Adobe XD Contract Job Trends

Adobe XD
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Adobe XD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 642 529 532
Rank change year-on-year -113 +3 +81
Contract jobs citing Adobe XD 18 26 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.034% 0.079% 0.092%
As % of the Applications category 0.64% 0.92% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 25
10th Percentile £363 £313 £373
25th Percentile £377 £345 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £393 £495
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -20.71% +4.21%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £550
90th Percentile £536 £561 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £375 £418
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.29% -1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Software Application Skills
UK

Adobe XD falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,827 2,824 2,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.30% 8.57% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,536 1,593 1,417
10th Percentile £213 £200 £163
25th Percentile £325 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.97% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £525
90th Percentile £638 £650 £632
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +2.50% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 371 393
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.60 £11.83
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% +25.72% -22.55%
75th Percentile £37.02 £34.84 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.20 £60.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.13 £22.00 £16.23
% change year-on-year -3.97% +35.55% -24.51%

Adobe XD
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Adobe XD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Adobe XD job vacancy trend in the UK

Adobe XD
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Adobe XD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Adobe XD

Adobe XD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Adobe XD over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Adobe XD in the UK

Adobe XD
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Adobe XD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Adobe XD

Adobe XD
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe XD within the UK over the 6 months to 13 August 2026. 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
England -101 14 £450 +24.14% 8
London -81 9 £434 +22.18% 5
Work from Home -52 7 £500 +29.45% 4
UK excluding London -106 6 £413 +10.00% 5
Midlands -53 2 £413 +29.92% 1
Wales - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £413 - 1
South East - 1 - - 4
East of England - 1 - -

Adobe XD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (5.56%) Camunda
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) Mendix
1 1 (5.56%) Moodle
1 1 (5.56%) Strapi
Applications
1 13 (72.22%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 17 (94.44%) Figma
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.56%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Axure RP
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (22.22%) Finance
4 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Designer
2 6 (33.33%) Interaction Designer
3 5 (27.78%) UX Designer
4 4 (22.22%) UI Designer
4 4 (22.22%) UI/UX Designer
5 3 (16.67%) Senior
6 2 (11.11%) Senior Designer
7 1 (5.56%) Junior Designer
7 1 (5.56%) Junior UI/UX Designer
7 1 (5.56%) Junior UX Designer
7 1 (5.56%) Lead
7 1 (5.56%) Product Designer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Interaction Designer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Service Designer
7 1 (5.56%) Service Designer
7 1 (5.56%) UI Developer
7 1 (5.56%) UI Specialist
7 1 (5.56%) UI/UX Developer
7 1 (5.56%) UX Developer
7 1 (5.56%) UX Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) CSS
1 5 (27.78%) HTML
2 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 3 (16.67%) React
2 3 (16.67%) Vue
3 2 (11.11%) CSS3
3 2 (11.11%) HTML5
3 2 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) User Experience
2 14 (77.78%) Wireframes
3 13 (72.22%) User Research
3 13 (72.22%) UX Design
4 11 (61.11%) Agile
5 10 (55.56%) Usability Testing
6 8 (44.44%) Interaction Design
6 8 (44.44%) Prototyping
6 8 (44.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 7 (38.89%) Service Design
8 6 (33.33%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
9 4 (22.22%) Analytics
9 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (16.67%) AI
10 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (16.67%) Design Patterns
10 3 (16.67%) Information Architecture
10 3 (16.67%) Mobile First
11 2 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 7 (38.89%) WCAG
3 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
Vendors
1 17 (94.44%) Adobe
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle