Figma Contracts

Figma
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Figma skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Figma over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 386 439
Rank change year-on-year +68 +53 +24
Contract jobs citing Figma 214 218 283
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 0.50% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.95% 1.55% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 152 190
10th Percentile £313 £327 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -6.00% -3.15%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £600 £677
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 £422 £475
% change year-on-year -4.03% -11.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £41.55 £38.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.50 £40.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £56.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% +24.44% -25.31%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.50 £46.88
90th Percentile - £70.45 £48.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Figma falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Figma as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Figma in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Figma.

Daily rate trend for Figma in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Figma over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Figma in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Figma.

Hourly rate trend for Figma in the UK

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Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Figma within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +62 177 £475 -5.00% 289
London +42 134 £495 -1.00% 189
Work from Home +46 72 £412 -19.61% 169
UK excluding London +44 49 £405 -4.03% 103
Scotland +4 14 £400 -5.88% 4
North of England +25 11 £400 - 31
South East +34 10 £502 +0.40% 29
South West +51 7 £450 +38.46% 19
Midlands +28 7 £257 -38.64% 11
West Midlands +20 5 £200 -50.00% 9
North West +10 4 £400 +14.29% 21
North East - 4 £600 - 3
Yorkshire +9 3 £525 +23.53% 8
East Midlands +10 2 £318 -24.04% 2
East of England +33 1 £363 +27.19% 11

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (6.07%) CMS
2 10 (4.67%) Confluence
3 6 (2.80%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.87%) nginx
5 3 (1.40%) WordPress
6 2 (0.93%) Drupal
7 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.47%) Moodle
7 1 (0.47%) Umbraco
Applications
1 45 (21.03%) Sketch
2 34 (15.89%) Adobe XD
3 19 (8.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 14 (6.54%) Photoshop
5 12 (5.61%) Adobe Illustrator
6 11 (5.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (4.21%) Autodesk Smoke
7 9 (4.21%) InVision
8 8 (3.74%) Adobe After Effects
8 8 (3.74%) Adobe Premiere
9 6 (2.80%) Chatbot
9 6 (2.80%) InDesign
10 4 (1.87%) CINEMA 4D
10 4 (1.87%) Final Cut Pro
10 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
10 4 (1.87%) Trello
11 3 (1.40%) Acrobat
11 3 (1.40%) MS Visio
12 2 (0.93%) Blender
12 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Shopify
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (9.35%) Miro
2 14 (6.54%) AWS
3 13 (6.07%) Azure
4 10 (4.67%) SaaS
5 7 (3.27%) Slack
6 6 (2.80%) GCP
7 4 (1.87%) GitHub
7 4 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.87%) SonarCloud
8 3 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.40%) DigitalOcean
8 3 (1.40%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.40%) Heroku
9 2 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (0.93%) BigCommerce
9 2 (0.93%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.47%) Commercetools
10 1 (0.47%) Contentful
10 1 (0.47%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.40%) DNS
2 2 (0.93%) Intranet
2 2 (0.93%) WebEx
3 1 (0.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.40%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.47%) Metadata
2 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.47%) Power BI
2 1 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (8.88%) JIRA
2 17 (7.94%) Axure RP
3 8 (3.74%) Git
4 7 (3.27%) Vite
5 4 (1.87%) Storybook
6 3 (1.40%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.93%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.93%) webpack
8 1 (0.47%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.47%) gulp
8 1 (0.47%) Postman
8 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.47%) Xcode
General
1 85 (39.72%) Social Skills
2 53 (24.77%) Finance
3 22 (10.28%) Banking
3 22 (10.28%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.61%) Marketing
5 10 (4.67%) Retail
6 8 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.27%) Wearables
8 6 (2.80%) Legal
9 5 (2.34%) Front Office
10 4 (1.87%) Games
10 4 (1.87%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.40%) Local Government
11 3 (1.40%) Publishing
12 2 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 155 (72.43%) Designer
2 69 (32.24%) UX Designer
3 42 (19.63%) Senior
4 32 (14.95%) UI Designer
5 31 (14.49%) Product Designer
5 31 (14.49%) Senior Designer
6 29 (13.55%) Developer
7 24 (11.21%) UI/UX Designer
8 16 (7.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 15 (7.01%) Senior UX Designer
10 14 (6.54%) Service Designer
11 13 (6.07%) React Developer
12 12 (5.61%) Digital Designer
12 12 (5.61%) Interaction Designer
12 12 (5.61%) Visual Designer
13 11 (5.14%) Content Designer
14 9 (4.21%) Senior Product Designer
14 9 (4.21%) Senior UI Designer
15 8 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
15 8 (3.74%) Senior UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (17.76%) CSS
2 36 (16.82%) HTML
3 33 (15.42%) React
4 11 (5.14%) Redux
5 8 (3.74%) Framer.js
6 6 (2.80%) AngularJS
6 6 (2.80%) Node.js
6 6 (2.80%) RESTful
6 6 (2.80%) Tailwind CSS
6 6 (2.80%) Vue
7 5 (2.34%) Bootstrap
7 5 (2.34%) OpenAPI
7 5 (2.34%) OpenFin
7 5 (2.34%) Swagger
8 4 (1.87%) Android Jetpack
8 4 (1.87%) Dagger
8 4 (1.87%) HTML5
9 3 (1.40%) CSS3
9 3 (1.40%) Laravel
9 3 (1.40%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.95%) Mobile App
2 25 (11.68%) Product Ownership
3 21 (9.81%) Animation
4 13 (6.07%) Motion Graphics
5 12 (5.61%) Photography
6 9 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (3.27%) IoT
7 7 (3.27%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.80%) Social Media
9 5 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.34%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.34%) Graphic Design
9 5 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.87%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.40%) Video Editing
12 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.93%) Virtual Reality
13 1 (0.47%) Mixed Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.67%) Android
2 6 (2.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (74.77%) User Experience
2 141 (65.89%) UX Design
3 73 (34.11%) Prototyping
3 73 (34.11%) User Research
4 68 (31.78%) Agile
5 65 (30.37%) Wireframes
6 56 (26.17%) Usability Testing
7 49 (22.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 34 (15.89%) Interaction Design
9 31 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (14.49%) Service Design
10 29 (13.55%) Front End Development
11 24 (11.21%) Responsive Web Design
12 23 (10.75%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
13 21 (9.81%) Collaborative Working
13 21 (9.81%) Design Thinking
14 20 (9.35%) Analytics
15 18 (8.41%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (7.94%) Journey Map
17 16 (7.48%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 33 (15.42%) JavaScript
2 16 (7.48%) TypeScript
3 5 (2.34%) Python
3 5 (2.34%) SQL
4 4 (1.87%) Kotlin
5 3 (1.40%) PHP
6 1 (0.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 18 (8.41%) SC Cleared
1 18 (8.41%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.21%) Degree
3 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.47%) CSPO
3 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (27.10%) Accessibility
2 15 (7.01%) WCAG
3 5 (2.34%) QA
4 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (2.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.47%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 65 (30.37%) Adobe
2 12 (5.61%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.80%) Google
4 5 (2.34%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.87%) SAP
6 3 (1.40%) Sage
6 3 (1.40%) YouTube
7 2 (0.93%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.47%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.47%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.47%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.47%) Optimizely