintech
5 6 (50.00%) UX Research
5 6 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (25.00%) Wireframes
7 2 (16.67%) Analytics
7 2 (16.67%) DevOps
7 2 (16.67%) Front End Development
7 2 (16.67%) Interaction Design
7 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (16.67%) Usability Testing
8 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
8 1 (8.33%) Ergonomics
8 1 (8.33%) Psychology
8 1 (8.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (25.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Hotjar
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft