UX Design Contracts in the South East

User Experience Design (UXD)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for UX Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited UX Design over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 189 160
Rank change year-on-year +18 -29 -48
Contract jobs citing UX Design 25 29 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.45% 0.50% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.56% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 63
10th Percentile £366 £313 £388
25th Percentile £416 £353 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £547 £515 £570
90th Percentile £601 £540 £633
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.13
Median hourly rate £102.87 - £57.25
75th Percentile - - £57.38
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.68 £54.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year -23.53% +1.40% +45.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

UX Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,677 5,168 6,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.68% 89.46% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,739 3,591 4,723
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 223 284
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.10 £12.22
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.51%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.96 £62.92
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for UX Design in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the South East over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley +12 14 £525 +29.23% 9
Berkshire -3 12 £513 +24.30% 2
Hampshire +3 6 £363 -14.71% 10
Surrey +15 2 £400 -4.76% 5
Buckinghamshire +25 1 £625 +69.49% 2
West Sussex +7 1 £425 -5.56% 1
Oxfordshire +2 1 £550 +15.79% 5
Kent - 1 £470 - 3
UX Design
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (4.00%) Apache
1 1 (4.00%) CMS
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Sketch
2 1 (4.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (4.00%) Adobe XD
2 1 (4.00%) InVision
2 1 (4.00%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Figma
2 1 (4.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) Google Analytics
2 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Android Studio
2 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Marketing
2 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Advertising
5 1 (4.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Designer
1 9 (36.00%) UX Designer
2 5 (20.00%) Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.00%) UI Designer
3 4 (16.00%) UI/UX Designer
4 3 (12.00%) Data Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) User Experience Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Business Change Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Business Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Change Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
6 1 (4.00%) Information Architect
6 1 (4.00%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (4.00%) QA Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) React Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) HTML
2 3 (12.00%) CSS
3 2 (8.00%) React
4 1 (4.00%) Android SDK
4 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.00%) jQuery
4 1 (4.00%) Node.js
4 1 (4.00%) PySpark
4 1 (4.00%) RESTful
4 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Biopharmaceutical
1 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (4.00%) Graphic Design
1 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (4.00%) Mobile Banking
1 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) User Experience
2 6 (24.00%) Agile
2 6 (24.00%) B2B
2 6 (24.00%) User Research
2 6 (24.00%) UX Research
2 6 (24.00%) Wireframes
3 5 (20.00%) Service Management
4 4 (16.00%) Usability Testing
5 3 (12.00%) Analytics
5 3 (12.00%) Journey Map
5 3 (12.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (12.00%) Statistical Analysis
5 3 (12.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (8.00%) Business Strategy
6 2 (8.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (8.00%) Customer Experience
6 2 (8.00%) Deadline-Driven
6 2 (8.00%) Prototyping
6 2 (8.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.00%) Java
2 2 (8.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) C#
3 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (4.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (12.00%) Adobe
2 3 (12.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat