UI/UX Designer Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

User Interface/User Experience Designer
South East > Thames Valley

As of 13 December 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median User Interface/User Experience Designer daily rate in the Thames Valley.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 118 142
Rank change year-on-year -9 +24 +30
Contract jobs requiring a UI/UX Designer 1 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.049% 0.28% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.31% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £408 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -25.91% +13.04%
South East median daily rate - £408 £425
% change year-on-year - -4.12% -5.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,843 1,935 2,407
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.10% 91.88% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,140 1,570
10th Percentile £263 £254 £213
25th Percentile £400 £402 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £609
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £513
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.49% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 63 109
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.32 £16.37
25th Percentile £17.48 £23.00 £24.34
Median hourly rate £25.15 £48.18 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.80% -3.64% +150.00%
75th Percentile £69.88 £62.62 £65.25
90th Percentile £93.85 £66.80 £72.91
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £52.50 £51.42
% change year-on-year -52.38% +2.10% +38.49%

UI/UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'UI/UX Designer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

UI/UX Designer job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

UI/UX Designer
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UI/UX Designer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UI/UX Designer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

UI/UX Designer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Berkshire -6 1 - -
UI/UX Designer
South East

UI/UX Designer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, UI/UX Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring UI/UX Designer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Product Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation

UI/UX Designer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Product Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript