Senior UX Designer Contracts

Senior User Experience Designer
UK

The median Senior User Experience Designer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 543 672
Rank change year-on-year +42 +129 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Senior UX Designer 19 39 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.090% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.096% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 28 29
10th Percentile £460 £404 £459
25th Percentile £510 £459 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +12.97%
75th Percentile £825 - £656
90th Percentile - - £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £550 £518
% change year-on-year +2.27% +6.28% -5.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Senior UX Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior UX Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior UX Designer in the UK

Senior UX Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior UX Designer.

Daily rate trend for Senior UX Designer in the UK

Senior UX Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior UX Designer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior UX Designer in the UK

Senior UX Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior UX Designer.

Hourly rate trend for Senior UX Designer in the UK

Senior UX Designer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior UX Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +39 17 £550 - 31
London +22 15 £550 - 24
UK excluding London +60 4 £563 +2.27% 11
Work from Home +31 2 £458 -16.82% 11
Scotland +12 2 £650 +44.44% 2
South West - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £475 - 4

Senior UX Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior UX Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior UX Designer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) User Experience
2 18 (94.74%) UX Design
3 15 (78.95%) Figma
4 11 (57.89%) Agile
4 11 (57.89%) Banking
5 10 (52.63%) Finance
5 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
6 8 (42.11%) Accessibility
7 7 (36.84%) User Research
7 7 (36.84%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 7 (36.84%) Wireframes
7 7 (36.84%) Prototyping
8 6 (31.58%) Adobe
9 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (26.32%) Sketch
9 5 (26.32%) UX Research
10 4 (21.05%) Adobe XD
10 4 (21.05%) Inclusive Design
10 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
10 4 (21.05%) WCAG
10 4 (21.05%) Information Architecture
10 4 (21.05%) Usability Testing
10 4 (21.05%) Strategic Thinking
10 4 (21.05%) Responsive Web Design
10 4 (21.05%) Mobile App
11 3 (15.79%) Analytics
11 3 (15.79%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
11 3 (15.79%) A/B Testing
11 3 (15.79%) Front End Development
11 3 (15.79%) Copywriting

Senior UX Designer Skill Set
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 1 (5.26%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Sketch
2 4 (21.05%) Adobe XD
3 1 (5.26%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (5.26%) OmniGraffle
3 1 (5.26%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) Figma
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) Miro
3 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 11 (57.89%) Banking
2 10 (52.63%) Finance
2 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) CSS
1 2 (10.53%) HTML
1 2 (10.53%) Node.js
1 2 (10.53%) React
2 1 (5.26%) RESTful
2 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) User Experience
2 18 (94.74%) UX Design
3 11 (57.89%) Agile
4 7 (36.84%) Prototyping
4 7 (36.84%) User Research
4 7 (36.84%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 7 (36.84%) Wireframes
5 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (26.32%) UX Research
6 4 (21.05%) Inclusive Design
6 4 (21.05%) Information Architecture
6 4 (21.05%) Responsive Web Design
6 4 (21.05%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (21.05%) Usability Testing
7 3 (15.79%) A/B Testing
7 3 (15.79%) Analytics
7 3 (15.79%) Copywriting
7 3 (15.79%) Front End Development
7 3 (15.79%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
7 3 (15.79%) Product Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
1 2 (10.53%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (42.11%) Accessibility
2 4 (21.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Adobe
2 1 (5.26%) CA Agile Central