Interaction Design Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Interaction Design (IxD)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Interaction Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 327 365
Rank change year-on-year -25 +38 -25
Contract jobs citing Interaction Design 50 20 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.16% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 13 23
10th Percentile £315 £413 £350
25th Percentile £391 £500 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.96% +4.55% +5.26%
75th Percentile £503 £650 £584
90th Percentile £600 £685 £600
UK median daily rate £453 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -8.59% -1.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.03 - -
Median hourly rate £28.09 - £70.07
75th Percentile £29.16 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £28.09 £47.50 £71.29
% change year-on-year -40.86% -33.37% +30.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Interaction 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,663 12,736 17,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.61% 87.36% 87.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,586 7,476 10,994
10th Percentile £220 £240 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,725 730 1,222
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.62 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% -31.97% +42.45%
75th Percentile £51.21 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.05 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.95
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.05% +25.57%

Interaction Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Interaction Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Interaction Design job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Interaction Design
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Interaction Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Interaction Design

Interaction Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Interaction Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Interaction Design in the UK excluding London

Interaction Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Interaction Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Interaction Design

Interaction Design
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Interaction Design within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
North of England -42 20 £388 -29.58% 22
North West -13 14 £360 -8.57% 11
Scotland +8 10 £436 -22.49% 7
South West +3 9 £600 +1.05% 8
West Midlands -20 8 £420 - 9
Midlands -35 8 £420 - 14
North East -5 3 £413 -8.38% 2
Yorkshire -45 3 £513 -24.07% 9
East of England - 3 £425 - 11
Interaction Design
UK

Interaction Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (14.00%) CMS
Applications
1 18 (36.00%) Sketch
2 9 (18.00%) InVision
3 6 (12.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 6 (12.00%) Adobe XD
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (2.00%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (2.00%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (2.00%) Blender
5 1 (2.00%) Chatbot
5 1 (2.00%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (2.00%) InDesign
5 1 (2.00%) Marvel
5 1 (2.00%) Photoshop
5 1 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 26 (52.00%) Figma
2 2 (4.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 2 (4.00%) AWS
2 2 (4.00%) Azure
2 2 (4.00%) Contentful
3 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.00%) Firebase
3 1 (2.00%) Heroku
3 1 (2.00%) Miro
3 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.00%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Axure RP
2 2 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 20 (40.00%) Finance
2 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (20.00%) Banking
3 10 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.00%) Legal
5 2 (4.00%) Advertising
6 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Automotive
6 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Marketing
6 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (82.00%) Designer
2 20 (40.00%) UX Designer
3 15 (30.00%) Interaction Designer
4 6 (12.00%) Senior
5 5 (10.00%) Visual Designer
6 4 (8.00%) Senior Designer
7 3 (6.00%) UI Designer
8 2 (4.00%) Content Designer
8 2 (4.00%) Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Lead
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior UX Designer
8 2 (4.00%) Service Designer
8 2 (4.00%) UI/UX Designer
9 1 (2.00%) Senior Service Designer
9 1 (2.00%) Senior Visual Designer
9 1 (2.00%) UI Consultant
9 1 (2.00%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.00%) CSS
1 9 (18.00%) HTML
2 4 (8.00%) Framer.js
3 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.00%) React
4 1 (2.00%) D3.js
4 1 (2.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.00%) Flask
4 1 (2.00%) Flutter
4 1 (2.00%) Gradio
4 1 (2.00%) JSON
4 1 (2.00%) LangChain
4 1 (2.00%) Material-UI
4 1 (2.00%) Next.js
4 1 (2.00%) Node.js
4 1 (2.00%) React Native
4 1 (2.00%) RESTful
4 1 (2.00%) Streamlit
4 1 (2.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Mobile App
2 5 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.00%) Digital Media
4 3 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.00%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (4.00%) Graphic Design
5 2 (4.00%) W3C
6 1 (2.00%) Animation
6 1 (2.00%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.00%) e-Learning
6 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.00%) Motion Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (72.00%) User Experience
2 34 (68.00%) Agile
3 28 (56.00%) UX Design
4 27 (54.00%) User Research
5 24 (48.00%) Prototyping
6 15 (30.00%) Service Design
7 13 (26.00%) Usability Testing
8 12 (24.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 12 (24.00%) Wireframes
9 8 (16.00%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (16.00%) Front End Development
10 7 (14.00%) Community of Practice
10 7 (14.00%) Personalization
11 6 (12.00%) AI
11 6 (12.00%) Content Management
11 6 (12.00%) Content Writing
11 6 (12.00%) Digital Banking
11 6 (12.00%) Storytelling
11 6 (12.00%) Validation
12 5 (10.00%) Qualitative Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (6.00%) Python
2 1 (2.00%) Java
2 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Degree
2 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (58.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (8.00%) WCAG
3 1 (2.00%) QA
Vendors
1 16 (32.00%) Adobe
2 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.00%) Hopewiser
4 1 (2.00%) Netlify
4 1 (2.00%) OneLogin
4 1 (2.00%) OpenAI