UX Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

User Experience Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median User Experience Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 346 372
Rank change year-on-year +40 +26 -36
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 33 53 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.26% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.28% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 61
10th Percentile £313 £375 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £422 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% -4.20% -9.74%
75th Percentile £488 £484 £513
90th Percentile £564 £550 £560
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +4.76%

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 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
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 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for UX Designer in the UK excluding London

UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for UX Designer in the UK excluding London

UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for UX Designer in the UK excluding London

UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for UX Designer in the UK excluding London

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 UX Designer 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 +1 10 £388 -3.13% 2
North of England +23 8 £400 -13.51% 17
South West +47 7 £375 -11.76% 12
North West +17 6 £400 - 10
Midlands +19 5 £405 -3.11% 5
West Midlands +16 3 £475 +7.04% 1
East of England - 3 £475 - 5
South East +35 2 £550 +37.50% 15
East Midlands +13 2 £318 -24.04% 3
Yorkshire +4 2 £383 -17.24% 3
UX Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 UX Designer in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) UX Design
1 33 (100.00%) User Experience
2 22 (66.67%) Figma
3 17 (51.52%) Wireframes
4 16 (48.48%) User Research
5 14 (42.42%) Agile
6 13 (39.39%) Accessibility
7 11 (33.33%) Usability Testing
8 10 (30.30%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 9 (27.27%) Prototyping
9 9 (27.27%) Adobe
10 8 (24.24%) HTML
10 8 (24.24%) JavaScript
10 8 (24.24%) CSS
11 7 (21.21%) Sketch
12 6 (18.18%) Adobe XD
12 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
12 6 (18.18%) Finance
12 6 (18.18%) Analytics
13 5 (15.15%) Information Architecture
13 5 (15.15%) Content Strategy
13 5 (15.15%) Interaction Design
13 5 (15.15%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
13 5 (15.15%) A/B Testing
13 5 (15.15%) User Stories
13 5 (15.15%) Mobile App
14 4 (12.12%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (12.12%) Service Design
14 4 (12.12%) Decision-Making
14 4 (12.12%) Public Sector

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 7 (21.21%) Sketch
2 6 (18.18%) Adobe XD
3 3 (9.09%) Chatbot
4 2 (6.06%) Photoshop
5 1 (3.03%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (3.03%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (3.03%) UXPin
5 1 (3.03%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 22 (66.67%) Figma
2 4 (12.12%) SaaS
3 3 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (3.03%) AWS
4 1 (3.03%) GCP
4 1 (3.03%) Google Analytics
4 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) Axure RP
3 1 (3.03%) Balsamiq
3 1 (3.03%) Git
General
1 6 (18.18%) Finance
1 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.09%) Legal
3 3 (9.09%) Marketing
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Publishing
4 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (24.24%) CSS
1 8 (24.24%) HTML
2 3 (9.09%) React
3 2 (6.06%) Node.js
4 1 (3.03%) React Native
4 1 (3.03%) RESTful
4 1 (3.03%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Mobile App
2 4 (12.12%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (12.12%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 3 (9.09%) Social Media
4 2 (6.06%) IVR
5 1 (3.03%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Android
1 2 (6.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) User Experience
1 33 (100.00%) UX Design
2 17 (51.52%) Wireframes
3 16 (48.48%) User Research
4 14 (42.42%) Agile
5 11 (33.33%) Usability Testing
6 10 (30.30%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 9 (27.27%) Prototyping
8 6 (18.18%) Analytics
9 5 (15.15%) A/B Testing
9 5 (15.15%) Content Strategy
9 5 (15.15%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
9 5 (15.15%) Information Architecture
9 5 (15.15%) Interaction Design
9 5 (15.15%) User Stories
10 4 (12.12%) Decision-Making
10 4 (12.12%) Service Design
11 3 (9.09%) Content Marketing
11 3 (9.09%) Customer Insight
11 3 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) JavaScript
2 4 (12.12%) Python
3 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.03%) Degree
1 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (39.39%) Accessibility
2 3 (9.09%) WCAG
3 1 (3.03%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Adobe
2 1 (3.03%) Avaya
2 1 (3.03%) Genesys
2 1 (3.03%) Google
2 1 (3.03%) Hotjar
2 1 (3.03%) Salesforce