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 £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 368 330
Rank change year-on-year +34 -38 -27
Contract jobs requiring a UX Designer 54 79 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.33% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.35% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 65 150
10th Percentile £375 £255 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £440 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -9.74% +21.88%
75th Percentile £480 £513 £575
90th Percentile £550 £569 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -10.38% +0.95% +10.53%

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 19,104 22,515 29,589
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 94.27% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,669 15,787 20,737
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £397 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £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 2,253 1,161 1,465
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £43.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 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 +57 22 £400 -19.80% 5
South East +28 13 £400 -3.03% 4
North of England -4 9 £456 +0.27% 14
Midlands +28 5 £418 +39.33% 9
Yorkshire -4 5 £463 -2.63% 1
East Midlands +21 3 £418 +52.00% 1
North West +21 3 - - 13
South West +9 3 £425 -5.56% 3
West Midlands +15 2 £444 +36.54% 8
Northern Ireland - 2 £563 -
North East +15 1 £450 +11.11%
UX Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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 54 (100.00%) User Experience
2 50 (92.59%) UX Design
3 27 (50.00%) Figma
4 21 (38.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 19 (35.19%) Product Ownership
6 16 (29.63%) Social Skills
6 16 (29.63%) Wireframes
6 16 (29.63%) Agile
7 15 (27.78%) Accessibility
7 15 (27.78%) Sketch
8 14 (25.93%) Prototyping
9 13 (24.07%) User Research
10 11 (20.37%) Android
10 11 (20.37%) Apple iOS
11 9 (16.67%) User Stories
11 9 (16.67%) Visualisation
11 9 (16.67%) UX Research
11 9 (16.67%) Public Sector
12 8 (14.81%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
12 8 (14.81%) Azure
12 8 (14.81%) MongoDB
12 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (14.81%) React
12 8 (14.81%) Python
13 7 (12.96%) Co-Creation
13 7 (12.96%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (11.11%) Storyboarding
14 6 (11.11%) Service Design
14 6 (11.11%) Information Architecture
14 6 (11.11%) B2B

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (27.78%) Sketch
2 5 (9.26%) Adobe XD
3 4 (7.41%) InVision
4 2 (3.70%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (3.70%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 27 (50.00%) Figma
2 8 (14.81%) Azure
3 3 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.56%) Big Data
3 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Axure RP
2 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 16 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.96%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (9.26%) Marketing
6 3 (5.56%) Banking
6 3 (5.56%) Health Technology
6 3 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.70%) Finance
7 2 (3.70%) Games
7 2 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Advertising
8 1 (1.85%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) React
2 3 (5.56%) HTML
3 1 (1.85%) COM+
3 1 (1.85%) CSS
3 1 (1.85%) Material Design
Miscellaneous
1 19 (35.19%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.41%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.37%) Android
1 11 (20.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) User Experience
2 50 (92.59%) UX Design
3 21 (38.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 16 (29.63%) Agile
4 16 (29.63%) Wireframes
5 14 (25.93%) Prototyping
6 13 (24.07%) User Research
7 9 (16.67%) User Stories
7 9 (16.67%) UX Research
7 9 (16.67%) Visualisation
8 8 (14.81%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
9 7 (12.96%) Co-Creation
10 6 (11.11%) B2B
10 6 (11.11%) Information Architecture
10 6 (11.11%) Service Design
10 6 (11.11%) Storyboarding
11 5 (9.26%) Product Management
11 5 (9.26%) Workshop Facilitation
12 4 (7.41%) Collaborative Working
12 4 (7.41%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.81%) Python
2 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) Degree
2 2 (3.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (27.78%) Accessibility
2 6 (11.11%) WCAG
3 2 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 4 (7.41%) Adobe
2 3 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.85%) SAP
3 1 (1.85%) Virgin Media