Interaction Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Interaction Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Interaction Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 418 428
Rank change year-on-year +51 +10 -50
Contract jobs requiring an Interaction Designer 18 38 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.088% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.17% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 27 56
10th Percentile - £459 £409
25th Percentile £363 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +3.77% +11.29%
75th Percentile £513 £575 £565
90th Percentile £544 £673 £586
UK median daily rate £495 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.76% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,985 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,554 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.55 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £73.80 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Interaction Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Interaction Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Interaction Designer in the UK excluding London

Interaction Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Interaction Designer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Interaction Designer in the UK excluding London

Interaction Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Interaction Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Interaction Designer in the UK excluding London

Interaction Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Interaction Designer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Interaction Designer in the UK excluding London

Interaction Designer
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 Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England +19 13 £375 -31.82% 10
North West +24 6 £375 -38.78% 5
North East +14 5 £625 +8.70% 3
South West +21 4 £510 -10.72%
Yorkshire +15 2 £450 -16.28% 3
Midlands +29 1 £500 -6.54% 2
West Midlands +24 1 £500 -6.54% 2
Interaction Designer
UK

Interaction Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Interaction Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Interaction Designer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Interaction Design
2 8 (44.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 8 (44.44%) User Research
2 8 (44.44%) User Experience
2 8 (44.44%) Prototyping
3 7 (38.89%) UX Design
3 7 (38.89%) Accessibility
4 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 6 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 6 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (27.78%) HTML
5 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (22.22%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
6 4 (22.22%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
6 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
6 4 (22.22%) CSS
6 4 (22.22%) Project Management
6 4 (22.22%) Business Analysis
7 3 (16.67%) Wireframes
7 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
7 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 2 (11.11%) Customer Experience
8 2 (11.11%) InVision
8 2 (11.11%) Service Design
8 2 (11.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (11.11%) Front End Development
8 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
8 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
8 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared

Interaction Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (11.11%) InVision
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) HTML
2 4 (22.22%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Interaction Design
2 8 (44.44%) Prototyping
2 8 (44.44%) User Experience
2 8 (44.44%) User Research
2 8 (44.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 7 (38.89%) UX Design
4 6 (33.33%) Agile
4 6 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (22.22%) Business Analysis
6 4 (22.22%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
6 4 (22.22%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
6 4 (22.22%) Project Management
7 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (16.67%) Wireframes
8 2 (11.11%) Customer Experience
8 2 (11.11%) Front End Development
8 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 2 (11.11%) Service Design
8 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Adobe
1 2 (11.11%) SAP