UX Design Contract Job Trends in Surrey

User Experience Design (UXD)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring UX Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 37 60
Rank change year-on-year -8 +23 0
Contract jobs citing UX Design 5 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.13% 1.67% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.84% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £398 - -
25th Percentile £444 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.18%
75th Percentile £650 - £425
90th Percentile £658 - -
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £473
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 358 272 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 80.63% 90.67% 81.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 176 362
10th Percentile £209 £181 £208
25th Percentile £406 £257 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% -5.50% -0.10%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £576
90th Percentile £688 £656 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 22 45
10th Percentile £21.64 £20.39 £12.03
25th Percentile £27.50 £24.18 £13.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £24.83 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year +161.78% +35.31% -59.22%
75th Percentile £71.99 £32.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.37 £62.50 £76.53
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% -16.67%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in Surrey

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing UX Design

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in Surrey over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in Surrey

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing UX Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing UX Design

UX Design
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 18 March 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
Staines - 1 £525 -
UX Design
South East

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (20.00%) InVision
1 1 (20.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Figma
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Axure RP
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Product Owner
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Product Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (20.00%) Robotic Process Automation Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
1 1 (20.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Product Backlog
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) User Research
4 1 (20.00%) B2B
4 1 (20.00%) B2C
4 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
4 1 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Process Management
4 1 (20.00%) Product Discovery
4 1 (20.00%) Product Vision
4 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Automation Anywhere
1 1 (20.00%) Blue Prism
1 1 (20.00%) UiPath