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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 495 544
Rank change year-on-year -129 +49 +83
Contract jobs citing Adobe XD 21 30 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.042% 0.10% 0.085%
As % of the Applications category 0.77% 1.19% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 26 26
10th Percentile £358 £310 £355
25th Percentile £400 £336 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £388 £513
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -24.39% +10.81%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £564
90th Percentile £541 £550 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £375 £418
% change year-on-year +36.67% -10.29% -1.65%

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 2,726 2,519 3,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.44% 8.52% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,568 1,462 1,669
10th Percentile £227 £190 £165
25th Percentile £331 £263 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £551 £541 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £388 £375
% change year-on-year +9.68% +3.44% -3.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 288 642
10th Percentile £13.14 £14.27 £11.68
25th Percentile £16.03 £15.84 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £24.66 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% +48.06% -39.44%
75th Percentile £34.47 £43.75 £37.31
90th Percentile £68.75 £63.40 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £24.22 £16.06
% change year-on-year -11.23% +50.81% -36.40%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -117 13 £438 +16.67% 11
London -86 11 £400 +10.34% 5
Work from Home -47 8 £400 +10.34% 2
UK excluding London -113 6 £513 +36.67% 5
Scotland -16 4 £600 +33.33%
Midlands -57 1 £450 +41.73% 1
North of England -65 1 £513 +63.74% 1
West Midlands - 1 £450 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £513 -

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 (4.76%) Camunda
1 1 (4.76%) Moodle
1 1 (4.76%) Strapi
Applications
1 15 (71.43%) Sketch
2 7 (33.33%) InVision
3 3 (14.29%) Zeplin
4 1 (4.76%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (4.76%) Photoshop
4 1 (4.76%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Figma
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Google Docs
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Axure RP
2 3 (14.29%) GitLab
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 12 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Banking
3 6 (28.57%) Finance
4 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (80.95%) Designer
2 11 (52.38%) UX Designer
3 4 (19.05%) UI Designer
3 4 (19.05%) UI/UX Designer
4 3 (14.29%) Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Service Designer
5 2 (9.52%) Product Designer
6 1 (4.76%) Digital Designer
6 1 (4.76%) Interaction Designer
6 1 (4.76%) Junior
6 1 (4.76%) Junior Designer
6 1 (4.76%) Junior UI/UX Designer
6 1 (4.76%) Junior UX Designer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Designer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) CSS
1 6 (28.57%) HTML
2 5 (23.81%) AngularJS
2 5 (23.81%) React
3 4 (19.05%) CSS3
3 4 (19.05%) HTML5
4 3 (14.29%) Node.js
4 3 (14.29%) RESTful
4 3 (14.29%) Spring
4 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 2 (9.52%) Vue
6 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 4 (19.05%) Digital Wallet
3 3 (14.29%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.76%) Motion Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) User Experience
2 17 (80.95%) UX Design
3 15 (71.43%) User Research
4 12 (57.14%) Agile
5 11 (52.38%) Service Design
5 11 (52.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 11 (52.38%) Wireframes
6 10 (47.62%) Prototyping
7 9 (42.86%) Interaction Design
8 8 (38.10%) Usability Testing
9 6 (28.57%) Qualitative Research
9 6 (28.57%) Quantitative Research
9 6 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
10 5 (23.81%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
10 5 (23.81%) Scrum
11 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
11 4 (19.05%) Customer-Centricity
11 4 (19.05%) Digital Banking
11 4 (19.05%) Product Requirements
11 4 (19.05%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
2 3 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (85.71%) Accessibility
2 8 (38.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (95.24%) Adobe
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft