Interaction Design Contract Job Trends

Interaction Design (IxD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Interaction Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 438 482
Rank change year-on-year -60 +44 -58
Contract jobs citing Interaction Design 97 106 123
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.31% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.35% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 67 88
10th Percentile £319 £384 £350
25th Percentile £400 £426 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £525 £581 £577
90th Percentile £596 £650 £636
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £606 £550
% change year-on-year -30.72% +10.23% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £70.19
25th Percentile £27.03 £46.25 £70.37
Median hourly rate £28.09 £47.50 £71.29
Median % change year-on-year -40.86% -33.37% +30.80%
75th Percentile £29.16 £48.75 £72.83
90th Percentile - - £73.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.09 - £70.07

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Interaction Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,337 30,122 39,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.38% 88.11% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,351 18,405 26,081
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,080 985 1,517
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%
75th Percentile £49.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.69% -26.97% +39.06%

Interaction Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Interaction Design job vacancy trend in the UK

Interaction Design
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Interaction Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Interaction Design

Interaction Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Interaction Design over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Interaction Design in the UK

Interaction Design
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Interaction Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Interaction Design

Interaction Design
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Interaction Design within the UK over the 6 months to 18 December 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 -39 83 £455 -8.08% 149
UK excluding London -30 43 £420 -30.72% 153
London -24 42 £475 -2.56% 15
Work from Home -37 32 £427 -13.74% 67
North of England -40 20 £388 -35.42% 43
North West -7 14 £360 -8.57% 20
South West +1 8 £575 -3.16% 13
Scotland +1 6 £436 -29.56% 9
West Midlands -27 6 £420 - 15
Midlands -34 6 £420 - 25
North East -5 3 £413 -8.38% 7
Yorkshire -42 3 £513 -24.07% 16
East of England - 3 £425 - 24

Interaction Design
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 7 (7.22%) CMS
2 1 (1.03%) Confluence
2 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (23.71%) Sketch
2 9 (9.28%) InVision
3 8 (8.25%) Adobe XD
4 5 (5.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (3.09%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (2.06%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (2.06%) Photoshop
7 1 (1.03%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (1.03%) Blender
7 1 (1.03%) Chatbot
7 1 (1.03%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (1.03%) InDesign
7 1 (1.03%) Marvel
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (1.03%) OmniGraffle
7 1 (1.03%) UXPin
Cloud Services
1 38 (39.18%) Figma
2 4 (4.12%) Power Platform
3 3 (3.09%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 2 (2.06%) Azure
4 2 (2.06%) Contentful
4 2 (2.06%) Miro
5 1 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.03%) Firebase
5 1 (1.03%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.03%) Heroku
5 1 (1.03%) Lucidchart
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.03%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.03%) SaaS
5 1 (1.03%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.03%) Metadata
1 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (8.25%) Axure RP
2 5 (5.15%) JIRA
3 2 (2.06%) Balsamiq
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle APEX
General
1 24 (24.74%) Public Sector
2 22 (22.68%) Social Skills
3 21 (21.65%) Finance
4 12 (12.37%) Banking
5 5 (5.15%) Legal
6 3 (3.09%) Publishing
7 2 (2.06%) Advertising
8 1 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Automotive
8 1 (1.03%) Games
8 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Local Government
8 1 (1.03%) Marketing
8 1 (1.03%) Military
8 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (87.63%) Designer
2 32 (32.99%) UX Designer
3 31 (31.96%) Interaction Designer
4 14 (14.43%) Senior
4 14 (14.43%) Senior Designer
5 11 (11.34%) Service Designer
6 10 (10.31%) Product Designer
7 9 (9.28%) UI Designer
8 7 (7.22%) Senior UX Designer
9 6 (6.19%) UI/UX Designer
10 4 (4.12%) Lead
10 4 (4.12%) User Researcher
11 3 (3.09%) Content Designer
11 3 (3.09%) Senior Service Designer
11 3 (3.09%) Visual Designer
12 2 (2.06%) Senior Interaction Designer
13 1 (1.03%) Applications Engineer
13 1 (1.03%) Senior UI Designer
13 1 (1.03%) User Experience Consultant
13 1 (1.03%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.68%) CSS
1 22 (22.68%) HTML
2 5 (5.15%) Framer.js
3 2 (2.06%) Sass
4 1 (1.03%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.03%) D3.js
4 1 (1.03%) Flask
4 1 (1.03%) Flutter
4 1 (1.03%) HTML5
4 1 (1.03%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (1.03%) JSON
4 1 (1.03%) Next.js
4 1 (1.03%) Node.js
4 1 (1.03%) React
4 1 (1.03%) React Native
4 1 (1.03%) RESTful
4 1 (1.03%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.03%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (1.03%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (1.03%) Unity DI Container
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.40%) Mobile App
2 6 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.15%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.12%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.12%) Digital Media
5 3 (3.09%) Graphic Design
6 2 (2.06%) Blog
6 2 (2.06%) W3C
7 1 (1.03%) Animation
7 1 (1.03%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (1.03%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.03%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.03%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.03%) Motion Graphics
7 1 (1.03%) NHS
7 1 (1.03%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.06%) Android
1 2 (2.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (68.04%) User Experience
2 52 (53.61%) Agile
3 50 (51.55%) UX Design
4 44 (45.36%) User Research
5 43 (44.33%) Prototyping
6 29 (29.90%) Service Design
7 27 (27.84%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 20 (20.62%) Usability Testing
9 19 (19.59%) Wireframes
10 11 (11.34%) Workshop Facilitation
11 10 (10.31%) Front End Development
11 10 (10.31%) Journey Map
12 9 (9.28%) Collaborative Working
13 8 (8.25%) Inclusive Design
13 8 (8.25%) Typography
14 7 (7.22%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
14 7 (7.22%) Information Architecture
14 7 (7.22%) Personalization
14 7 (7.22%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (7.22%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.15%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.03%) Apex Code
2 1 (1.03%) Java
2 1 (1.03%) Python
2 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (28.87%) Security Cleared
2 23 (23.71%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.25%) Degree
4 6 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (39.18%) Accessibility
2 8 (8.25%) WCAG
3 1 (1.03%) QA
Vendors
1 18 (18.56%) Adobe
2 12 (12.37%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.19%) Hopewiser
4 4 (4.12%) Mercator
5 2 (2.06%) SAP
6 1 (1.03%) Google
6 1 (1.03%) Netlify
6 1 (1.03%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.03%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle
6 1 (1.03%) Palantir
6 1 (1.03%) Salesforce