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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 373 426
Rank change year-on-year +66 +53 +27
Contract jobs citing Figma 216 199 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 0.47% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.97% 1.44% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 136 185
10th Percentile £307 £350 £332
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% -1.75% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £570 £588
90th Percentile £650 £600 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £418 £425
% change year-on-year +5.14% -1.65% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £39.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £38.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £39.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.25% -16.84% -21.16%
75th Percentile £48.75 £40.75 £62.00
90th Percentile - - £63.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £62.50

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 10,960 13,865 20,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.46% 32.56% 36.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,530 9,861 15,137
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 348 333
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.32 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +57.73%
75th Percentile £46.90 £36.16 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.37 £17.72 £25.87
% change year-on-year +14.95% -31.49% +34.38%

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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 19 May 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 19 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
England +75 182 £468 -6.50% 424
London +65 135 £469 -8.54% 307
Work from Home +49 74 £415 -18.71% 253
UK excluding London +44 51 £440 +5.14% 198
North of England +19 14 £475 +35.71% 45
South East +32 12 £475 -5.00% 95
Scotland -4 11 £425 - 8
Midlands +24 9 £318 -24.04% 6
South West +46 7 £450 +38.46% 25
North West +16 7 £400 +14.29% 32
West Midlands +9 5 £200 -50.00% 4
East Midlands +14 4 £395 -5.56% 1
North East - 4 £600 - 1
Yorkshire +9 3 £525 +44.83% 13
East of England +22 1 £363 +27.19% 15

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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 15 (6.94%) CMS
2 8 (3.70%) Confluence
3 6 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.85%) WordPress
5 3 (1.39%) nginx
6 2 (0.93%) Drupal
7 1 (0.46%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.46%) Moodle
7 1 (0.46%) Umbraco
Applications
1 40 (18.52%) Sketch
2 29 (13.43%) Adobe XD
3 18 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 12 (5.56%) Adobe Illustrator
4 12 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (5.56%) Photoshop
5 9 (4.17%) Chatbot
6 8 (3.70%) Adobe Premiere
6 8 (3.70%) Autodesk Smoke
7 7 (3.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 7 (3.24%) InVision
8 6 (2.78%) InDesign
9 5 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
10 4 (1.85%) CINEMA 4D
10 4 (1.85%) Final Cut Pro
10 4 (1.85%) Trello
11 3 (1.39%) Acrobat
11 3 (1.39%) MS Visio
12 2 (0.93%) Blender
12 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Shopify
2 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.72%) Miro
2 13 (6.02%) AWS
2 13 (6.02%) Azure
3 10 (4.63%) SaaS
4 7 (3.24%) Slack
5 6 (2.78%) GCP
6 4 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.39%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 3 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.39%) DigitalOcean
7 3 (1.39%) GitHub
7 3 (1.39%) Google Workspace
7 3 (1.39%) Heroku
8 2 (0.93%) BigCommerce
8 2 (0.93%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.93%) SonarCloud
9 1 (0.46%) Commercetools
9 1 (0.46%) Contentful
9 1 (0.46%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.46%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.39%) DNS
2 2 (0.93%) HTTP
2 2 (0.93%) Intranet
2 2 (0.93%) WebEx
3 1 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.39%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.93%) Mixpanel
3 1 (0.46%) Metadata
3 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.46%) Power BI
3 1 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (7.87%) JIRA
2 14 (6.48%) Axure RP
3 9 (4.17%) Git
4 7 (3.24%) Vite
5 4 (1.85%) Storybook
6 3 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.93%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.93%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.93%) UI Automator
7 2 (0.93%) webpack
8 1 (0.46%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.46%) gulp
8 1 (0.46%) Postman
8 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.46%) Xcode
General
1 84 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 50 (23.15%) Finance
3 22 (10.19%) Banking
4 21 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.41%) Marketing
6 11 (5.09%) Retail
7 9 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.70%) Legal
9 6 (2.78%) Wearables
10 5 (2.31%) Front Office
11 4 (1.85%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.39%) Games
12 3 (1.39%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.39%) Local Government
12 3 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.39%) Publishing
12 3 (1.39%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 155 (71.76%) Designer
2 64 (29.63%) UX Designer
3 41 (18.98%) Senior
4 34 (15.74%) Product Designer
5 33 (15.28%) Senior Designer
5 33 (15.28%) UI Designer
6 31 (14.35%) Developer
7 23 (10.65%) UI/UX Designer
8 16 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 15 (6.94%) Senior UX Designer
10 14 (6.48%) React Developer
10 14 (6.48%) Service Designer
11 13 (6.02%) Visual Designer
12 11 (5.09%) Content Designer
12 11 (5.09%) Digital Designer
12 11 (5.09%) Senior Product Designer
13 9 (4.17%) Interaction Designer
13 9 (4.17%) Senior UI Designer
14 8 (3.70%) Senior UI/UX Designer
14 8 (3.70%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (17.13%) CSS
2 36 (16.67%) HTML
3 34 (15.74%) React
4 11 (5.09%) Redux
5 8 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 8 (3.70%) Framer.js
5 8 (3.70%) Vue
6 6 (2.78%) Node.js
6 6 (2.78%) RESTful
6 6 (2.78%) Tailwind CSS
7 5 (2.31%) Bootstrap
7 5 (2.31%) OpenFin
8 4 (1.85%) HTML5
8 4 (1.85%) JSON
8 4 (1.85%) Next.js
9 3 (1.39%) Alpine.js
9 3 (1.39%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.39%) Material-UI
9 3 (1.39%) OpenAPI
9 3 (1.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.81%) Mobile App
2 27 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 22 (10.19%) Animation
4 13 (6.02%) Motion Graphics
5 12 (5.56%) Photography
6 8 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.78%) IoT
7 6 (2.78%) Social Media
8 5 (2.31%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.31%) Graphic Design
8 5 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.85%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.39%) Video Editing
11 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.46%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.46%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.48%) Android
2 12 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (72.69%) User Experience
2 138 (63.89%) UX Design
3 77 (35.65%) Prototyping
4 71 (32.87%) Agile
5 69 (31.94%) User Research
6 64 (29.63%) Wireframes
7 48 (22.22%) Usability Testing
8 47 (21.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 33 (15.28%) Interaction Design
10 30 (13.89%) Front End Development
10 30 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (13.89%) Service Design
11 22 (10.19%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
11 22 (10.19%) Responsive Web Design
12 21 (9.72%) Design Thinking
13 20 (9.26%) Analytics
14 18 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
14 18 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
15 17 (7.87%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 33 (15.28%) JavaScript
2 15 (6.94%) TypeScript
3 5 (2.31%) Python
3 5 (2.31%) SQL
4 3 (1.39%) PHP
5 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.46%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (7.87%) SC Cleared
1 17 (7.87%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.46%) CSPO
3 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (25.93%) Accessibility
2 16 (7.41%) WCAG
3 5 (2.31%) QA
4 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.46%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.46%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 60 (27.78%) Adobe
2 12 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.24%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.78%) Google
5 4 (1.85%) SAP
6 3 (1.39%) Optimizely
6 3 (1.39%) Sage
6 3 (1.39%) YouTube
7 2 (0.93%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.93%) Genesys
7 2 (0.93%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.93%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.46%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.46%) OneTrust