UX Design Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

User Experience Design (UXD)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring UX Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 244 291
Rank change year-on-year +24 +47 -103
Contract jobs citing UX Design 174 111 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.96% 0.74% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.85% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 67 84
10th Percentile £360 £307 £325
25th Percentile £381 £359 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £575
90th Percentile £594 £608 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 7
10th Percentile £27.03 £30.75 £70.78
25th Percentile £32.80 £31.21 £72.50
Median hourly rate £35.60 £32.21 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -58.44% +38.39%
75th Percentile £62.50 £32.98 £81.88
90th Percentile £70.16 £33.32 £85.28
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £33.27 £72.50
% change year-on-year +33.75% -54.11% +33.03%

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 15,635 13,009 17,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.98% 87.13% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,537 7,651 11,208
10th Percentile £220 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,774 755 1,215
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.02 £31.52 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% -29.17% +42.58%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

UX Design job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

UX Design
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UX Design in the UK excluding London

UX Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

UX Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UX Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 20 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 -15 63 £401 -5.65% 28
North West -5 37 £388 +1.31% 15
Midlands -12 37 £425 +19.38% 15
West Midlands -6 31 £425 -26.09% 12
Scotland +8 28 £475 +7.04% 7
South East -22 21 £525 +31.25% 46
Yorkshire -40 20 £500 -3.61% 7
South West +5 13 £450 -25.00% 15
East of England -22 8 £460 +2.22% 10
North East -3 6 £369 - 6
East Midlands -18 6 £455 +27.81% 3
Wales +6 5 £475 +11.76% 5
Northern Ireland -10 1 £625 +16.28%
UX Design
UK

UX 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 9 (5.17%) CMS
2 6 (3.45%) Confluence
3 3 (1.72%) SugarCRM
4 1 (0.57%) Drupal
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (14.37%) Sketch
2 12 (6.90%) Adobe XD
3 6 (3.45%) InVision
4 5 (2.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.15%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.57%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.57%) Blender
6 1 (0.57%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.57%) InDesign
6 1 (0.57%) Marvel
6 1 (0.57%) Moqups
6 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.57%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP CO
1 1 (0.57%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 47 (27.01%) Figma
2 23 (13.22%) AWS
3 22 (12.64%) Azure
4 11 (6.32%) GCP
5 5 (2.87%) GitHub
6 4 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.30%) Miro
7 3 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.72%) SaaS
8 2 (1.15%) Contentful
8 2 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.15%) Firebase
8 2 (1.15%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.57%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.57%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.57%) Vercel
9 1 (0.57%) Vyond
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.15%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.17%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.87%) MongoDB
2 5 (2.87%) MySQL
3 3 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.15%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.15%) Power BI
5 1 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.57%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.57%) Metadata
5 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (15.52%) Git
2 14 (8.05%) JIRA
3 12 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.60%) Cypress.io
5 7 (4.02%) Axure RP
5 7 (4.02%) JUnit
6 6 (3.45%) GitLab
7 4 (2.30%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.30%) Gradle
7 4 (2.30%) webpack
8 3 (1.72%) Xcode
9 2 (1.15%) Mocha
10 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.57%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.57%) Maven
10 1 (0.57%) Pa11y
10 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 73 (41.95%) Social Skills
2 54 (31.03%) Finance
3 31 (17.82%) Public Sector
4 21 (12.07%) Banking
5 18 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.32%) Financial Institution
7 10 (5.75%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (4.02%) Automotive
10 6 (3.45%) Marketing
11 3 (1.72%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.15%) Legal
13 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.57%) Retail
13 1 (0.57%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 69 (39.66%) Designer
2 51 (29.31%) UX Designer
3 36 (20.69%) Developer
4 28 (16.09%) Senior
5 15 (8.62%) Lead
6 13 (7.47%) Senior Designer
7 12 (6.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 11 (6.32%) UI Designer
9 9 (5.17%) Analyst
9 9 (5.17%) Service Designer
10 8 (4.60%) Senior UX Designer
10 8 (4.60%) UI/UX Designer
10 8 (4.60%) User Researcher
11 7 (4.02%) Product Owner
12 6 (3.45%) Content Designer
12 6 (3.45%) Java Developer
12 6 (3.45%) Software Engineer
13 5 (2.87%) Android Developer
13 5 (2.87%) Business Analyst
13 5 (2.87%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (20.11%) CSS
1 35 (20.11%) HTML
2 34 (19.54%) React
3 32 (18.39%) RESTful
4 18 (10.34%) AngularJS
5 16 (9.20%) CSS3
5 16 (9.20%) HTML5
5 16 (9.20%) Node.js
6 10 (5.75%) Jest
6 10 (5.75%) REST
7 9 (5.17%) Spring
7 9 (5.17%) Spring Boot
8 8 (4.60%) Playwright
9 7 (4.02%) Material-UI
10 5 (2.87%) Redux
11 4 (2.30%) Sass
12 3 (1.72%) Framer.js
12 3 (1.72%) Material Design
12 3 (1.72%) Next.js
12 3 (1.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.20%) Product Ownership
2 15 (8.62%) Mobile App
3 9 (5.17%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.02%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.30%) Digital Media
5 4 (2.30%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.72%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.15%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.15%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.15%) Graphic Design
7 2 (1.15%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.15%) NHS
7 2 (1.15%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.57%) Animation
8 1 (0.57%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.17%) Apple iOS
2 8 (4.60%) Android
3 2 (1.15%) Linux
3 2 (1.15%) Windows
4 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (100.00%) User Experience
2 96 (55.17%) Agile
3 54 (31.03%) User Research
4 43 (24.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 39 (22.41%) Usability Testing
6 38 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (20.11%) Front End Development
8 32 (18.39%) Wireframes
9 31 (17.82%) CI/CD
10 30 (17.24%) Service Design
11 29 (16.67%) Prototyping
12 26 (14.94%) Interaction Design
13 25 (14.37%) Microservices
14 23 (13.22%) UX Research
15 22 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (12.64%) Workshop Facilitation
16 21 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
17 17 (9.77%) Decision-Making
17 17 (9.77%) DevOps
17 17 (9.77%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 28 (16.09%) JavaScript
2 24 (13.79%) Java
3 20 (11.49%) TypeScript
4 8 (4.60%) Kotlin
4 8 (4.60%) Python
4 8 (4.60%) Swift
5 6 (3.45%) Objective-C
6 4 (2.30%) PHP
6 4 (2.30%) Ruby
6 4 (2.30%) SQL
7 3 (1.72%) C
7 3 (1.72%) C++
7 3 (1.72%) Scala
8 2 (1.15%) Bash
9 1 (0.57%) C#
9 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (13.79%) Degree
2 14 (8.05%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.87%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.30%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.57%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (29.89%) Accessibility
2 20 (11.49%) QA
3 15 (8.62%) WCAG
4 6 (3.45%) GDPR
5 3 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.72%) SLA
6 2 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (9.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.60%) Terraform
3 5 (2.87%) Ansible
4 1 (0.57%) Consul
4 1 (0.57%) Grafana
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (12.07%) Adobe
2 10 (5.75%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.45%) Hopewiser
4 5 (2.87%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.72%) Apple
5 3 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.72%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.15%) Google
6 2 (1.15%) Progress
6 2 (1.15%) SAP
7 1 (0.57%) Citrix
7 1 (0.57%) DocuSign
7 1 (0.57%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.57%) Netlify
7 1 (0.57%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.57%) VMware
7 1 (0.57%) Workday