UX Design Contracts in the UK excluding London

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring UX Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UX Design over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 266 224
Rank change year-on-year +30 -42 -38
Contract jobs citing UX Design 103 134 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.81% 0.65% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.76% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 90 167
10th Percentile £312 £325 £313
25th Percentile £358 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £456 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% -3.95% -5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £547 £550
90th Percentile £575 £611 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £80.04 £50.66
25th Percentile £84.83 £83.84 £53.90
Median hourly rate £91.69 £91.44 £59.59
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% +53.45% +7.36%
75th Percentile £98.56 £97.78 £65.07
90th Percentile - £100.83 £68.19
UK median hourly rate £91.69 £41.68 £47.50
% change year-on-year +120.01% -12.26% -14.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

UX 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 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing UX Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for UX Design in the UK excluding London

UX Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for UX Design in the UK excluding London

UX Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UX Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the UK excluding London

UX Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Design in the UK excluding London

UX 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 UX Design within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Scotland +6 27 £413 -5.71% 16
South East +46 26 £425 -12.87% 132
North of England -2 20 £400 -8.57% 115
South West +52 15 £400 -8.57% 51
Midlands +14 10 £356 -28.80% 60
North West -3 10 £400 -6.16% 78
Yorkshire +5 8 £463 +8.88% 26
East of England +34 6 £478 -4.50% 62
East Midlands +16 5 £356 -14.83% 16
West Midlands +8 5 £405 -19.00% 41
North East -8 2 £388 -44.64% 12
Northern Ireland -13 1 £450 -12.20% 9
UX Design
UK

UX Design
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.83%) Confluence
2 1 (0.97%) CMS
2 1 (0.97%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (7.77%) Chatbot
1 8 (7.77%) Sketch
2 7 (6.80%) Adobe XD
3 3 (2.91%) UserZoom
4 2 (1.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.94%) InVision
4 2 (1.94%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.94%) Zeplin
5 1 (0.97%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.97%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.97%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (0.97%) Trello
5 1 (0.97%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.97%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (35.92%) Figma
2 14 (13.59%) Azure
3 12 (11.65%) SaaS
4 5 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.85%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.91%) AWS
6 2 (1.94%) Azure Stack
6 2 (1.94%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.97%) GCP
7 1 (0.97%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.97%) npm
7 1 (0.97%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.97%) HTTP
1 1 (0.97%) Internet
1 1 (0.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.85%) Power BI
2 2 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.94%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.94%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.97%) DataStage
3 1 (0.97%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.97%) Metadata
3 1 (0.97%) MySQL
3 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.97%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 13 (12.62%) JIRA
2 7 (6.80%) Git
3 5 (4.85%) Cypress.io
3 5 (4.85%) Vite
4 4 (3.88%) Axure RP
4 4 (3.88%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (2.91%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.91%) webpack
5 3 (2.91%) Xcode
6 2 (1.94%) Moq
6 2 (1.94%) Selenium
6 2 (1.94%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.94%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.97%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.97%) Maven
7 1 (0.97%) Storybook
General
1 23 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.39%) Finance
3 17 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (13.59%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.74%) Marketing
6 5 (4.85%) Legal
7 4 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.88%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.91%) Retail
9 2 (1.94%) Banking
9 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.97%) Automotive
10 1 (0.97%) Electronics
10 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.97%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (40.78%) Designer
2 33 (32.04%) UX Designer
3 29 (28.16%) Developer
4 13 (12.62%) Senior
5 12 (11.65%) UI Designer
5 12 (11.65%) UI/UX Designer
6 10 (9.71%) React Developer
7 9 (8.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 8 (7.77%) Content Designer
9 7 (6.80%) Product Owner
10 5 (4.85%) Digital Designer
10 5 (4.85%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.88%) Analyst
11 4 (3.88%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.88%) Senior Designer
11 4 (3.88%) Senior UX Designer
11 4 (3.88%) Service Designer
12 3 (2.91%) Digital Product Owner
12 3 (2.91%) Digital UX Designer
12 3 (2.91%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.27%) CSS
1 25 (24.27%) HTML
2 20 (19.42%) React
3 14 (13.59%) RESTful
4 11 (10.68%) AngularJS
5 9 (8.74%) Redux
6 8 (7.77%) Node.js
7 5 (4.85%) Vue
8 4 (3.88%) Framer.js
8 4 (3.88%) YAML
9 3 (2.91%) .NET
9 3 (2.91%) jQuery
9 3 (2.91%) SwiftUI
9 3 (2.91%) UIKit
10 2 (1.94%) .NET Core
10 2 (1.94%) Bootstrap
10 2 (1.94%) CSS3
10 2 (1.94%) Express.js
10 2 (1.94%) HTML5
10 2 (1.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.48%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.68%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.91%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.91%) Credit Risk
4 3 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.91%) iPad
4 3 (2.91%) iPhone
4 3 (2.91%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.91%) Social Media
4 3 (2.91%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.94%) Animation
5 2 (1.94%) IVR
5 2 (1.94%) Motion Graphics
5 2 (1.94%) Photography
5 2 (1.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.97%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.97%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.77%) Android
1 8 (7.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (100.00%) User Experience
2 50 (48.54%) Agile
3 40 (38.83%) Wireframes
4 26 (25.24%) User Research
5 22 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (19.42%) CI/CD
7 19 (18.45%) Scrum
8 18 (17.48%) Prototyping
9 17 (16.50%) Usability Testing
10 16 (15.53%) Decision-Making
11 15 (14.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 14 (13.59%) Analytics
13 13 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (12.62%) Software Engineering
14 12 (11.65%) Design Patterns
14 12 (11.65%) User Stories
15 11 (10.68%) Customer Experience
15 11 (10.68%) Service Design
15 11 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
16 10 (9.71%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 23 (22.33%) JavaScript
2 12 (11.65%) TypeScript
3 6 (5.83%) Python
4 5 (4.85%) C#
5 3 (2.91%) Objective-C
5 3 (2.91%) SQL
5 3 (2.91%) Swift
6 2 (1.94%) Dart
6 2 (1.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.94%) Java
7 1 (0.97%) ABAP
7 1 (0.97%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.97%) Bash
7 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (9.71%) Degree
2 2 (1.94%) Master's Degree
2 2 (1.94%) SC Cleared
2 2 (1.94%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.97%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (22.33%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.83%) QA
2 6 (5.83%) WCAG
3 2 (1.94%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.97%) Docker
Vendors
1 12 (11.65%) Adobe
2 7 (6.80%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.88%) SAP
4 3 (2.91%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.94%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.94%) Genesys
5 2 (1.94%) Google
5 2 (1.94%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.97%) Avaya
6 1 (0.97%) Databricks
6 1 (0.97%) DataCore
6 1 (0.97%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.97%) IBM
6 1 (0.97%) Qualtrics
6 1 (0.97%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.97%) Talend