Senior UX Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior User Experience Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior User Experience Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 451 484
Rank change year-on-year +70 +33 -68
Contract jobs requiring a Senior UX Designer 7 2 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.009% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.009% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 17
10th Percentile £470 £516 £518
25th Percentile £500 £524 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -0.23% +4.76%
75th Percentile - £574 £638
90th Percentile - £582 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £631 £550
% change year-on-year -12.87% +14.77% +2.09%

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 18,947 22,165 29,135
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,483 20,411
10th Percentile £213 £225 £202
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £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 2,261 1,134 1,449
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Senior UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior UX Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior UX Designer in the UK excluding London

Senior UX 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 Senior UX Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Scotland +45 3 £450 -21.74% 1
North of England +26 3 £550 +5.26% 1
North West - 2 - -
Yorkshire +21 1 £550 +5.26% 1
South East - 1 £550 - 4
Senior UX Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Senior UX 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 Senior UX Designer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) UX Design
1 7 (100.00%) User Experience
2 4 (57.14%) Service Design
3 3 (42.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
4 2 (28.57%) Product Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Big Data
4 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
4 2 (28.57%) Health Technology
4 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
4 2 (28.57%) UX Research
4 2 (28.57%) Psychology
4 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Journey Map
5 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
5 1 (14.29%) User Research
5 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Information Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Banking
5 1 (14.29%) Ruby
5 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
5 1 (14.29%) WCAG
5 1 (14.29%) Android
5 1 (14.29%) COM+
5 1 (14.29%) B2B

Senior UX 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
General
1 2 (28.57%) Health Technology
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) COM+
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) User Experience
1 7 (100.00%) UX Design
2 4 (57.14%) Service Design
3 3 (42.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (28.57%) Product Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Psychology
4 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 2 (28.57%) UX Research
5 1 (14.29%) B2B
5 1 (14.29%) Information Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Journey Map
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Mobile First
5 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Prototyping
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Wireframes
5 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Virgin Media