UI/UX Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

User Interface/User Experience Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median User Interface/User Experience Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £388, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 379 447
Rank change year-on-year +55 +68 +21
Contract jobs requiring a UI/UX Designer 12 20 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.096% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.10% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 11
10th Percentile £322 £366 £175
25th Percentile £360 £391 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £438 £275
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +59.09% -38.20%
75th Percentile £437 £483 £426
90th Percentile £488 £505 £518
UK median daily rate £438 £469 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% -14.77% +12.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

UI/UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for UI/UX Designer in the UK excluding London

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for UI/UX Designer in the UK excluding London

UI/UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UI/UX Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UI/UX Designer in the UK excluding London

UI/UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for UI/UX Designer in the UK excluding London

UI/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 UI/UX Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South West +47 4 £375 -11.76% 35
Scotland +13 3 £388 -16.22% 9
Midlands +22 2 £318 -24.04% 45
North of England +17 2 £339 -26.70% 54
East Midlands +10 2 £318 -24.04% 18
South East +39 1 £550 +15.79% 58
North West +16 1 £313 - 25
Yorkshire +7 1 £365 -21.08% 23
East of England - 1 £480 - 36
UI/UX Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, UI/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 UI/UX Designer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) UX Design
1 12 (100.00%) User Experience
2 9 (75.00%) Figma
3 6 (50.00%) User Research
4 5 (41.67%) Wireframes
4 5 (41.67%) Agile
5 4 (33.33%) Usability Testing
5 4 (33.33%) HTML
5 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (33.33%) CSS
5 4 (33.33%) Adobe
5 4 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (33.33%) Adobe XD
6 3 (25.00%) Interaction Design
6 3 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 3 (25.00%) Prototyping
6 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
6 3 (25.00%) B2B
6 3 (25.00%) JIRA
6 3 (25.00%) SaaS
7 2 (16.67%) Information Architecture
7 2 (16.67%) Analytics
7 2 (16.67%) Web Accessibility
7 2 (16.67%) Product Management
7 2 (16.67%) Project Management
7 2 (16.67%) E-Commerce
7 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
7 2 (16.67%) Web Development
7 2 (16.67%) Typography

UI/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:

Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Adobe XD
2 2 (16.67%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Figma
2 3 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) CSS
1 4 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) User Experience
1 12 (100.00%) UX Design
2 6 (50.00%) User Research
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) Wireframes
4 4 (33.33%) Usability Testing
5 3 (25.00%) B2B
5 3 (25.00%) Interaction Design
5 3 (25.00%) Prototyping
5 3 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (16.67%) A/B Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Content Strategy
6 2 (16.67%) Contextual Inquiry
6 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) E-Commerce
6 2 (16.67%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
6 2 (16.67%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
6 2 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) Typography
6 2 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Adobe